To some observers, this is merely an indication that monitoring will be advisable. To claimants, it comes as confirmation that the New Deal is rotten root and branch. In towns and cities across the country, claimant groups have flyposted the High Street offices of Reed Employment. In the past, exploiters like Reed have been able to console themselves with the thought that actions against them were just one-offs. Not this time.
Activist claimants are determined to make their point.
The flyposting will be followed by a campaign of leafleting and other direct actions are being considered. Reed are not the only pigs with their snouts in the New Deal trough, but they give off the foulest stench. Press Release issued by Haringey Solidarity Group and Hackney Claimants Support Group. Implemented by civil servants, it seems faceless and unaccountable. However, the future of the ES, part of our welfare state, is under threat.