tory idea

[brionon]

Two and a half million unemployed,so lett's punish them! Great idea yeah ?

[jake-the-peg]

Which particular policy are you refering to?

[McMouse]

??

[ummmm]

Benefits cuts?

[Sqad]

Jail, flogging, boot camp??

Pied piper?

Give us a clue.

[bibblebub]

Today's Steve Bell effort is excellent http://static.guim.co...ll-13.10.2010-007.jpg

[jake-the-peg]

Alright reading between the lines.

The Tories want to move pensions and benefits from linked to the retail price index to the consumer price index reducing them.

http://www.cityam.com...e-set-reduce-benefits

There are also constant calls that people should go out and get jobs and not be welfare scroungers etc - we hear that repeated a lot on here by their supporters.

At the same time their cuts are set to reduce the number of jobs by nearly a million
(500,000 in the private sector)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11530811

How does that work exactly then?

[ludwig]

Brionon, sorry but your question reminds me of the drive by abuser off Modern T0ss..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyxZZR6m3Ls&feature=related

[WShee9]

There seems to be a million and a half jobs in this country which Eastern Europeans are doing...why are,nt our own indigenous unemployed doing these jobs?

[ludwig]

// There seems to be a million and a half jobs in this country which Eastern Europeans are doing...why are,nt our own indigenous unemployed doing these jobs? //

Because those jobs tend to be minimum wage and often temporary - e.g seasonal veg picking, and it doesn't make financial sense for an indigenous unemployed person to remove themselves from the welfare system to go and do them.

[WShee9]

Sorry to ask this,Ludwig...but can they not be ar5ed getting out of their beds ...or what?

[sandyRoe]

A lot of the Eastern Europeans who worked here in the building trades have gone back home now that the work had finished. Locals who are unemployed wouldn't have been qualified for those jobs.
And it's a bit rich to ask someone to uproot themselves from their home and family to go and labour for the minimum wage picking vegetables.

[WShee9]

There used to be a work ethic in this country. (sigh)....""holds her head in her hands""

[20ParkDrive]

WShee9 how can someone on Jsa who may get their rent paid for their flat move down south for two or 3 months. As soon as they get the job their money stops but they will have to pay rent for their flat and for digs down south.

[ludwig]

// Sorry to ask this,Ludwig...but can they not be ar5ed getting out of their beds ...or what? //

Well, sort of. It's complicated. If it made financial sense they would be ar5ed, but it doesn't, so they can't. Imagine if your boss said 'times are hard - we're got to cut your salary by 50%' you probably wouldn't be ar5ed getting up tomorrow either.

[WShee9]

No,i wouldnt....but i would still get out of my bed and look for another job...Wouldnt you?