“No, I would expect the Government to help me for a short while so I could look for another job whilst also taking responsibility for myself by making sure that I was insured for the loss of income should I lose my job.”
Although the right wing side of me agrees with this in principle, for it to work there needs to be at least hypothetically a job for everyone (or nearly everyone) and the left wing side knows there isn’t (~2.5 million unemployed).
No matter how well a country like ours does, there will always be unemployment.
I’ve not been in the job market for a while, (self employed about a decade and before that studying mostly), but I hear a lot of people in specific circumstances are finding it almost impossible to find a job despite wanting to work (so not talking about lazy people who don’t want to work and can starve for all I care).
Scenarios that come to mind are 50+ year old men, worked in one job most of their life, lost their job and though wanting to work are no longer attractive to the job market (the training/skills they have are not applicable to available jobs). Even with retraining who is going to hire a 50+ year old for a job when there are under 30 year olds available?
During the last recession an uncle of mine fell in that sort of scenario. Not very close to him, so don’t know the full details: He worked in the city (some kind of financial consultant), doing well until the recession hit, went from I think a £400,000 house to a council bedsit!
So yes in principal, but in reality we can’t remove the safety net as some will fall who do not deserve to.
Regarding “insured for the loss of income should I lose my job” what do you have in mind Sarah?
David
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