Tories outline plans for jobless

Posted by GregB on May 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Jobless people will be made to get up and get out of their homes every day to take part in work-based activities, under Tory plans to shake-up benefits. As yet no mention has been made of those on long term incapacity benefit.

Under-21s who are unemployed for three months will be sent to employment “boot camps” and community work programmes for those who cannot wear boots due to them being amputees. Shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling, Oxford Blue to his friends, warned that under a Conservative government “doing nothing will not be an option”.

But the Department of Work and Pensions says the plans “simply don’t stack up”.

A video of one of these secret trial boot camp has been uploaded to Youtube by a disgruntled youth. The unnamed youth claims he was forced out of his house and made along with others, to hurl himself down a steep hill chasing a giro cheque wrapped in a large roll of cheese near Cumbria.

We still await confirmation from the Tory Central Office regarding the recent claims as Mr Grayling is currently in Leicestershire on business.