[satnav]

Hancock was wheeled out yesterday to reassure the public that there would be no power cuts this winter. His performance was so piss poor that I expect a sudden rise in sales of candles, calor case heaters and petrol generators.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Their press pals are doing their bit to talk up "blackouts"

[Tubby Isaacs]

Minister for Portsmouth.

Portsmouth Council say he's useless and calls for a "review" of his appointment.

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Never mind, he's a mate of Osborne's. Straight in the Cabinet if they win again.

[Andy McDandy]

I thought the minister for Portsmouth was Penny Mordaunt. You know, diving woman.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Nah, they needed a heavyweight.

Hancock might as well be replaced by a bowl of angel delight.

[Messianic Trees]

Unemployed young people will be sent to work boot camp, says minister

Young people without jobs will be sent to boot camp to prepare them for work as part of a "no excuses" approach to eradicating youth unemployment, said Matt Hancock, a Cabinet Office minister.

The senior Conservative, who heads David Cameron’s earn or learn taskforce, will set out plans for jobseekers aged between 18 and 21 to be placed on an intensive activity programme within the first three weeks of submitting a claim.

Setting out his plans, Hancock suggested some young people are part of a "welfare culture that is embedded in some of Britain’s most vulnerable communities".

[D.C. Harrison]

Seems like a sure-fire vote winner for them with people who'll be that age in 2020.

"Hey kids, after we fuck up the country to the degree you can't find a job when you leave school at 18, we'll then pack you off to some utterely pointess exercise where you will be treated as scum and that will doubtless be ran by friends of ours for a 'bargain' cost!"

[Esqui]

And of course, ensure that your minimum wage is a lot less than you need to live on, whilst also removing your entitlement to housing benefit.

Probably best to live with your parents and get them to pay your living expenses, right?

[D.C. Harrison]

Well... parents die eventually, right? So then you'll get a house. Assuming it wasn't sold to pay for their care costs, that is.

[Watchman]

So your parents have died and you've got all those spare bedrooms in your social housing......you better fuck off and move somewhere smaller ( That's if any social housing has'nt all been given away to Russian property speculators!)

[D.C. Harrison]

Ah, to be young, eh?

[Messianic Trees]

Tory Minister Matthew Hancock: Under 25s Are Too Unproductive To Deserve National Living Wage

Workers under the age of 25 are not "productive" enough to warrant being paid the new National Living Wage, according to Government Minister Matthew Hancock.

In this summer's budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced a new minimum wage for over 25s would come into force from next April, starting at £7.20 an hour and increasing to £9 by 2020.

But those under 25 will be on the old minimum wage rates, meaning they are entitled to £6.70 an hour, down to £5.30 for 18 to 20 year olds and £3.87 for under 18s.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester this afternoon, Mr Hancock defended the different rates.

He said: "This was an active policy choice. Youth unemployment, whilst falling quite sharply, is still a long way above the unemployment rate for the over 25s.

"Anybody who has employed people knows that younger people, especially in their first jobs, are not as productive, on average.

"Now there are some who are very productive under the age of 25 but you have to set policy for the average. It was an active choice not to cover the under 25s."

[cycloon]

How productive is Matthew Hancock?

[The Weeping Angel]

Well given the amount of shit he's come out with not a lot

[bluebellnutter]

Looks like Mr Hancock is more unscrupulous than perhaps we thought...

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The meeting, attended by six journalists, was held by the commission to launch a public call for evidence after being set up in July by the Conservative minister Matthew Hancock to decide whether the act is too expensive and overly intrusive.