Minister vows ‘life on sickness benefits to end’ as Labour looks to prevent rebellion

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1. Ok .. sure .. sounds great right? Unless of course you are sick with a debilitating lifelong condition… what about those folks huh?

2. Here’s the thing.
   I agree that *some* of the people living on disability and sickness benefits actually are capable of working given the right job or accommodations.

   But even if they tried to get jobs most of them wouldn’t be successful because employers routinely discriminate against the disabled because they’re extra hassle: they need changes made to the office or special chairs or can only work a set amount of hours and it’s below a normal employee and all that jazz.

   And so they instead live off disability benefits because it’s the only option to them that’s actually open.

   The government is trying to close that option to more people, but aren’t doing anything to make the alternatives actually viable. The amount of jobs open to people with major disabilities aren’t increasing, employers aren’t being given incentives or rebates or anything to take these people on and offset the additional work accommodating them means.

   So all that’s going to come out of it is the significant majority of people who will now fall within the category of having additional needs, but not to the point of being **completely** unable to work, will just be unemployed with no support, cause employers still won’t touch them.

3. Life on sickness benefits will end – literally; austerity under Cameron/Osbourne killed over 300,000 and now Vichy Labour will continue the social genocide

4. TAX THE F KING RICH

5. “Re-assessment is going to part of the announcement of conditions because we do not believe every time someone is signed off sick that it is a permanent condition that lasts forever”

   Re-assessments already happen.

6. Labour are done, and they know it. They completely lied on everything to get into position and just shit on everyone. Would not be surprised if we don’t see them for another 13 years after wef puppet starmer is exposed.

7. >the number of people in England and Wales claiming either sickness or disability benefit has soared from 2.8 million to about 4.0 million since 2019

   Is that the effect of covid, the effect of covid vaccines, or the effect of the lockdown?

8. They need money to send your kids to die in a ditch in ukraine, and when they get their legs blown off they can then cancel their sick benefits😂

9. Listen to this weeks New Statesmen podcast. They explain all the problems, figures on disability, costs etc. it’s very interesting and really opened my eyes.

10. Yeah, if you can get the NHS to actually treat me, I’d much prefer that.

11. Hey young person! Do you want to come and be ruthlessly exploited for your labour by an uncaring rich elite for decades?

    NO?

    How dare you not want to pull your weight and chip in this brilliant system where global companies offshore their profits and pay 0% tax rates after taking in BILLIONS in taxable revenue.

    It is disgraceful of you to not want to work for another 50+ years living paycheque to paycheque never quite able to pay for all the things you need, let alone desire, while the shareholders, directors and senior partners take home absurd dividends.

    You’re just lazy.

12. Uniparty politics strike again.

13. Just a reminder that the triple lock costs the country £10-11bn a year, for a demographic of people where 75% of them own their homes *outright* and get free public transport. None of this is means tested – it’s a divine right.

    We’re spending £5.5bn a year on migrant hotels whilst young people are told they have to work for peanuts, to have no other existence than to survive and they better be fucking happy about it.

    And instead of tackling other areas to make “savings” they attack the most vulnerable in society. The job market is fucked for everyone, even more so for disabled people. What do our Lord and saviour Labour Party expect these people to do when they are no longer supported?

    This Labour government is a disgrace and anyone who claims they are not a continuation of the tories are disillusioned beyond saving.

14. Minister can “Get Fucked” is my response.

    And I mean that literally.

    Anyone agreeing with these plans that would give IDS a three-day boner should be required to go fuck themselves with a very large cactus inserted sideways at great speed.

    Then try to claim PIP over the resulting injuries and see just how fucking dehumanising the current process is. Never mind making it worse.

15. Very distant bit of family. All of them have played the system all their lives. 5 adults. Conditions like ‘vertigo’ ( that’s a good one to use). Disgusting frankly.

    The Fraser Nelson documentary on Ch4 is jawdropping about the level of fraud.

    Drop the whole thing to the level of jobseekers’ allowance ( half that of sickness benefit).

    One Guardian commenter called being healthy ‘health privilege’. God help us.

16. I’m terminally ill with cancer and have been in chemo since Jan 2018. My condition isn’t getting better, it’ll only get worse.

    I had a well paid job before my diagnosis and I’d love nothing more than to go back to work but unless they’re able to cure me, what can I do? Now I have the stress of worrying they’ll cut the benefits I currently claim.

17. Pat McFadden has done literally nothing else his entire life but leech very generous salaries out of taxpayers for being nothing more than the ghost at the feast who’s also somehow a rabid cunt who never shuts up.

    How much money do you reckon the country could save by throwing him off Beachy Head?

18. What a dumb statement. Let’s get those with motor neurone disease or people in vegetative States back to work!

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