of Parliament Tuesday 29 November for meeting in the Grand Committee Room with Jack Jones, Kate Adams and MPs Tony Benn, Wellare State Network Budget day lobby Alice Mahon, Alan Simpson and Dennis Skinner. Work Bonus' scheme under which the unemployed would work part time for little or no actual wages, but build up 'credits' to be cashed in when eventually they find a job.
Lilley claims that up to €1,000 could be stored up in a lump sum bonus, though how long it would take a part-timer on poverty pay to earn this much is not revealed.
Bribe
Perhaps the claimant could then invest the cash in bribing a Tory MP to ask a question in parliament.
With so few full-time jobs available, it is unlikely that many claimants would voluntarily enter a scheme that offers absolutely nothing today, and only the specious promise of a big pay-out some time in the indefinite future.
Dumped
Stranded in the midst of this onslaught are 500,000 unemployed who are aged over 50, with little or no hope of finding work, and countless individuals dumped through redundancies onto the scrap heap.
The recent launch of the Welfare State Network as a campaign to link all those fighting the Tory offensive against health and welfare rights offers an opportunity to reach out to for health & welfare Get the bulletin of the Welfare State Network! Affiliation is just £25 for unions and Labour Parties, £10 for pensioners and unemployed groups. Individiual sub's are £5 waged, 23 unwaged. Send your cheque to Welfare State Network, c/o Southwark Trade Union Support Unit, 42 Braganza Street, London SE 17.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No: 71, 3 November 1994, Page 3