... so says IDS. But the Unions are all a-flutter over it:
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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has come under fire from the unions after saying the unemployed should "get on a bus" to look for jobs.
Union leaders said the comment was similar to Lord Tebbit's 1981 suggestion that workless should "get on their bikes"
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"The truth is there are jobs. They may not be absolutely in the town you are living in. They may be in a neighbouring town."
He said Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales, was an example of a place where people had become "static" and "didn't know if they got on the bus an hour's journey they'd be in Cardiff and they could look for the job there".
He said: "We need to recognise the jobs often don't come to you. Sometimes you need to go to the jobs."
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So, is this a perfectly reasonable suggestion, or are the Unions justified in making responses like:
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"Can the ConDem coalition really believe that the unemployment being created by savage government cuts will be fixed by having people wandering across the country with their meagre possessions crammed into the luggage racks of buses." (Len McCluskey, Unite)
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