[frogstamper]

Blimey you can tell there is an election imminent, some back-room number cruncher no doubt thought this would play well with some of our more insanely rabid tabloids.
I agree that the very small percentage of work-shy who simply don't want to work need a kick up the back-side,but surely the way to go about this is too pay them the minimum wage rate, and they work the hours that equal their dole money.
In this way there isn't the stigma of being paid a pound an hour whilst others around you are getting five times that amount.
I very much doubt that in its present form this will ever happen anyway, no government wants to be accused of putting its citizens into modern day slavery, the tories wouldn't do it for fear of invoking the nasty party tag again and labour couldn't do it because its own MP's would vote it down.
As I mentioned at the start, in my opinion it is purely a sop to the DM, DE and Sun.