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PRIME MINISTER David Cameron set out “forced labour” plans yesterday that would see thousands of young people made to work for nothing just to get jobseeker’s allowance.
The Tory leader said his goal was to “abolish long-term unemployment.”
But critics warned that the plans would simply shift thousands of jobless 18 to 21-year-olds into unpaid work rather than deal with the roots of the problem.
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE