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There are more than a million unemployed people in this country who have not worked a day since New Labour came to power twelve years ago.

The best part of another two million have been without work for seven years or more.

There are any number of explanations for these bleak statistics just revealed by the Department of Work and Pensions.

Some of the jobless are, of course, simply bone-idle and enjoy sitting on their backsides while living off the rest of us.

After four years and the spending of £100 million no-one has been convicted in connection with the July 7 bombings in London which took 52 lives.

This may tell us a great deal about the ineffectiveness of our security forces in combating small cells of extremists.

And more about their shortcomings is likely to be revealed next month with the release of a report which will detail how MI5 and West Yorkshire Police missed opportunities to monitor two of the suicide bombers.

But they're not the one ones to blame ...