So now the tories are gone

We don’t know anything more than we knew yesterday.

No one knows at this stage

Many many people have posted on this forum worried and concerned about it and rightly so as no information is sometimes worse than getting the information.

But No point in worrying about it at this stage as there is absolutely nothing we can do until they raise the issue in the future and we know any proposals.

My opinion is that they will have to look at the benefits system as it stands as the costs now and forecasted into the future are unsustainable…..what that looks like is anybody’s guess though

Nice clear definition

When Ms Patel talked about economically inactive people, she was specifically referring to the roughly 8.5 million economically inactive people between the ages of 16 and 64. (In other words she wasn’t suggesting that staff shortages are filled by retrained pensioners.)

Working-age economically inactive people have various reasons for not looking for and/or being able to start work.

The biggest reason is that a lot of these people (27%) are students. 26% say they’re economically inactive because they’re too sick (most of whom have a long-term illness). 22% are looking after family or the home. And 13% have taken early retirement.

12% said there was some other reason for their economic inactivity. 

The Office for National Statistics also collects data on whether people in economic inactivity want a job. 22% (roughly 1.9 million people) said they do want a job.

https://fullfact.org/economy/economically-inactive/

Partly the problem here is the hugely increased numbers of young people becoming students instead of joining the labour force.

The most notable thing is those off sick are the only group who might, repeat might be returned to work, only group over whom the government has any leverage. They can't drag students out of college, demand what the Americans call 'stay-at-home-moms' take jobs and those who have taken early retirement can presumably afford to have done so and would just laugh at the suggestion they return to toil

@michael57 Oh it surely does, raise school-leaving age, try to get 50% of kids to uni, then throw up hands in horror at shortage of workers.

I remember 2016 when some British people were very happy about Brexit. I have always said to my British colleagues (I am an EU citizen): what are you happy about? we will see who will work in factories, warehouses, fields, etc. when we're gone.
And 7 years have passed, 10000000 jobs are available and there is no one to work. unbelievable but true.

I woke up at 3 a.m. and ran to the employment agency and I was happy when I worked at least 3 days picking carrots in Morrison's. 5 days was a dream :)

My record was 17 days without a rest day and a 10-hour shift at the factory. Even though it was illegal, people were afraid to oppose it in order not to lose their job. Because the target had to be made before Christmas.
And now a million vacancies... :)