As John Keats has it: ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft…
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies’.
Gathering swallows X in the skies doesn’t have quite the same ring to it does it?
Thankfully the season when the various circuses known as known as Party Conferences, roll into various towns is over for another year. If William Shakespeare were around to chronicle these events would he write them as comedies, or as tragedies?
At the Tory Party conference the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt threw some red meat to the acolytes gathered there.
‘Government plans to impose tougher benefit sanctions to drive people into work will cause “destitution” and “punish people already struggling to afford essentials in the cost of living crisis”, charities have warned.
Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, chancellor Jeremy Hunt said 100,00 people are leaving the labour market every year for a “life on benefits”. He said this is why the government is replacing work capability assessments and examining the sanctions regime.
Hunt claimed: “It isn’t fair that someone who refuses to look for a job gets the same as someone trying their best.” But charities have expressed fear that further punishments will force people to seek low paid work which poses a serious danger to their health – or risk being plunged into greater poverty.’
Not to be outdone, the ‘workers’ friend’ Party, laughing called the Labour Party, gave notice of where their priorities lie: ‘MILLIONS of out-of-work Brits are a “horrible, painful toll” on the public purse and are “dragging” down the economy, a top Starmer ally declared.
Shadow Cabinet Minister Peter Kyle said: “There are 2.5million people that are just unknown to the economy for reasons that we don’t understand, and there’s no exercise to go find them.
“There are 700,000 young people who are not in education, training or work. And that figure has been growing, not diminishing.”
The shadow science and tech secretary hit out: “All of these things are personal tragedies, but they're also taking a horrible, painful toll on our economy. "It is dragging our economy down. So we need to get cracking on it.”
The tough talk came on first day of the Labour Party conference, with Mr Kyle suggesting they should instead be put to work in tech and green energy jobs.’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/24329382/scale-of-jobless-brits-is-horrible-painful-toll/
Both messages should please their capitalist masters who are always looking for more workers to exploit and provide them with more surplus value.
Isn’t it well past the time when the working class, employed wage slaves or not, should be looking at the real alternative? Don’t be taken in by these charlatans!
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