The closure of 36, and ultimately all 54, Remploy sites is a first-order scandal. No less than 1,752 persons, almost all of them disabled, have been given notice by the government that they will lose their jobs within the next 3 months, at a time when unemployment is 2.68 million and rising, on the grounds that it is better that they get into mainstream employment and that the “Remploy factories should be set free from government control” (and presumably delivered into the tender hands of the market). Continue reading →