Has anyone come across her before? I hadn't until I found this piece by her:

Work Sets You Free. Why Our New Legions Of Unemployed Graduates Need To Adjust Their Expectations
http://jacksonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012 ... tions.html

It's full of the usual patronising nonsense that the Mail writes about young graduates (like myself) who have committed the cardinal sin of working damn hard at school and University, only to discover that life is one big stitch up.

She opens with the standard Mail swipe at 'Mickey Mouse' degrees from ex-polytechnics and has a swipe at the woman who refused to do unpaid shelfstacking at Poundland (despite also saying: 'I am utterly against the widespread and invidious practice of keeping keen and talented young people dangling on unpaid internships'). So far, nothing unexpected.

But then she turns to the real focus of her piece:



Somewhat tainted? Tainted by, ooh I don't know, the deaths of millions of Jews, gypsies and homosexuals?

And she also manages to completely contradict herself and undermine her whole argument. Having spent several hundred words bashing the young for having 'unrealistic' ambitions and expectations, she then notes: 'last week saw the news that more than 10,000 graduates took on so-called “elementary occupations”, including as cleaners, labourers and rubbish collectors, last year'. And why should we be content to work in minimum wage jobs, jobs that barely cover rent and basic living expenses, jobs for which we are vastly over-qualified? Because: 'they are at least working, earning and gaining even basic experience: of getting up daily, arriving on time, dressing appropriately, working alongside colleagues'. How insulting and patronising. Not to mention the fact that, if degree-holders are hogging even the lowest paid/least skilled jobs, then people with little/no qualifications are going to be forced into deeper poverty.

One tiny issue here is that a hell of a lot of internships in law offices and merchant banks (which can lead to high-flying careers) are not publically advertised but are arranged through family/friend connections and are by no means available to just anyone. Furthermore, the basic cost of living in the south east/London (which is necessary because that's where most of these institutions in this country are to be found) precludes many from even contemplating them.

Worratwunt.

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When I read/hear 'Work sets you free' pretty much the only thing I think of is Auschwitz. Still, she will get herself some attention and that's ultimately what she wants I guess.

I'm sure that when many banking graduates started their degrees back in 2007 or 2008 they probably thought that getting a job at the end of the course would be quite straight forward but over the 3 or 4 years that they were studying a lot changed in the banking sector which meant the demand for graduates dropped off dramatically. I'm guessing that with many degrees like banking you have to keep up to date with changes legislation and regulations etc so going off and doing a menial job for a couple of years would quickly render your degree fairly useless.

Even if people do lower their expectations it won't necessary help them to find work, last year I applied for a Teaching Assistant job at a local school, with 20 years experience working as a teacher I thought I would at least get an interview but with over 90 applicants for the post I didn't even get on the short list.

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No doubt whatsoever that they write this crap simply to provoke outrage and increase site hits. Classy

Must be one of those 'kitemarked' reputable writers Dacre is so keen on.

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The German slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” is somewhat tainted by its connection with Nazi concentration camps but its essential message: “work sets you free” still has something serious to commend it. There is dignity to be gained from any job, no matter how menial, and for young people at the start of their careers, there are valuable lessons to be learned from any form of employment, whether that is on the factory floor, on a supermarket till or in the contemporary hard labour camp of a merchant bank or law office.


Somewhat tainted? Tainted by, ooh I don't know, the deaths of millions of Jews, gypsies and homosexuals?



Wonder what Mad Mel's got to say about a fellow worker stirring up such imagery?

At the very least, someone should point out that it didn't exactly work out well for the last large group of people it was applied to.

New Statesman's Alex Hern has written about the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' bit this morning. That paragraph was then very swiftly edited out of Jackson's article:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/08/mail-online-unemployed-graduates-arbeit-macht-frei

Rick Dewsbury all over again?

She looks like a friend of Melissa Kite, now you mention it.

Some interesting tweets from Jackson since it all blew up earlier:

Lefties, of course, would have to apologise more than once. And if they did it a hundred times, the original comment would still be their "real" attitude.

Curiouser and curiouser. Earlier today, while defending herself, she tweeted a link to an article on her own blog called: Six Months As A Sausage Machine - My Mail Online Blogging Hell.

In it she said this:



I tweeted a link to someone that was then picked up by others, including Robert Webb. Soon after, Jackson removed that post from her blog.

Given that she was still writing for RightMinds up to a few days ago, it does seem odd she's written something suggesting she churns out stuff she 'hopes' is coherent, although no one reads it anyway (including the Mail subs/editors, if the Arbeit Macht Frie one is anything to go by...). Webb said:



Of course, as we're all connoisseurs of Littlejohn here, seeing Mail writers toss out crap they don't care about isn't exactly news. But to have them admit it so blatantly?

I wonder why that is.

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Having been given her orders on the topic, knowing that this is called 'Right Minds', what more of a steer does she need?

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