The coalition are continuing with their 'Poor Bashing'. Their latest target are the unemployed, and those on incapacity benefit, by quote "Forcing them to Work, for their own good", very magnanimous of them! They are proposing using the 'carrot and the stick approach' without the carrot. A spokesman, on the politics show [[07-1-10] denied that they were treating people like prisoners, and forcing them to work as “a chain gang” on the streets. They did say they were forcing these people to work, street cleaning etc. for their own good.[To get them used to work, and getting out of bed], and they would be paid about £1.60 an hour.
If the ConDems start off on a small scale and force 750,000 to do 'Forced Work', the local authorities will have to sack all their street cleaners, gardeners, office staff, office cleaners to take advantage of this forced free workers. Of course this means there will be another 75,000 people out of work!
You may remember that we announced the Coalition were axing job creation schemes when they first came to power. They proudly announced that over the last 3 months that figures were available, that they had created 178,000 jobs, but failed to announce that 143,000 were part time jobs, and only 35,000 were full time. At this rate it will take 35 years to find jobs for the 500,000 civil servants they are discarding, as long as none of the other unemployed get there first.
You may remember when they pulled the plug on the Sheffield Forgemaster £80 million loan.The giant factory secured a £80million loan from the Labour Government, to make Sheffield Forgemasters a world leader in forging high tech giant steel reactor cores, currently only available from Japan. With 80% of this production being exported, and an expanded workforce, Sheffield Forgemasters felt the deal was good value money. They received a phone call confirming the loan had been withdrawn, just minutes before Danny Alexander announced it in Parliament. The biggest customer for these was China, this week the G20 summit tried to encourage China to to buy our goods, to help us get out of the mess. China's reply was, when we are ready.
You may remember those famous quotes the Prime Minister and deputy Minister made at the time they cut funding Forge Masters.
David Cameron said "There was a suspicion that while some of these decisions might have been good decisions, not all of them were good decisions and not all of them were good value for money." while Nick Clegg said “The truth is that this loan was promised by the outgoing Labour Government as a calculated ploy to win support in Sheffield just ahead of the election, when they knew all along that there simply wasn't the money to keep to that pledge in first place.”
You might think that with the Lib dems taking a Labour candidate to court for making untrue statements, that Labour should go to court and have the Pm and his deputy removed from parliament!
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