What'll decide IDS's future is how well Universal Credit works.

Government IT projects don't always go very well.

For those conoisseurs of the phenomenon of hard leftists popping up in unlikely places, Tesco has been complaining about South Korea (their biggest market apart from the UK, apparently). There's a concern there for small shops, which I imagine are run by fairly conservative people, the same as anywhere else.

Tesco has moaned about "reds".

Blairite ultra Peter Watt backs workfare to the surprise of absolutely no-one. But then, his solution to everything is to out-Tory the Tories.

http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2012/03/01/wo ... r-benefit/

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A4e have published their performance figures

http://workprogramme.files.wordpress.co ... rmance.pdf

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Ah that man who released a book just before the general election which labelled Gordon Brown as a cunt and did it solely because he wouldn't make money after they lost. He is a Labour Party member who should have been kicked out of the party for what he did.

As for A4E... I guess the sea of red isn't positive.

Tbh I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the Progress/Labour First types should be shown the door, although I suppose the infighting would look terrible to the electorate. I don't really understand how any of them ended up in the Labour party to begin with, since none of them seem to have ever had a left-of-centre thought cross their minds. They're far more damaging to the party (and influential) than the Militant Tendency ever were. Ghastly old Blairite waxworks to a man.

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They'll walk out like Luke Bozier in good time.

They joined Labour because Major's Tories were a dead duck from about 1994 onwards, and Blair seemed the most likely star to hitch their wagon to.

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Not sure what Luke Bozier's excuse was but I think it was something connected to being in power.

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When I signed on today, I informed my advisor I had gotten work experience at my local Citizens Advice Bureau so I didn't need their work experience programme. Which I never gave my consent for either. Yet, she tells me: "Oh that's good, now I won't refer you to mandatory work activity like I intended. I'll let you focus on that instead." Despite the fact I have never given consent for their work experience program or been offered any.

The only reasons they can refer you is "the reason given is you have a lack of recent work experience. You are being referred because your advisor thinks you haven’t been meeting your jobseeker’s agreement." It wouldn't be the latter as I'm handing in forms with at least 30+ job applications on. Yet, her attitude last time was I'm finding all these jobs but it must be my fault I'm not being offered interviews. My last work experience was in November, but, I feel 4 weeks of forced work experience wasn't going to be helpful unless they made it relevant to my skills. Which I have little faith they would.

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There's always been a touch of the absurd about the jobseeking agreement. The more voluntary work you did, the less time you were seeking work. I doubt many people got pulled up on that normally, but when you get crackdowns, it could have happened.

I note some progress on the government bullshit front. Ed Milliband brought up the case of unemployment in Dartford and Cameron didn't say "get a job in London", as IDS did with Merthyr/Cardiff. The problem of course being jobs in London were being chased by people in London too- and Luton, Sittingbourne, Basildon etc.

wtf.

Back-to-work tsar firm A4e gets two new state contracts worth up to £30m despite fraud probes

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Mentioned in PMQs. Apparently Clegg did "you started it".

Fucking James Purnell, I should think.

Here we go again:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/ ... f-comments

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