Job vacancies drop as Reform vows to punish unemployed people
On Monday 17 August, Reform UK announced a suite of new policies designed to target and punish sick, disabled, and unemployed people. The party’s plan to target unemployed people is based on the idea that there’s a significant number of voters who are just ‘layabouts’. In reality, most of the people who don’t work can’t work, and the rest are facing a particularly tough market – as the latest job vacancies show: all while every single major party says it’s going to cut benefits for people that “refuse to work” https://t.co/TsAZeBlXwb — mike ☭ (@__mike91) August 18, 2026 On the attack…

