Kendall doubles down on the lie that benefit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’
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While the evidence shows no fraud in disability benefits at all Liz Kendall doubles down on the lie that benefit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’. What arrogance! What ignorance!
She passed her lunatic comments in an ITV interview, after a report on a survey by the Department for Work and Pensions showed that 44 per cent of people claiming benefits for a mental health condition hoped to be able to work again in the future if their health improved.
Bizarrely, she moved straight from saying, “I think that there are many more people who want to work,” to “I have no doubt, as there always have been, there are people who shouldn’t be on those benefits who are taking the mickey and that is not good enough – we have to end that.”
Here’s the video clip:
“There are people who shouldn’t be on benefits who are taking the mickey”
Speaking to @AnushkaAsthana, Liz Kendall says there are too many people claiming benefits when they shouldn’t be
“That is not good enough – we have to end that,” she sayshttps://t.co/G9fLKcXdzr pic.twitter.com/NoBIH1nQVf
— ITVPolitics (@ITVNewsPolitics) February 6, 2025
Shades of Iain Duncan Smith – the former (Tory) Work and Pensions Secretary who insisted that benefit claimants should be forced back to work because they were scroungers and skivers – in the face of evidence proving the opposite. His rationale: “I believe I’m right.”
For clarity: if you ask a search engine for the amount of fraud in the UK’s disability benefit system, it will say, “Zero.”
Duncan Smith was wrong and so is Kendall. Nobody is “taking the mickey” and there is no reason to “reform” disability benefits in order to make it harder for people with genuine disabilities to claim them – as Kendall is planning to do.
With no evidence to support her claim – and in fact, with the evidence showing quite clearly that claimants want to get off disability benefits and back to work as soon as they can, we can only conclude that Kendall simply wants to hurt people who are powerless to stop her.
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It would appear that the belief that Starmer was a “Cuckoo in the Nest” is entirely justified, being more Right-Wing than the Tories.
Thankfully there are still many Left-Leaning members to oppose any dangerous measures that could be proposed.
She has very obviously not read your book.