Resources over at the Unemployment Movement website are being made available which are a unique opportunity for the Indymedia members to get involved to either vote on or if not satisfied with the question to submit a poll yourself (moderated just in case of spam).
Our newest Poll asks;
Which Party will best represent Benefits Claimants?
(Benefits claimants are faced with a tough choice, do any of the Parties here offer us the Respect & Dignity afforded to the workingman.)
VOTE HERE!
http://unemploymentmovement.com/component/communitypolls/viewpoll/polls/2-which-party-will-best-represent-benefits-claimants.html
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not sure this is wise
15.04.2010 20:06
Just some thoughts.....not having a go....
But I notice you are long-term unemployed. I disagree with how you are going about you are trying to achieve a better livihood. The benefits is meant to be short-term - not long term. Focusing on trying to improve benefits is a short term solution to your prediciment.
I understand your point about bankers/politicians destroying jobs, but that doesn't mean theres no jobs out there. Millions of people are working in jobs, and millions of jobs are being advertised.
To blame external forces is the exact same attitude that smokers and obese people have. Blame it on something they can't control so they don't have to blame themselves.
Politicians and bankers are not going to give you jobs.... FACT.
You are the only person that can get yourself a job... FACT
I'd also look at self-employed options. You obviously got the skill to set up a dynamic based website (wordpress / joomla?). It wouldn't be a fair-fetched to get work setting up such sites for small-businesses. How? Well, plenty of small business have really, really bad websites. Perhaps approach them first. You'll probably have to start small to build up a confident portfolio, but thats what EVERYONE else has had to do in the industry too. My first work for some very small companies. Then i used that to show better smaller companies and so forth.
I've got a job now, but I still do freelance work. If I pushed harder I could get more.
Not rocket science. Just a pain in arse to get it moving.
charlie
an odd poll
15.04.2010 20:38
Your poll just seems to indicate that you want better benefits, rather than actually getting a job.
DAvid
More than about me
15.04.2010 20:54
terratech
my vote
16.04.2010 22:30
Sorry, I can't afford to keep thousands of public sector workers in non-jobs and fantastic pensions while plenty of the working class suffer.
Pete
Ha, ha, ha. That was a joke wasn't it?
17.04.2010 14:54
I can't afford to keep thousands of public sector workers in non-jobs and fantastic pensions while plenty of the working class suffer.
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Because if the Tories get in they will sack those public sector workers (many of whom are working class), and give the money to the working classes that are suffering? They won't just give the money to the upper-middle and upper classes (as they've done every time they've been in power over the last 100 years), and watch as working class communities spiral further down?
I don't claim that a vote for Labour, Lib-dem or Green is a vote for the working classes. But a vote for the Tories is definitely a vote against the working class.
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Torys
17.04.2010 18:54
ateve scum