SO THE Government hates to think that nearly two million people on the dole are happy to be there, getting something for nothing.

How out of touch Mr Cameron is. He’s now saying that people on the dole should be made to work 30 hours a week.

A claimant gets £67.50 a week, so the claimants would be earning slightly over £2 per hour. This tells me that this Government has turned the tables and they will be getting something for nothing.

If there’s work out there which can be done by people on the dole, then there has to be some incentive. Pay these people at least the minimum wage.

If the work needs to be done the Government should pay up. It is, in fact, illegal to pay anyone less than the minimum wage, but if this goes ahead, then all I can say is this is part and parcel of Cameron’s big society, where you’re expected to volunteer and work for nothing. He says claimants get £67.60 a week – big deal.

I would like to see him live on that.

Anyway, most of the people on the dole were forced on to the dole by this same snob Government.

P HOWARD (Mr), Brome Place, Barton, Oxford