In reply to MG:
> It's a pity the angle is so partisan as there are some reasonable points in there. Some of the changes have been brutul for those at the bottom of the heap and low wage jobs are not what is needed. However, starting an answer with "It is clear that the Coalition/Tories have created a determined propaganda campaign ..."
I took it to be coloured from having spent a long time working in job centre, and seeing the reality behind the figures. Though I don't suppose they'd be any different from other government, in using a degree of spin, or being selective with what they tell the public. There seems to be a similarity with business in some ways, I think, when the party in power selectively tells people what's required to give a good impression. I should say I'm not anti business though.
>hardly suggests an objective point of view so it's difficult to put much stock in the rest of it. I also find the sneering attitude to waiters unpleasant, done well it is a skilled job and I don't see why there shouldn't be an apprentice scheme for it.
Do you think it's sneering? I just took to be making the (unsaid) point that the increase wasn't in things like engineering and sectors upon which a solid economy can be built. Certainly I'd always assumed the increase in apprenticeships was in things like engineering etc, rebalancing the economy away from the service sector.
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