Sorry for the long New Year/Xmas break!!

Dear Readers, sorry for the long New Year/Xmas break!! I have been having problems with things such as the black dog and with how many promises the Coalition government can break. Today's unemployment figures are disappointing and it was naive of the Cameron-Clegg administration to think that the private sector in the UK would take up the jobs lost in the public sector.

Over the Xmas period I was in Spain and we share similar problems such as very high youth unemployment. Our relatively flexible labour market has not been able to sort out this problem either.

Apparently, the Spanish economy is so troubled that the number of non-European Union workers has actually gone down. On the Easyjet plane back it was 95 pct full of Spanish passengers, who looked like they were coming back to study or to work. It is going to be tough going for our own youngsters (English ones), who are discriminated against in terms of university fees and job opportunities.

Is British prime minister Gordon Brown insane?

Is British prime minister Gordon Brown insane? I suppose that it is a leading question but I was spluttering into my cornflakes this morning when I read the
following in the Daily Telegraph:
""Every unemployed person should have a skills check to make sure that Britain raises its skills game to world-class."
Does Gordon believe this guff? What unemployed people need is probably a supply of local low-skilled jobs, possible incentives of lower benefits and improved education
opportunities. None of these are going to happen in today's
United Kingdom.
Most of the new jobs created in Britain have gone to immigrants and unless the
government reverses that policy then unemployment is going to be stubbornly
high.