You people are asking for it.

There is a contract in society that says we act civilised which includes helping those that are down and out. Break that contract by punishing and disregarding the losers in society and you will reap the consequences in pain and suffering. If there is no contract then what is stopping the descent into urban savagery of the desperate taking what they need to survive? Push people to the brink and expect them to fight back with viciousness and uncaring hatred. After all its what they have been taught right?

This government continually tries to make life miserable for the poorest and weakest in some insane attempt to make them disappear or just give up but the only real effect is to make them sick and angry and not just at the government. They hate you all and they feel like you all hate them.

An utterly idiotic way to run a modern(not for long) society.

One perfect job is now presenting itself, as a lot of councils are going to stop recycling because it is too expensive.

Work for the dole doing the recycling.

Something needs to be done too many just do not want to work.

'I want to see for our unemployed youth is properly managed training schemes'
You want!...you want!....as long as someone else makes it happen.
Today didn't just occur of what happened the day before...it's been a long time coming...and now you come up with what you want!
Give me a break!

Put them in the Army....you bleat about what you want but I don't see any effort put into a solution. It seems most of you think all you have to do is come up with a wish list of what someone else should do.

Hi o sung wu and Foxy, I generally agree with your comments on this.

"it should be a case of identifying their vocational interests (within reason) and formerly train them in exchange for their Dole payment." Disaffected youth become a costly burden on society both economically and socially, and it does not get any better as they grow older.

Skills training is what it should be all about, along with the intangibles that Foxy mentioned, set to work with a menial task like picking up rubbish on the side of the road is not training, and of little benefit to the young person involved, its demeaning to have a teenager who should have a bright future set to work that belongs to the unskilled and uneducated in society.

Have you ever noticed how the Conservatives always want to put the unemployed to work at the most crappy jobs they can think of, like cleaning the public toilets. Jobs they want done for their benefit, but jobs they would not do themselves, and they want them done on the cheap. There other favorite hobby horse is "put them in the army"! What for, to defend the nice clean public toilets they demand, from those that would dirty them up?

'What for, to defend the nice clean public toilets they demand'....to learn discipline fool...to learn that life is a case of doing what needs to be done and not selective activities to amuse when you run out of leisure time
If nothing else the Army at least would introduce the need for social structure and the benefits of routine.
The last thing we need is big mouth who thinks one just gets out of bed and decides to be a bank manager for the day...always wanting to put labels so as to introduce their positioning in the political scheme of things, grow up!
Hint!....everyone wipes their backside with the same intention, Conservatives or not, so even toilets have their place not withstanding fools who insist on doing it in plastic bags to prove their independence of social norms.
f/wits are self made....congratulations you've succeeded.

Lest we forget - pink batts.