Monday, May 26, 2008

Willie Whitelaw rises from the dead


...reincarnated in the form of Chris Grayling calling for Boot Camps for unemployed youngsters. He didn't actually say they need a "short sharp shock" but as good as:

Jobless youths will face employment "boot camps" after just three months on the dole under new Tory benefit proposals, the party said. It's wonderful - real White Van Man stuff:

Jobless youths will face employment "boot camps" after just three months on the dole under new Tory benefit proposals, the party said.
And any under-21s failing to get a job within a year will be forced to carry out 12 months of community work in a bid to end a "street corner benefit culture".
The moves are part of benefit plans being unveiled this week by shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling who said Government proposals were too lax.
"In Britain today, where jobs a plenty have been created, there is no excuse whatsoever for a young, able-bodied person to be outside the labour force.
"But we all know that on a typical working day you can see young people hanging around in town centres in almost every part of this country," he said.
One young man he met in Manchester wanted to find a job after being in trouble but "no-one was taking him by the scruff of the neck and steering him in the right direction", said Mr Grayling.
"So he was hanging around on benefits. This has to stop."


Willie Whitelaw first called for all this in 1979. You would have thought that after 18 years of Tory government followed by another 11 years or.....er....Tory government, that this would be in place by now.

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