Comments on: Earn £££££££s with Purnell

By: ‘Leading banks’ and dole ’scroungers’: economies of scale - Chicken Yoghurt

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:41:43 +0000

[...] course, the way the small time benefits scrounger is treated – the patronising, the vilification, the incompetence and the depressing – has the dual function of [...]

By: ‘But life is better measured by deeds rather than by days’ - Chicken Yoghurt

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:57:35 +0000

[...] ‘More long-term unemployed people could have their benefits cut – or stopped altogether – under new proposals‘ … ‘Benefits could be withdrawn almost immediately if people do not cooperate‘ … ‘These proposals will make those people worse off, and that’s of course how these savings are t…‘ [...]

By: Political Britain » Why is New Labour stigmatising poor people?

Political Britain » Why is New Labour stigmatising poor people? — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:46:49 +0000

[...] there’s a nastier possibility. As Justin says, this is about stigmatizing the unemployed, by lumping them in with criminals doing community [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:47:15 +0000

This was an issue in the Glasgow East by election yesterday and various party activists from all sides were asked for views on the policy. The only one who made the point you draw about community service was Jim Wallace for the Lib Dems who pointed out the criminal overtones of the expression and merely said - that tells us all we need to know about this really. Scott's latest blog post... Glasgow East by-election

By: cjcjc

cjcjc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:42:25 +0000

What jobs they are supposed to get when all the ‘factory fodder’ jobs have long since been ‘outsourced’ overseas and no employer would want to touch them with a bargepole and we’re entering a recession is, however, something I’ve not seen the politicians answer.

Where do you think the jobs the eastern European immigrants are doing have come from? Right now at least there is no shortage of employment.

By: McGazz

McGazz — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:46:56 +0000

> wouldn’t it be simpler and more efficient just to drop the whole “work for dole” bollocks and call it a job?

Totally agree – I’m all for the (fit to work) unemployed being made to work for their money, provided they’re paid at least minimum wage, and given holidays. sick pay, etc. Work as a human right and all that.

If you pointed out to Purnell that state job-creation schemes are a bit un-free-market, he’d probably cry.

By: Bendy Girl

Bendy Girl — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:34:14 +0000

Unfortunately the situation has not improved since your experiences, and I suspect it is only set to worsen. There are no actual links with employers via New Deal or Pathways programmes, and advisors are there to try and force claimants into whatever job they happen to have adverts for at the time, so lots of support or care worker jobs, which are incredibly physically demanding and unsuitable for the vast majority of disabled claimants. I've blogged about these issues many times, as has Wat Tyler from the financial perspective, Bendy Girl Bendy Girl's latest blog post... Nothing Ever Happens

By: ejh

ejh — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:55:15 +0000

while the woman over the road breeds asbo brats

Luvly jubbly

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:21:08 +0000

May I add that the level of ability in those that work with the unemployed is quite poor, so that signposting to training and services and offering careers support is juts not present, which is the real problem and a damn shame. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill's latest blog post... On Torture...

By: M

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:08:45 +0000

Bloke across the road hobbles slowly down the road with a stick every so often, to renew his incapacity claim. Before lying under his van, tinkering with the engine.

Bloke two doors up, total waste of space, alcoholic, never done a day’s work in his life, but he has stuff I, working, can’t afford to buy.

Bloke moaning that the council owe him this and that and should fix his gate, while a TV and hi fi I could never dream of owning sit in his rent-paid living room.

I have one child, because I couldn’t afford the childcare costs for two, while the woman over the road breeds asbo brats and piles the pavement with black bags of rubbish every week.

Meet enough of the idle and the scroungers and you almost want to start buying the Daily Express.
What jobs they are supposed to get when all the ‘factory fodder’ jobs have long since been ‘outsourced’ overseas and no employer would want to touch them with a bargepole and we’re entering a recession is, however, something I’ve not seen the politicians answer.