Blue collar workers expendable?

CONSIDERING the working man has no control over interest rates, investments, takeovers or Government policies, it is hypocritical for Government, or the complacent middle class to insist on slave labour battalions for DWP statistics.

Given the large number of post- industrial desert towns and cities in the UK, is it realistic to expect there can ever be full employment, even if Government was remotely interested in such a policy? I firmly believe government regard the labour force (especially blue collar) as expendable, simply collateral damage from the money shuffling games they continually turn a blind eye to, if not actively encourage.

The UK hasn't a hope of resolving its surplus labour force problem without economic nationalism policies, and even this may not be sufficient. The bottom line is the UK urgently needs severe population control measures.

In the 1970s, Mark Adlard of Seaton Carew wrote Interface, Volteface and Multiface, futuristic books on a Teesside with permanent mass unemployment and a carefully guarded working elite who lived beyond the city limits, while the rest survived in crumbling town ghettos. Have we now arrived at this point for the whole of the UK, not just Teesside? How do the experts know the economy will pick up in say 12 months and not collapse into a global 1930s? Does the Government have a plan B to fall back on - assuming they even have a plan A? G B BUTLER, Stockton