SIR - Nigel Crisp is absolutely right (Letters, January 5).
Does Gordon Brown not realise that the unemployed are discriminated against because of his dole scrounger' spin which he and his cronies use to cover up their disgraceful million plus unemployment figures.
Where are these thousands and thousands of jobs available?
Does he not not recognise that work experience schemes provide cheap labour for many employers who have no intention of providing a job or even useful experience'.
Does he not recognise that having to include a work experience placement in any job application is the kiss of death.
Brown, Cameron and cronies have already condemned all the unemployed publicly as benefit scroungers. So who would now wish to employ them anyway?
How can he believe that the average unemployed person, with a home to maintain, wishes to exist on £50 per week; the cost of two packets of fish and chips per day, or put another way, the cost of an evening meal for one MP.
Not all unemployed are scroungers, neither do they incur the vile sleaze so prevalent, as was recently evident, at Westminster.
R JENKINS, Worcester.
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