After This Blog joked about it, Stephen Crabb has said people with Parkinson’s can work. Satire really is dead.
It’s true.
The day Stephen Crabb was appointed Work and Pensions secretary, This Blog published a piece highlighting his belief that homosexuality is a disease and can be cured.
I went on to suggest: “Perhaps he thinks serious illnesses and disabilities like cancer, Parkinson’s disease and amputated limbs can also be cured. Let’s face it, everyone carrying out Work Capability Assessments seems to have that belief, so he wouldn’t be alone.”
I thought I was being satirical!
As it turns out, I wasn’t. He really does believe that people with Parkinson’s can work. Oh, and brain tumours, which may be a form of cancer – along with multiple other conditions, so let’s not rule out work for the limbless either.
Tom Pride, over on Pride’s Purge, has said many times that satire died when the Conservative Government came to office, and he’s right.
It is impossible to make them look more ridiculous than they already are.
Here’s the Independent, going out with a bang:
People with brain tumours, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease and a number of other conditions are “able to work”, new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb has said.
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Hitler cured them’DIDN’T HE.
another Tory dickhead.
I’m tempted to ask him for a job. One that I could do in my own time, either in bed or at the kitchen table [I’m mostly at one or the other!], which would earn me a ‘take home’ amount of at least £50k, which would cover Warren’s care costs plus general living expenses of course.
Anyone got any ideas what I could do?
I have two close friends who both have Parkinson’s. One worked up until retirement and the other has worked full time since her diagnosis 9 years ago. Some people definitely can work with this horrible illness.
You disappoint me. Will you be happy when your information is used to force people with it, who can’t work, onto JSA? My uncle had Parkinson’s so I know just how debilitating – and humiliating – the condition can be.
Awful as this condition is there are people who can work and do want to. There are also others too ill to do so. They should get benefits obviously. I was just trying to say it is not a blanket decision but case by case one.
If people with the condition are able to work, they would either be working or be on JSA and Mr Crabb would not be discussing them. His words related only to people on ESA. Please try to bear this in mind.
And we have that Mr Hunt at Health who believes in homoeopathy.
Exit the evil, enter the bufoon.
Why are we surprised?
the whole tory party must be on magic mushrooms they have all lost the plot bigtime
Let me guess? this pond life is another one who beLIEves in torturing sick and disabled!!
He sounds like a typical choice for this government and is, no doubt a fully (un)qualified medical practitioner!
round two
People with brain tumours, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease and a number of other conditions are “able to work”, new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb has said.” <<<< he’s so thick it's a shame!!! and these are the people who dictate to others of what they can do.
I know what it's like to care for someone with Parkinson’s and them be able to work, would like to see Crabb work with one of these illnesses.
Are you saying you knew someone with Parkinson’s who WAS able to work?
There is no way on God’s green earth I would ever defend a Tory, much less one of those who works at, or worse still heads up, the Department of Wizened Pillocks, BUT my Father had Parkinson’s and yes, he worked with it for about 3 years. However, it is a progressive disease, and also doesn’t affect everyone in the exact same way, so someone else who has only had it six months, might well have it so advanced that early that they cannot work, particularly if they need to keep their hands/legs steady in order to do so. In my Father’s case, when he concentrated really hard, he was able to control the tremors, they were worse when he was in a relaxed state.
Certainly some people with Parkinson’s can work until it becomes to severe. I had a relative who had the condition and worked for a few years before he succumbed to it. I also worked somewhere and the Chief Accountant developed motor neurone disease. He worked for quite an extended period like that. He finally had to stop when people couldn’t understand him anymore. The point is that there is no cut and dried answer.
No, but your comment shows you are happy to lay the genuinely-incapacitated open to abuse. NHS experts say a person can’t work, then Stephen Crabb demands that they can. Who’s right? I’ll give you a clue: It’s not the politician.
Same party that want to end the concept of retirement for the poor, and the concept of medical treatment by trained medic, and the abolition of social housing. Is anyone who knew about Crabb before his elevation to being Osborne’s fag at all surprised? What is surprising is that the people of West Wales have continued to vote for him.
And what was that our Dave said about “getting a decent suit and a shave”???
People with these kinds of illnesses definitely can work – I have MS and am looking for work because I WANT to, (whether I will find a job is an entirely different matter, equal opportunities my backside) but the decision on if an individual is capable of and wants to work should always be left to the individual and the doctors/teams supporting them.
No, look, you’re really missing the point by a country mile. It is this:
If these people could work, then they would not be on ESA in the first place!
Did you forget we were discussing ESA claimants?
Yes I am aware we’re discussing ESA claimants, I’M ONE OF THEM.
Then, by definition, you are not fit for work. If you were, you would be claiming JSA. Considering the fact that your condition is progressive, when does your doctor expect you to be fit for work, if it’s already bad enough to stop you from working now?
Or is there something you haven’t told us?
Andrea – People who have these assessments do so because they are usually limited in doing any kind of work, lets say you are a cancer victim still receiving treatment would you still want that person to be taken off their support to go find work instead??? you have missed the point about why disability campaigners are fighting for their rights not to be discriminated, especially by this uncaring government who have cheek calling themselves the compassionate conservatives?
“but the decision on if an individual is capable of and wants to work should always be left to the individual and the doctors/teams supporting them.”
I do think these cuts are disgraceful because it’s Employment and SUPPORT allowance and they are removing the element of support. I never said otherwise. I’m simply pointing out that not everyone in WRAG is completely incapable of/doesn’t want to work.
My condition is progressive yes, but I couldn’t tell you how long it would be before I got to a stage that I couldn’t work any more. My doctor told me to only go for something part time so as to not overtax myself which I agreed with, but sitting in the house on my own day in day out is driving me more mental than the MS!
At least if I had a job I would have contact with other people and have something to do, while feeling that I haven’t lost all my independence and worth at 31.
So he believes he can not only cure homosexuality but also the sick, is he Jesus, he’s got the beard so he must be!