Upsetting the Unemployed

It is easy for Deputy Gorst to tell secretaries and people employed in offices for 30 years to go and wait on tables work as a bricklayer or work in shops.

I am sure that today's headline goes down well with all those recently devastated by unemployment, perhaps the Deputy could consider resignation.

It may surprise the Deputy that in some cases hospitality institutions will also be instituting redundancies and that all manner of businesses are in trouble. Where does he think that people will be employed in shops. A lot of shops are encountering difficulties caused by the recession and by online competitors.

It is alright for the civil service, social security employees. They can sit at their empty desks in their stress free environment knowing they have little chance of being unemployed. They can send out bills to the unemployed for a full monthly contribution and not even acknowledge their error is wrong and then send another completely different reminder for a different amount. These people are unbelievable.

Anyway perhaps the Parish of St. Clement Deputy will consider his words and position. Perhaps a little compassion to the unemployed rather than his glib "get a job whatever" attitude would be better. Perhaps he should resign. He cannot answer reasoned e-mails about unemployment.