Reply to: New breakthrough Labour policy - guaranteed jobs!

[vetran]

I didn't realise the Tories had a policy for dealing with sinkholes already.

good point, they probably throw dead badgers in them.

[doodab]

so its a tory policy renamed?

I didn't realise the Tories had a policy for dealing with sinkholes already.

[vetran]

It's being described as a compulsory jobs guarantee which might indicate that one loses benefits if one doesn't work.

No indication these jobs will be with private sector organisations either, they will quite possibly be filling in sinkholes with teaspoons.

so its a tory policy renamed?

[petergriffin]

It won't work. The whole concept of 'job' is gone.

Milliband lives in the past.

[VectraMan]

No indication these jobs will be with private sector organisations either, they will quite possibly be filling in sinkholes with teaspoons.

Perhaps they could all work at the Job Centre.

[doodab]

It's being described as a compulsory jobs guarantee which might indicate that one loses benefits if one doesn't work.

No indication these jobs will be with private sector organisations either, they will quite possibly be filling in sinkholes with teaspoons.

[vetran]

So companies get to hire 55,000 people. So what happens to the 55,000 that lose their jobs because their job can now be done by somebody free?

or to the companies lumbered with unwilling conscripts?

[doodab]

Maybe they can clean out MPs moats.

[VectraMan]

So companies get to hire 55,000 people. So what happens to the 55,000 that lose their jobs because their job can now be done by somebody free?

[Doggy Styles]

Doesn't sound fundamentally different to anything Cameron has proposed.

To anything?

I'm not sure what you mean. Fundamentally HMG are the opposite. They are cutting costs and largely leaving business to create jobs.

[vetran]

these are 'guaranteed jobs' not work or your benefit gets cut (workfare). That is the difference!

So instead of taking long term unemployed and saying turn up & work or lose your benefits they say hey we will pay you to turn up & sit around at some workplace.


If I had been sat at home on benefits for 2 years and was comfortable I would just turn up and sit in the tea room for a year.

With Workfare half of the pilot group didn't turn up and lost their benefits, one could suggest that they may be going somewhere else to work.

[AtW]

We could send one million unemployed with one million buckets down to the floods.

A more realistic proposal would be to send 1 mln unemployed to some 3rd world country where cost of living is a fraction of what it costs to live in the UK.

[minestrone]

We could send one million unemployed with one million buckets down to the floods.

[hyperD]

Using different coloured buckets to save a sinking ship springs to mind.

[Zero Liability]

Doesn't sound fundamentally different to anything Cameron has proposed.