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**Maggy** · 07-11-2010, 19:33

I don't think doing some gardening or litter picking is the end of the world for those who persistently refuse to apply for work or who repeatedly find non legitimate excuses not to work, if they want money to eat and live.As long as it's short term and they get the message I cannot think it too bad an idea.If they don't then I assume their benifits will be withdrawn until they make more of an effort to find and keep a job.I think this persistent group is a very small number.

Also I don't want to see people who do this work normally losing their jobs as a consequence because it's viewed as a way to make financial cuts to council funding.

However if everyone is targeted like the ill and genuinely incapacitated then it does become punitive.It truly has to be aimed as a short sharp kick in the backside to the right group.

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Maggy The Invisible Woman Cable Forum Mod Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: between Portsmouth and Southampton. Age: 74 Services: VM XL TV,50 MB VM BB,VM landline, Tivo Posts: 40,377	Re: Unemployed could be forced to do compulsory manual labour I don't think doing some gardening or litter picking is the end of the world for those who persistently refuse to apply for work or who repeatedly find non legitimate excuses not to work, if they want money to eat and live.As long as it's short term and they get the message I cannot think it too bad an idea.If they don't then I assume their benifits will be withdrawn until they make more of an effort to find and keep a job.I think this persistent group is a very small number. Also I don't want to see people who do this work normally losing their jobs as a consequence because it's viewed as a way to make financial cuts to council funding. However if everyone is targeted like the ill and genuinely incapacitated then it does become punitive.It truly has to be aimed as a short sharp kick in the backside to the right group. __________________ Hell is empty and all the devils are here. Shakespeare..