Do you really want Tories to reintroduce slavery by the back door? Please share #HumanRights #BillOfRights #slavery #slave #workfare #workprogramme

You’ll be aware that there have been many legal challenges against Workfare/The Work Programme/Mandatory Work Activity, on the basis that they are slave labour schemes.

The Department for Work and Pensions, under slave-master Iain Duncan Smith, has worked tirelessly to dismiss these challenges – with only limited success, as our courts are populated by judges who still believe in something called justice.

However, the repeal of the Human Rights Act 1998 means the end of the ban on slavery. Conservatives are already making plans to force any young person without a job to work for 30 hours a week in exchange for benefits – or starve.

Do you think that’s acceptable?

Let’s put it another way:

Would you accept it if they did it to you?

Here’s a handy infographic about it for you to share:

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7 Comments

  1. thomassutcliffe May 21, 2015 at 4:05 pm - Reply

    I enjoy your stuff, but your current method of presentation is crowding my inbox horribly. Could you try putting out composite posts containing links to each thing that you consider important?

    • Mike Sivier May 21, 2015 at 5:52 pm - Reply

      I’ve been pressed for time lately, otherwise I’d probably have been writing more full articles on some of these subjects myself; the decision was that it’s better to get them out in whatever form I can.
      It will ease off soon, I expect.

  2. Rupert Mitchell (@rupert_rrl) May 21, 2015 at 4:16 pm - Reply

    I would agree with it ONLY providing that the work was within a reasonable distance of the young person’s area and was not an uncongenial type of work.

    • Florence May 21, 2015 at 10:26 pm - Reply

      There are no valid arguments for workfare. There are even fewer for paying an adult £50 for all their needs, which is obviously too little, and then expecting them to pay for travel & employment costs – like food, clean clothes etc – out of that too.

  3. Rupert Mitchell (@rupert_rrl) May 21, 2015 at 4:16 pm - Reply

    May I please add and on the condition that it did not involve cheap labour for any MPs

  4. jaynel62 May 22, 2015 at 5:41 am - Reply

    IS #Workfare #Slavery by another name? If YES then its TIME To #FightForFreedom

  5. foggy May 22, 2015 at 11:56 am - Reply

    Scary times ahead ! They’ve ‘quietly’ scrapped the watchdog that would have scrutinised the end of the Human Rights Act;

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-watchdog-that-would-have-scrutinised-the-end-of-the-human-rights-act-just-got-quietly-scrapped-10267598.html

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