Wednesday 10 March 2010

Famous, Rich and Jobless, Part Two

This really was "celebrity tourism". And for me the elephant in the room was New Deal. Two of the subjects had been unemployed long enough to have been through it more than once, but there was no mention of the programmes. Why? And what did the "experts" contribute? Emma Harrison made some patronising remarks right at the start about the celebs having exhibited all the behaviours of the long-term unemployed who she sees as she goes all round the world. She told Nick that there was a new government scheme in Wolverhampton to help ex-offenders (why hadn't the Job Centre told him that?) and she gave Lou a vacancy from the Job Centre for a job which had already been taken. They recommended Mark to a specialist agency for professionals, and Mark was right to ask why he hadn't been told about it in the first three months of his redundancy.
It was a dreadful programme, not least because it didn't tell the whole truth.

3 comments:

  1. i watched it, right the scheme in wolverhampton was an A4E scheme, of course no link to emma being the boss 'onest guv.

    Then they never in all the years i have known the organisation to open at 7.30 am. it would be nice to see how they really got on..

    Notice how emma avoided larry the lamb...

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  2. I thought the beeb didn't do advertising. How naive of me. This series is just an advert for business for Emma Harrison and her awful organisation. The whole thing reeks.

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  3. no mention of new deal because it does not work its a joke.

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