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Oct. 10th, 2005 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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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Date: 2005-10-11 10:51 am (UTC)*coughs something about tokenism*