XII - Can't Touch This (Cause You're Out-Of-Touch With Everything)

In my last entry, I pointed both barrels to the latest round of Tory Welfare Reforms, and their plan to treat the unemployed like prisoners and force them into Community Service, the equivalent of "DANCE, MONKEY! DANCE FOR YOUR DOLE!". Opening fire, my bullets consisted of the harsh logic that a one size fits all policy simply does not and has not worked for a country suffering from such engrained unemployment. When the Tory was wounded, I proceeded to swing my shotgun around and club him in the face with a butt that was engraved with the words "Look at Scandinavia. They actually tailor their programmes for the unemployed FOR the unemployed, spend more GDP actually helping the unemployed, and get a lot more in return".

The Tory fell down. As I turned around, however, the Tory got to his feet and opened his mouth.

"Under-25's will not be able to claim unemployment benefits on my watch!"

Time to reload the fucking shotgun.

To summarise:

David Cameron, in a speech so filled with American-style tripe of "Hope and Opportunity" that I was waiting for him to whip out his dick and go "MURRICA, FURRRKKK YEEAAHHHH", has promised to end unemployment benefits for under-25's.

One of my major, MAJOR complaints with Britain is the astounding lack of logic utilised by most Britons, who probably think logic is some kind of new Lebanese food you serve with hummus. Once again, our leader showcases the astounding lack of logic that really should single him out as a complete and utter dunce.

Here is my attempts to understand the thinking pattern of David Cameron:

1. Unemployed under-25's are on dole.
2. This means all unemployed under-25's actively make the choice to sponge off the dole.
3. Therefore, ban the dole for them.

Spot where the major logical hole is. CLUE: It's number 2.

It's the same logic utilised by too many Britons and which, as i've explored several times in this blog, is utterly laughable reasoning. So I won't actually go into it too much, because to do so would be wasting time and repeating myself (Just view my previous entry)

So, let me get started on examining Dave's goddamn speech.

Cameron stated this little ditty: "Instead we should give young people a clear, positive choice: Go to school. Go to college. Do an apprenticeship. Get a job."

1. After school and college, you either have to go into University or get an apprenticeship.
2. If you go into further education and get a degree, you can't DO an Apprenticeship.
3. Even after graduating from your Apprenticeship, there is no guarantee of a job.
4. IF PEOPLE COULD GET A FUCKING JOB, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WOULD BE EMPLOYED

It's a constant and utterly tedious practice that is like slamming your head off of a wall to burrow to the other side. 

This saying of "Get a Job" is an utterly lazy way to dismiss people genuinely struggling with the spectre of unemployment. A completely abysmal practice of shrugging something off that shows you have no clue about how unemployment actually works.

It actually terrifies me, knowing that we have put someone into power who honestly believes people can just walk into jobs. Nobody can be that out-of-touch with reality and still alive, but not only is he still alive, THE BRITISH PEOPLE VOTED HIM INTO POWER!!

For people who don't know, the job situation in this country, and specifically the region of North East England, is increasingly dire: There are usually upwards of 100 applications per job, to the point where I enjoy pointing out a piece of information I was told regarding my application for a local ASDA, where they received 2,000 applications for 16 jobs.

Yeah, people can totally just walk into jobs.

As companies go bust, as the economy tanks, as the North continues to suffer, and as the job market grows hostile, this idea of being able to walk into some random workplace and claim a job is false. It's not possible. If you do (Trust me, I have tried literally walking into several stores, from high street chains to smaller stores, asking for a job or if they have vacancies), the answer's the same: Apply online. Send your CV online. Companies aren't willing to take in any random joe off the street.

The Apprenticeship route is a possible route, and is the only actual route where the opportunity of a gaining a job afterwards is technically possible, but even then it still isn't a guaranteed fix.

It's wishes and hopes from the Tory tossers. They obviously want to boost their figures, with their national apprenticeship schemes, by forcing youngsters into them, or else removing their dole.

But there's only so many Apprenticeships. And once you've done one, it's highly unlikely you can apply for a second one. So, once you've completed your apprenticeship, and you're unemployed because you haven't been taken on, what then?

No dole for you anyway.

 David also said: "So this is what we want to see: everyone under 25 - earning or learning."

Essentially, Cameron's plan is to force everyone under 25 to either find a job hopelessly, or to push them through one-size-fits-all training regimes or education. (And let's not forget that, if you go into further education, you're saddling yourself with student debt just to finance it)

It's goddamn selective helping. All these 25 year olds without benefits, still living at homes if they are unable to get into training, employment or education.

You don't even think of the parents who are hard-off, who will now be unable to gain anything from that dole money from the children who do pay a portion of it towards their parents: You are just saddling the poorer parents with another mouth to feed, more money to spend.

Look, let's bloody face it: By removing dole from the under-25's, you have essentially just shattered the leg of the economy. Yes, you're saving a few bob, but who is actually helping to stimulate the economy? Remove benefits permanently, and now you have an economic black hole, an entire group of people unable to contribute to the economy and thus unable to stimulate it.

Then you have their parents who will be burdened down further, and that's even less money being pumped into the economy.

And then, by pushing them into the training programs, which aren't funded by wishes and sparkles and goddamn unicorns, you're just spending more money training them up ONLY TO FORCE THEM INTO A HOSTILE ECONOMY WITH MORE UNIFORM SKILLS THAT AREN'T HELPING AND WILL NOT HELP THEM FIND A JOB IN THE LONG RUN!

Not only that, but if you remove the dole.....how can you expect young people to actually relocate for jobs?

For a lot of young people, relocation within Britain is a viable option. Why? Because if their job (Typically, these days) is unsecured, they get shoved onto a zero hours contract or they simply get cut off, they can at least be offered some help as they try and keep on the job ladder. Remove that, and not only do you essentially keep an entire generation pinned down in their homes, unwilling to take the risk of moving away since they know that, if the worst happens, they will have ZERO support, but you risk driving a wedge between the chasm in rich and poor.

I'd like to think that, if Britain wasn't so cowardly and complacent, such a move, essentially pinning the poorest of society into unemployed areas (Note that I have the North of England in mind here) and therefore outright robbing bright young children of the chance to relocate securely and being able to contribute to the growing economy, in lue of the rich who would be able to move around and swallow the jobs up without a care, would send Britain spiralling into a class-fuelled revolution, an outright rebellion.

Won't happen, but it might. It's a dangerous game Cameron is playing.

There is no thought of consequences. It's lazy attempts to make the papers by taking a common enemy, the unemployed, and victimising them even further. It's become a sport for Tories and Brainless Britons to victimise the unemployment, believing it to be a choice rather than an effect, but it's reaching such levels now that it's becoming ludicrous.

It's a hypocritical paradox spewed out by the Tories: How has no-one picked up on the fact that one day, Cameron will be laughing along, chortling and saying that he is on OUR side, proposing to drive forward the house market and get young people into their first houses, then the next day, he plans to hack away benefits for ALL under-25's, even if they suffer an unexpected job loss, thus meaning they'll have no leg to stand on in that new house when it comes to paying back the mortgage HE wants to offer them?

It's complete insanity! Cameron operates on the deluded mindset that a job is for life, and not a temporary fix in a hostile economy. He must honestly believe that anyone who finds a job will stay in it for years, even though statistics consistently tell us otherwise.

Michael Gove stated "It's important also that we all recognise that welfare is there explicitly to help those people through hard times that it shouldn't become habituated."

But by removing ALL welfare for under-25's, regardless of recent job losses or not, then you immediately relinquish the right to say that you are helping people through hard times.

You are choosing who to help. You are not helping people in hard times.

At the end of it all, they are now forcing people into one-size-fits-all schemes (Which, as I explored in my last entry, does not work.) or else outright removing their dole if they're under 25, or forcing them through education to burden them with debt, and then acting surprised when they're squeezed out the other end into a hostile job market, only to find that the job market isn't blooming and is still completely and utterly hostile unless you live further South

It's an illogical mess, constructed around an idea that people choose the dole, and the belief that everyone can find a job the moment they leave training, education or an apprenticeship.

David Cameron and his party have become hostis humani generis: An enemy of the human race.

Their plans consist of the same recycled tripe of blaming youngsters, hacking away their means of financial support, and then looking surprised when the economy chokes and dies.

I weep knowing that my family will still be here, in a country that is consistently out of touch with the unfolding reality around them, having to rely on media propaganda and lies to teach them everything about actual occurrences, rather than using their own minds.



Oh, and in concerns to another news story: That of the Daily Mail chastising and taunting Ed Miliband's dead father, and bringing him up as the man who hated Britain..

..I hate Britain too, Daily Mail.

Come and get me.

But you won't, because i'm still alive to fight back.

Nazi sympathising, blackshirted, vitriol-spewing inbred cowards.

Between our press and our politicians, is it no wonder those who can are fleeing the country?