Long term unemployed/social lay abouts
We have an unexploted workforce here. They need to be harnessed. Some uses for them are:

Collecting the bins on the opposite days to the regular dustmen. Back to weekly collections. Yay! They can then spend the week the dustmen are working back at the recycling centre sorting the tins, glass and paper etc.

Generating power. Who need wind turbines? What we need is layabout turbines! A giant hamster wheel set up to a big dynamo where the unemployed can walk on to make it turn to create electricity. The added benefit of this is that it would get Britain fit and help reduce the obesity epedemic we are facing.

Personal shoppers. Instead of getting Tesco/Occado to deliver, get the workshy to go and collect! Do your standard shop online, select the "collect from store" option, pay (you have peace of mind knowing that money is kept secure). Five or six workshy should be enough to carry a big shop back home for you. No extra delivery vans causing pollution, less traffic, safer roads. Imagine the green clubcard points you could earn.

The only thing that might be hard is to incentivise these people, but i feel that if all TV and radio transmission was encrypted and you had to have a PIN to watch for limited amounts of time this could be the incentive they need. Pay them regular benefits, but also supply PIN cards for a few hours of viewing. They can watch all the TV they like with a little hard work! I goes without saying that no work means no benefits...

If Nick Cleggs wants to adopt any of these ideas then it might help the LidDems out a bit.
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 11:16, 2 replies)

Yes! YES!! OH YESSS!!!
Couldn't agree more...
(mongothemagnificent knows where you live, Sun 25 Sep 2011, 16:44, closed)

Actually, not too far from workable
I always thought there are many hundreds of thousands of unemployed who are capable of doing something - and the benefits should be given after that, let's say 4hours work, every day.

Get the lazy fuckers out of bed, away from Jeremy Kyle and his ilk, and used to the idea of working for money, rather than receiving it through the post, squandering it on drugs/alcohol/plasma TV, before heading out to test the security at the local supermarket.
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 13:30, closed)