Named and Shamed! Britain's jobless ghettos...

Doctor_Gloom

DaddyBear wrote: »

Or a top ten list of places you wouldn't want to live. I grew up in one of that top 10 and have no intention of ever returning.

Why isn't Aberdeen on the list? It's a shocking omission

confused31_2

i wonder if all the red areas match up?

dave4545454

amcluesent wrote: »

MANY of the UK's major towns and cities have deteriorated into dole blackspots with a QUARTER or more out of work.

Shock new figures reveal jobless ghettoes where unemployment is nearly FOUR TIMES the national average.

The stats lay bare the massive task ministers face in smashing Britain's benefits culture. The latest figures show there are now 5.9 million claiming out-of-work benefits in Britain, many of them living in these urban ghettoes.

They also show how genuine job-hunters are vastly outnumbered by those on long-term sickness handouts in many of these blackspots. In many of these areas, large numbers of unfilled jobs are being snapped up by immigrants.



FACT - In the time it's taken you to read this, China and India will have produced 9 graduates in science, engineering and electronics.

"The latest figures show there are now 5.9 million claiming out-of-work benefits in Britain"

i thought there was only 2.4 million unemployed in this country? so they finally admittting that figure is total bullsh!t?

over 8 million is the real figure

Jonbvn

A more considered article in the Telegraph regarding the worst black spot on the list.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/7941822/Welfare-reform-only-radical-action-will-save-our-valleys-of-despair.html

For instance, about 100,000 households receive benefits and tax credits worth more than the average wage (£23,244); and there are at least 250,000 households where no one – yes, no one – has ever worked.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Merthyr Tydfil, the former steel and coal town in South Wales that is now the United Kingdom's "sick-note capital", where more than one in 10 of the working population is claiming incapacity benefit (recently rebranded as the employment and support allowance).

amcluesent

>where more than one in 10 of the working population is claiming incapacity benefit<

Got to be the town of choice for the work shy, after all, they're never going to notice one more complaining of anxiety attacks at the thought of going to work.

LilacPixie

I wonder how they define areas as well. Only one is in Scotland which I found surprising. Also what is an 'out-of-work' benefit. JSA obviously but are they including IB and IS in that, what about a state pension as usually you are retired so not working. I know some people of state pension age continue to work but then again I think there is a small allowance in IS to allow you to work a small amount without it effecting your IS claim.

thescouselander

chucky wrote: »

one if four people unemployed in London doesn't sound right.

they've probably included house wives and students to get anywhere close to that number.

I can believe it - there are very few good jobs in Liverpool. When I finished Uni I had to move miles away to get a good job, I consider myself an economic refugee!

Generali

chucky wrote: »

that makes more sense
something needs to be done otherwise these places will become even worse ghettos while the 'better' areas will 'progress'

The difference between the really bad bits of London and the Northern hell holes is that it's much easier to work your way out of the London dump. If you live in Hackney then you're a reasonably easy journey from the City and West End, both of which offer huge opportunities for the ambitious unskilled.

That's not to say it's easy to do as living in the nastier bits of London creates a lot of problems that don't apply to some of the other areas let alone the leafy suburbs:I was once late for work because my local station was closed as a drug dealer had been shot outside it for example.

ILW

thescouselander wrote: »

I can believe it - there are very few good jobs in Liverpool. When I finished Uni I had to move miles away to get a good job, I consider myself an economic refugee!

Why is it that Scousers bang on endlessly about what a brilliant place Liverpool is, and then move to Surrey as soon as they make a few quid?

StevieJ

LilacPixie wrote: »

I wonder how they define areas as well. Only one is in Scotland which I found surprising. Also what is an 'out-of-work' benefit. JSA obviously but are they including IB and IS in that, what about a state pension as usually you are retired so not working. I know some people of state pension age continue to work but then again I think there is a small allowance in IS to allow you to work a small amount without it effecting your IS claim.

And there are many of working age that receive a pension.