Remploy.

Remploy is the largest state owned manufacturing company in the United Kingdom. It was set up straight after the last world war in 1945 to employ disabled servicemen. Since that time it has employed thousands of disabled people of all different shades nationwide in there factories manufacturing various goods.
The company receive a grant from the government of about one hundred million a year which when you consider the money it would cost the taxpayer in benefits and finding day centres etc for the workers who mostly would never get the opportunity to be employed by in a private company that figure is probably a lot less in net terms.
It has been reported that the government are going to reduce the grant given to Remploy to such an extent that most if not all the factories will be forced to close. Not only do I think this is callous in the extreme it is also short sighted and will cost the taxpayer more in the long run than will be saved.
I use to live near a Remploy factory. It was a joy to see the workers come out of the factory in the evening laughing and joking with one another clearly very happy and contented.Remploy have given them the opportunity to feel useful and wanted and to be able to socialise. All the future will probably hold for them is isolation and boredom home alone for most of the day with nothing to do.
Its a tragedy and really shows the government for what it is a nasty, right-wing Tory government without any compassion or feeling for the most vulnerable people in our country.

Benefit Changes!

Image via WikipediaThe basic flaw about the governments efforts to reduce the benefit budget by getting people off benefits and into work is that the jobs they say that they want them to go into simply do not exist. The government themselves are going to axe seven hundred and fifty thousand public sector jobs in the next few years which is expected to push unemployment close to three million so there is clearly going to be a jobless problem at a time when the government are seeking to push people into work.
I also think it is wrong that some people with serious illness like Parkinson disease, MS, cancer are being told they are fit to work when they clearly are not.Something i think will get worse when companies doing the medical tests are paid by results. In other words they will be paid to say people are fit to work.This is a callous and will put already stressed people under even more stressed.
This government is acting in a more callous and uncaring manner than even Margaret Thatcher did at her worse.It is a right-wing government of the sort that we have never seen before in this country.It is unbritish as we are a compassionate and caring nation that as always believed in a society that cares for its weakest and most in need and I think it deserves to get kicked out of office as soon as possible.

Public Service Cuts Hurt!