Paul Truswell?

I have nothing but good words for the bloke. Hr has bough improvement to this area however I’m still unemployed. Heck we even have a big job centre in Pudsey that just goes to prove that unemployment is rife in this area.

He’s done more good for the area than bad starting with major improvements to local schools.



Where do I start?

First of all the money to help the long term unemployed is falling into all the wrong hands. It should be job centre staff and restart officers applying for those jobs that the long term unemployed can’t obtain. The money that pays the wages of job centre staff and anyone who is employed as a result of the system that has been created to help the long term unemployed should be used to actually GIVE work to the terminally unemployed.

Instead its been given to people who’d be more than capable finding other jobs than the ones their currently in. Yet their choose the easy life and gravy train that is job centre plus/BestLTD/A4E wages.

Secondly the opportunities available for me are dead end ones. Hence why I’m in a dead end situation terminally unemployed. This whole green jobs fund Gordon Brown has created is nothing but an initiative to get the terminally unemployed to sit in a field for six months so their not burning fuels at home by watching Jeremy Kyle on TV and chatting on the internet all day.

Really what use is sitting a field all day for six months just to save the planet?

Finally as long as the terminal unemployed are alive they’ll complain. Give them a job and the complaining soon stops.

Or cull them

Who’d vote for me?

I can’t even get a job never mind getting to be an MP. We live in a society that’s obsessed by past experience and I have little to show in that department. I’m more about creating experience rather than living off of it like most candidates will be doing.

Nice excuse.

There are lots of jobs out there, you just probably think they are beneath you and THAT is the society we live in.

The problem is - as I see it - work is out there; just that working might actually impact on Damo's social life.

Damo priority isn't finding any job, he wants a particular job - one which he simply isn't qualified for or simply doesn't exist.

A reality check is required; as a tax payer paying towards unemployment - people like Damo p1ss me off. Why am I working to pay taxes to supporting him; why - because he cannot get off his backside and take any kind of employment - being unemployed should be a last resort not a lifestyle choice.

Damo get off your backside and take any job offered not matter what.

The folks who come over from Eastern Europe seem to get on ok at finding jobs

Back on topic (I could care less about Damo's self pity and "Look at me" post).

It is a bit sad that legends in our game face this life but I have to agree with McLaren Field. It should come as no surprise to them that they will likely not have a living from rugby after 35 years old.

Just remind me again, you had a job didn't you ?

A trial at Asda that you walked out of because you didn't think any further into the future than the six week trial and got into a tantrum because you were on JSA instead of an hourly rate ?

Have you ever stopped and wondered what you'd be doing now if you hadn't stomped your foot and walked out of the trial ? Even on minimum wage you'd be doing a easy job and earning £200 a week and for a lad who lives at home with no outgoings thats £200 a week more than I get.

You had a chance, you blew it out.

I’ve done the bottom of the bottom before so don’t give me that nonsense that things are beneath me. Ok I made the mistake of leaving that job for the stupid reason that I was missing England. But I shouldn’t be punished for the rest of my life for making the wrong choice.

It seems like that I am been punished for making such a choice now though.



That may have been a case last year but isn’t now thanks to not having a season ticket to honour and the novelty of clubbing drying up a bit. I dropped my season ticket this season because I felt that not attending most games would improve my employment chances when in reality nothing has change.

Last game I attended was one against the Bulls. Last night out I had was Friday night I think. Apart from that nigh I haven’t been out for a few weeks.



Care to ask my New Deal Advisor what jobs I’ve applied for?

I’m terminally unemployed and that is that.