IAIN Duncan Smith has revealed the Conservative/Liberals big idea to tackle unemployment.

Not content with Norman Tebbit’s decree of “get on yer bike”, the coalition states that people will lose their home if they refuse to move for work.

People would then be given social housing in the town/city they have been forced to move to.

For example, people would be forced to move into York to take a job and would then given be a council property ahead of those people already on the waiting list.

To say the coalition Government likes to talk so enthusiastically about family, communities and the “big society”, it seems strange they would formulate proposals that would dismantle family, community and social cohesion.

The way to tackle unemployment is by facilitating regeneration, job creation and attracting investment and business into an area.

I’m sure at the heart of this proposal is the expectation that people in the north-east are expected to pedal all the way to the south-east for work. This strategy will see towns and cities left to rot, just as cities north of Watford did in the 1980s.

Perhaps The Specials should re-release their 1980s track, Ghost Town.

Sean Eames, Acomb, York.