I think some of these ideas take on a life of their own!
What starts out seemingly quite innocent at some later date gives way to something far more malevolent.
Speaking to someone about the NHS privatisation I said I thought individual budgets would be introduced as a way of laying the foundation for insurance top ups. Turns out that budgets have already been introduced under a trial. Some people will no doubt think personal budgets for all healthcare allowing choice, will be great, until at some later date the budgets are cut or frozen and it becomes clear that everyone will need insurance top ups.
Much the same with this idea. Once you introduce legislation that allows for residential training of unemployed people or those with disabilities along side legislation that permits compulsion to attend work programmes, it will be too late to challenge it. It will be too late when we realise that these training courses aren't really fulfilling the need for training but some other cheap labour that is tax payer funded, or that some other private enterprise is exploiting cheap labour rather than training, or that disabled people are being rounded up and "lost" in institutions.
Frankly if politicians told us how it is, not what they want us to think, they wouldn't last five minutes let alone five years.
Like the author says, watch very closely.