Workshy Hit in Dole Blitz

UK Sun ^ | 01/04/2011 | GRAEME WILSON

[iowamark]

1-in-5 stop claiming when asked to work; 30% don't turn up for voluntary jobs.

SCROUNGERS will be targeted in a new crackdown after HALF refused to do unpaid jobs for a few weeks.

Ministers will launch the blitz after a pilot scheme to force hardcore jobless to do voluntary work exposed massive benefit fraud.

One in five jobless, 20 per cent, immediately stopped claiming benefits when ordered to do four weeks' voluntary work.

Another 30 per cent never turned up for community jobs and had their £67.50 weekly handouts axed.

Sources said the findings reveal a layer of claimants — like the layabouts in telly's Shameless headed by Frank Gallagher — with NO interest in working.

Now employment minister Chris Grayling is set to launch a £5million scheme to bring in compulsory community work for up to 50,000 people across the country.

JobCentre staff will be given the power to ORDER the most workshy to do unpaid jobs.

Ministers had hoped the pilot scheme would instil a work ethic in claimants. But an insider said: "Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working."

On Tuesday The Sun revealed stage two of David Cameron's anti-slacker push. Charities and firms will get cash if they can teach layabout families the skills to find work, or give them debt advice and parenting help.

Stage one saw "Shameless squads" sent to co-ordinate police patrols and job centre staff.

[Roccus]

Another 30 per cent never turned up for community jobs and had their £67.50 weekly handouts axed.

In the 90's when Rudy started "workfare" in NYC, about 300,000 of the then 1,000,000 welfare recipients in Fun City disappeared....over night!!

[Roccus]

Eventual
Ellimination
Of
Caucasions

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I think his name was “Onslo”, not “Oswald.”

One of my favorite shows.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You are, of course, correct, his name was Onslow.

Onslow describes himself as "work-shy, bone idle, and out of condition" and has been known to ponder "the inconvenience of working."

I remember one morning waking up to WBZ radio news and hearing someone nattering on in a lower class British accent about some psuedophilosophical gibberish. I turned to my wife and said, quizzically, “Why is Onslow on the radio?” Turns out George Harrison had died overnight and the 6:00 AM news lead off some of the Great Man's musing.

[Timocrat]

"Instead it demonstrates that there really is a hardcore who have no intention of working."

Now there's a shocker.(/s)

The real crime is that the purge is not being instituted nationwide.

[TheOldLady]

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[dennisw]

correct