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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Kick Your Habit Or We'll Kick You

Daveybloke's ever more regrettable Minister for Workfare Till you Drop, Iain Duncan Smith, has been allowed out again, presumably in an effort to make Adrian Beecroft look sensible. Duncan Smith has come up with another jolly way of doing what he does best, namely promoting social mobility by ensuring that our more vulnerable and troublesome citizens have nowhere to go but down. Staff at employability coercion centres will be empowered to cut the welfare benefits of any claimant whom their extensive but economically sound training leads them to suspect is a drug addict. Several charities have already registered concern, citing such quaintly outdated impedimenta as the constitution of the NHS; although the chief executive of DrugScope was sufficiently realistic to note the policy's obvious advantage from the Government's point of view: "people will disengage from support services, potentially worsening their dependency and the impacts on their families and communities." No doubt Daveybloke will be pleased that someone has finally realised what his Big Society thingy is meant to be all about.

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