Jake Adey (right) with mother Lee Adey [Image: Slough Observer/Twitter.]

The test follows biopsychosocial theory – or at least the “psycho” part of it. It assumes that illness is all in the mind.

People who suffer from mental health problems – for example, after traumatic experiences such as that suffered by Mr Adey – are told there’s nothing wrong with them and they should get back to work.

If they try to comply, it is likely the long-term effect on them could be far worse, but the DWP isn’t interested in that. The Department follows the interests of its Tory paymasters – and that’s about saving money, not helping people.

It’s reminiscent of the treatment of shell-shocked soldiers during World War One.

Instead of dealing compassionately with the victims of that war’s barbarity, officers had them strapped to the wheels of field artillery while those guns were being fired – as punishment for cowardice.

That was more than 100 years ago.

What is the Tory government’s excuse for its modern-day barbarity?

The family of a man with mental health issues says he is being forced back into work by a Government department – which has gone against the opinion of his own doctor.

Jake Adey, 22, of Lynch Hill Lane, Slough, was diagnosed last year with anxiety and depression by the doctor he has had since he was baby, and is receiving medication. However, a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) assessment recently claimed there was ‘nothing wrong with him’.

Mr Adey was threatened with a knife last year, leading to extreme anxiety and difficulty coping in everyday life. He has only been signed off work for around six months.

Source: Man who ‘can’t leave house alone’ forced back to work by DWP

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But this woman’s account is that they simply threw her out.

We don’t even know if they contacted StreetLink, the organisation mentioned in an article on This Site.

Perhaps they felt no need – they certainly mentioned enough others. But where were they all?

Police forced a homeless woman to go out into the cold after moving her on from the warm car park corridor she was sleeping in.

As temperatures dropped to minus 11 in parts of Britain, LBC went out with homeless charity Nightwatch last night.

And they were most concerned about one rough sleeper, a middle-aged homeless woman called Jo.

Speaking to LBC’s reporter Rachael Venables, Jo said: “I was in the corridor of Q car park and three police officers kicked me out.

“They told me that people pay a lot of money to live in those flats and they don’t really want people dossing in the corridor.

“All I said to them is it’s freezing out there. I just got up and left. It seems like whenever I find places like that, I get kicked out. It’s too cold at the moment.”

Jo told Rachael that she feels finding somewhere warm to sleep is a matter of life and death this week.

Source: Police Kicked Homeless Woman Out Of Warm Corridor And Into The Cold | LBC

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It has been one week since I was told I would have to go through Universal Credit (UC) to claim Statutory Sick Pay for my fractured ankle. This is due to being a ‘low earner’ from my part-time job I have whilst funding my post-graduate studies. I have never had any dealings with the welfare system but with my interest in politics, particularly working practices, I decided to blog my experience to expose the unfair and inhumane process of UC.

I was completely unaware of what I was walking into with this process. I would also reinforce the rhetoric heard in the left-leaning media about the lengthy and potentially problematic online application. The first surprise is that UC is not an individual claim; it is based on household income. This in itself has Tory ideology written all over it. Even if you live with a partner or family this system assumes people living with you would be able to help you out financially. In some people’s situations that goes without saying, where support and temporary financial help will be given, but I’d argue that it is not consistent across all walks of life. I had to discuss this with my partner and we had to agree to go on this journey together; both never been ‘through the system’ before.

I am taking responsibility for the completion of both applications but I have been pulling out what is left of my hair doing it. The first thing I have noticed is the set up and language used on the UC application and website. It is obsessed with referring to ‘finding work’ or ‘finding more work’ and ‘making work pay’. Now, as a student who studies, at great length, employment practices and the contemporary labour market I’d recommend The Conservatives make ‘work pay’ by legislating against precarious work practices and reinstate collective bargaining with useful relations with trade unions; but then again what do I know? The language used on the website is really patronising and belittling to grown adults by referring to meetings with ‘work coaches’ and of course sanctioning people who cannot make appointments. You have a to do list which is streams of tabs you have to click on and insert very personal data and other information requested.

Read the rest: Universal Credit journey so far…. – #LeftyInABusinessSchool

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Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said it was ethically questionable to prioritise cash savings over patient care [Image: Sam Friedrich for the Guardian/Twitter].

This is not only “ethically questionable”, as Royal College of GPs chair Helen Stokes-Lampard has claimed – it is potentially homicidal.

We can all see why it is being done – to save a bit of filthy lucre so the Tories can trump up another tax cut for the filthy rich, and to create further unrest about the state of the NHS by faking a claim that there isn’t enough money in the UK to provide adequate care for everyone.

Let us be perfectly clear:

There is plenty of money in the UK to provide the best health service in the world.

The problem with the NHS is a greedy Conservative government that is trying to drain all the money in the sixth-strongest economy in the world upwards to the richest people in it.

It is outrageous that the Tories are trying to force GPs to make these decisions.

GPs are being offered cash payments not to refer patients to hospital, in a move which leading family doctors have criticised as ethically questionable and a risk to health.

NHS bodies in four parts of England are using schemes under which GP practices are given up to half of the money saved by sending fewer patients to hospital for tests and treatment.

The disclosure by the GP website Pulse about the controversial “profit share” initiatives operated by the four NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) has triggered a row.

Critics said the schemes were the latest example of NHS bodies increasingly resorting to the rationing of care to help them operate within their budgets.

Source: GPs offered cash to refer fewer people to hospital | Society | The Guardian

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Let’s hope Salford City’s example encourages others – not just football clubs – to do likewise when they get the opportunity.

Salford City FC just showed everyone how football can be a force for good – at least, when a match is called off and there’s no actual competition being played.

The National League team had over 150 pies, vats of soup and some cheesecakes left over when its game against Tamworth was postponed.

Rather than stuff their faces as might have been tempting, Salfor’ds joint managers Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley headed to a homeless shelter to donate the food.

Source: Salford City’s match was called off, so they donated all the food to the homeless | indy100

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GP surgeries are no longer the part of the NHS that the public are most satisfied with [Image: Anthony Devlin/PA/Twitter].

Mr Hunt won a humanitarian award for his work on the NHS just last weekend – although I understand that he was responsible for arranging the awards ceremony, so the legitimacy of that award is doubly questionable.

Public satisfaction with GP services has fallen to the lowest level in 30 years and dissatisfaction with the NHS overall has reached its highest level for a decade, according to authoritative polling.

Voters are increasingly concerned about staff shortages in the NHS, long waits to receive care and the amount of money given to health services. The research findings are from the latest British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey into people’s opinions about the NHS, collected by the National Centre for Social Research.

Only 65% of the representative sample of 3,004 people in England, Scotland and Wales questioned last autumn were satisfied with GP services, the lowest percentage since records began in 1983. That is sharply down on the 80% satisfaction rating seen as recently as 2009. Satisfaction fell by 7% between 2016 and 2017 alone in what experts said reflected public frustration at the increasing difficulty in getting a timely GP appointment.

Source: Satisfaction with GPs at lowest level for 30 years, survey finds | Society | The Guardian

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Weren’t we told businesses would be climbing over each other to relocate into the United Kingdom?

Why did people give any credence to these bare-faced liars?

Credit Suisse plans to move about 250 banker jobs out of London under its first phase of Brexit planning, according to reports.

Employees in areas such as trading and mergers and acquisitions were likely to be relocated to Frankfurt or Madrid, Bloomberg reported.

The Swiss bank employs about 5,500 staff in London.

Source: Brexit prompts Credit Suisse to move jobs

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Brandon Lewis in his office [Image from Twitter].

A Conservative Party spokesperson told the Skwawkbox:

We will not be using paid Twitter activists. Brandon’s message to members referred to paid campaign managers – part of their remit is social media, for example setting up local campaign Facebook pages,  along with all the other responsibilities that come with being a campaign manager, organising volunteers, campaign days etc .

That does seem strange. The Torygraph seemed very clear about the matter in its report, as covered by This Site here.

It does occur that perhaps someone alerted Mr Lewis to the drawbacks of the alleged scheme, as pointed out by Yr Obdt Srvt.

Or perhaps Mr Lewis was sick of being mocked by left-wing social media users:

SUCCESSFUL first day undercover in Brandon’s Tory Twitter army!!

It was I who drafted those beyond-stupid tweets from Johnson, Fox and Rees-Mogg supposedly attacking Corbyn but so obviously boomeranging back on Johnson, Fox and Rees-Mogg.
These guys have NO idea!!

— Tom London (@TomLondon6) February 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/WilliamPMack/status/968121981617999872

Either way, we’ll have to keep our eyes open for possible paid Tory Twitter users.

Just because a Conservative makes a statement, that doesn’t mean it is true. We have speech after Parliamentary speech to demonstrate that.

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He was snapped throwing snowballs from his office balcony this afternoon (February 27).

Jeremy Corbyn is having a snowball fight on his office balcony. pic.twitter.com/XrOCdDTknC

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) February 27, 2018

It was too good an opportunity for satirists to miss; they took the opportunity to speculate on where Mr Corbyn might have been aiming.

Jeremy Corbyn derailing Gove’s plans for a hard Brexit like… pic.twitter.com/rmbaeAyNk3

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) February 27, 2018

But some also pointed out that the cold weather is due to a phenomenon known as “the beast from the east” – a sore point considering recent (groundless) allegations about Mr Corbyn:

https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/968524745418342400

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