"A government minister has come under fire after suggesting a care worker could get a job 'near' her Bolton home – at a car factory in Sunderland. Chloe Smith, a Conservative Treasury minister, told Parliament that the woman – a care worker for the Stroke Association – should consider finding a job at the Nissan car factory in Sunderland, which yesterday announced the creation of 2000 jobs. But travelling from Bolton to Sunderland would involved a 280-mile round trip – and a train ride of four hours 19 minutes EACH way." - M F

"In the US, 100 years is a long time; in the UK 100 miles is a long way." - Andrew C (✔)

Apparently she has a job and wants to do more hours but cannot find anything, suggesting to her to travel 140 miles each way to do a few extra hours a day is just plain silly. Apart from the fact that she is a care worker, I fail to see the connection with a car manufacturing plant. Politicians seem to find everything easy, they tell people to move to look for work and then they complain that people do not live near their elderly relatives who soon or later will need care. They want mothers to work and then they complain that they don't spend enough time with their kids. We are always wrong whatever we do. - M F