[Margaret Pilkington]

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Hard to know where to start...but those who are able to work and receive benefits should perhaps have to do a certain number of hours a week of something like community service, in any case, to justify at least some of what they receive...[/quote]

But there is a flaw in that solution, why would a council employ steet sweepers if the unemployed were going to do it to get their benefits?....or whatever it was that it was decided was the right job to 'earn' the benefits.

I don't know what the answer is...unless it is co-operatives growing stuff on allotments and then selling it on the market.