Mandatory work trials = Workfare

And talking of schmucks….

Work trials and work experience will be made mandatory for long term jobless as part of a major expansion of employment support and welfare reform to get people back to work…. So says Yvette Cooper Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Furthermore

A lot of people are still having a tough time finding work and we’re investing £5bn to give them more help. We’re working with businesses, local councils and voluntary sector groups as part of a major change in the way the welfare state delivers more personalised support to help people into work. But in return everyone has to do their bit to find work or take up the new help that’s on offer. Otherwise it’s not fair on everyone else who’s trying desperately hard to find a job and support their families.”

And

….thousands of jobseekers who have been out of work for a year will get tailored help to get jobs from specialist organisations through the Flexible New Deal. The contracts mean companies will be paid according to the number of people they get into sustainable work.

So the Benefit Busters won’t be out of a job with their bully-boy tactics forcing people into work with the threats of benefits sanctions. And it is about these private companies making lots of lovely profit… (and ‘sustainable’…well, that’s one ambiguous word which could mean anything)

And the icing on the cake, the Pièce de résistance….

Mandatory work trials and work experience will be developed through a pilot scheme in several areas from next year. Where jobseekers have been out of work for more than six months but have turned down work trials, support or training that could get them jobs, advisors will be able to require them to take up a work trial or work experience placement as a condition of continuing to receive benefit.

Let’s be clear…mandatory work trials is a euphemism for workfare.

 NL and the Tories are on a binge when it comes to attacking the poor, it is a vile hideous feeding frenzy witnessing these reactionaries outbidding each other on who can shaft the poor the most.

The crisis of capitalism was not the fault of the poor yet the poor are being scapegoated, witch hunted and blame for this crisis. Yet the real enemy, as always, is getting away with it….

Politics is show business for unoriginal Tory schmucks

So will Disney be demanding royalties? Will Zac Efron (though it could be Zan or Zen…or even Zac) be making a guest appearance? Or has some shiny expensive corporate PR company come up with this inane and meaningless slogan….

We’re all in this together…

It wasn’t just the once, twice, three, four, five, six….but 7 times!!

And that cheery leader saccharine coated puke inducing slogan is packed with sheer Tory nastiness. But that’s the point, according to Osborne, is that everyone is going to feel the pain of reducing the deficit.

Amongst these sparkly little vile gems of proposals: There’ll be a one-off pay freeze in 2011 for all public sector workers, apart from frontline forces and those earning less than £18,000.

Osborne’s logic is that the public will thank him for his ‘honesty’ for this ‘credible’ plan in reducing the deficit.  Yes I can just imagine it, a low paid worker is expected to doff his cap to Osborne with the words, ‘thank-you for your ‘onesty George, I needed that sharp kick in the ribs for your credible plan to work…no pain no gain’…

So how about this one for the musical vaults it’s prosaic not very savvy nor sprinkled with the Disney-esque magic glittery stuff .

 Ta-da…   Tories back from the dead, shafting the poor…as ever.. 

(hey, it’s October and Halloween aint far off ….kinda…and getting into the spirit of things).

Here’s an idea, Tories/NL should stop attacking, stigmatising, scapegoating and vilifying the poor and do what they should be doing…..

Make the banks pay back the money they were handed for the bailout.

Yeah, but the banks and the rich won’t be feeling any pain any time soon. The usual suspects will be……

This is another hilarious bloated Hollywood-esque lame quote: The Shadow Chief Secretary Philip Hammond told the BBC’s World at One: “The truth is not a dangerous strategy, the truth is what the British people deserve.”

I can just hear Jack Nicholson booming, ‘You can’t handle the truth…!’

…….’Yes We Can!’….

(Now that sounds familiar, where have I heard that before?)