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Creating a hugely expensive, onerous, and almost certainly cruel nationwide bureaucracy to somehow task, monitor, and manage millions of wildly differently abled people as they do 20 hours of weekly community service... ... to address a 'feeling' that someone may be getting something for nothing.

I hear what many of you are saying and agree but this would still be a terrible idea even if it weren't coming from Farage and thus laden with hypocrisy. It's important to defeat dumb policy on its own merits too, in case it ever finds a less obviously disqualifying champion.

This stuff makes me so angry. Spend 15 seconds thinking about how this would work in practice, especially outside of a major city. It's the start of a new month in Bowsden, Northumberland, population 200. Three people must do 20hrs service this wek. What happens? Who organizes it? How? Where?

It isn't about saving money, the sole purpose is punitive. Punishing people for being on benefits to the point they either stop taking benefits or kill themselves. Passive eugenics.

If the goal is punitive then they should forget this overly complicated idea and just make the unemployed have to have one interaction a month with the Home Office.