This government's eager complicity in
the financial Mafia's drive for sweatshop Europe is seen in the
number of ways in which they offer their business friends helpings of
free labour. They give interviews proclaiming unemployment is
falling and the recovery is gaining ground. However, unemployment is
falling because thousands of people are on workfare, a government
gift of free labour to the corporate greed machine, and as for
recovery, well among the ordinary people the recovery is a fairytale.
The millionaire's Old Boys network, our government, has now started another way of forcing young people to work for
nothing, their “traineeships” scheme. Of course their millionaire
buddies in businesses like Boots, Poundland and Kwik-fit, to mention just a
few, are more than eager to take on board as much free labour as
they can get their hands on. Why employ people for a wage when your
friends in government hand you free labour.
Another smiling comment from the
millionaire cabal in charge of our drive to deprivation, is that
inflation has fallen from 2.7% to 2.2% and this should ease the
pressure on the general public. What a load of bullshit, in that
“fall” there is hidden the fact that food has risen by 4.6% and
energy bills are set to rise in the region of 10%, how this will ease
the pressure on the ordinary household budget has yet to be
explained.
With workfare, traineeships, zero
hours contracts, part-time employment, bedroom tax, rocketing
food and energy prices, and ATOS killing off the disabled, this government has pressed the accelerator
as we spiral down the deprivation road. Sweatshop Europe here we
come.
An excerpt from an interesting and
informative article by The Void:
Unpaid workers on these schemes are counted as employed, a handy distortion of the figures for a Government that claims they are bringing down unemployment. With the numbers in part-time work, precarious self-employment or workfare all at record levels, and wages falling far behind inflation, the true picture of the labour market is far from good news. Recent Housing Benefit statistics* show that the number claiming help with housing costs remains at record levels. Over 5 million people are on this benefit and for the first time, in July 2013, the number of working Housing Benefit claimants topped one million.
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