I would say this 'underclass' of yours was created by the Tories who wrecked industries and communities in their everlong quest to look after the tiny percent that matter to them.
If that were the case, why would 13,669,883 people vote for them in the last Election*? And isn't it also the case that 32.1m are now in employment in the UK, which is the highest figure ever, with unemployment falling to its lowest rate since 1975?
Sorry for spouting real statistics, rather than just made up mumbo jumbo.
* - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2017/results
** - http://www.cityam.com/264861/british-employment-reaches-record-high-unemployment-falls
I don't know why 13,669,883.55676433 voting for them in the last election. Neither do I know why the majority of people voted for Brexit or for Hitler or for Will Young to win Pop Idol.... here's a clue the majority are not always correct!
As for unemployment don't blindly believe everything presented to you. I'm sure you've heard of zero hour contracts
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/06/employment-statistics-wages-uk-jobs-market"The number of people on zero-hours contracts in their main job rose from 168,000, or 0.6% of those in employment, in 2010 to a record 905,000, or 2.8% of those in employment, at the end of 2016.
Of course, some of that rise may be the result of greater awareness of such contracts and people accurately reporting their circumstances to statisticians.
In the latest figures, there was a drop in the number of companies using such contracts. But as the TUC points out, some of that is down to bad publicity around zero-hours arrangements and companies are finding other ways to employ people on insecure terms. It cites evidence that businesses are employing staff on short-hours contracts, guaranteeing as little as one hour a week.
What these contracts mean in practice is people are turning up to work at shops, care homes and warehouses and, if their employer so chooses, they are being sent home before their shift has even begun.
A second factor is higher self-employment, up from less than 8% of the workforce in 1980 to almost 15% in 2016, as Haldane noted. Some people are happily setting up their own business, enjoying being their own boss. But some is what MPs investigating the gig economy have described as “bogus self-employment”. People were being forced into self-employment as couriers, taxi drivers and other roles, as companies declined to take them on as employees, said parliament’s work and pensions committee. Some were on contracts paying less than £2.50 an hour, said the committee’s former chair Frank Field."