Saturday, 25 February 2012

Camerons jobs for dubious friends.

Today we seem to have a growing number of unemployed people, yet well connected people in the labour market who create agencies to get people into work are mainly looking after their own interests. We use to have an organisation called the Job Centre where out of work people went to seek employment. Over the years this agency has been revamped at a cost of millions, new signs, new logos etc, to be known as the Job Centre Plus. Yet this government run agency seems hard pressed to find work for people, but mainly because it would seem that it is only for the low paid and basically unskilled end of the jobs market. The skilled workers now go to private agencies that have mushroomed over the past decade or so. Companies such as A4e that is now under investigation. This company has been paid in the region of £180 million in tax payers money to find people work. The owner has taken £8.5 million is dividends. Now whilst all this may not be illegal but is it morally correct. How many millions  have the governments over the years paid to various privately run organisations. These organisations may find people employment but so did the Job Centre, sadly though over the years money may have  been withheld  from the Job Centre as it has been downgraded  and the money has been funnelled into private agencies. If all this money hadn't been put into private agencies who at the end of the day are only out to make a profit. If all this money had been given to the Job Centre so that if better resourced they could have reduced the number of people seeking employment. Instead they were left with the lower end of the jobs market, whilst the private agencies looked after the more lucrative upper end. This is similar to the PFI scheme that has and is creaming billions off into the private sector at the expense of the public who are having to pay billions to maintain hospitals and schools that were built under this scheme. When maintenance cost are totally obscene sometimes costing hospitals £400 to change a light bulb, because the PFI deal involved a private company to do such things. The NHS under this government is going exactly the same way and the so called improvements will only benefit those in the know and with their fingers in the pie. Again many of these are people who are well connected. Cameron said that the NHS was safe in his hands, but if that is so why is he not listening to the people who are really in the know. The doctors and nurses and other clinicians, but no he listens to the people who tell him what he wants to hear. Yes men and women.    

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