Osborne's latest unemployment plans

[sparkindarkness]

 Osborne, being the nasty little Tory he is, has a new plan to help fight unemployment in this country - demonising the long term unemployed!

Did I say “new plan”? Because that kind of sounds like the Tory’s old plan. In fact, it sounds like the Tory’s only plan.

His plan is that long term unemployed will now have to do full time community

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[bookwormsarah]

And that “volunteer” position is deceptive - because in this era of cuts, we’re seeing both charities being forced to step in to fill in care that should be provided by services. It’s a shifting of workforce from paid labour to unpaid volunteers. The same applies to that “community service”, for every unemployed person you force into this scheme, that’s a council worker who is not needed.YES. I have spent the last few days so angry. I know how my local council face major cuts this year, and the ones next year are on an even bigger scale and mean that already pared down services will have to close

[sparkindarkness]

Charities stepping in to perform essential services gets on my very last nerve. Volunteering will never be as efficient, as appropriate or as necessary as services! Everything is being sliced to the bone so taxes can be cut for the wealthiest

I like taxes. With taxes I buy civilisation

[tattooofhername]

My local jobcenter doesn't provide toilets for visitors, not even a disabled loo. How they expect people to be there every day is ridiculous.

[sparkindarkness]

It's going to be an utter hot mess

[sparkindarkness]

Doesn't surprise me - the culture of demonising the poor is the only way the rich can maintain the system

[meganeko_mausuu]

Isn't there some sort of law against forcing people into unpaid labor over there? I mean, I remember something about a woman suing because she had to something like that while on unemployment... she was forced by the jobcenter to work without compensation for some grocery chain, and had to give up the chance to do some actual PAID temp work in order to do it... and she won, because of some law against being made to do uncompensated work? How is this any different, any less illegal?

[sparkindarkness]

It's all several kinds of complex because it is being listed as "help" rather than forced labour

But the alternative of attending job centre is going to be bandied as proving it;s not forced