Okay so, I am a 19 year old unemployed woman. I do not think I am alone in the fact that every other week I must attend the dreaded Job Centre Plus.

At first I was very embarrassed to be one of those people that couldn't find a job. Every time I walk into that place (Job Centre Plus) I feel sorry for every person that is having to attend their "Signing on" - including myself. Each time I attend I look around me and  I see the same people we all look eligible for a job. So why are we all still unemployed?! We are told we must apply for 6 jobs minimum between appointments. 4 months in and i still haven't had any luck.


I would like to make it absolutely clear that I do not enjoy being on benefit but I am very grateful that they are available. I am very much looking forward to having a job and living off of my own money so please do not start getting aggressive because I am on benefits, I do not want to be but I do not have any other choice at the moment.


Last week I went to London for some auditions and made a rather interesting discovery...


NOTE: I would like to point out that in this next piece of writing I am not trying to be racist or exclude anyone this is just my opinion on the subject of unemployment at the moment.


I was staying in the Swiss Cottage Hotel which is in Swiss Cottage near Central School of Speech and Drama. Everybody in the hotel was foreign from Polish to Indian. There were no English people employed there. I was then in Starbucks In Oxford Street again all people employed were foreign:L African, Spanish and Polish. I was in Waitrose on Finchley Rd, again most people employed there were Indian. None of these People were Anglo - Indians/Polish/Spanish people they were straight from their home country. 


So this is just a taste of the variety of races that are employed in Britain. I know that was a very small scale of places but it gives a sample of how Britain employs a lot of foreign people. I want to state that I do not have a problem with foreign people working in Britain. What I do not understand is, if the people of Britain today are complaining about people being unemployed and claiming benefits why don't companies employ more British people. I know there needs to be variety and fair opportunity and all that but, it seems that the Citizens of this country are losing out. I have been trying for 4 months to get a job in my local town of Banbury and I have failed so far. The problem obviously doesn't exist only in London, since I have been back home I notice that there is  mass of employment of non Brits in my home town. 


The point of me writing this was not to attract racist comments or fight against non Brits or be incredibly patriotic. What I would like help with is...


- Why are there so many unemployed British people right now?
- Why are companies willing to employ foreigners instead of Citizens?
- What can we do to help this problem?
- Has anyone come across the same situation?


I would like to apologise if I have offended anybody in this blog, that was not my intention, I just want to understand what is going on and hear what you have to say...