With regards to the last post..the question begs:
Why cannot people be allowed to work in this
country if they wish? Why is birth and citizenship
so important, which leads to how a supposedly
more equitable system allows for further
inequitability-bankers get let off and
foreigners are barred from working in
the country, or are at least fit into
nice little arbitrary categories.

Or, simply the choice appears with
government to be a choice between
a regime which is too lenient or
a regime which is too punishing.

and with work: is work only productive
labour, so: what is productive labour?

A student labours as much as a single
mother or a bin man but one has a debt,
one has an allowance and one has a wage.

Put students on jobseekers?