Possible Clues:

• 'Register, for job-seeker's allowance, say (4,2)'
• Register for job-seeker's allowance
• Nominally commit oneself to work?
• Commit
• Start the day's broadcasting
• Government's wrong about working — you're not, if you have to do this
• Function, it's said, by side to claim benefit
• Enroll
• Begin a broadcast day
• Join the club to get drunk on gins