The Ruling of the Game
' We're going to finish up a nation of morons, with all these government schemes. There's skilled men sitting on the dole and nobody's being trained.' Comment from one of the workforce on a Community Programme scheme for the long-term unemployed in Liverpool. One hundred and forty of them are refurbishing a rundown council estate in Bootle. It's work that needs doing and they need the jobs, but on this scheme they can only work for 12 months. It's ' just a cosmetic cover-up of the dole figures the men claim.
In the last of the series, Mick Williams , tradesman and- John Chlocchl , labourer, put their point of view to the new Employment Minister, Peter Morrison , mp.
Director MICHAEL DAVIDSON
Produced by MARYSE ADDISON