The student and I had a truly lovely day together today. We just zigged and then zagged.
It is starting to feel though that the coalition is a bit scared of what it has started.
Suddenly, punting all the state woodland into his little mates for knockdown rates (because it always is ) is off Camerons agenda.
Ian Duncan Smith is pulling back from taking benefit from people who are unemployed as a punishment for not being able to find the jobs that are not there after a year.
But look at the small print, housing benefit will drop from 50 percent of market rate to 30 percent. Won't happen of course because housing benefit is claimed largely by elderly and disabled people and when there are homeless old people on the town square even the tories won't be able to bullshit their way through that.
This week has been a bit of an introduction as Bethan my eldest, possibly the least organised person on the planet has moved off Job Seekers Allowance (being unemployed) to something else - not sure what.
She has joined a load of other young people in a former school in the south of the county. A facility seriously in the private sector, where she has been doing "core skills" things she did at GCSE, but of course these people get paid for delivering them not for whether the students need them. Then she moves on to being a "trainee" that means she does a full time job for an employer for which she gets 20 pounds more than the dole but does not get the minimum wage.
Lets be fair to the Condems, they have only carried on the New Labour scheme.
Personally I think this is just the reinvention of the YTS; lets use youth and get them into the framework of being exploited.
It has been good for her though, she has come home angry and determined to challenge the system and change it.
Go girl, you are your mothers daughter...
R
It is starting to feel though that the coalition is a bit scared of what it has started.
Suddenly, punting all the state woodland into his little mates for knockdown rates (because it always is ) is off Camerons agenda.
Ian Duncan Smith is pulling back from taking benefit from people who are unemployed as a punishment for not being able to find the jobs that are not there after a year.
But look at the small print, housing benefit will drop from 50 percent of market rate to 30 percent. Won't happen of course because housing benefit is claimed largely by elderly and disabled people and when there are homeless old people on the town square even the tories won't be able to bullshit their way through that.
This week has been a bit of an introduction as Bethan my eldest, possibly the least organised person on the planet has moved off Job Seekers Allowance (being unemployed) to something else - not sure what.
She has joined a load of other young people in a former school in the south of the county. A facility seriously in the private sector, where she has been doing "core skills" things she did at GCSE, but of course these people get paid for delivering them not for whether the students need them. Then she moves on to being a "trainee" that means she does a full time job for an employer for which she gets 20 pounds more than the dole but does not get the minimum wage.
Lets be fair to the Condems, they have only carried on the New Labour scheme.
Personally I think this is just the reinvention of the YTS; lets use youth and get them into the framework of being exploited.
It has been good for her though, she has come home angry and determined to challenge the system and change it.
Go girl, you are your mothers daughter...
R
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