Suggestion By The Conservatives To Give Vouchers To Benefits Claiments

[lindapalmara]

Further to TTT's post 'A step in the right direction' I mentioned that this subject had been mentioned before many times by Conservative thinkers. It was spoken about on LBC a couple of years ago and there was a phone in program by Julie Hartley-Brewer. I thought she was going to blow a fuse. You must listen to this.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/listen-jobless-man-who-refuses-to-get-up-at-8am-64710

To add insult to injury, Ms Hartley- Brewer contacted him about a year later and interviewed him again and this is the second interview but you must listen to the above first please.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/listen-jobless-man-who-refuses-to-get-up-at-8am-64710

[tonyav]

There doing their best, sandy. Raising the school leaving age as got to be an help ! well it is to unemployment figures anyway.

[Obiter]

The sole, I repeat, sole reason that Ted Heath raised the school leaving age from 15 to 16 was to massage the youth employment figures, much to the chagrin of those expecting to leave school at 15 only to find they had to spend another year. My mother and father left school at 14 to go straight into work. Before the First World War the leaving age was 11.

[Svejk]

yeeaah, but unless I'm going gaga you've 'added' the same recording, linda.

[lindapalmara]

You'll be sending them up the chimneys next!

[tonyav]

Obiter, my brother was in that first year of having to stay at school until age 16. Boy was he p!ssed off about that.

[Obiter]

Linda, until we reopen the pits and make all homes coal-fired, alas there will be no need for chimney sweeps and their boys. More's the pity.

[Svejk]

And me, tony. But as luck would have it, I got slung out anyway.

[tonyav]

Good lad, sweaty.Theres always around these things !.

[lindapalmara]

I had to leave school at 15 and get a job. I wish my parents could have afforded for me to stay at school. By the way don't patronise me Obiter.

[Svejk]

Linda,Linda.Linda. please talk to me. On my computer, those 2 links you put up are identical. I'd really like to hear Part 2.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Sv...scroll down a bit

[lindapalmara]

Svejk

http://www.lbc.co.uk/listen-jobless-man-who-refuses-to-get-up-at-8am-64710

[Svejk]

Lol, what a wind up. Hartley- Brewer "I have to be in here at 12:58 to do this show".

[New Judge]

"...a new Conservative government would specifically target benefits cuts for those in work. Hmm..."

A big scandal from the Blair/Brown era was "Working Tax Credits" (aka working benefits). Those in work should not be in receipt of benefits. People working part time should not have their income topped up by the taxpayer. If they want or need more money they should get a second part time job. There is no incentive for them to do so whilst they have their income topped up whilst working only half a week.

[starone]

If anyone is out there listening to me, I wouldn't mind a bit if the powers that be stopped paying me the extra 25 pence a week I get for being over 80. I am sure it would not make the slightest bit of difference to my life style and taken over the whole of the country it surely must amount to a few thousand pounds or more.

[FrogNog]

New Judge full time workers get tax credits too.
Are they allowed time off to sleep?

[naomi24]

I suggested to Linda this warranted its own thread - and it does. One could almost imagine that the people who sarcastically suggest the Magdalene laundries and workhouses as solutions really don't mind working to keep the idle in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed - which is fine - as long as they foot the bill and don't expect the rest of us to chip in.

[lindapalmara]

Thanks Naomi. I felt a bit surrounded there!

[ladybirder]

Someone should give that guy a job as a comic.

[naomi24]

Sorry, Linda - I was a bit late on parade tonight. ;o)