This is also compatible, of course, with outright and uncompromising opposition to specific
kinds of conditionality (such as «workfare»).
I would defend the principle
of conditionality for two reasons (I also do think having a job is an important source of power, and not just because of the income it brings).
Much
discussion of conditionality assumes that «contribution» — what we do to reciprocate — is the same as «work» which, in turn, is the same as «employment».
Perhaps most worrying of all, Labour has not disavowed the work of Liam Byrne (and indeed Iain Duncan Smith) that appears to pave the way for the
introduction of conditionality from the Department for Work & Pensions and access via benefit cards, as in Australia.
Goodman keeps us guessing, allowing glimpses of the possibly kind man that Howard used to be before all of this happened but even shading those in a
sense of conditionality.
Marc Roberts, my favorite climate cartoonist (and perhaps the only one), has a biting riff out on the conclusion of the climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, which reached agreement early this morning on an outline for further actions, but with
heaps of conditionality and scant signs of hard commitments.
In their announcements, the ECB, the IMF, and the EFSF were adamant that they will continue operating on the basis of the old, pre-election
understanding of conditionality.