Yesterday saw the launch of Iain Duncan
Smith's, ( I. D. S. Idiot Dickhead Smith.) Help To Work scheme. The
idea is to help 2.3 million unemployed into approximately 500,000
vacancies, that works out at approximately 5 people chasing every
job, of course it varies from area to area. In high unemployment
areas the figure is much worse. How is IDS going to shove those 2.3
million into those 500,000 vacancies? Well by forcing people to work
for six months doing community work, for no wages, if they refuse,
stop their jobseekers allowance for 4 weeks, and if the refuse again,
then stop their allowance for 13 weeks, so it's deprivation, or work
for nothing. Another of I D S's ideas is to get longterm unemployed
to sign on every day, can you imagine the queues at job centres, or
will he employ extra staff at the centres, that might help bring done
unemployment.
If you are sentenced by a court for an
offence, say assault, the maximum community service you would do,
would be 300 hours, but those unemployed will be forced to do more
than twice this, 780 hours. Obviously in this society, to be
unemployed is worse than assaulting somebody.
Whichever measure is used, there
are nowhere near enough vacancies to enable everyone currently
looking for a job to find one. Of course that doesn't matter, the
idea is to get people used to working for nothing, then they might be
extremely grateful when they are offered a crap job with crap wages.
It is all part of the plan to create a sweatshop UK. The UK corporate
bosses love Idiot Dickhead Smith.
The fact that they have launched
their “Flagship” policy, doesn't mean that it will work, as usual
it will be ill thought out, ill prepared, under funded, under manned,
and result in chaos, as well as heaping stress on enormous numbers of
people. From ATOS, to Workfare, to the bedroom tax, to Help To Work, it is all about
co-ercing people to accept the unacceptable, a low wage economy, and
big bucks for employers.
It seems that the lauch has, as
predicted, has seen chaos on its first day. This from The Void:
Read the full article HERE:Despite wildly optimistic claims from the DWP, today’s launch of mass workfare seems to be in chaos behind the scenes. With barely any information yet available on the scheme it appears that the flagship Help To Work programme has no-one actually running it, no guidance for companies involved and no real plan to deal with the huge influx of claimants to Jobcentres from daily signing.
