The Government's Conservative Welfare Policy Won't Work.

It's hard to see the current government as a Labour government, they are more like the historical nasty party, the Tories.

The current nonsense from government is to get the disabled off benefits and into work. 

Great, how do you propose to do that? Just dump people off welfare?

Because I've talked before, several times about the gulf between being on benefits and being in work. It's not so simple, because as soon as you leave the comfort of benefits, the reality of working and having to pay rent, food and energy bills out of minimum wage makes it virtually impossible to make the jump. The cost of living is outstripping the supply of wages.

Even more so for the disabled, who require their employers to make special accommodations for their disabilities. Straight away the disabled have even more of a hill to climb and even more expense. 

If the disabled person can't use buses, how are they supposed to get to work? If they can only use taxis, where does the extra money for that come from? Benefits? Oh, so they've still got to claim in-work benefits to actually work? 

Where is the sense in that?

I've said before that my son requires a very understanding employer. He needs in-work support. But how are employers that can't even fund training courses for able-bodied staff be convinced to pay to support mentally ill or disabled people in work? It just isn't going to happen.

So these people will drop off benefits and end up homeless. 

That's not a good look for a caring Labour government.