Estate where only one person has a job. Enjoy

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Estate where only one person has a job


official figures show that 99.1 per cent of working-age adults who live in one area of the UK pocket some sort of benefit every week.

Rundown Cottsmeadow Estate in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, tops the table of workshy communities where almost everyone lives off the state.

Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions reveal that none of the other 105 people of working age on this estate held down a full-time job at the last count.


The Egerton Street area of Oldham, where 110 out of 113 (or 97.3 per cent) of residents claim state benefits, was second on the list. Sandhills in Liverpool was third, with a 95.5 per cent jobless tally.

The Westport Road area of Burslem South in Stoke-on-Trent came next with 94.2 per cent of residents on benefits while Whalley Banks in Blackburn, scored 92.9 per cent and came fifth

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/222197/Workshy...

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Sheeda Pistol said:

My push bike nearly got pinched off me round there.... horrible place... needs nuking...

we have been telling you that for ages you always argue that Birmingham is a nice place

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to be fair every other place mentioned in the article are st holes as well.

Edited by Pesty on Monday 10th January 10:41

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anonymous said:

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I agree with both of you however think Cazzer is being more realistic.

Being a thicko from a council estate who's only options where leaving school and working at Case/ICI/Cromptons or down't pit't

Guess what they ALL went I was made redundant TWICE.
I changed jobs twice then a third time got myself a job as a trainee and progressed.
Guess what I was made redundant again (actualy it was going down so I moved first but I would have been) so this time I moved my whole family accross the country and was made redundant again ,again took a different direction .......

wait for it, yep you guessed it that place shut as well all down to low cost geography again.

You want to know the kicker? All but one of those paces were making a profit. Two of them were far more efficient than companies who got teh work after us but they were paid pennies so it didnt matter.

So yet agan I am now in a completely different industry and guess what has just hit this industry Huge spending cuts by our customer... its not looking good

Yes Tonker you can get a job if you get off your arse, I am proof of that but not everyone can, there just are not that many jobs left. We can't all work in shops.

A country needs an industrial backbone to sustain it and its less intelligent people like me but every goverment for the last 30 years has done its best to fk that up. be it electrical manufacturing or mass produced tilet roll holders. China has cought up with teh really high tech stuff we have left they don't even need us for that.

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anonymous said:

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So what do the people who havn't got the intelligence to do it then? the peple who worked in the mills and the potteries and mines and factories.... Yes intelligent but not intelligent enough to move do a profesional job like an designer and if they could how many designers do we need?

what about the below averge intelligent amongst us?

There are just too many people who would not be able to do any of these skilled jobs you think they could move into. Or do you belive than anybody given the right training can be a rocket scientist because if you do I know plenty of people who would change that idea for you

Edited by Pesty on Monday 10th January 21:44

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yeah we know that buts its a slightly different argument to what Cazzer is talking about I belive. You won't hear me dissagreeing about how the state perpetuates this problem with benefits.

What if the man in your example could do a tough job like work in a foundry that maybe does not need a huge amount of quals? he could maybe earn £15 an hour but the foundries are not there any more they are in India and China.

These jobs down the pit or in the steel mill have all but gone for various reasons. We can't all work in corner shops or in hairdressers that is correct. We all all can't move to London and sweep up.

And I for one could not go to coledge and learn to be a brain surgeon

If this job goes tits up I honestly do not know what I would do next. How many new industries can a thicko like me learn ffs.

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Kermit power said:

Those jobs have by and large gone for one single reason. Your man in Yorkshire expects to earn £15 an hour in his foundry, whereas his counterpart in India or China expects to earn £15 a day if he's very lucky.

Why do you suppose your man in Yorkshire doesn't have a foundry to work in?

Don't blame the government. Blame previous generations of workers and unions who demanded princely wages for peasant jobs.

So even a man who is willing to get off his arse and work hard should still get paid peanuts and live in a hovel. No doubt while the owners of the foundry live in a mansion and drive ferraris everywhere. No wonder people stay on the dole.

without the skeleton the head would fall. Is it any wonder the trade unions grew with attitudes like this around. its the gap between the 'boss' and the workers that also helps keep these people where they are as well as the benefits

My last house was bought by an old couple as a buy to let. We went round a few months later to get any post that was not re directed. There were 5-6 sleeping bags on the living room floor god knows how many were living there. They were eastern european. One of teh reasons they can afford to take low paid jobs.

Perhaps all us peasants should live like that.

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cazzer said:

My Mrs has just pointed out 2 examples.

Dyson. Designed and Manufactured in the UK.
Started becoming popular. Moved the production to asia somewhere.
Ok so he kept the design dept here. Great. So thats 100 jobs here. And a thousand in the factory over there.
Dysons pretty much cost the same now as they did then. So purely for more profit for the shareholders 1000 factory workers over here are back to being "dole scum". Their fault? I don't think so.

I mentioned this on here years ago when it happend. I was soundly flamed by a lot of people on here.