It's Not the Weight, It's the Attitude...

The News that the Government is to start a pilot scheme offering weight loss drugs to unemployed people to enable them to get back into work.

Sadly, I predict the scheme will be a failure. 

The reason is that there are plenty of skinny people on the dole and their lack of weight hasn't enabled them to get into work any better than an overweight counterpart. 

It's not the weight that is the issue, it's the attitude and the benefits system itself.

If you want to work, you'll go out and find work. Whatever it is. Not all of us can do physical jobs, but even the disabled can get a job in a call centre because of access rights legislation.

The other block to getting a job is the cost to work. When you are on benefits, everything is provided for you. Your rent is paid, you get dole money every fortnight and life is relatively easy, if a bit cash-poor. 

If you then get a job, you instantly lose the payment of rent. You have to re-apply with no guarantee that your rent will be paid. 

If you take a minimum wage job, you lose benefits and then have to pay tax. If the minimum wage is the absolute minimum the government says a person should be paid, why isn't it a tax-free salary? That would instantly boost the salary straight away. It just seems immoral to start clawing back tax from the most disadvantaged wage earners.

The whole system drops you like a stone. There is no support, no easing you into work. It's like jumping off a cliff emotionally and psychologically.

It's that transition that needs to be addressed, not the weight of the people. 

The cynical part of my brain does wonder if this is part of some conditioning process. You know, to make being overweight and unproductive a morally poor choice. Fat-shaming.

I can see a future if everything comes to pass like assisted suicide where the paths cross and if you are on the dole and consuming too much and getting fat, you'd be offered weight-loss drugs or else it's off to the boneyard with you. 

Of course if the option is take the drugs, be productive and work for peanuts against being rendered down for glue or Soylent Green, that may just motivate a proportion of the dole bums into working.

But there's always a hard core of institutionalised generations of unemployed.... 

The Power of the Gulf State Investment Funds.

I've blogged a number of times the amount of power the Gulf State Investment funds (GSIF) wield within the UK. They own a significant proportion of the UK through various funds and companies. Through those investments they wield an incredible amount of power and influence.

It's in the news that DP World, the owners of Tilbury Port pulled 1 Billion pounds of investment in the port over comments that the Labour Party have said regarding P&O Ferries, another company owned by DP World.

The row has now been settled and DP World have agreed to continue as previously planned, but this is the first time that the power GSIFs hold over the UK Government has become mainstream.

I don't know how to put it, but the words I commit to the ether here on my blog are not random musings of some nutter. I have analysed and watched in practice the things that I blog about.

The normal person doesn't understand the machinations of government going on behind the scenes. And to be honest, I don't understand all of them. I do know the various areas I've investigated though.

But do believe me when I say that globalism has not benefitted this country at all. It has benefitted those that seek to exploit the people at the bottom of the pile. But it has over the decades made the lives of those at the bottom of the social scale a whole lot worse. Now it's affecting the middle class, you can see the likes of the Reform Party making headway against the mainstream parties, but do they truly understand the reasons for the demise of this country over the decades? 

We need to get back to a closed shop. Earn money here, pay tax here, don't want to pay tax here? Invest here. Start to contribute to the country and you'll be allowed to take a small portion of the profit out of the country.

Do you work here and send all your money to your family in another country? Tough. You'll get taxed on it as badly as I'd tax a company stripping assets here and sending the proceeds abroad.

We need to stop the money leaving this country. We need to start making things here, investing profits here, improving the lives of workers here.