I have been reading all this week that David Cameron's first priority as a Tory Prime Minister [if he wins of course] is to reduce the amount of people on Incapacity benefit. I would have thought his first priority would be to encourage companies in this country to start creating real, well paid jobs, what's the point of getting people to be work ready when there is no real work to go to. The only people who will be getting anything out of this is is companies like A4e, Working Links. I can imagine Emma Harrison rubbing her hands together already.
You have seen it on Benefit Busters already where people are placed in temporary work or in low paid employment. Imagine the career prospects and the stimulation for my brain working at the 99p shop?. I have experienced this already by going on a six week placement and there was no real job at the end of it only to go full circle and be back where I started again.
Its just the same old tosh to try and win voters before an election by saying that he will be attacking the people on benefits. Nothing new then, move along!.
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Were you really expecting anything new? No, of course not. I, for one, will abstain at the next election. The Tories will definitely win - the only question is by how much. Last week's Labour party conference and Prescott's comments the weekend before show that they need a period in opposition to regroup. Their turn will come again, with a different leader and different policies.
Cameron reminds me of Ted Heath and John Major and both of them were disasters, though Gordon Brown makes even those two seem competent by comparison. You'd think that would tempt me to vote for Cameron's Tories, but it won't. A lot of people will be tempted on the basis that Cameron can't be any worse. He just might be worse though I hope I'm wrong.
The Tory "work and pensions" shadow minister Theresa May said recently that she has consulted private companies who are supposed to be part of the Tory plans to get people back to work - often the same companies who ran the New Deal schemes. It's a shame she didn't consult unemployed and disabled people. If she even read the blogs that we and others have posted, she'd know that these private companies are useless.
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