As the latest wave of economic insanity created by right-wing economists creates a mania for cuts and the creation of unemployment in the UK and across Europe the TUC has launched Cuts Watch.
Follow it here.
My small contribution today was an appearance on the Jeremy Vine show arguing that there was no such thing as a non-job but if there was being a highly paid DJ for the BBC must come a pretty close run thing to being one.
The reality, of course, was I wasn’t arguing for Jeremy to lose his job. I’m arguing that all jobs are real jobs — in business and the private sector — until someone decides they aren’t.
And right now, with no private sector alternatives available George Osborne’s decision to cut is one to create the ultimate no-job; being unemployed.
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“My small contribution today was an appearance on the Jeremy Vine show arguing that there was no such thing as a non-job but if there was being a highly paid DJ for the BBC must come a pretty close run thing to being one.”
No such thing as a non-job? You must be kidding. There are non-jobs in the public and private sectors./ In the private sector they tend to get eliminated otherwise companies fail, but in the private sector they are much more persistent.
@Alex
Your evidence is, apart from Richard Littlejohn an the rest of the right wing press?
Richard Littlejohn is actually one of the best examples of a “non-job” one could think of… or in fact an “anti-job”… someone who makes a living spreading prejudice and falsehood.
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Personal, but I would be betraying confidences if I was to set them oput in detail here.
I would add that most of my friends and acquaintences who work in the public sector give me examples of they or others are doing with no particular consequence or discernable impact. These sorts of jobs are often “rationalised” in the private sector as a matter of good business practice whilst they continue in the public sector until the money runs out.
@Alex
From the Richard Littlejohn school of evidence then…
In other words, unsubstantiated idle prejudice
@Richard Murphy
Since when was personal experience “unsubstantiated idle prejudice”? I have seen with my own eyes civil servants and public sector administrators who perform no useful role, who work less than the full normal office hours and who spend most of their time either “working” from home with no discernible output or constantly attending meetings with no contribution. I could name names, but I won’t.