My flabber is utterly gasted – the world really has gone mad. Noodling around Technorati this morning, in between knocking up a pan of minestrone soup with pork sausages (tremendous bias towards US sports and politics, I find; on Technorati, that is, not in my soup), I spotted an ad for a ghost-writing service, so [...]
Archive for February 8th, 2009
James Purnell – it’s the recession, stupid…
Posted in James Purnell in the mire, tagged Disability benefits, James Purnell, No jobs for workfare, Workfare and the recession, Workfare in trouble on February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Labour’s and Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell’s disgraceful plans to force the sick and disabled, plus single parents, and anyone else he can think of, into make-work jobs have run up against an “unforeseen” obstacle – no bloody jobs – something I forecast here months ago, even before the recession. This was, in the [...]
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