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Controversial charity gives £325,000 "research grants" to TaxPayers' Alliance

A supposedly “independent” charity with close links to a string of right-wing campaigning organisations gave 100% of its funding to the TaxPayers’ Alliance, accounts filed with regulators reveal. The Politics and Economics Research Trust (PERT), purportedly founded to “advance the education of the public”, gave 18 grants worth £325,000 to the pressure group.[/QUOTE

(It's actually at least £500 000 going from that link)
 
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Jonathan Isaby, TaxPayers' Alliance

Today the TaxPayers’ Alliance has published proposals that we believe ought to be the next big welfare reform.

Work for the Dole proposes that those who are out of work and in receipt of benefits - often amounting to a significant five-figure sum - should be expected to undertake compulsory community work or training (or work experience or supervised job-seeking) for 30 hours a week in return for that cash.

People would not be expected to join the programme the moment they find themselves out of work. Anyone with a history of at least five years of National Insurance (NI) contributions would enjoy a two-year grace period, whereas someone with no history of NI payments, for example, would have to start Work for the Dole after three months of claiming Universal Credit. This would help cement the contributory principle.

Those unwilling to participate in the programme would have their benefits stopped - although it should be emphasised that none of these sanctions, nor the programme itself, would apply to pensioners, or those with disabilities or caring responsibilities.

Our proposals have not been conjured up out of thin air: we have analysed the impact and success of similar programmes in a number of other countries such as Australia, Canada and the US, which have shown how welfare rolls can be reduced by 50% as a result of their introduction. In the UK, this would lead to several billion pounds of taxpayers’ money being saved every single year.

Work for the Dole would tackle welfare fraud (by stopping people working in the shadow economy while also claiming benefits) and make a life subsisting on benefits less attractive than it is at the moment – thereby making work more attractive.

For those still unable to find work, however, isn’t it fairer to those footing the bills that they ought to give something back to their community in return for those benefits payments? The general public certainly agree. Polling has shown that there is 75% net agreement for the proposition that people should do community work in exchange for their benefits.

The government’s current welfare reforms are steps in the right direction, but it is clear that more radical action is required in order to deliver results that will reduce welfare dependency and the associated benefits bill.
http://news.uk.msn.com/socialvoices/on-benefits-youll-need-to-give-something-back#tscptmf

This is what he looks like :facepalm: (ETA: I refer to his t-shirt here)

isaby_.jpg
 
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I have just had to turn the radio off because it was that or buy a new radio, hearing the twat attacking workers and the poor.
These swine are the hidden soldiers of the class war.
It says it all by his choice of tee shirt, neo-con scum.
 
one of their lot was on the wireless a week or so ago trotting out this divisive horseshit as if it was the fucking gospel - blissfully unaware that it already exists. it's called fucking workfare.

not only cunts, but thick, ill-informed cunts.

kill em all, let their god sort them out.
 
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Those unwilling to participate in the programme would have their benefits stopped - although it should be emphasised that none of these sanctions, nor the programme itself, would apply to pensioners, or those with disabilities or caring responsibilities.



You could argue its actually more moderate than what the Condems have now, disabled people are doing forced workfare now...

says it all really, extreme libertarian group propose radical solution but the condems have beat them to it
 
BUMP:
Jonathan Isaby, TaxPayers' Alliance

Today the TaxPayers’ Alliance has published proposals that we believe ought to be the next big welfare reform.

Work for the Dole proposes that those who are out of work and in receipt of benefits - often amounting to a significant five-figure sum - should be expected to undertake compulsory community work or training (or work experience or supervised job-seeking) for 30 hours a week in return for that cash.

People would not be expected to join the programme the moment they find themselves out of work. Anyone with a history of at least five years of National Insurance (NI) contributions would enjoy a two-year grace period, whereas someone with no history of NI payments, for example, would have to start Work for the Dole after three months of claiming Universal Credit. This would help cement the contributory principle.

Those unwilling to participate in the programme would have their benefits stopped - although it should be emphasised that none of these sanctions, nor the programme itself, would apply to pensioners, or those with disabilities or caring responsibilities.

Our proposals have not been conjured up out of thin air: we have analysed the impact and success of similar programmes in a number of other countries such as Australia, Canada and the US, which have shown how welfare rolls can be reduced by 50% as a result of their introduction. In the UK, this would lead to several billion pounds of taxpayers’ money being saved every single year.

Work for the Dole would tackle welfare fraud (by stopping people working in the shadow economy while also claiming benefits) and make a life subsisting on benefits less attractive than it is at the moment – thereby making work more attractive.

For those still unable to find work, however, isn’t it fairer to those footing the bills that they ought to give something back to their community in return for those benefits payments? The general public certainly agree. Polling has shown that there is 75% net agreement for the proposition that people should do community work in exchange for their benefits.

The government’s current welfare reforms are steps in the right direction, but it is clear that more radical action is required in order to deliver results that will reduce welfare dependency and the associated benefits bill.
http://news.uk.msn.com/socialvoices/on-benefits-youll-need-to-give-something-back#tscptmf

This is what he looks like :facepalm:

isaby_.jpg
Jonathan Isaby: Clueless rightwing libertarian nutjob in "I'm a clueless rightwing libertarian nutjob and here's how i'm gonna prove it!" shocker -more at the top of the hour...
 
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