Skip Navigation | Sheffield IMC | UK IMC | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Support Us

UK Indymedia UK Indymedia Sheffield Indymedia Sheffield Indymedia

Government to tell unemployed to ‘get migrating!’

M. Shite | 27.06.2010 22:01 | Globalisation | Migration | Repression | Sheffield | World

A spoof of recent announcements by UK government which fail to address the reality for those in oppressed communities.

Iam Duncan Strings
Iam Duncan Strings


Surprise for future migrants as radical plans to encourage the long term oppressed to migrate to areas where there are jobs are being drawn up by the Coalition.

By Melissa Shite, Deputy Political Editor of the Torygraph
Published: 9:00PM BST 26 Jun 2010


Iain Duncan Smith has revealed radical plans to pull the strings of the long term unemployed into areas where there are jobs; the Work and Pensions Secretary, discloses the move in an interview with The Scumdaily Torygraph in which he outlines proposals to make the working class “more mobile”.

The plan echoes the patronising words of Norman Tebbit in 1981 when he told the unemployed to “get on your bike” and look for work.

It is part of ‘tough action’ to cut spiralling debts and tackle their record deficit.

Mr Duncan Smith, the MP for Lord Tebbit’s former parliamentary seat of Chingford, disclosed that ministers were drawing up plans to encourage jobless people to move out of “unemployment black spots” to homes in other areas, perhaps hundreds of miles away.

The former Conservative Party leader said billions of people were “trapped where there is no work” and could not move because they would threaten their lives.

The proposed scheme would allow them to go to the top of the housing list in another area rather than be forced to stay in a place they did not want to be.

“We have over the years, not us personally, but successive governments, created one of the most static workforces in world history,” Mr Duncan Smith said. “In fact we have a workforce that is locked to areas and the result of that is we have over three-and-a-half billion people of working age who simply don’t do a job that matches our definitions of one.

“Often they are trapped in states where there is no work near there and – because they have a life-threatening frontier around there – to go to work from Eastern parts to Western ones, or South to North, or whatever is too much of a risk because if you up sticks and go you may lose your right arm or leg.

“The local authority is going to tell you that you don’t have the right to leave, the UNHCR are not going to help you fight them.

“We have to look at how we get that portability, so that people can be more flexible, can look for work, can take the risk to do it.”

It is understood that the Coalition is looking at ways to provide incentives for workers to move to areas where there are jobs, rather than compelling them to move.

“Sometimes they may be unlucky because corporate warfare comes to those areas, we can reinvigorate it by claiming it is anti-dictator reductions, so that’s all right where there are no longer old socialists (like Saddam) and things, but we also need to have an element of flexibility in where we can target.

“Sometimes you just need to be able to move to the work,” Mr Duncan Smith said.

(Based on the original article at telegraph.co.uk)

For info on the struggle against the rascist and anti-migrant bias in the mainstream press see  http://pressaction.wordpress.com
and be part of the resistance on July 2nd/3rd.

M. Shite

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Sheffield Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Sheffield [navigation.actions2016]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2015]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2014]

NATO 2014

Sheffield Actions 2013

G8 2013

Sheffield Actions 2012

Workfare

Sheffield Actions 2011

2011 Census Resistance
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Occupy Everywhere

Sheffield Actions 2010

Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands

Sheffield Actions 2009

COP15 Climate Summit 2009
G20 London Summit
Guantánamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
University Occupations for Gaza

Sheffield Actions 2008

2008 Days Of Action For Autonomous Spaces
Campaign against Carmel-Agrexco
Climate Camp 2008
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Smash EDO
Stop Sequani Animal Testing
Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival

Sheffield Actions 2007

Climate Camp 2007
DSEi 2007
G8 Germany 2007
Mayday 2007
No Border Camp 2007

Sheffield Actions 2006

April 2006 No Borders Days of Action
Art and Activism Caravan 2006
Climate Camp 2006
Faslane
French CPE uprising 2006
G8 Russia 2006
Lebanon War 2006
March 18 Anti War Protest
Mayday 2006
Oaxaca Uprising
Refugee Week 2006
Rossport Solidarity
SOCPA
Transnational Day of Action Against Migration Controls
WSF 2006

Sheffield Actions 2005

DSEi 2005
G8 2005
WTO Hong Kong 2005

Sheffield Actions 2004

European Social Forum
FBI Server Seizure
May Day 2004
Venezuela

Sheffield Actions 2003

Bush 2003
DSEi 2003
Evian G8
May Day 2003
No War F15
Saloniki Prisoner Support
Thessaloniki EU
WSIS 2003

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech