Who’s shameless?
More class warfare from New Labour. Not only, it seems, are government ministers trying to out-bastard the Tories, they’re trying to out-bastard each other. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears goes one step further than even Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and makes a direct comparison between poor and unemployed people and a feckless fictional chav scum family.
We need to be bold and innovative, because it is clear that for “Shameless” families the current system does not do enough to get people into work.
This stuff has surely got to be aimed at the expensive seats because the motivational power of comparing a group of people to fictional grotesques is approaching minimal I would say. Needless to say, like dogs returning to their vomit, the usual suspects (that is, The Sun and The Daily Mail) lapped up this talk of ‘council staff [...] given the power to enter homes to get people out of bed in the morning, or turn up with rubber gloves and detergent to oversee the cleaning of filthy homes’.
(And to think, it was only other day that Blears was telling us it’s ‘the responsibility of politicians to challenge the myths‘.)
Still, if any of this happens, I’ll show my bum in the windows of both Marks and Spencer and WH Smith. As you’d expect, there’s precious little detail about Hazel’s troop of latter day knocker-ups. And if only this attitude of cleanliness being next to godliness had been a priority for contracted out hospital cleaning services. Let’s hope it’s not the same companies sent out to scrub the filthy poor behind their ears.
‘In a recession, there’s no space for freeloaders,’ added Ms Blears. How true, how true. No doubt she ran out of time in her diatribe against the carpetbaggers that blight our society before she could get to those who expect free stuff without having to pay for it out of their salaries and the super rich who cost this country vastly more than the supposed legions of real-life Frank Gallaghers.
Posted on January 7th, 2009 at 8:02am under Eye Catching Initiatives, New Labour
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“In a recession, there’s no space for freeloaders”
Is that a subtle admission that Labour have been more than happy to put up with freeloaders for the last 11 years?
Do they do subtle?
Comical Blears only encounters the working classes on TV. She thinks Stenders, Carnation St and Shameless are real life.
‘In a recession, there’s no space for freeloaders’
There also tend to be fewer jobs about…
“Carpet fitting – £6.50 per square metre” (from the expenses list)
In my world, I’d expect that to include the carpet!
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