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Is he decent for slicing up the NHS? Is he decent for taking benefits away from the desperate people that need them?
This is emotive hogwash and claptrap to boot.
Regards welfare, spending has to be put on a sustainable footing. Britain is home to 1 per cent of the world’s population, generates 4 per cent of the world’s economy,; and yet pays out 7 per cent of all the welfare spending.
What about the introduction of a new National Living wage ? And the support for working people with lower taxes, with people being able to earn £11,000 (From next year) before they have to pay tax ?
I could go on and on and probably bore all and sundry !
We simply HAVE to move from a low wage, high tax, high welfare economy to a higher wage, lower tax and a lower welfare society.At the end of the day a strong economy is needed in Britain's interests and we cannot progress as a country if the economy is weak.
What would your solution be for people that can't work, because of a genuine physical or mental disability, but have been declared fit to? Just let them die (like the thousands that already have)?
Where is your evidence that genuine physically and mentally disabled people incapable of work are being declared fit to work?
There may be the odd cock-up, but there is no en-masse round up of these people to force them into labour.
The purpose of welfare reform is to get the scroungers and benefit cheats dealt with. The genuinely needy cases will continue to receive benefits.
You are just scaremongering.
Ermm, have you not been reading the news at all mate?
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Hardly 'the odd case here and there'.
Headline says Thousands.... First line says 90 per month.
Each case has been investigated thoroughly and the causal link to death was the fact that they were forced to go to work which killed them was it? Very unlikely.
I don't work... I have Parkinson's disease... I don't claim benefits either.
However if I did and I was assessed for work, there is no way I would allow the assessor to come to a conclusion I was fit for work.
Assessments can be subjective, but GENUINE cases where people are unable to work physically or mentally are not being forced into labour.
Sorry, Hoof...
"More than a third of people with degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis are having their benefits slashed because the Department for Work and Pensions deems they will recover enough to look for work.
Thousands of those with diseases that only worsen with time - and who have become too ill to work - are being denied full Employment Support Allowance. Instead they are assessed as suitable for work-related activity which is designed for people likely to recover to the point where they can seek employment.
People in The Work-Related Activity Group receive less money and the threat of sanctions if they do not attend regular sessions. Many also have this benefit removed after a year as an added “incentive” to find employment.
Steve Ford, Chief Executive at Parkinson’s UK, said: “These latest figures are an utter disgrace and serve to underline just how little the Government cares for those with progressive conditions like Parkinson’s. To set up a system which tells people who’ve had to give up work because of a debilitating, progressive condition that they’ll recover, is humiliating and nothing short of a farce."
The Independent
I am confident that Cameron et al have not designed these assessments to deliberate fail genuine disability cases such as MS and Parkinsons.
They must not have engaged properly with the medical profession, as both these diseases are degenerative without a known cure - you do not recover.
The government need lobbying on this and any other conditions that are being wrongly assessed.
As I said earlier, it is the intention to catch out the workshy and the cheats, not the genuinely disabled.