[Churchill]

Looking at the bare bones of what they're suggesting in effect, they're going to ask people to 'work for dole'. Sounds great, but then we have to consider legislation. The fact is, a lot of long term unemployed are unemployable. So that means we, the taxpayer, will have to pay the minimum wage for them to perform basic tasks, thus making the government an even bigger (possibly the biggest) employer in Britain. This will make the labour market even more stretched as far as wages go, because no doubt all the employers who have contracts with the jobcentre will be referred these people.

I think the time limit expectation was more reasonable, and the fact they're now moving all the people they moved off unemployment benefits to incapacity (to hide unemployment figures) back to unemployment benefits is a bit laughable.

Anyway, as I said before, if they'd had the mind to do this 10 years ago we would be billions better off now, or less in the red anyway.