“Lawrence M Mead is the academic behind the US's tough welfare system (Workfare) and he is bringing his message to Britain. Talking at London's Policy Exchange last week, he will also be having dinner with the Conservative party's big thinker on policy, David Willetts, followed by breakfast with Cameron's poverty tsar and Labour MP Frank Field. He had also seen Steve Hilton, the prime minister's director of strategy.”

Source: Guardian, ”Does getting tough on the unemployed work?”

Says a lot about the coalition government policy on the unemployed and disabled; again not listening except to crackpots like this. What we are now seeing is a return to eugenics with the unemployed (working class) as the target. What next? Stalinist work camps in the Orkneys …. Think this is farfetched let’s look at the press, the unemployed are getting i.e.

“Starve them into Submission” Statement by Sir Digby Jones, ex CBI Chairman & now Financial Commentator

“The state has helped to create a class of jobless serial boyfriends who prey on single mothers, are useless, paedophile, child killing monsters”
Camilla Cavendish, Times Columnist

From the rhetoric of the press we now have a mythology built up of an underserving population, an underclass who all but eat their children.

At the end of the article in the Guardian, it goes on to say;

“Such sentiments have a whiff of 1930s Germany, something the Twitter sphere buzzed with when welfare secretary Iain Duncan Smith said: "Work makes you free" – the same words hung over the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. "I have faced this accusation," says Mead. "Hitler was non-democratic, whereas work requirements claim a popular mandate. There is something wrong when because of fascism we have to solve every problem with freedom and benefits."

As a commentator says as part of post in; Super Rich & the Media

“There is no war. That ended a very long time ago, and Democracy lost. The fact that so many fail/refuse to see what's in front of their faces is what I find almost as interesting as it is infuriating. We've now reached the point where the very small 'elite'(sic) don't feel the need to hide their actions. They spit in your faces and you think its dew but when they put a boot in your face you'll probably understand their contempt for you and your delusions.“