British Prime Minister David Cameron said jobless people under the age of 25 should not be allowed to claim unemployment benefits as he signaled a crackdown on welfare payments.
Anyone under 25 would not be able to claim housing or unemployment benefits under an all-Conservative government, he suggested, saying the young should be forced to “earn or learn.”
The welfare plan was part of a speech to the Conservative convention in Manchester, northern England, in which Mr. Cameron started sketching out his vision of Britain with an economy restored to full health and an all-Tory government in office.
Echoing Winston Churchill’s wartime appeal to “give us the tools and we will finish the job,” he asked voters to release him from coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to “finish the job”.
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Reaction: David Cameron’s assault on the young isn’t callous – it’s much worse than that
It would be also be a mistake to describe this as a “war on the young” as many commentators have done. A war implies two sides vying for supremacy. This is a strictly unilateral assault, a grand act of persecution. Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
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