The Tory government has finally found its press release about the new PIP consultation and slung it up on the web. But how can we trust the Tory PIP consultation when Mel Stride behaves like this?

Here are some details of the online consultation:

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride has been telling everybody there needs to be a “grown-up” discussion of Personal Independence Payment because the disability benefit has not been reviewed for 10 years:

Mrs Mike has a progressive condition and isn’t going to get better, so This Writer welcomes the possibility that she won’t have to undergo continual reassessment – although I doubt the sincerity of any Tory who suggests that people like her will be unmolested by government employees for the rest of her working-age life.

And I doubt Stride’s claim to want a “grown-up” conversation about this after the performance he gave in the House of Commons, responding to a question from one of his own party:

I doubt McParland’s sincerity as well; this is a general election year and I am not convinced that any Tory would give a damn about people with disabilities after 14 years of attacking them if their own political survival wasn’t involved.

But Stride’s response was ridiculous. Nobody suggested doing nothing. On the contrary, the suggestion was that more money should be invested to give the two million people needing mental health care the attention they deserve.

From Stride’s response, that is the opposite of what the consultation is intended to do – and, in fairness, the stated intent. The rise in mental illness is what has triggered this consultation, that is intended to find ways not to spend money – specifically by ruling these new mentally-ill claimants out of receiving any.

The best that can be said about this is that at least the Tories aren’t even trying very hard to hide the evil that they’re planning to do.

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