From The Metro:
"Gordon Brown has vowed to make every young person do 50 hours of voluntary work by the time they reach the age of 19."
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Thinking ahead
2 hours ago
Sunday, 12 April 2009
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I did way more than 50 hours of community work before the age of 19 but if some council plonker had tried to force me to do so I would have told him/her to f*** right off.
More Nu-Labour control freakery at its worst.
It's amusing that 'Metro' thinks he'll get a chance to bring this off, isn't it...?
Strap line on BBC website for this story is 'Plan for compulsory volunteers'. You couldn't make this stuff up. I'm going to enjoy watching their attempts to get hoodies on run down council estates to do 50 hours of 'voluntary' community service. A sharp rise in thefts from old people is on the cards I think.
Hi Mark - I'm glad you've covered this - could you also help publicise the facebook campaign that the SLP started against this:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=86872840451&ref=mf
Thanks in advance!
Apparently it's the sort of thing that Harvard demands for admission - you can always rely on PC American academe to pioneer in quasi-fascist initiatives.
Thanks Mark.
Maybe fornication and procreation count as community work
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