6 LET me make it clear - I sympathise with anyone who becomes unemployed.
However, since 1980, millions of people in many diverse forms of unemployment have been declared redundant.
They have included miners, bank clerks, schoolteachers, car workers, farm workers, shop assistants and those in many other occupations, including nurses.
According to Thatcherite philosophy and economic contention, wholly endorsed by John Major and partially by Tony Blair, such occurrences are inevitable, even desirable, in a vibrant ongoing economy.
The theory has it that, in the end, we are all better off, including the temporary jobless, when they have found alternative employment.
Why, then, such concern in certain quarters regarding the loss of a relatively small number of jobs, with the coming demise of the "hunting with dogs" industry? According to prevailing economic theory such affected people will soon find other work.
Furthermore, in their particular cases, their new jobs are bound to be more useful and more satisfying than those in which they are presently engaged.
D E MARGRETT,
Worcester.
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