DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

He added: "They will do useful work to put something back into their community; making meals for the elderly, clearing up litter, working for a local charity."

THERE ARE PEOPLE DOING THOSE JOBS

Didn't this government STOP people working for local charities in order to do welfare to work schemes?

Yes. It's called "Taking the credit for placing people in unpaid charity work"

This is vile. If the unemployed are put to work to do a job that needs doing, pay them a living wage for it.

He added: "They will do useful work to put something back into their community; making meals for the elderly, clearing up litter, working for a local charity."

it's so close to criminalising unemployment.

On the BBC news this morning (6Music), the plans for workfare were described as being for “the stubbornly long-term unemployed” and “a sure vote-winner for the Tories.” Somebody please remind me why exactly we are paying the BBC a single penny of public money.

Hate the use of the term "something for nothing" as well, as if millions of unemployed people haven't been paying tax for years prior to losing their jobs.

How many millions did Osborne inherit without having done any actual work to earn it?

anybody familiar with how workhouses worked out re: undermining local industries?

cos it's pretty funny, and nobody in the Tory politburo appears to know.

Jesus wept.

I mean, is it just a matter of time before they start advocating Final Solution-type shit? Seems to be what most people in this country want.

this is why i say let them have their heads. the country is gonna get increasingly fucked anyway, at least we won't have to listen to subhumans whining about the welfare scroungers and the illegals, they can have everything they wish for and see what kind of beautiful Arcadian idyll we wind up with

I suspect it'll end up more like Atlantis, lost under flood water.

Theresa May is to tell the Conservative party conference that the appeals of thousands facing deportation can only be heard after they have been put on a plane home unless they face "a risk of irreversible harm".

is there another kind?

Those who breach the rules will lose four weeks' worth of benefits. Anyone who breaks the rules a second time faces losing three months' worth of benefits.

What happens if you only "breach" the rules a second time instead of breaking them? Get put in the stocks?

Westminster Council allegedly considering making it an offence to give food to the hungry.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/feeding-homeless-to-be-banned-by-tory-run-westminster-113433

Conservative Westminster council in Central London also wants to make it an offence to sleep rough – while slashing £5million of funding to hostels.

Astonishingly, town hall chiefs claimed soup kitchens only “encourage” people to sleep on the streets.

Westminster council, one of the richest in the land, wants to bring in a bylaw making it an offence to “give out food for free”, punishable by fines.

jesus wtf

time to start selling these again...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8CrMfKfnjmg/TJykzLnatNI/AAAAAAAABQA/2Q7RtxQ3_3s/s320/frankiesay.jpg

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Osborne cites likes of workers at Warburton as beneficiaries of lower taxes - remember factory as a stop on Cameron's pre-election campaign

That'll be Tory donor Warburton.

I should really stop paying attention again.

A new Dickens will rise and condemn them all

'Arm the unemployed' will only give them ideas about compulsory conscription for NEETS aged 18-24.

Also any decent smartarse wanting to feed the poor in Westminster after this measure is implemented, pay them 1p when handing over their Hare Krishna/stale Pret meal, and watch a bunch of rich assholes blow a gasket. They're managing to make Shirley Porter look like a nice lady.

A new Dickens will rise and condemn them all

they'll be too busy watching downton abbey to notice

'Arm the unemployed' will only give them ideas about compulsory conscription for NEETS aged 18-24.

god yes, this is too true

If you look at the date on that Mirror piece about Westminster Council and soup runs, the story is from March 2011; the council subsequently did a U-turn: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/nov/02/westminster-council-homeless-soup

So it is.

Strange, I've heard people talking about it this past day or so, including my son - who has no interest whatsoever in the news.

look:
https://twitter.com/search?q=westminster%20homeless&src=typd&f=realtime

Frequent references to it all weekend, presumably *something* happened to resurrect the story?

Not necessarily – old things sometimes just resurface and snowball on social media.

Hmm, Tory Conference on, yeah?

Housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance will be denied to people under the age of 25 if the Tories win the next general election as part of a "bold" move to prepare school-leavers for a tougher economic world, David Cameron has said.

jesus wtf

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/02/tory-housing-benefit-under-25-david-cameron-tory-conference

"earning or learning" when there are no jobs and universities cost 9k a year

also that lil scheme they have for the unemployed is BASICALLY community service. this fucking government!

Bring it on, the viler they get, the more people will begin to recognise the fact, I reckons

i reckon not, but at least when they get what they want they might stop moaning

anyway, forcing everybody into 10 years of FE shd do loads to raise these "standards" they keep wanking on about

Don't see this as a vote winner tbh

as ever, it depends whose votes they're trying to win

but it's too early for chasing votes i suspect, this is just mind games

Jon Snow ripping the shit out of some SPAD spod on C4 news just now.

Matthew Hancock. Wiki page has this delight

In January 2013, he was accused of dishonesty by Daybreak presenter Matt Barbet after claiming he had been excluded from a discussion about apprentices after turning up "just 30 seconds late."[11] Barbet said Hancock knew he was "much more than a minute late" and he should have arrived half an hour before to prepare for the interview. His opponent expressed surprise that "a minister whose Government berates ‘shirkers’ couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed to defend his own policy."[11]

Jon Snow asking Cameron about his love of Breaking Bad on last night's C4 News was horribly cringey. Dave came out with some bollocks about enjoying it because it's so different to his everyday life. Of course - can't imagine Cameron would find anything to identify with in a show about an amoral monster who puts profits above all else and destroys countless lives in the process.

OTM

those evil fucking tory bastards

hoo boy we seem to have reached the point where food banks are too generous now

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/conservative-mp-paul-maynard-food-6124177

Emergency food parcels should not be given to people – because they could get too reliant on handouts, a Tory MP has said.

Paul Maynard, who works for Minister of State Oliver Letwin, said people could start going to food banks out of habit rather than helping themselves.

they don't want them to have benefits, they don't want them to have charity, fucking hell make your minds up

They just want them to starve and die, obvs

yep

Earn or burn.

"Sanya-Jeet Thandi, a 20-year-old LSE student living in Holborn who joined UKIP when she was a sixth-former and was described at the party’s last national conference as future leadership material"

She was on Ch4 news in the week. I've never heard anyone more posh and clueless.

She was on again last night - possibly even more posh and clueless this time round - alongside a 40 year old man who was representing young ethnic minority voters

She at least has youth as an excuse I suppose. Her Twitter backdrop is a faded picture of Gandhi with 'DISOBEY' underneath. Not sure she's really asked the rest of her party of their opinion on that one.

she means disobey gandhi i think

You get a lot of hardcore free-marketeers who are clueless about everything other than Hayek at the LSE.