Claimants fit to work would have to volunteer for 20 hours a week, says Robert Jenrick Daily Telegraph 17/08/26 Benefits claimants who have been jobless for more than a year could have to clean streets to keep their payments under a Reform UK government. Robert Jenrick , Reform’s Treasury spokesman, announced on Monday that Britons on benefits and fit to work would have to volunteer for 20 hours a week. At a press conference in central London, Mr Jenrick said many of the 6.6 million working-age people claiming joblessness benefits were “really taking advantage of their fellow citizens, their friends, their neighbours and community”. Mr Jenrick said: “If taxpayers must contribute, so must the able recipients of their support who can as well. I am therefore announcing that a Reform government will introduce a Welfare to Work scheme. “This will require long-term benefits claimants, who are fit to work, to provide 20 hours a week of work for their community, organised by their local ...
Middle-class progressives love to welcome illegal immigrants into Britain, right up until they land on their own doorsteps Daily Telegraph 12/08/26 Let me set the scene. No 10 Downing Street. Or possibly No 10 North . “Good morning, Prime Minister. I have good news and bad news. Which would you like first?” “The good news, please.” “There are no more small boats.” “Wow! Fantastic! So what’s the bad news?” “They’ve all been replaced by absolutely bloody enormous boats.” Poor Andy Burnham . This week, his political honeymoon was brutally curtailed by a record-shattering 230 illegal immigrants crossing the Channel in a dinghy the size of a Viking longship. In fact, the dinghy was so huge that The Sun couldn’t fit a photo of it on its front page, and had to run it across its back page, as well. Advertisement Still, we’d better get used to it. Because, in their adorably insouciant manner, the French authorities say we can look forward to plenty more of these mega-dinghies cruising t...