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Work Programme blues
Last night on Newsnight Jeremy Paxman compared defenders of the work programme to the pet shop owner (in the Monty Python sketch) who claimed that the dead parrot was not dead but simply pining for the fjords. Priceless!
Cameron is NOT the messiah - he is a very naughty boy! Oh dear Paul : what have you started?
Work Programme? Eeh, thar were lucky. When I were a lad we had t’community programme. We had a decent wage (going rate for t’job), guaranteed for 12 months that gave real experience. Now you have to get up half hour before you go to bed, suffer the same pain as if you were crawling 60 miles on broken glass, get sent for jobs that don’t exist, and all you’ve got to live in is a crisp packet in t’middle of the road… er - this isn’t working is it? (Like the Work Programme)...
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
We had to get up half an hour before we went to bed. This, however was a blatant breach of our Jobseekers agreement, and also made backdating tricky!
“No one expects” jobcentre plus visiting officers. “Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the” Secretary of State…. “Our *four*...no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.”
Someone’s being economical with the actualité
“No one expects” jobcentre plus visiting officers. “Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the” Secretary of State…. “Our *four*...no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.”
Surely you mean ruthless INefficiency, this is JC+ we are talking about.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/work-programme-memo-082.pdf
Well well well, ESA WRAG claimants in Work programme could be mandated into work placements?
IDS said on newsnight something on the lines that the ability to work is appropriate for all ill and disabled people, and he expects them to do so.