Category Archives: anti work

Thanks to the BBC-lite version of the Today programme, I am unable to link you to the direct item on this morning’s programme but it appears at 8.10am and is between Evan Davies and Chris Grayling, the topic being the various government programmes to get the unemployed into some form of work experience. This interview concludes a very successful work for the BBC which has led a jihad against the notion that Job Seekers should be seeking job experience in exchange for their benefits. This, as the BBC and the Socialist Workers Party would tell us, is “slave labour.” I thought Grayling handled himself quite well, correcting several wild claims by Davies but the brutal truth is that several large UK retailers have been put in a difficult position, thanks to the publicity afforded Big Sloth by the BBC, and are rapidly distancing themselves from the work experience concept. I notice that the BBC chooses not to discuss it’s OWN unpaid work positions – a classic example of the churning hypocrisy in play here.