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Food Vouchers: Government to Tell Poor How to Spend Benefit.
Welfare Reform Adviser.
A future Conservative Government would consider handing out some state benefits “in kind” rather than in cash, David Cameron said yesterday, raising the spectre of food vouchers for the poor. Reports the Independent.( Here.)
It follows the massive increase in numbers having to use ‘Food Banks’.
The present idea comes from David Cameron’s premier Think Tank, Blue Skies Thinking, based in Houndstown Texas.
There Deputy Dawg gives the out-of-work food stamps for their day’s labour in the local ‘chain gang’.
This proposal has the following advantages.
- It will make it clear to everybody who is unemployed. When they go to the Supermarket they will be known to the check out staff and anybody watching.
- It will make sure the out-of-work do not spend their money on unnecessary things such as Private Eye, the Guardian or the Independent or their breakfast of ten litres of white cider and 50 grams of Golden Virginia.
- It will provide an opportunity for social entrepreneurs to administer the voucher system and gain a much-needed boost to their income running Welfare-to-Work schemes.
- The Government will gradually be able to introduce a further scheme to stop the workless buying ‘unhealthy food’. Supermarkets will have special labels “suitable for the unemployed” designating Be Good to the Poor” items.
- It will bolster David Cameron’s chances of appealing to the British electorate who dream of the day when the unemployed are reduced to begging charity from their betters.
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This doesn’t even make any kind of sense and will simply cost more money and is more insecure. The unemployed will be an easier target for muggers because you have no choice but to carry your ‘money’ to and from the shop (assuming you get change in voucher form). At least if your cashcard is nicked you can go the bank and tell them. If you’re voucher is taken you’re fucked. Again it’s the law of the jungle, via the post twats in charge.
Here is a highly informative commentary about how the undeserving poor were once forced to do hard manual labour in return for their pound of meal.
The first article listed is from a lesser known period of Scotland’s history in the mid nineteenth century surrounding the even lesser known SCOTTISH Potato Famine of that time.
You can’t help think of the 21st century Mandatory Work Activity Scheme, the Community Action Programme, and now the inevitable food vouchers – with the subsequent black market in stolen food vouchers into the bargain. Here is the link:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/a-wake-up-call-for-the-workshy-or-21st-century-slavery-what-do-the-welfare-reforms-really-mean-1.1068071
Great article on Scotland. Meal being Grain that wasn’t much of a meal!
As Hedley Lamarr’s flunky said in Blazing Saddles : ‘ Now what will that asshole think of next ?’
This fits in with the diet/anti obesity panics.. cant have people spending money how they wish, or buying “unhealthy” foods. In america they do this, they give you vouchers but you also have to give proof of your identity in some places.. In other state they “sell” the vouchers for money to other people… then there are store that have a lot of donated foods, think food banks run by the state from what shops give.
Foodbanks here include the tressel trust which is tory owned.
It will bolster David Cameron’s chances of appealing to the British electorate.
is he on crack or what universe does he come from lmfao
Be good to the poor He is having a laugh? right ! Aww mr cameron enjoy it while it lasts you little poofy waste of space I can honestly see someone doing you in
Cameron and his rich mates resemble 19th Century poor law guardians doling out gruel to the “undeserving” poor. Quite how this callous, overprivileged toff equates his supposed Christian values with his increasingly vicious attacks on the weakest and most vulnerable in society is beyond me.
Aneurin bevan was right – Tories are lower than vermin.
Goodness gracious me, oh what a silly idea. We all have our own individual dietary and nutritional requirements; limiting the ability to satisfy those needs is going to mean devastating consequences for a person’s health. Are these fools trying to kill of large swathes of the population?
Think you are right,after food vouchers they are probably planning on supplying the undeserving poor arsenic food supplement tablets.Ingestion will be mandatory.
“Are these fools trying to kill of large swathes of the population?”
Vouchers also have a use by date, which is not good. If lost or more likely to be stolen, they have no value.
If it had to be done, it would be better to be part cash for things like rent and divide the rest with different useful gift vouchers. Not just food. Such as: driving lessons, petrol vouchers, officeworks vouchers, transport tickets, interview clothing vouchers and even movie tickets for over the holidays. I don’t think there is the funding for any government to be able to find out what vouchers individuals actually need.
“vouchers” given as “prizes” are usually “money off” vouchers: They could give you a £10 off a £1000 100 inch flat screen, colour, digital plasma TV, £50 off a £10,000 luxury week in Barbados holiday and 2 £5 off * your weekly shop supermarket vouchers and £1 in cash; there you go: £70 in vouchers and £1 in cash = £71 (£56.25 (only £36.25 off the week in Barbados if you are under 25
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*when you spend £100 or more
I guess it would be a discount rather than payment of something in full. I am against the vouchers., I was just suggesting something that might be better. Food vouchers wouldn’t work for me either. Bills need to be paid in cash.