"it may be too easy to settle into a political equilibrium, where the economy is growing roughly at trend, but unemployment is not falling. It is a political equilibrium because the unemployed have very little political voice, and sections of the media encourage politicians (I’m being as polite as I can here) to label the unemployed as workshy"simon lewis

 . " Luckily no one in the UK has started arguing that current levels of unemployment are ‘structural’, but given the rhetoric about strivers vs skivers it will not be long before they do"


" of course if you wait long enough to reduce unemployment you are in great danger of creating a structural problem."

: “come 2015,.... unemployment will still be high, but not many of the unemployed are Conservative voters"

 

 

"the immunising spin about lack of willingness to work can be quite effective.”.