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Some pretty good ideas LM (and I'm definitely not right wing). That said, I think I'd make it 6 hours of real work and 2 hours of job skills/interview techniques/proper job searching (not fannying about on Facebook). After all, we don't really want people working on a chain gang long term.0
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Care is immensly costly, I thought you wanted to save on benefits?
Also care homes are pretty guaranteed to churn out unhinged people.
The left wing press and BBC would have a field day with stories of young kids thrown out of thier parents home.
You're doubtless right, just saying they wouldn't become 'street children', would they? Cameron in Parliament says he's looking at 'confiscating' benefits from people (this in answer to a question about removing benefits, ie per the petition).0 -
I don't think anyone actually assumes an e-peition is going to get the benefits removed from these people by next week.
However, as the news stated on this subject, it is an indicator, to the government, that people want something done. That's all you can take it as.
I don't think anyone is under the false pretence that getting over 100k signatures will have these rioters having list their benefits by next week. It's just an indication of sentiment.
Saying it's just stupid repetatively because it won't achieve implicitly what it aims to do is extremely short sighted.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »I don't think anyone actually assumes an e-peition is going to get the benefits removed from these people by next week.
However, as the news stated on this subject, it is an indicator, to the government, that people want something done. That's all you can take it as.
I don't think anyone is under the false pretence that getting over 100k signatures will have these rioters having list their benefits by next week. It's just an indication of sentiment.
Saying it's just stupid repetatively because it won't achieve implicitly what it aims to do is extremely short sighted.
Well, exactly. Thanks0 -
I think some rioters would suffer more from beeing kicked out of their council/HA houses than others.
Not a bad spot to live in, I should imagine:)A Hugo Boss shop was the target of about 40 looters who emptied the store of its contents on Tuesday. In response, four arrests have been made as suspects were dragged from their homes during searches in Pimlico, central London.The Scotland Yard officer leading raids at the Churchill Gardens Estate said he was proud of his officers' quick response.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »
Saying it's just stupid repetatively because it won't achieve implicitly what it aims to do is extremely short sighted.
The only remotely positive thing about this would be if it knee jerked parents into getting a grip of their kids (in the short term).
Maybe they could build internment camps somewhere out of the way, say Devon
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
The only remotely positive thing about this would be if it knee jerked parents into getting a grip of their kids (in the short term).
Or a change in human rights, we had obviously gone so far to the left that when people steal in front of the police and they do nothing but watch.
As a country we have got to the stage where perpetrators are very well protected.
People even moaned about human rights in terms of releasing pictures of looters!0 -
Or a change in human rights, we had obviously gone so far to the left that when people steal in front of police they do nothing but watch.
As a country we have got to the stage where perpetrators are very well protected.
People even moaned about human rights in terms of releasing pictures of looters.
Not on the video that I saw :eek:'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
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