"If a government cannot create conditions in which workers can find work, is it no longer fit for purpose."

"If that is what you truly believe then WTF have you been doing supporting and for all I know voting Labour for so long??"

Well Teribus, as ever you don't let the facts stand in your way. The Tories got into power in 1979 via a "Labour isn't working" poster (chillingly reminiscent of Farage's disgraceful racist poster, eh?), yet unemployment shot up almost immediately and for the next 18 years of Tory rule the level never got anywhere near down to the level they inherited from Labour. Unemployment was lower under Blair than the Tories ever achieved, and once they got back into power it shot up once again. The Tories are the true party of unemployment in this country, in spite of their cheating efforts to massage the figures. Thatcher did it by putting perfectly fit people in their millions on incapacity benefit and Cameron does it by pretending that a million on zero-hours contracts, millions more who are now counted as "self-employed" (a way of employers avoiding paying for their stamps), hundreds of thousands on bogus "apprenticeships" that involve young people making the tea and sweeping the floors on half the minimum wage, and hundreds of thousands under-employed on part-time and seasonal work. Oh, and if you make it next to impossible to claim JSA, my word, doesn't the claimant count look so good! You may like kidding yourself but you can't kid us. The proof? In spite of Tory crowing about "more people in work than ever" (see above litany), productivity in this country is bumping along the bottom and has been for years. Let's see you explaining that one away.