Well, here’s a surprise: long term unemployed people were used as slave labour during the diamond jubilee celebrations:
A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river pageant.
Up to 30 jobseekers and another 50 people on apprentice wages were taken to London by coach from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth as part of the government’s Work Programme.
A glitzy pageant to Britain’s first family of parasites to distract the middle classes from what’s happening to their country, staffed by slave labour: as good as symbol of modern Britain as any.
(Via.)
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