Hope for the unemployed – but no help from government

Paul is an unemployed driver. He now falls into the category of the long term unemployed. He needs work and finds there is no support for him as a property owner in Jersey.

Unemployment is corrosive of personal morale and of relationships. To survive means depleting savings and them becoming a nuisance by borrowing money from family and friends.

Unemployment is now at an unprecedented level. Action is required by government; active intervention that will provide training, retraining and work schemes. From the government there are statistics, silence and inaction. There must be change.

My blog has been examining the social and economic reality for working people in Jersey.  I have interviewed the disabled, the unemployed, the working poor struggling to make ends meet and pensioners on fixed income in circumstance of rising prices. This is the reality of life in Jersey today. It is one that our complacent mainstream media prefers not to cover.

I shall continue to expose reality and campaign for collective action.

Paul was a van driver and has his own van. He will consider any employment offers if readers want to contact me they will be forwarded - nick.lecornu@jerseymail.co.uk