Labour Party UK: No welfare for you!
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:11 am
The labour welfare nazi (A newly created position that replaced "Party leader" ever since they shat the bed and decided that their core vote isn't the left wing, but right wing hystericals who hate welfare) has decided that there shouldn't be any job seekers allowance for anyone who doesn't have at least an A level or equivalent, and anyone who falls below this threshhold must return to education instead.
Obviously, i'm opposed for various reasons which i'll elaborate now (I sneezed on the enter key, gimme a second.)
It seems to me that this is yet more demonization of people on welfare who, as shocking as this may be to people, don't actually want to remain on welfare for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, many people I know consistently work and work often, but nonetheless are unqualified under their new scheme to receive job seekers allowance (I.E, unemployment benefit) between jobs.
This would apply to people between 18 and 21, so provided they manage to not starve in the meantime it should be fine.
Furthermore, this seems to take an extremely rosey view of our education system. At 18-21 being the target demographic, it'll be impossible for college places to be found for all the people who suddenly need to go enroll and then skip classes in order to obtain their welfare.
I know of 3 people personally who would have been screwed by this shenanigan, who worked when they left school at 16 up until 19 or 20 before being out of work for one or two years, then returned to work.
They have no interest in further education, their careers are based on skill and experience. Nonetheless, the Labour party would have them go waste absolutely everybodies time and a bunch of money in order to make the paranoid loons who go mental every time they think someone is cheating the system feel a little less hysterical.
Couple that with the increase in the number of years you need to pay in to the system from 2 to 5, and Miliband seems absolutely determined to lose the youth vote, considering that earlier this week we had a very nice Tory come on television to explain to the country that it's a little full of shit that peoples criminal records survive beyond their 18th birthday and we probably should rectify that.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... d-miliband
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27911518
What do you think NSG?
Obviously, i'm opposed for various reasons which i'll elaborate now (I sneezed on the enter key, gimme a second.)
It seems to me that this is yet more demonization of people on welfare who, as shocking as this may be to people, don't actually want to remain on welfare for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, many people I know consistently work and work often, but nonetheless are unqualified under their new scheme to receive job seekers allowance (I.E, unemployment benefit) between jobs.
This would apply to people between 18 and 21, so provided they manage to not starve in the meantime it should be fine.
Furthermore, this seems to take an extremely rosey view of our education system. At 18-21 being the target demographic, it'll be impossible for college places to be found for all the people who suddenly need to go enroll and then skip classes in order to obtain their welfare.
I know of 3 people personally who would have been screwed by this shenanigan, who worked when they left school at 16 up until 19 or 20 before being out of work for one or two years, then returned to work.
They have no interest in further education, their careers are based on skill and experience. Nonetheless, the Labour party would have them go waste absolutely everybodies time and a bunch of money in order to make the paranoid loons who go mental every time they think someone is cheating the system feel a little less hysterical.
Couple that with the increase in the number of years you need to pay in to the system from 2 to 5, and Miliband seems absolutely determined to lose the youth vote, considering that earlier this week we had a very nice Tory come on television to explain to the country that it's a little full of shit that peoples criminal records survive beyond their 18th birthday and we probably should rectify that.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... d-miliband
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27911518
What do you think NSG?