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What is my former party trying to achieve? It seems to me that they have completely lost the plot. This is an old "policy" rehashed by Balls and Co in an attempt to make it look like something else. It is not new, or original or something that my Labour party should touch with a barge pole. Once again, Labour are offering "free workers" to firms for 6 months in the vain hope that at the end of the 6 months, the company will suddenly produce a full time position within the firm, as if producing a rabbit from a hat. Everyone knows (except Balls and the Labour party policy makers it seems) that firms will simply terminate the "free worker" and ask for another one from the local employment office. The evidence of previous experience vividly demonstrates that simple fact. To expect that firms have suddenly become philanthropic organisations and will create jobs which are either there in the first place (and could therefore be filled permanently anyway) or are not, is either naive in the extreme, or just a cynical attempt to appear progressive in the hope that people will not notice. Albert Einstein once said that
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The Labour Party should reflect on this remark.
Ed Balls Tells Jobseekers To Accept Work Or Lose Benefits
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| Shadow chancellor Ed Balls |
What is my former party trying to achieve? It seems to me that they have completely lost the plot. This is an old "policy" rehashed by Balls and Co in an attempt to make it look like something else. It is not new, or original or something that my Labour party should touch with a barge pole. Once again, Labour are offering "free workers" to firms for 6 months in the vain hope that at the end of the 6 months, the company will suddenly produce a full time position within the firm, as if producing a rabbit from a hat. Everyone knows (except Balls and the Labour party policy makers it seems) that firms will simply terminate the "free worker" and ask for another one from the local employment office. The evidence of previous experience vividly demonstrates that simple fact. To expect that firms have suddenly become philanthropic organisations and will create jobs which are either there in the first place (and could therefore be filled permanently anyway) or are not, is either naive in the extreme, or just a cynical attempt to appear progressive in the hope that people will not notice. Albert Einstein once said that
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The Labour Party should reflect on this remark.
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