Is not the reality that in the 1980s, unemployment was part and parcel of direct Government policy? The Government saw unemployment as a price worth paying to get the economy moving.
Welfare Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
David Anderson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 27 January 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Welfare Reform Bill.
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