Work is different for people in different situations.

There is a massive gulf between spending on universities and on most of our youth, not for university but a useful place in society. Work is different for people in different situations.

- For this cabinet it is the extension of existing wealth and power.

-For Middle Classes, most having worked from poverty and government purporting to speak for them; owning a home and creating a decent life for a family.

-For the rest; getting through the day without a home of their own and much else.

They should be sent from schools well educated on history, geography, the three Rs and prepared for work; the essential nursery for the actual workforce making things work in everyday life. Many of these jobs go to immigrants with little skill and experience, some legal many illegal. This lessens the work ethic for our youth, giving them little to aim for.

The widespread cuts are like our fishermen working to EU quotas. The nets are cast too widely and scoop up everything getting in. Many graded 'NO USE' are thrown back with no further life expectations.

What the cuts scoop up and reject as useless will leave the public purse heavier for planned privatised essential services to profit from, and swell the untaxed dividends bound for foreign bank accounts of those avoiding tax.

They say they have 'ring fenced' the old, poorest and disabled so everybody else is OK for work.

What do they know, or want to know, about honest hard working people who have worked and paid their full dues in taxes, national insurance and health payments for most of their lives to provide for old age, and cushion them against forced unemployment, disabilty and poor health?

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