How do we stop Liz Kendall talking rubbish about benefits and the people who rely on them, and get the facts of the UK’s current benefit bill out to the public.
Only this week, she was on TV spouting some nonsense about disabled people being desperate to work, to improve their standard of living. She was really only demonstrating that those who can work, do – meaning those who rely on benefits really need them. Props to Saul Staniforth for correcting the record:
The simple fact is that while there is some fraud in the system (none of it in disability benefits, where the government is simply attacking the most vulnerable people who will offer the least resistance), most people on benefits are there for very good reasons.
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She is yet another government minister who simply doesn’t understand her brief.
If she really wants to get people off-benefit, she needs to understand the reasons they need it in the first place.
She needs to work with the Department of Health and Social Care to tackle failings in the health service that create long-term illnesses and fail to support people with disabilities.
She needs to demand better working conditions from employers, so employees’ health does not suffer due to having to work too many hours, or to uncertainty about the future, or any number of other factors that could be mitigated if only the government stood up to the greedy fatcats who exploit those of us who can’t demand better conditions from a position of power.
She needs to stand up for the people who elected her.
Sadly, it seems she’ll never do it because – unlike the disabled people she is persecuting – she doesn’t have a backbone.
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How do we stop Liz Kendall talking rubbish about benefits?
How do we stop Liz Kendall talking rubbish about benefits and the people who rely on them, and get the facts of the UK’s current benefit bill out to the public.
Only this week, she was on TV spouting some nonsense about disabled people being desperate to work, to improve their standard of living. She was really only demonstrating that those who can work, do – meaning those who rely on benefits really need them. Props to Saul Staniforth for correcting the record:
The simple fact is that while there is some fraud in the system (none of it in disability benefits, where the government is simply attacking the most vulnerable people who will offer the least resistance), most people on benefits are there for very good reasons.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
She is yet another government minister who simply doesn’t understand her brief.
If she really wants to get people off-benefit, she needs to understand the reasons they need it in the first place.
She needs to work with the Department of Health and Social Care to tackle failings in the health service that create long-term illnesses and fail to support people with disabilities.
She needs to demand better working conditions from employers, so employees’ health does not suffer due to having to work too many hours, or to uncertainty about the future, or any number of other factors that could be mitigated if only the government stood up to the greedy fatcats who exploit those of us who can’t demand better conditions from a position of power.
She needs to stand up for the people who elected her.
Sadly, it seems she’ll never do it because – unlike the disabled people she is persecuting – she doesn’t have a backbone.
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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
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