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Uploaded by on May 5, 2011

In this video I talk about the growing crisis facing an increasing number of UK residents who are dependent upon state unemployment benefits for their subsistence. In particular, I wish to draw people's attention to the increasingly repressive ways that the Department of Work and Pensions is adopting to brow beat people into signing-off benefits, through the following mechanisms:

(a) The increasingly arbitrary use of "sanctions" (i.e. a complete withdrawal of benefits for a specified period, such as 3 months) at the whim of a Jobcentre "advisor"; such "advisors" have powers that formerly only judges and magistrates possessed, i.e. the ability to disburse punitive fines for criminal acts. The government is determined to criminalize the mere act of being unemployed and to exert a maximum punitive effect through these measures.

(b) The cynical use of private contractors to detain jobless claimaints in "training centres" whereby they are supposed to be supported in their "jobsearch". In reality, such centres are mere cash cows where unscrupulous organizations, well-connected to this ConDem government, use unemployed people as mere fodder to produce handsome returns for themselves.

(c) The reintroduction of the Workhouse (or chain-gangs, if you prefer that term) in the form of slave labour for the long-term unemployed. Naturally - as the name implies - this is no voluntary scheme, but rather one where claimants are forced - under duress of being "sanctioned" - to submit to whatever form of Slavefare placement is dictated to them from their "advisor". The results of this policy are easy to predict: Misery and despair for the victims affected, big profits for the private companies contracted to administer the slave workers and a reduction in the number of formerly half-decently paid position available within the economy. (Consider: If you're a private company, why would you pay 20,000 pounds p.a. for a full-time worker when you could get them for free? I am basing my argument here not just on theory, but also from the looking at the results in the US, Canada and Germany - amongst other nations - of introducing such a policy. After the introduction of "Workfare" (Slavefare) schemes in those countries, many formerly regular paid jobs disappeared only to be reoccupied by slave workers working to maintain nothing but their benefits). Lastly, an effect of this policy will be a rise in the frustration and criminal intent of an increasing number of affected claimants, who are likely to lash out ever more randomly and sensely against society as a result.

The disenfranchisement and abuse of the unemployed in Britain, the US and elsewhere must stop.

WHOSE STREETS? OUR FUCKING STREETS!

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  • Thanks for your support. I also have felt sad that I seem to be in a minority to either see it (which I think is unlikely) or, more likely, to be in a minority that is willing to express outrage at this situation. One can speculate ad infinitum as to why this should be the case. Personally, I believe that shame on the part of the claimants is one reason which holds being back from wanting to talk about their situation and link up with others in the same boat.

  • @skay48 Thankyou for this so much.. Full-time carer, lone parent of 2..one disabled..not exempt because I am a lone parent! Worked for 16 yrs previous to having my children..been to college have a trade and been to University which i had to give up Twice because it was such a struggle it became impossible..in benefit trap now and not even included in the unemployment statistics because I am a full-time carer. Only for the last 3 yrs have i got respite for my child to give her brother and I sleep

  • @sammbah Yes, I can well imagine how hard it much be dealing with the situation you find yourself in. What really makes me angry is the fact that people, such as yourself, who really already find themselves struggling to get up from the deck simply find the authorities (mis)using this as an opportunity to kick them while they're down. Remember: You're not hurting anybody by needing help (unlike the desk clerk fascists hounding you).  Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  • Indeed. The recent - and nationwide - riots are only the beginning of a backlash that will play out across Europe and beyond in the months and years ahead.

    Governments, in the hands of the elite feral - and dare I say, feckless, rich - want to return the majority of us to a state of serfdom a la 19th century Victorian Britain. The same moralizing tone - blaming the victims for their plight - strikes one like a brick in the face.

    How long are we going to allow this to continue?

  • This chap talks a fair amount of sense! I agree with the general gist of his argument. He is absolutely correct about complaining. I have done this myself. For example when I was at A4e in 2003, I made it my mission to tell everyone in authority just how bad they realy were.

    Radio phone ins can be usefulso I'd recommend them as an opportunity to air ones greivences and concerns. Much of what is happening falls under one word: CORRUPTION!

  • @thefrecklepuny Yes, there's a racket by which private enterprises - such as A43 - are working hard in glove with the government to exploit the vulnerability of benefit recipients. (Reason: Since benefit recipients - "customers" as they are cynically termed - are not in any position to refuse the "offers" that are made to them, however exploitative or unreasonable they might be.

    But, you need to forget complaining to A4E - and focus more on getting publicity through direct action.

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  • The people who shout 'get a job' or 'I'm paying for you' have no idea of the political system, the financial economy, history and of course the agenda. They are just brainwashed idiots who merrily repeat the propaganda they read/hear in the media and are incapable of thinking for themselves.

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  • @inkstersco

    or rather, use 'serf' to describe those on work-fare.

  • Suggestion: Popularise the use of the word 'serf' to describe those on welfare. 'Slave' is a refutable exaggeration(people as property, can be killed without legal consequences etc), but 'serf' hits the spot because it's negatively perceived and yet describes somebody confined to the county/shire who words only for bed and board, and enters into serfdom out of poverty, is semi-free, and still protected by law etc.

  • Your video was posted prior to "the uk Riots". Just saying.

  • It's true.

    The unemployed will be forced into slave labour, with the jcp's work schemes, and corporations will be paid to enslave them. This will mean the corporations will stop hiring wage workers, thus creating more unemployed, and more serfs.

    And, worryingly, this is happening in more than one country, suggesting it is a globalist plan, rather than just the UK's corrupt government.

    New World Order, anyone?

    Oh, Winston, they got me a long time ago.

  • @skay48 Loved this,duncan smith and grayling should have a look ,they may see the errors of their ways.

  • Well, I am lucky enough to have a wife I love and four healthy boys, me and my wife are also lucky enough to have full time jobs and even we can see how wrong this is. The vast majority of people do not want to depend on the state or anyone else for that matter. They would prefer to work and depend on themselves.

  • I think the best tactic is simple... Don't give them what they want.

    If you get forced into a "job", don't do it effectively, subvert, sabotage... do anything you can to make the workfare "employers" NOT want you there.

    Don't work for them if you're not being paid fairly, make it very un-economical for them to make you work for less than a living wage.

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