New Labour's Modest Proposal: Back To The Workhouse, Scum

How long till Cameron says, "I thought of it first". Clegg to say "transparency" again.

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How much hair has she got?

Flint was educated at Twickenham County School for Girls (the school transferred to Waldegrave School for Girls in 1977) on Clifden Road in Whitton and Richmond Tertiary College before earning her BA (Hons) in American Literature and History combined with Film Studies from the University of East Anglia.

Along with several other Labour women MPs, she is a member of a tap dancing troupe known as the Division Belles. Other members include Hazel Blears, Laura Moffatt, Meg Munn, Joan Ryan and Dari Taylor.

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I'm sick of these spongers wasting our taxes on tap dancing.

Jeez, for a minute I thought that said "lap dancing"

now that would be a news story worthy of a HYS

All of the foamin-at-the-mouth comments on the BBC start with "I pay my taxes"

... what do they think taxes are for if not to subsidise the poor and unempowered, who otherwise would be dying on the streets?

No silly, taxes are for kicking foreigners out of the country and buying submarines.

If you don't want to die, get a job

The search is now on for really tacky Division Belles publicity photos:

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xpost oh... ...sorry I was just waking up from a strange dream involving Nye Bevan......what's going on here?

Nye Bevan and Tom Driberg by any chance?

not that type of dream.

er, yeah... think ya boy bevan was about full employment, first and foremost. (but then the problem with full employment is, you can't hammer people down on wages if they don't have to worry so much about getting re-employed.) this is a stupid policy that if enacted would end up costing more than it "saves", but the notion that a labour government should use taxes to "subsidise the poor and unempowered" is pretty depressing. even in a much worse economic climate after the war labour did not give up on the idea of an egalitarian society.

yet more of nulabours great peonage expansion scheme

Considering a) they're playing catch up to the Tories and b) the Lib Dems are now irrelevant, crass right-wing populism is pretty much the only card Labour can play right now.

What do New Labour think taxes are for, if not to subsidise dodgy building societies and the lifestyles of MPs' Hooray Henry offspring?

... Labour government should use taxes to "subsidise the poor and unempowered" is pretty depressing

why? surely this is part of the redistribution necessary to move towards an egalitarian society? or are we misinterpreting each other?

Strictly speaking they should be using taxes to help the poor and unempowered stop being poor and unempowered, which isn't the same thing as subsidising them since that implies that they are kept poor and unempowered.

I knew we'd be tripping over the word "subsidise" . What Dingbod said is what I meant. cheers!

... or poorer and less empowered than their betters at least, so at least they behave themselves a bit better (xp)

aye what dingbod said.

When you've got the Centre for Policy Studies on side you've really gone too far.

I've got a couple of mates who scam benefits by faking depression...is it left wing to hate them because they are parasites of the workers, OR is it right wing to hate them because they are taking advantage of the welfare state?

TBH, I don't really really care either way.

the idea that people fake depression to claim benefits depresses me.

you can get benefits for being depressed?! deal me the fuck in.

If a doctor signs you off work with it, sure. These guys are also prescribed anti-depressants which get thrown away.

sheeeit, i could have used that info a few years ago. but signs you off work for how long? ('signed off' usually means the company eats x time as sick pay -- obviously not forever, and it depends on the employer.) still, it doesn't sound like a winning long-term strategy (nor, really, a depression-fighting one), unless you want to live on like £40 a week and have to tell prospective employers why you've been out of work.

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One of these fellas has been on £90 a week since he left uni nearly 5 years ago, never really had a proper job in the first place.

Other guy signed off a job in NHS admin, got full pay for six months.

But...if they weren't depressed in the first place, they probably are a bit now.

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Back to the original topic:

Are they really going to go round evicting people by force?

Or are they hoping private landlords short of payment will do that dirty work for them?

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet there is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

And this is the best we can do?