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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?

They can go to Berwick to do their service. It's only 23 minutes on the bus. However, one thing people in London will not understand, the bus only goes once every two hours!

Even setting the travel aside, so now Berwick Council, presumably, has to find make-work jobs for the unemployed of the entire region. Keeping track of how many hours they've worked, when they've failed to show up, dealing with sick notes etc. How? With what resources?