Furore as IDS tells unemployed to 'get on bus' to find work

Speaking on BBC's Newsnight, the work and pension secretary said people had to be ready to move out of struggling areas because there were jobs available. He said Merthyr Tydfil in Wales was an example of a place where out-of-work inhabitants had become "static". "If they got on the bus an hour's journey they would be in Cardiff and they could look for the job there," he said. Labour politicians and union leaders likened Duncan Smith's remarks to those of former Conservative minister Norman Tebbit's, who in 1981 declared that unemployed people should get on their bikes to find wo...