It's all a bit Daily Mail for my liking.

I actually feel quite differently about this to the majority of posts on here.

If somebody really doesn't want to work, I'm more than happy for my tax money to go toward funding social housing for the unemployed, enough money for them to eat and go to the pub once a week etc.

The reasons for this are twofold.

1. As an employer I wouldn't want employees foisted on me that don't want to work and don't want to be there. It ruins morale and often causes more problems for an organisation than are solved by cheap labour.

2. It's cheaper to pay for social housing then to pay for people to be put through the British legal system and end up in prison.

Somebody who is really dedicated to not working, will not work. They will deliberately breach company discipline, fail to turn up and generally take up hours of your HR department's time dealing with written and verbal warnings etc. They then get sacked and no other employer wants to touch them.

There is a (hopelessly unrealistic) school of thought that says 'Take away these people's benefits and they'll have to work'.

Firstly, you have to provide jobs for everybody, when there already aren't enough jobs for the people that want to work.

Secondly, people who aren't working and aren't provided for by benefits won't magically disappear from the face of the earth. They will do whatever they can to get by. This will vastly increase the chances of your car stereo being stolen, your house being burgled or getting mugged in the street.

Yes, you can eventually put these people in prison, but that still costs A LOT more than taxpayers paying into the social security fund. This isn't a bleeding heart liberal argument, it's a cold financial fact.

The real trick here is to have the minimum wage set higher, so there is always a real and significant financial advantage to being a worker, over living on benefits. I agree it's wrong that you can earn more on social security than by working, but the solution is to get more people up onto higher wages, not resent and reduce the little that is given to those at the bottom of the chain.

Rant ends.

I have a voucher to give to a employer (if only I could find one)they would get £1000 just to take me on for 26 weeks at least....I dont hold out much hope even with that incentive..

I hope you find something soon.

Good luck with the hunt, I know Cornwall's always been a little bit tricky to find work in.

Something to do with everyone finding it beautiful and wanting to live there I guess? More prospective employees, same number of jobs?