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Help for council tenants to move for jobs

PasturesNew
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How does that work then? It's deckchair shuffling, one person getting a job 100-300 miles away means somebody already living there didn't get it. Still the same number unemployed.

No link, it's going to be covered on the BBC news in a few minutes.
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  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Ian Duncan-Smith was talking about this on breakfast TV this morning. It's a great concept, but I don't know where all the spare council houses in the South East are going to come from when many authorities have 12 year waiting lists already.
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  • drc
    drc Posts: 2,057 Forumite
    Wouldn't it be better to move jobs to where there are a lot of unemployed people (up north for example) than loads more people moving to the already overcrowded south?
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Well.....

    The civil service do have to create vacant social housing to house themselves when 700,000 lose their jobs...
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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    Well.....

    The civil service do have to create vacant social housing to house themselves when 700,000 lose their jobs...

    i don't think there are even 700,000 employees in the civil service in total...
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    i don't think there are even 700,000 employees in the civil service in total...

    How many people work in the Civil Service?

    About half of them.....
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    i don't think there are even 700,000 employees in the civil service in total...


    453k......


    Thanks....


    So its 90,000 & the rest council employees.....

    :eek:
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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    How many people work in the Civil Service?

    About half of them.....

    I wish I'd known the stuff in the daily mail article sooner... public service here I come! You only have to work 2 days a year! and they even have their own PA!

    After I get the job, I'm going to have enough money for that nice salesman, whose got a bridge for sale. It's in Boston.
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  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    It's in Boston.

    Lincolnshire or Massachusetts?

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • headcone
    headcone Posts: 536 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    How many people work in the Civil Service?

    About half of them.....

    Well my wife is a nurse and even she thought that a bit rich coming from a banker.
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  • headcone
    headcone Posts: 536 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    How does that work then? It's deckchair shuffling, one person getting a job 100-300 miles away means somebody already living there didn't get it. Still the same number unemployed.

    No link, it's going to be covered on the BBC news in a few minutes.

    Why just council tenants?

    Surely the mortgaged middle class unemployed should be offered the same opportunities.
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