Career Advice

In this video I talk about the growing crisis facing an increasing number of UK residents who are dependent upon state unemployment benefits for their subsistence. In particular, I wish to draw people’s attention to the increasingly repressive ways that the Department of Work and Pensions is adopting to brow beat people into signing-off benefits, through the following mechanisms: (a) The increasingly arbitrary use of “sanctions” (ie a complete withdrawal of benefits for a specified period, such as 3 months) at the whim of a Jobcentre “advisor”; such “advisors” have powers that formerly only judges and magistrates possessed, ie the ability to disburse punitive fines for criminal acts. The government is determined to criminalize the mere act of being unemployed and to exert a maximum punitive effect through these measures. (b) The cynical use of private contractors to detain jobless claimaints in “training centres” whereby they are supposed to be supported in their “jobsearch”. In reality, such centres are mere cash cows where unscrupulous organizations, well-connected to this ConDem government, use unemployed people as mere fodder to produce handsome returns for themselves. (c) The reintroduction of the Workhouse (or chain-gangs, if you prefer that term) in the form of slave labour for the long-term unemployed. Naturally – as the name implies – this is no voluntary scheme, but rather one where claimants are forced – under duress of being “sanctioned” – to submit to …