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(not satire!)
Over 200 UK charities (and counting) have signed a pledge rejecting the government’s compulsory workfare scheme:
the keep volunteering voluntary agreement
The new workfare scheme Compulsory Work Placements was launched last week and was supposed to force the unemployed to work ‘in the community’ for 780 hours under the threat of having unemployment benefits stopped.
But now it’s been rejected en masse by charities, community and voluntary organisations, it’s hard to see where the government is going to find places for all these people to do their forced labour.
Perhaps Cameron and Clegg could try creating some real jobs instead?
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Please feel free to comment.
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
Creating real jobs is against Cameron and Clegg’s ideology, Tom – they need workfare to provide cheap slave labour for their corporate chums, as I’m sure you know – and they don’t mind making other hardworking (their word) taxpayers stump up for it!
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Reblogged this on vicmart009 and commented:
Seems to me that this coalition Government has created a evil crucible of inhumanity. Possibly a plan more demonic than Stalin’s Gulags & his starvation of the peasant farmers. Almost comparable to Hitler’s “Work can set you free ” slogan at the entrance Nazi concentration Camps . Be aware , Be afraid it’s the time for the fit & healthy next within those non compliers. These sadistic soldiers of government need to be stopped by the people & Trade Unionist’s; the only force now powerful enough to eradicate such Etonic vermin.
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It’s the corrupt government that wants a real job instead of ducking and diving away from the dozens of paedophiles in government its known to have withing It’s own ranks.
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Trade unions ? You got to be having a laugh their as good as a chocolate teacup living in complete Luxury
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Reblogged this on nearlydead.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog.
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Reblogged this on My Blog.
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Like I said on your brother’s blog, haven’t the coalition ever thought about the lyrics to “Rule Britannia”
When Britain fi-i-irst, at heaven’s command,
Aro-o-o-o-ose from out the a-a-a-zure main,
Arose, arose from out the azure main,
This was the charter, the charter of the land,
And guardian a-a-angels sang this strain:
Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
Kind of Ironic?!!!
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oops wrong blog but the point is the same!
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I’ve always said “if they can create jobs for the unemployed, then there are jobs FOR the unemployed” – pretty simple really…
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
Another government failure methinks😀
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BTW – had anyone heard anything more about the “residential facilities” that were being set up to “motivate” the disabled and OTHER LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED who were resistant to the JCP/ WP attempts to get them off benefits?
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That would be workhouses then?
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Yup.
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Fully agree but they get cheap labour this way don’t they, all in the name of flexibility, but for whom?
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Three cheers for the charities! Osbornomics is cruel and crazy. Government investment is the only way to create jobs but the ConDems just keep cutting. Under capitalism in the UK 2 million unemployed is necessary to keep inflation low; since the mid-70s people have been paid (a pittance) to be unemployed, but these right-wing economic illiterates can’t stand that and would rather let capitalism lurch towards its final crisis. Come the revolution …
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Proud to say as a director of DEAEP (http://www.deaepleicester.moonfruit.com/) we are members of this project – I’ve gone as far to refuse to work with partners who were not.
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Cameron professes to be a ‘Christian’ and I think he has delusions that he’s Pharaoh and jobseekers’ (AKA Israelites) are his slaves:
(Exodus 1:13, 14) Consequently, the Egyptians forced the Israelites into harsh slavery. They made their life bitter with hard labor, as they worked with clay mortar and bricks and in every form of slavery in the field. Yes, they made them toil in harsh conditions in every form of slavery…
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IDS actually said: “work sets you free” and there was an uproar: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/433773/Germans-show-us-way-on-benefits-says-Iain-Duncan-Smith
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jun/16/lawrence-mead-tough-us-welfare-unemployed
IDS professes to being a Catholic = so was Hitler
IDS hates the disabled = so did Hitler
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You forgot to mention Iain Duncan Smith: who has to be the biggest “Christian” since Satan & Hitler!
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Reblogged this on Community Champions Sub-IT and commented:
Keep this circulating, we cannot allow people to work in or on voluntary programs who do not want to be there. It will do untold damage the voluntary sector, and destroy many good things and undo all the good work done by genuine volunteers
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Reblogged this on Translation Scrapbook.
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I thought that slavery had been abolished by William Wilberforce at the turn of the 19th century?
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The Coalition has brought it back.
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