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David Cameron has said forcing children to work before receiving a visit from Santa will help to mark an end to Britain’s “something-for-nothing culture”.
And in a speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, the Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said some children from poorer families would have to spend 35 hours a week looking for work in order to qualify for presents.
Infants under the age of 5 will be put on pilot schemes if they are deemed to need extra help to find jobs or are suspected of working in the black economy if they want to receive a present from Santa.
The Prime Minister said he hoped the initiative would be expanded to make sure children realised nothing in life is for free unless you happen to be rich, a failed banking executive or an MP.
The UKIP leader Nigel Farage welcomed the government proposals, but said the plans did not go far enough and accused Santa of being Karl Marx in disguise:
Santa Claus is a big bearded German guy who likes red. And going around giving free presents to everyone willy-nilly is clearly Marxist. So UKIP says Stop Santa Now!
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Trouble with this policy, as with most of their policies, is that it isn’t thought through. Just as there are no smaller homes for people with extra bedrooms to move to, so the number of chimneys available for child work has been drastically reduced. Having said that, cutting the green crap will reduce the number of centrally-heated homes, so perhaps there is a resurgance of chimneys due.
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This made me smile, Tom, Merry Christmas or Midwinter Festival Of Your Choice.
You can be sure that my 2yr old grandson is required to make me completely delighted with his existence, 7 days a week, in exchange for any goods or services I provide for him. Lucky for him he has never failed to do so, eh?
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This is all started with those dodgy forrin magi giving presents to Jesus, attempting to form a toxic culture of entitlement within even Christianity itslelf. Happily, true Christians like IBS know this was pure evil. We have to help ourselves in this life, good ways to do that are sponging £100,000s off the EU in “farming subsidies”, marrying money, getting the taxpayer to give your wife a salary as a “diary secretary” and invoicing them for your underpants.
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Another SS initiative Stop Santa!
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