Hammond Says That There Are 'no Unemployed People' !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-42042769/philip-hammond-says-there-are-no-unemployed-people

I noticed he continued with this daft notion, even when Marr gave him the opportunity to take it back.

[New Judge]

He's completely wrong.

There are two living just thirty or forty yards from my house. Quite whether they are "seeking work" and whether their efforts would be jeopardised by the new technology being discussed is another matter. One of them does a window cleaning round (cash only, natch). I'm not too sure that the other would have the time for work as he spends most of his day schlepping between the pub and William Hill's.

[dannyk13]

Philip Hammond is a pr-- t who is not worthy of holding a cabinet position.

[emmie]

i thought there was over a million and a half unemployed, that was on the BBC news the other day.

[mikey4444]

I wonder why he didn't just say, that there are
"no unemployable people"

If he did, he would have been right !

I suspect that this gaff will come back to haunt him in the days to come.

[New Judge]

Yes emmie but the two I mentioned are "unemployed". It really depends what interpretation you place on that word. It strikes me that if people can travel from distant shores and manage to find work within a short time of landing here then there must be work about. It then hinges on whether many of these people are unemployed because they cannot find work or unemployed because it suits them not to.

[emmie]

NJ some people are unemployable, no matter that we would like to think otherwise. perhaps the one you mention is one of those.

[mikey4444]

Well deserved BA New Judge !

[ToraToraTora]

I think he meant there are no unemployed that don't want to be unemployed. Still plenty of WSS out there.

[New Judge]

"I wonder why he didn't just say, that there are
"no unemployable people" "

Don't you have it the wrong way about, Mikey. There are plenty of unemployable people (those that have insufficient skills or - more usually - the will to work). There are not so many people who are able and want to work but are unable to.

[New Judge]

Thanks for BA, by the way. This is definitely one topic on which we agree :-)

[mikey4444]

What I mean by my comment is that almost everybody who is currently jobless could be trained to do something, rather than laze about on the dole for years.

As you say, plenty of foreigners have managed to find work, most of it unskilled.

Perhaps it time to stop giving people the choice about working, training, or lazing about on the Dole.

No work, no training, no money.

[ToraToraTora]

I agree mikey stop giving money to WSS.

[-Talbot-]

Clearly, he was making the point that the million or so people who were employed as shorthand typist found work despite computers ... only an idiot would believe he meant there were no unemployed people.

[mikey4444]

Talbot....view the BBC Andrew Marr again !

( is there an aural equivalent of "should have gone to Specsavers ? )

He DID say "there-are-no-unemployed-people "

He said it twice !

And it has nothing whatsoever to do with typists.

[-Talbot-]

''And it has nothing whatsoever to do with typists.''



I think it is you that needs to watch it again.

[Baldric]

I definitely heard "Shorthand Typists" about 30 secs in.

[mikey4444]

I would get something for that excessive ear wax if I were you Talbot....everybody else on here this morning can hear exactly what he said !

[mikey4444]

Baldric....did he say "there-are-no-unemployed-people"
or not ?

[EDDIE51]

A total nut job and out of touch with reality. At least the Tory party will soon be out of government for a good few years! Bring it on!

[emmie]

Eddie
what makes you imagine that the Tories will be out of government any day soon, can't see that happening.