My question about the meaning of the new buzzword '
worklessness', which is replacing the more traditional 'unemployment' in council documents produced a spirited response from Labour cabinet member Stewart Stacey.
Unemployment, he said, could be translated as 'I haven't got a job this week.'
Worklessness, meanwhile, could be defined as 'I never expect to have a job, no one in my family has had a job for two generations, so why should I bother'.
Paul Dale, "The iron angle," Birmingham Post, May 25, 2002