Employment

Full Unemployment for all.

Full Employment can never be achieved in modem society, no matter how often politicians say otherwise. As machines become bigger and faster they will continue to replace human beings in the workplace. There is only one way to create jobs for everyone and that is to change the way people work, and to do this, we will have to sack everybody first.

The entire country will become unemployed the moment our election victory is announced. Don’t expect to be able to “sleep in” and watch afternoon television for the rest of your lives though, for there is much to do.

Work for the dole

The present government’s heavily-promoted Work For The Dole Scheme is proving to be a complete flop, and desperately needs a major revamp. We will, therefore, cut the “Dole” part right out (see “Abolition of Money” in ECONOMY). and make it Work for Free.

Big jobs like ploughing up motorways, knocking down all those ugly modern buildings and replacing them with lovely medieval substitutes will keep people busy for some years. We will bring back the PEP schemes (Peasant Employment Programme) to oversee this massive under taking.

In their spare time, people will be given all sorts of handy Medieval skills in TOPS (Training Other Peasants; see EDUCATION) classes, preparing them for after the GREAT LEAP BACKWARDS©. Clans will operate as groups of subsistence crafts-people, and will need to ensure that their members, between them, have the complete range of skills needed for the Clan’s physical and mental survival. All work will be clan work.

Recreation and occupation become the same thing

The definition of “work” will come to include almost everything people do. It will be like a cross between a hobby, a game and a religious ceremony. Everyone will be able to see just how valuable their contribution is to their immediate friends and neighbours, and at last, will feel good about it, even on Mondays!