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It is a shame that Mister Ed didn’t get a visitation from his Socialist dad, Ralph, on the night before Xmas instead it looks like he had a visit from the unholy trinity of Samuel Smiles, Milton Friedman and Sir Keith Joseph. telling him he’s not being hard enough on those damn benefit scroungers. Somehow I reckon Ralph was spinning in his grave.

Beleaguered Ed Miliband is to make a bold bid to boost his flagging ratings by condemning the ‘evil’ of scroungers who refuse to work. The Labour leader wants to shrug off his party’s ‘soft on spongers’ image with a major  U-turn on his stance on the benefits system.

He will admit Labour blundered by not doing enough to combat the work-shy. 

And he will say that people should get state handouts only if they have paid their taxes first.

Mister Ed is such a one-trick pony, he will do anything for a vote, if you want to increase your popularity just kick the crap out on unemployed people, resorting to the good old tried method of triangulation (“blame the poor”) hoping that the right-wing populism will chime with “decent hardworking” Labour voters.

Canvassing during the last Election, Mr Byrne was shocked by doorstep fury among Labour voters at benefit spongers – and Labour’s failure to tackle the problem.

‘Decent Labour voters see their neighbours lie about all day and get benefits while they are working their socks off, and say, “Why should I vote Labour when they let this  happen?” ’ said a source.

Personally, “hardworking Labour voters” should be getting worked up at the banking system and bailouts and the rich getting so much richer. And hey, we only have Liam Byrne’s version of the word on the Labour voter’s doorstep. In any case, the constant lies and rubbish publish by scaremongering newspapers aided and abetted by Bullingdon wastrels and PPE New Labourite graduates (just see the roll call of shame)

And how does Byrne know that Beveridge would be shocked, “turning in his grave if he knew we spend £20 billion a year on housing benefits”.

Er, possibly more likely turning in his grave at the widening gap between rich and poor, increase in poverty and the emphasis on greed. But back to the meaningless nondescript Mister Ed who reverts to again to kicking the poor. I am waiting as well for him to quote the “man in the constituency” who can’t work due to sickness… But Mister Ed is now Dr Ed, who needs a real medical doctor’s intervention when you have fake Miliband who can sniff out real ailment

Oh, and quit stating ‘something for nothing’ system, ‘scroungers’,  and ‘benefits dependency’. Labour is quite content to mimic the ConDems. Both parties are ideologically pitted in attacking the most powerless in society by engaging in divide and rule. We may be all in this together but Osborne, Cameron and Miliband with prefer to chuck benefit claimants out of the life boat and into the sea to flounder and sink.

What’s even more obscene while these leaders condemn lazy benefit scroungers jobs are ever shrinking and disappearing. Looking for work can be disenchanting and demoralising as good jobs are hard to come by yet Cameron/Osborne and Miliband don’t care about that as they are entirely happy with claimants to do any old shitty job with no development nor prospects. And any old shitty job includes working for your dole as part of the various workfare schemes. If people, apparently, spend 8 minutes looking for work it is possibly to do with the fact there’s nothing of significance out there. But don’t despair further sanctions and conditionality, even though DWP’s own research demonstrated sanctions…don’t work yet that NL pernicious poisonous Purnell still went ahead. And lets not forget who brought in there vicious attacks on the welfare benefit system?

All this will mean people will be inducted in  the evils of Workfare. I am sure Mister Ed will sleep safely at night safe in the knowledge that there “scroungers” are being punished. Ask yourself, when will it stop? When benefits don’t exist anymore, cap in hand visits to the local charity being interviewed by some uncaring bureaucrat with their own ideological axe to grind. The safety net is well and truly gone, simple really, you starve. And Byrne and Miliband don’t give a shit.

But Cameron/Miliband believe the unemployed shouldn’t have high expectations nor be able to choose what job they go for but because they get money from the state they should be expected to go for any old shitty job. It also costs money to look for jobs. If the ConDems are so keen to help unemployed people then will they give them free broadband to seek jobs out on the internet? Nah, somehow I doubt it as bashing the poor is much more fun then looking for pragmatic and helpful solutions, 30-40 years ago it would have been odd to attack people on the dole but the ideology has shifted and now it’s about wholesale attacks on the welfare state and the benefits system. I know who the enemies are and it’s not just the ConDems.

What of these proposals….Will they work? What happens if someone hasn’t had a chance to pay tax? Greed, iniquity and cruelty have replaced a system that supported people based on security (wasn’t called social security for nothing) and based on collective support.

With the recession biting hard, job losses in the retail industry (so much for the private sector coming to the rescue) and more job losses overall. Miliband and his merry band of witless clowns (“jokers to the left, clowns to the right”…. ) just wanna kick the poor.Who cares about the human cost, Byrne and Mister Ed don’t.

The extent of the economic damage caused by the illness emerged as new figures showed that the use of anti-depressants and sleeping pills is soaring. Last night charities said the economic turmoil, increased job insecurity and mounting unemployment have contributed to growing levels of depression over the past three years.

Miliband could show some authority, leadership and foremost, an alternative but Labour has hitched a ride on the ConDems coat tails, exposing his cowardice and sheer uselessness. When Mister Ed had the cheek to address an audience (during the leadership contest) with “comrades” it disturbed me as that man as no right to use that word and he was only using it to engage with the trade union movement for opportunistic but let’s be clear, Miliband too is declaring class war on the poor.

And with that I have cancelled my Labour Party membership.

Liam Byrne is apparently making a speech later this month during the 70th anniversary of the Beveridge Report. Maybe we “evil scroungers and work-shy” should be telling him in no uncertain terms what a load of vicious lies Labour is spouting. Opposition? More like capitulation!

See Madam Miaow on this as well.

Byrne on Beveridge and those unemployed scroungers…