Grant Schapps on Question Time

Grant Schapps on Question Time saying that the unemployed should work 35 hours in the community for their dole and then look for work the rest of the time! So basically paying them £2 a hour. If the jobs are there for that work to be done then give them a job doing it and at least minimum wage!

 

It's hard to believe that these schemes get public support. On the face of it, getting someone 'off their arse' to help the community in exchange for their benefits is a good idea - but when you consider that it actually takes a potential job away from someone being paid a living wage, you see how ridiculous it is to propose things like that.

That's my issue with the attitude of people towards strikers in the UK. If someone has something that they don't, instead of getting together and fighting to improve conditions, they'd rather take those work benefits away from the person that has them! They then argue that it isn't affordable to give those benefits, but it is. It's far less affordable to pay people below a 'living wage' and have to supplement their income through state handouts.

"He has a lollipop and I don't"
"Do you want a lollipop?"
"No, I just don't want them to have one"

 

Exactly. And that is why the right wing seem to be winning lately, because they have the working classes fighting against each other.

Well, that's my opinion.

 

This shows you the type of nasty, small-minded twoddle we'd have got if the Conservatives had acheievd a majority in 2010. God forbid that they'll do so in 2015. But there again, as Alastair Campbell says, if they couldn't win outright after 3 years of Gordon Brown and an economic crisis, hopefully they'll not do so next time.

At least the Lib Dems, for all their faults will not allow this sort of stuff through while they're in partnership.

 

Daily mail stays out of politics was the best line last night

 

i think the main issue is not with those that can't work and need help it is with those that don't want to work. Why work for minimum wage when you can get the equivilant of of £500 per week in various benefits?

Why not pay them the minimum wage (after tax). For example of someone gets £150 a week in benefits then make them do 25-30 hours community service, which is the minimum wage.

After all, if someone works 40 hours on minimum wage they will get about £252 (take home about £220), it should be impossible to get more than minimum wage take home pay on the dole.