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.)

What Leftist Judge Could Meet These Criteria?

Judges. 1 8)  Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the  Lord  your God is giving you, and they shall judge the...