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Sure.... but if you've gone two years without being able to find any work at all then it seems like there is a problem somewhere that the government can't fix for you, and maybe the best way to get you to fix it for yourself, is to force you to work for the money that they are giving you. You aren't required to do the work. You're just required to do it if you want some money.
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'Starve to death' is not a choice. If you have to work for free to survive (I should clarify; this is not how you earn your
Jobseekers Allowance. You earn that by searching for work to satisfactory levels every day and showing proof that the jobcenter can challenge) that's not a choice.
I'm prepared to admit calling it slave labour is openly provocative hyperbole, but that's only because we have such a huge preconceived notion of what being a slave is like. It's an open challenge to be refuted by people in power who really can't make the same kind of argument you're going for.