The Curmudgeon

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Helping Those in Need

The Government's work programme has helped millions into stable employment, provided one uses the Duncan Smith/Esther McVey calculus and counts forty-eight thousand in three years as "millions" and six months' employment as "stable". Under the work programme, the Government pays contractors to chivvy people into work whether it's there or not, and then pays a bonus to the contractor if a suitable period elapses before the positive outcome is inevitably overcome by the urge to live it up on beer, bingo and food banks. Self-evidently, this is a more efficient system than mere investment in social housing, green crap or (which the sainted Thatcher forfend) infrastructure; as is clear from the fact that benefits were withdrawn from skivers and shirkers more than 240,000 times in the single year to October 2013. Precise figures are not as yet available from the notoriously precise Duncan Smith database; but given profits from a quarter of a million sanctions, there must surely be enough to pay the contractors' bonuses and set aside a little something for the bankers' hungry children, as well.

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