Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Best Tory Prime Minister We'll Never Have?

'The flagship project, described by Iain Duncan Smith as his contribution to the Big Society, is the new “work programme”, a hugely ambitious scheme to find stable jobs for the unemployed. In general, it is compulsory after nine months for young people and after a year for those aged 25 and over: 370,000 jobseekers were referred to the scheme between June and November 2011 alone. At the heart of the work programme is a financial incentive structure that rewards private and voluntary sector contractors for finding jobs or training positions for the unemployed.' (Matthew D'Ancona - Telegraph.)

Have They Really Lied About Our Nation's Defence - Or Lack of It?

  Good morning. Labour has been accused of misleading the public about defence spending. Sir Ben Wallace, the former Conservative defence se...