Mike's Minute: How is the benefit line growing?

Best of Business · Jul 25, 2022 · 1m

There has never been a worse time to be on the Jobseeker benefit.

And yet 100,000 are. Tens of thousands more than were on it when the current government arrived in power. How on Earth is that possible?

And when are enough hard questions going to be asked about a government that protects the lazy, those without ambition, and a belief that the state, i.e you and I, should be paying their bills while they do nothing.

Traditionally, they have been able to hide behind excuses like geography. Small towns struggling, no jobs to be had, jobs that were too highly skilled, too many people went for the…