tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532540929589136198.post3776017812813337818..comments2023-10-23T08:31:46.168-07:00Comments on LEAP economics: Unemployment, the economy and the new slave labourUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532540929589136198.post-14240126185421616142012-02-24T07:45:18.164-08:002012-02-24T07:45:18.164-08:00@Ralph - it was 'populist nonsense' that g...@Ralph - it was 'populist nonsense' that got Greece in trouble ... not systematic tax avoidance and evasion then? <br><br>Not forced? it's called '<b>Mandatory</b> Work Activity' - work for free or have no income instead. <br><br>Most of us don't want to live in your brutal world.Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09829335430135810050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532540929589136198.post-28607203177485442062012-02-21T14:41:32.907-08:002012-02-21T14:41:32.907-08:00The claim in the above article that the Work Progr...The claim in the above article that the Work Programme amounts to “slave labour” is just emotive, and populist nonsense. If you want to see where a really large dose of populist nonsense gets a country, look at Greece.<br><br>A slave is someone who is FORCED to work. No one FORCES the unemployed to work: if they’ve got relatives to support them or some other source of money, they are free to do nothing.<br>A slave has no choice as to WHERE they work. Work Progrmme people do have a choice.<br><br>And if one able bodied person is NOT forced to work, another will inevitably have to make sacrifices to support the former. Who is the slave?Ralph Musgravehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532540929589136198.post-19390757478698111382012-02-20T01:54:38.030-08:002012-02-20T01:54:38.030-08:00Workfare as implemented by this government (legisl...Workfare as implemented by this government (legislated for under New Labour) is a key part of the reforms the Tories are introducing.<br><br>As for us not criticising the Labour government, see this blog in 2008 when Purnell's plans were first introduced: http://leap-lrc.blogspot.com/2008/07/punishing-poor.html<br><br>Or this by the LRC in 2009: http://l-r-c.org.uk/press/left-vows-to-fight-welfare-bill-tooth-and-nail1/<br><br>We've been consistent critics of attempts to rip up the welfare state whether by this Tory government or by Tories like Purnell in the last governmentAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09829335430135810050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532540929589136198.post-5130256979323273882012-02-19T11:05:58.315-08:002012-02-19T11:05:58.315-08:00>>Workfare is a particularly vile element of...>>Workfare is a particularly vile element of this 'welfare reform',<br><br>"Workfare" has nothing to do with the current government's welfare reforms.<br><br>It was introduced by Labour before the last election.<br><br>Where were all the complaings from the left then?nonny mousehttp://mrnonnymouse.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com