Unemployment Movement

In this video I talk about the growing crisis facing an increasing number of UK residents who are dependent upon state unemployment benefits for their subsistence. In particular, I wish to draw people's attention to the increasingly repressive ways that the Department of Work and Pensions is adopting to brow beat people into signing-off benefits, through the following mechanisms:

(a) The increasingly arbitrary use of "sanctions" (i.e. a complete withdrawal of benefits for a specified period, such as 3 months) at the whim of a Jobcentre "advisor"; such "advisors" have powers that formerly only judges and magistrates possessed, i.e. the ability to disburse punitive fines for criminal acts. The government is determined to criminalize the mere act of being unemployed and to exert a maximum punitive effect through these measures.

(b) The cynical use of private contractors to detain jobless claimaints in "training centres" whereby they are supposed to be supported in their "jobsearch". In reality, such centres are mere cash cows where unscrupulous organizations, well-connected to this ConDem government, use unemployed people as mere fodder to produce handsome returns for themselves.

(c) The reintroduction of the Workhouse (or chain-gangs, if you prefer that term) in the form of slave labour for the long-term unemployed. Naturally - as the name implies - this is no voluntary scheme, but rather one where claimants are forced - under duress of being "sanctioned" - to submit to whatever form of Slavefare placement is dictated to them from their "advisor". The results of this policy are easy to predict: Misery and despair for the victims affected, big profits for the private companies contracted to administer the slave workers and a reduction in the number of formerly half-decently paid position available within the economy. (Consider: If you're a private company, why would you pay 20,000 pounds p.a. for a full-time worker when you could get them for free? I am basing my argument here not just on theory, but also from the looking at the results in the US, Canada and Germany - amongst other nations - of introducing such a policy. After the introduction of "Workfare" (Slavefare) schemes in those countries, many formerly regular paid jobs disappeared only to be reoccupied by slave workers working to maintain nothing but their benefits). Lastly, an effect of this policy will be a rise in the frustration and criminal intent of an increasing number of affected claimants, who are likely to lash out ever more randomly and sensely against society as a result.

The disenfranchisement and abuse of the unemployed in Britain, the US and elsewhere must stop.

WHOSE STREETS? OUR FUCKING STREETS!