Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Actually Citizens Service sounds like a good plan.
Not the scheme as outlined by Cameron, but how about if in exchange for your dole money you were required to do 20 hours community service a week.

No show, no dough.

20 hours should be do-able even with job interviews, its only half a day after all.

I would even accept a 15 hour contribution.

Think how nice and clean our streets and parks would be with the dole-dossers out picking up empty lager cans, instead of emptying them.

And it would maintain/instill a work discipline/ethic that is sadly missing in many of the spongers of society.