Pug Faced Teddy Boy 70’s Throwback Declares Class War

Not content with voting for Trident, student fees, further NHS privatisation, ID cards, the Iraq war, covering up the lies of the Iraq war and 42 day & indefinite detention -take a breath- Pug Faced Teddy Boy 70’s Throwback James ‘Photoshop‘ Purnell (you just know he masturbates to Sweeney box sets) declares class war on those most evilist of scum…mothers of toddlers. Part of his wider New Labour brief of privatising social security and reducing entitlement- “Some people say we should be slowing down because of the economic downturn. I passionately believe we should be doing the opposite.“

Wanker, I guess he takes The Shock Doctrine as an instruction manual.

The government will announce further stringent welfare reforms today which would force lone parents with children aged one or more to prepare themselves for work or face benefit sanctions.

The proposals, likely to provoke a confrontation in tomorrow’s Queen’s speech, represent a further extension of the government’s responsibilities agenda. Ministers already faced a backlash over aspects of the planned welfare reform bill as lobbyists argued plans to tighten sanctions and give private contractors a bigger role in job placement, should be shelved in view of the recession.

But James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, will defy critics when he publishes a review prepared by the academic Paul Gregg that will propose all lone parents with children as young as one should be required to make themselves ready for work.

The government proposed in a green paper in July to make it a requirement for lone parents with children aged seven or more to seek work, proposals that had already led to a backlash. It is estimated there are 600,000 lone parents with children aged under seven.

Gregg is to propose a new category of benefit claimants – the progression to work group – who he says should face clearer state requirements to make themselves ready for work.

The Department for Work and Pensions said this group would include lone parents with children as young as one, partners of people on benefits with children under seven and incapacity benefit claimants deemed to be capable of work.

This group, before they are actually ready to actively seek work, would be expected to address debt, confidence or health problems, as well as taking on work and skills training. Young mothers might also be required to make inquiries about access to childcare in their locality.

“Sanctions would only apply to those who refuse to take steps to be job-ready that have been jointly agreed with their personal advisers in Job Centres”, said a DWP official.

From 2010 many of these advisers would be employed by the private sector or charities.