We can’t figure out if this is the most brilliant government program ever or just another waste of taxpayer guilders.
The Times UK has details on the world’s oddest dating service:
Unemployed Dutch women are being offered a €1,400 (£1,150) fashion and beauty makeover and free membership of a dating agency to get them off the dole by finding a solvent husband. Single jobseekers will be given a new hairstyle and outfit, and tips from a life coach on how to attract a new partner or a job.
They will also be given instruction in social and presentation skills and a place on the exclusive matchmaking service Mens & Relatie (People and Relationships), boosted by a professional photograph of their new image. Mens & Relatie claims a 75 per cent success rate in finding long-term partners for its clients.
The thinking behind the scheme, organised by three councils in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, is that finding love helps to get the unemployed off state benefits by improving confidence, ambition and motivation. Some local politicians, however, have criticised it as unethical and a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Friesland is the ancestral home of IHateTheMedia.com’s editor’s family (back before they emigrated to the United States legally back in the 1880s). It’s a land of hardworking farmers and stunning blonde women. We’re talking really stunning blonde women.
Our advice: Save the money on the makeovers, Holland. Spend it on more dykes.
Source: Times UK
