After spending the first year in government cutting everything that wasn't moving, increasing inflation and unemployment and sending Britain spiralling towards another recession, the like of which most will not have experienced, David Cameron (aka David Cononandon) is now targeting the very jobless unemployed he helped create! This is reminiscent of the Norman Tebbit "get on your bike" order to the jobless at the Conservative Party conference of 1981 which caused a political outcry at the time.
In his speech today, the party has said he will outline the government's welfare crackdown, expecting Job seekers to spend longer looking for work and take jobs further from home or face losing their benefits.
Research is said to suggest that UK jobless currently spend an average 8 minutes a day looking for work, five times less than in the US and three times less than French unemployed.
It is believed that the unemployed should consider "making a job of looking for a job" - spending "several hours" each day as a condition of receiving their Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) of £67.50 a week.
It is also understood that the rules will be changed forcing 1.58 million people on benefits to take jobs up to 90mins travelling from their homes - 30 minutes more than the current requirement.
First of all you can spend all day looking, but if the jobs are not there nothing will change. Secondly, if more people spend more time commuting to work that will increase congestion on our roads and put more strain public transport at peak periods.
There is also the human cost to consider with some workers not seeing their children awake before they leave for work or after they eventually arrive home. What about the financial cost of all this additional commuting? Wages are at best frozen, but in reality they are decreasing in real terms. Transport costs are currently exceeding inflation.
The government should be concentrating on job creation, not unemployed persecution! Anyone who now find themselves unemployed falling from the average wage of £498, would surely have every incentive to want to get more than the £67.50 they now receive in JSA each week.
This is nothing more than a side-show to distract the British people away from the real problem of world-wide sovereign debt, the Euro crisis and the next recession.
