Cameron: Jobless Teenagers Must Carry Out Community Work For Their Benefits
Dear readers, first they came for the obese, then they came for the addicts, and then they came for the teenagers.
David Cameron’s latest announcement, reports tomorrow’s Telegraph, will be that
those aged between 18 and 21 who have not had a job for six months will be barred from claiming benefit unless they agree to start an apprenticeship or complete community work.
They will be required to do 30 hours a week of work in the community which can include making meals for older people, working in local parks or cleaning up war memorials.
Cameron will go on to say
“What these young people need is work experience and the order and discipline of turning up for work each day. So a Conservative government would require them to do daily community work from the very start of their claim, as well as searching for work.”
Readers, I can see two significant problems with this proposal instantly.
The first is that I wonder how realistic this proposal is. If young people will have to carry out community work from the day they start claiming benefits, how much time and energy will that leave any young person with which to search for a job?
Are benefit claimants supposed to spend every waking moment either working for free or looking for paid work?
The second problem worries me even more. Readers, nothing has been revealed about whether Employment Support Allowance claimants aged 18-21 would be affected by this policy, should it become law.
ESA claimants are disabled and physically can’t cook, clean or do heavy lifting. Also, readers, many disabled people who are not found eligible for ESA claim JobSeeker’s Allowance.
David Cameron must clarify whether young ESA claimants and young disabled JSA claimants would be exempt from any such policy, publicly and at the earliest opportunity.
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i thought community service was in lieu of prison sentence for minor offences
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Exactly so.
Cameron has thus tried to criminalize being young and unemployed.
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It is 0430,I volunteer today at a local charity,but not for long,instead I will be on the CWP,the JCP are unable to tell me what I will be doing for 30 hours a week,but if nothing is available I along with others will sit in a room waiting for something to come up.meanwhile the Provider(?) A4E will be paid to monitor us.Bloody nonsense!
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I see replacing the homehelp by putting in a slave gee whis hes on a winner sack the homehelp and give less in monies to councils hes saving money all round but by doing this he’s shown that the tory
party are now dealing in slaves just like the nazi party and getting
those in the sick to work has now become easier has being in sg
isnt going to stop them sending out the invite the brown one telling
one to report in has now you must go and be a slave stacking shelves
for that charity you say they cant touch you in the sg well thanks to
sueuy who like lazerath arised and went to work well shes shown rtu
ids that its possible to bribe one that alone will give that devil food for thought has now he come for those who thought they were safe
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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at the fear of being a pedant: they came for the disabled first.
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I meant this week, but otherwise you’re right…
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If there are jobs going in the community sector, they why don’t they give them a job with workers rights?
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Because, in Toryland, workers do not have any rights.
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Is this really so new?
Before the 2010 election, Cameron declared that he would introduce a form of National Service into which young people would be conscripted. Nothing came of the idea, other than garnering the votes of several thousand, middle-aged buffoons.
Besides, if a young person wishes to sponge off daddy’s largesse, free from interference by the state, there is surely nothing to stop him from swanning off to Italy to enroll in a foreign language school that sounds like it ought to be a university as a certain Cabinet Minister did. Afterwards, they could join the British Army and prove to be utterly useless.
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argh the old egg about community service, after all it’s not as if people are employed working in the parks, providing food for the elderly (via MOW or community cafe’s anyway)
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Wonder what the next day’s idea? is. May can’t come quick enough for me, except Mr Smith is going to get all of the cruel sh!te written in law before then. If it’s written into law, then surely it can be overturned again – I mean, look how the Tories have taken everything apart since they got in through the back door.
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
No nope for the young…
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There is a way to escape all this nonesense and the poor have the power, from 18 to 100.
See how at:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
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