20,000,000.non -workers in this country

have you just turned 18 and got to post for the first time ?  What you say is not wrong, only that it's been done to death around these parts since many a year back.

You left out 'free wide-screen tv's', which as every poster here knows are given away fre to the unemployed

Single unemployed people have to survive on £70 a week
Out of which has to come their food, heating, necessities of life , fares..well everything except rent/council tax

For this they are continually hounded, have to apply for a set number of jobs every day or their benefit is stopped
People who cannot manage this get nothing.

There is no work. The solution create jobs for everyone instead of only running the country only for the better off.

Also there too many people in this country, yet still we let them in.

Still you are not alone on here wearner, lots of Tories on here

nice post ebul - generosity so much harder than mean-ness.  Far to many take the easier path.

I would had thought this number was made up of people who dont need to work and people who dont want to work ?

Population is 65m, how many under 18's and over 65's are their ?

are married family men expected to work or look for work or are they part of the great class of non-workers

About 25m

I would say the population was nearer to 100 million than 65 million ,in many places the majority are non-britonsso perhaps that is why they are not counted

I would agree with that.

priceless!

so what experience do you have of visiting big towns or cities in England recently ?

Over 60's get annual £200 heating allowance but I doubt anyone else does.

Not seen anything to account for an extra 45M people. I think learner has caught a good haul here, but you agree with him!

all the roads are nose to tail traffic , is that not an indication of over crowding

FTR number of non workers is 35 million

The whole economy is out of kilter ...basically you divide the "working population" into :-
1) Reveneue producers (in the minority)
2) Reveneue consumers (Majority with over 50%)
Economists say the correct ratio roughly 80% Revenue producers  20% Revenue consumers.
If you want to know just how phucked up numpty Politicians have screwed up the economy ...buy off Amazon
Britains Trillion Pound Horror Story!
UK debt stand at more than £70,000 for every man woman and child in the Country !
HMRC ...any contributions greatfully accepted.

I think the 20 million should have the right to bear arms

as they get discrimated against

and would be healthy for the arms industry

No a £500 a week personal allowance  each to boost the leisure industry would be more acceptable

after 40 yrs graft ive been shot on camerons scrap heap at 56,thats me lot its to competitive for me out there 1000,s and 1000,s with the same cv,s been taught the same interview buzz words knowing 99.9% of the time someones relative,mate,boozing ,golf partner etc has been promised the job,the things that years ago stood you a chance skills,good time keeping,good work ethic etc,no longer count for anything,its a bluffers paradise out there and as the uk now currently makes zilch no one seems bothered one way or the other

I noticed when i started working the best liars done very well but the job was not in transport but if thats generally the case you can see the miriad of problems for the honest person

I`ve worked all my life and I can tell you one thing - it`s overrated.

work is an illusion caused by the lack of drink

"I`ve worked all my life and I can tell you one thing - it`s overrated"
Couldn't agree more

Zeig heil - life is for living not for working. Slavery was abolished, at least in some places. I used to work like a slave years ago, during the working day i'd change my tee shirt twice through sweating up. I didn't have breaks. If i ate my lunch it would take five minutes and back to work. Sometimes I had a lull for two minutes while i waited for a goods lift. Sometimes the boss would see me sitting with my hands in my pockets while i waited for the lift. This gave him the impression i was lazy. looking at other people's lives through your own prejudices is wrong. do your own thing. you might have eighty years on planet earth. stop being a foreman. people don't need a stick up the swingschwing.

thats the problem zorro theres that many poor boss,s about that the bluffers get away with,boss,s dont no who the grafters who the bluffers are,the bluffers sit around all day only springinf g to life when a superior shows up,they spend all day networking,smoozing and as alot of gaffers etc have come up through the same route as the bluffers,good employees dont get the rewards and get frustrated

Over 60's get annual £200 heating allowance but I doubt anyone else does.

I'm 62 & get no heating allowance.

Next year the banks will take bail-ins. No more bail-outs. So maybe you will lose 50% + of your savings. The deposit protection figure will not apply.

According to official ONS statistics 32m people out of 62m pop. are economically inactive. Of that number less than 2m are unemployed.

learner still learning to fish imo

...or a moron?

There's also an earnings figure above which you may be described as a net contributor. I think it's around 35K. i.e. If you earn below the figure, the amount you cost for NH, pensions, etc outweighs what you pay in.