Having worked in a company that closed just over a year ago due the the AMERICAN owners deciding we were not worth keeping due to the turn down in the british housing market, who would we all like to blame. Yes it is hard & several people have struggled but managed to find jobs, the rest just struggle on with higher bills & little hope of getting another job.
Are we happy? Ask again at the next election. I just hope we don't end up with the conflicts of the Thatcher era. The miners strikes were extremly bad & led to untold problems for the men & their families. If you have not hears the true story of one miners death then listen to Mundy-Turners song Markham Main - we really do not need to return to this situation.
As for me personally I am making the most of my spare time & joined the Health & Wellbeing walks that have sprung up in my area. I have a purpose to go out most days to complete these walks & feel the benifits from them, as for money can it really buy happiness? my brother has a very high powered high paid job but still complains about his financial state only the other day he had a £560 tax bill (pity) but told his mother the more you earn the more you spend because your able to & if he lost his job he would find it a stuggle to mantain his lifestyle!!! Never ind that she is a pensioner on income support who is about to have that cut.
Also just heard that an ex work college has diabities & is on the sick - has problems with his feet & can not always drive- went to sign up for his benifits to be told because he had managed to drive that day he is to lose £60 leaving him with nothing to live on & was told to ask his family for help. Is he happy now?