guardian.co.uk — Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today's Queen's speech.The "one strike and you're out" proposal is contained in a tough summary of the speech released yesterday by the Cabinet Office.
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pigfisterDec 3, 2008
wow lets direct the anger at the most vulnerable and the immigrants so that the UK populous doesn't blame the Labour government for driving down wages, inexcusable bail outs for the rich, crushing civil liberties, illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting Illegal arms deals and halting the criminal inquiry citing national security (BAE Systems).Oh yes and the "No One Left Behind" bulls**t benefits shake up, is about creating another slave workforce to drive down wages even further in the UK as Gordon is pro capitalist/corporation remember. And the private corporations are already bidding for this slave workforce. So all you council workers prepare to get your severance package.<a class="user" href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408402.html">http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408402.html</a>fta: Private sector to bid for contractsThe paper outlines the further privatisation of welfare under a new “Right To Bid” scheme. Private companies will be able to bid for lucrative contacts and be paid for the number of people they dragoon into employment, whatever form that takes.Companies that currently deal with the mentally ill provision will, for example, be allowed to run schemes aimed at finding them work. They will then be paid a bonus for each person who finds employment.Anyone who has been unemployed for 12 months or more “will be transferred to a private, public or voluntary sector provider who will be paid by results. No one who completes 12 months with a provider without moving into work could do so without having undertaken at least four weeks of full-time activity.”