Pushing poor people into bad work: how British jobcentres operate | John Harris

As the government responds to the looming economic crisis, its approach seems to embody two polar opposites. The money it is spending to revive the economy is, we are told, not just unprecedented, but indicative of a huge change in Tory thinking, which shoves Conservatism away from the tenets of Thatcherism and everything that followed it.

The system has been approved for 10 years by voters keen to 'hound out the spongers'. The former, a subservient, jingoistic HERD, bossed by a clique of cynical cretins, will happily backstab the admidable, often migrant, workers which sustained them. Hopes of change are deluded.

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I was told to lie when applying for jobs. Yet If I lied and got the job I would be sacked. Get sacked and you can be sanctioned with no benefits for upto 3 years.

Are you talking about all the Brits who would never, ever work on farms, in hotels & tourism or in the care sector but complained bitterly about immigrants taking their jobs?

People have to learn to look after themselves - self reliance. We all know how bad the government is, so why do so many expect the government is best placed to solve their problems? Solve them yourself

Yep give people the time and support to find well suited jobs, thereby reducing the probability for them to be unemployed again. If they give them bad work then they will be dissatisfied and then not add much value to society. All people need to be nurtured regardless of class

Job centres and the whole process favours the articulate,those who can control their angry despair ,those unfazed by obscure explanations,confident people and clever dishonest people.The staff are allowed no leeway.They muddle along at best.

williamhboney1 Slave markets

this is not new, jobcentres have always been the place pushing people into the lowest jobs despite their work history. Both myself and my husband have been through that system which tried to get us into the lowest possible forms of work,it has to change

Welcome to Gilead.....workers wanted in the badlands....

That is how it works. Guardian writers who appear who live in some strange world of where working class people have been removed might be suprised at this news. but it worked long enough for them to safely ignore it

Not surprising that the whole world is being taken to the very same destination. You can read any news from any nation and will uncover the same problems. It all is not out of ctrl, it's precisely what they aim at.

The, same johnharris1969 who did everything he could to ensure that Corbyn didn't get into power to change the system and protect the poor from being exploited!

BorisJohnson This problem solving please

That's odd, because I distinctly remember Labour kicking this off back in 2000 when they privatised the job centres in pilot schemes in a few selected British cities- including here in Birmingham. Why the fuss now? Why not 20 years ago?

Because British people are too good for menial work.....that’s for the immigrants to do. Better to not work at all, and hold your chin to the sky!!!!

We need to stop letting companies automate the work place by the use of computer and robots without it being taxed highly. The population is far to high to move to that world yet. Push indoor grow farms we really could become self sufficient

You are just a number within a production.

They weren't fit for purpose twenty years ago. I'm frankly astonished they haven't been scrapped and replaced with something, anything in the intervening years.

Whereas the guardian wants to push people into no work and have immigrants do all the bad jobs instead? There’s no such thing as bad work. If you’ve been out of work for a while, you often need to do menial work at the bottom of the ladder for a while. Then once you’ve held

The DWP seems to attract cruel and nasty people to work there. Not all of them, but they all know who they are.

Who said it’s just poor people job centres push into bad work....for years job centre have pushed all people into jobs mostly unsuitable for their skills and abilities mainly to tick boxes on their performance records superheroes no clue as to the end result......

21st century workhouses vibes

Surely a bad job is better than no job

capitalism

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