Tony Blair says Britain's unemployed are WRONG to complain migrants are taking their jobs and says they should get better education and skills instead
The former Labour prime minister conceded there is a 'real anxiety' for people who feel their income is stagnating and said it was driving some towards the far right. Mail.
The problem is very much a problem for the unrated in society who have never had qualifications but who can clean, make beds, prepare food and manage general duties admirably. (I am referring to the hotel industry as one example out of many.) The jobs are being taken by immigrants who, similarly, have few skills. In any case, what precisely is 'better education' for in our society? Typically, a good friend in her late 50s needed NO basic qualifications when she was taken on to work in a bank as a young woman - which I am sure that she did extremely well. Today - that same job would almost certainly go to a graduate. WHY? - The job certainly does not demand it. Has Blair never heard the term 'over-qualified'?