catmachine:

You only need to look back to the 1984 Doctor Who story The Caves of Androzani to see the inspiration for the current government’s unpaid “work experience” scheme:

MORGUS:
The stews of the city are full of such unemployed riff-raff.

PRESIDENT:
Most of them unemployed, Trau Morgus, because you have closed so many plants. It’s caused great unrest.

MORGUS:
Easily settled. Those without valid employment cards will be shipped off to the eastern labour camps.

PRESIDENT:
Yes, we might make that seem morally justifiable. I’ll put your interesting suggestions to the Praesidium tomorrow.

MORGUS:
Naturally, should any special funding be required…

PRESIDENT:
Most generous. Of course, the irony is while you’ve been closing plants here in the west, you’ve been building them in the east. So if the unemployed were sent to the eastern labour camps, a great many of them would be working for you again, only this time without payment.

MORGUS:
I hadn’t thought of that.

PRESIDENT:
Of course you hadn’t.

We can only hope that Cameron meets the same fate as Morgus.