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[mirrorshard]

"The work and pensions secretary, David Blunkett, today urged hundreds of thousands of people on incapacity benefit to stop watching daytime TV and start looking for work."

http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/story/0,11499,1588833,00.html

"Mr Blunkett said getting back to work "will overcome depression and stress a lot more than people sitting at home watching daytime television"."

This hardly needs comment, but I think we can now safely say that he's enthusiastically following the Tory^WNew Labour tradition of bashing the unemployed, the poor, the sick, the old, the young, and the abnormal in the hope of getting a quick boost in the polls, on the basis that we wouldn't vote for him anyway.

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[sleetersoulfire.livejournal.com]

<lord_snobby voice="indignant"> Sure they have, what.

Means bloody layabout!

Work yourself out of poverty! What. Means I get more profits and become more and more stinking rich through no bloody work at all. Marvelous system really. What.</lord_snobby>

[vashti.livejournal.com]

*makes some incredibly trenchant analysis of the ridiculous system we have where some people are born into positions where they never have to work a day in their lives, and everyone else is forced into labour, or ridiculed and victimised if they aren't able to work. You are all convinced and find yourselves nodding along silently.*