Grayling bows to the inevitable

Rhoda Klapp

Remarkably spineless? Expectedly more like.

Holly ......

Grayling 'bows' in favour of a GOOD THING.
Wow that must really get on your wick.
Labour would have just continued regardless,
but without all the 'slave labour'rubbish being aired.
Win win for Grayling & the young wishing to get into work.
For Labour & the left it's just a case of on to the next GOOD THING we can oppose, smash up or cause strife..and who better to get that message out than the British media in all it's formats.
Let's hope that now Murdoch Snr is back at the helm we can have some nice juicy tales
in the Sun on Sunday on how British public officials got to the stage where payments from the media were the norm.
Who comes under the umbrella of a 'public official' and who's umbrella were these
'public officials' under?

michael

Those who have the temerity to call corporate Britain spineless in the face of employment legislation, should go forth and read it...ALL of it!

Guru McKenzie

U-turn if you want to ... and so will Grayling et al

telemachus'

Quite chilling is it not
The Royal Colleges. The BMA and Uncle Joe Public cannot get the Coalition to deviate on the NHS.
But when Tesco squeals...

Mudplugger

Grayling, a wet-lettuce just like Andrew Lansley, shows complete inability to 'market' sound policies in ways that appeal to voters and cut the legs from under their oppponents.

Suggest they look to Michael Gove to see how it should be done and how managing the 'marketing' enables you to carry on getting the job done without compromising unnecessarily to the irrelevant whingers.

History Lover

Where were the SWP when Labour was punishing people for not attending work placements. During Labour's disastrous time in Government I regularly had to advocate on behalf of families with small children when one of the parents refused or didn't attend work placements. One I remember particularly had no benefit for six weeks and was living on handouts from his extended family. When my organisation rang the Job Centre the person we spoke to was horrified that he hadn't been told to apply for hardship payments after a week. So it happened under Labour but nobody made a fuss about it.

Chris Grayling was quite right to stand his ground but now there will be people who will deliberately not attend knowing full well that they won't be sanctioned. Also they won't attend the Literacy and Numeracy courses that the Government is providing to get them out of Labour's cycle of educational despair. Why? because you can't touch me mate I got rights the SWP said. These irresponsible people in the SWP are just intent on ruining young lives and throwing a whole generation of young people on the scrap heap. IDS and Chris Grayling are fighting with all their might to make a better place for young people and all Labour and their pals in the SWP can do is try to sabotage it.

Kevin

Conservative journalists seem to be unanimous in condemning critics of these schemes, yet surely they are not beyond criticism? Cameron speaks of "anti-business snobbery", but may be ignoring the possibility that, for a person with no capital, access to business could be dependent on membership of a social network. Conservatives speak of an economy guided by rational self-interest. It is not a great leap to conceive of the possibility that a hiring manager's rational self-interest may conflict with a purely meritocratic hiring policy. Given the possibility that an unemployed person simply may never be "one of the boys", it is right that he should be paid for his labour.

Fergus Pickering

Telemachus, the BMA is the doctors' trade union. Why should they want any change, they do very well, stuffed with our money as they are, as things now stand. They are at present considering striking for more money. Uncle Joe Public believes in the NHS like it was fairies at the bottom of the garden. Tesco I like. Supermarkets are one of our most successful modern inventions. Or don't you like shopping?

Sir Everard Digby

Tesco are not a successful invention -they are a state subsidised organisation. They employ lots of part time staff with earnings topped up to reasonable levels by tax credits; next time anyone pops in and thinks they are getting a bargain,think again. The taxpayer has subsidised it and continues to do so. Even if these unemployed people do get a job with Tescos,there is a probability that the taxpayer is still subsidising it.

Telemachus@9.25

'Uncle Joe Public' (would that be Stalin?) will have trouble getting through the leftie smokescreen to the facts of the matter,let alone form a reasoned opinion.