Just out of interest,
if there was forced direction of labour ( get a job or else) how many of the stars on bf forum would choose which of these unrefusable choices:

a) job as bettingshop cashier

b) job with btfr police

?

My guess would be that most would prefer the unofficial option c, ie

life of crime plus playing on btfr.

While I saw decades ago that there was likely to be a huge problem arising from the increasing number of folk who have to be lumped into the classification
" useless, hopeless, troublesome, dangerous, and costly"

I'm still amazed at the hypocritical, false, moral indignation of the D Mail-reader types on here who splutter on about how the poor "tax-payers" have to pay for this and that,
when it's pretty obvious the fkrs themselves dodge paying  as much as they possibly can, even to the extent of hiding out of the country till they need to pop back in to load up on a few freebie prescriptions.

I ain't particularly saying they're any worse than any others, but could they just leave out the "holier than thou" ****, please?
NOTW and  politician spiel of the highest/lowest order, imo.
" And we paid our bills and left." Yeah, like fk you did.

Elections are a wonderful institution, It allows parties to gain power based on the elected parties ability to mess-up and allows elected parties to stay in power as long as they can convince us they wont do the same