Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
^^ encouraged to work?

The lazy freeloading fukers should be forced to work. Start by severely curtailing the PIP farce, backout something universal credit too which is essentially the taxpayer subsidising company's poor pay, get pay rates to a level that are able to allow people to live above subsistence level.
Agree and subsidising low pay is a transfer from middle class workers to the rich.

However if you remove all legal income from fit healthy young people they may be tempted into the black economy of casual construction/catering as has always happened or the more antisocial pimping, drug dealing or protection rackets as foot soldiers for the gangs. It is already happening with older teenagers luring younger kids 10-16 who wont be sent to prison to run county lines.

While the miltary neither need nor want unwilling unskilled yobs there seems a good rational to some kind of workfare.

If NEETS (UK term meaning not in education, employment or training) are obliged to turn out 5 mornings at 8am to ensure benefit used to happen YOPS etc , There are lots of community projects from clearing rubbish , ditches, planting trees, painting, decorating, delivering meals,knob polishing, chimney cleaning, feeding donkeys in the new collieries, removing graffiti,hand jobs for arthritis sufferers re educating grammar failure, moderating spooners, pushing inflatables back to France and seriously for the sincere care work with elderly and disabled. This would require lots of "Minders/Supervisors and trainers. A kind of makeover of Bob a Job.

Of course Labour and the Unions too timid , Tories and Reform quite like a violent desperate poorly housed underclass as a warning to the rest of us.

There are many things the Thais have better , work or starve, tough drug and immigration rules. No handouts to the feckless let alone allowing foreign crimis to live in hotels at our expense, that is reserved for their top crimis only (I am still a UK taxpayer alas!)