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Britain's forced labour laws - David Guyatt - 04-11-2014 Yep, in the UK these days, of you're unemployed and receiving benefits, you can be forced to work for a commercial company for free. It is, de facto, slave labour. Quote:DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go Britain's forced labour laws - Martin White - 04-11-2014 This is all part of the Great Tory Lie that the national Benefits bill is caused by "shirkers", when in fact the great majority of "welfare" spending in the UK is on pensions and people who are in work receiving benefits to supplement their low incomes. In reality, the State is subsidising the profits of big business, while CEO pay rockets. This can only come from the brain of a man who, whilst Tory leader, claimed his haircuts and underpants on expenses, claimed a £38 breakfast on expenses, paid his wife thousands of pounds a year from public funds as his "Diary Secretary" while in fact she did nothing. Iain Duncan Smith is a despicable hypocrite, coward and a bully. Britain's forced labour laws - Magda Hassan - 04-11-2014 Martin White Wrote:This is all part of the Great Tory Lie that the national Benefits bill is caused by "shirkers", when in fact the great majority of "welfare" spending in the UK is on pensions and people who are in work receiving benefits to supplement their low incomes. In reality, the State is subsidising the profits of big business, while CEO pay rockets. Yes, yes, and yes Martin. And IDS is despicable vile little man. Just like the Tories. Britain's forced labour laws - Magda Hassan - 04-11-2014 I would have thought under contract law that such 'agreements' would be invalid since there is force involved. But I am not a lawyer. ::dalek:: Tories look like they are implementing eugenics (social cleansing) under a new means. Britain's forced labour laws - Martin White - 04-11-2014 Indeed. In fact, only yesterday on twitter I described Tories as people that would remove one of your kidneys, sell it for their personal profit and then convince you that you're better off with one anyway. How Iain Duncan Smith was never prosecuted for fraud, I have no idea. It's probably worth another thread to describe the twisted logic in this situation: a legal trade union holds a legal vote for strike action, and the Tories complain it's not valid because the turnout was only 40%. Meanwhile, the Police and Crime Commissioners which had turnouts in the region of 14% (in other words, the "winner" only needed 7% of the total vote) are perfectly valid expressions of democracy. The turnout for the South Yorkshire PCC election (following the resignation of the incumbent after the Rotherham child abuse scandal) actually went down from 2012. IIRC the election last week was about 0.5% down on the poll in 2012. In another parallel universe, the people of Manchester - who voted against having a directly elected Mayor - have been told by Osborne that they are getting one anyway, and somehow this is a "win" for Democracy. Increasingly, the concept formally known as Democracy is becoming "whatever the ruling party tell you it is" Britain's forced labour laws - Martin White - 04-11-2014 Magda Hassan Wrote:Martin White Wrote:This is all part of the Great Tory Lie that the national Benefits bill is caused by "shirkers", when in fact the great majority of "welfare" spending in the UK is on pensions and people who are in work receiving benefits to supplement their low incomes. In reality, the State is subsidising the profits of big business, while CEO pay rockets. You also notice, that despite the incontrovertible truth of the breakdown of welfare payments, the Government keep up this "strivers v shirkers" rhetoric, aided by Channel 4 and Channel 5 doing programs like "Benefit Street" which portray benefit recipients as feckless scroungers. All lapped up by the mass media especially the Mail and the Express. Chief Whip Sir George Young (convicted drink-driver) described the homeless as "those people you step over on the way out of the Opera". Compassionate Conservatives. An oxymoron if ever there was one. Britain's forced labour laws - Magda Hassan - 04-11-2014 It is organized. This world wide Tory war on the poor. The same thing is happening in New Zealand and Australia and in the US and Canada. I want to know who is writing the script. Because they are all reading from exactly the same one. Britain's forced labour laws - Martin White - 04-11-2014 I saw the best line ever last week on Twitter. "Hunger kills more people than Ebola, but that's not a problem since rich people can't die of it." Britain's forced labour laws - Magda Hassan - 04-11-2014 Martin White Wrote:It's probably worth another thread to describe the twisted logic in this situation: a legal trade union holds a legal vote for strike action, and the Tories complain it's not valid because the turnout was only 40%. The other component to the war on the poor is the war on organized labour. The thing the Tories fear more than anything is organized labour and an informed and educated populace. There are the same attempts to remove worker's human rights and disenfranchise trade unions in all the Anglo countries. Britain's forced labour laws - Tracy Riddle - 04-11-2014 All over the English-speaking world, the "conservatives" really yearn to go back to the 19th century when the "right" people were running things, and the "other people" were in their place and did what they were told. |