Rachel Reeves’s disability benefits threat has divided the nation – judging by This Writer’s X feed after I wrote about it.
The Chancellor announced during her budget speech that she was changing the descriptors in the dreaded Work Capability Assessment that define whether a person with long-term illnesses or disabilities will receive benefits – in order to make it harder.
The primary intention is to save money, but she portrayed it as a measure to attack benefit fraud.
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While benefit fraud does exist, the proportion of it relating to sickness or disability is tiny. It is very hard to fake physical and/or mental ill-health when medical evidence is required to substantiate it – and most doctors can’t be bribed.
But people with long-term physical illnesses are likely to die of their conditions very fast if they are cut off from their life-support systems – including benefits. It’s faster with mental illnesses because they are prone to suicide.
We know this because it has been happening for more than a decade and the death toll has been catastrophic.
So it seems fair to conclude – until we have evidence that she is an imbecile – that Rachel Reeves knows all of the above and wants to create the conditions in which thousands of people will die for no justifiable reason but with no provable connection to the government (officials have always got away with it when they denied causality in the past).
When I posted about it on X, Reeves had not yet announced that she would be increasing investigations into tax avoidance and evasion. This is a much better use of personnel and funding as the amount of money lost to it is estimated to be more than £100 billion per year.
(It costs more to investigate sickness and disability benefit fraud than is ever reclaimed from people who are found to be fraudsters.)
And many people know this, which is probably why my post prompted this reaction:
Why indeed?
Is there a blackout on discussion of it, in case someone blurts out the facts listed above on a media platform with an audience of millions, rather than hundreds?
Well, it’s being discussed anyway – but with divisive results because some people have been… I believe the phrase is “sipping the Kool-Aid”.
So first I read these…
But this also happened:
Divisive. Here’s more of the same:
And more:
So we’re at each other’s throats again.
And yet again, those of us who know the facts are having to have the same argument, all over again, with those of us who get our information from political liars.
Is that what Reeves wanted?
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Rachel Reeves’s disability benefits threat has divided the nation
Rachel Reeves’s disability benefits threat has divided the nation – judging by This Writer’s X feed after I wrote about it.
The Chancellor announced during her budget speech that she was changing the descriptors in the dreaded Work Capability Assessment that define whether a person with long-term illnesses or disabilities will receive benefits – in order to make it harder.
The primary intention is to save money, but she portrayed it as a measure to attack benefit fraud.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
While benefit fraud does exist, the proportion of it relating to sickness or disability is tiny. It is very hard to fake physical and/or mental ill-health when medical evidence is required to substantiate it – and most doctors can’t be bribed.
But people with long-term physical illnesses are likely to die of their conditions very fast if they are cut off from their life-support systems – including benefits. It’s faster with mental illnesses because they are prone to suicide.
We know this because it has been happening for more than a decade and the death toll has been catastrophic.
So it seems fair to conclude – until we have evidence that she is an imbecile – that Rachel Reeves knows all of the above and wants to create the conditions in which thousands of people will die for no justifiable reason but with no provable connection to the government (officials have always got away with it when they denied causality in the past).
When I posted about it on X, Reeves had not yet announced that she would be increasing investigations into tax avoidance and evasion. This is a much better use of personnel and funding as the amount of money lost to it is estimated to be more than £100 billion per year.
(It costs more to investigate sickness and disability benefit fraud than is ever reclaimed from people who are found to be fraudsters.)
And many people know this, which is probably why my post prompted this reaction:
Why indeed?
Is there a blackout on discussion of it, in case someone blurts out the facts listed above on a media platform with an audience of millions, rather than hundreds?
Well, it’s being discussed anyway – but with divisive results because some people have been… I believe the phrase is “sipping the Kool-Aid”.
So first I read these…
But this also happened:
Divisive. Here’s more of the same:
And more:
So we’re at each other’s throats again.
And yet again, those of us who know the facts are having to have the same argument, all over again, with those of us who get our information from political liars.
Is that what Reeves wanted?
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The Livingstone Presumption is available
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Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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