It's a totally stupid idea from a government that just doesn't understand how the real world operates. Here's two personal examples:

My son left uni in July and signed on. He receives around £50 a week. He's spent almost every day filling in long and complex application forms, taking extremely difficult online tests, having phone interviews, going to assessment days. Now, thankfully, he's found a good, well-paid job that will allow him to pay tax and pay off his considerable student loan. If he had been forced onto the government's slave labour scheme as would eventually have happened, he would have been unable to spend the necessary time searching for a job and would probably have been on the dole for years.

Example 2: I was made redundant in April last year after working for 44 years. If I'm still unemployed by this April I will be forced onto the slave labour scheme. Now I am one of those terrible wasters who have paid, I calculate, over £600K in taxes and national insurance in my life. Oh, and here's the real joke, I don't actually receive any jobseekers allowance as I have a small pension that puts me just outside the minimum level. So am I going to work in Poundland for nothing....stick it up your arse, Cam-moron.

The sooner we get rid of this stupid government with their overpaid cronies milking our society the better.