Todays political post

[Waldorf]

This is good news, but why wait until they are out of work for 2 years before they have to do something?

[vetran]

Can't think of anything worse

Than being made to feel useless and a scrounger if you are battling with mild mental illness.

The sheer quantity of new claimants over the last 15 years suggest there is something going wrong. The move of numbers from unemployed to sick is very suspicious.

It may well work, assuming they actually go through with it.

[Cyberman]

Than being made to feel useless and a scrounger if you are battling with mild mental illness.

The sheer quantity of new claimants over the last 15 years suggest there is something going wrong. The move of numbers from unemployed to sick is very suspicious.

It may well work, assuming they actually go through with it.

I wonder how many are mentally ill due to psychosis through cannabis usage. That was yet another great failure of the New Lie in their effective legalisation of this dangerous drug. Increases in claimant numbers was one reason why they reclassified a couple of months ago.

[ace00]

The sheer quantity of new claimants over the last 15 years suggest there is something going wrong. The move of numbers from unemployed to sick is very suspicious.

Many governments play this game, not just UK. Sick claimants don't count as unemployed, it's a gimme for the gov. Government survey suggested I believe 70% of UK sickness benefit claimants are dodgy. I think the Netherlands has like 5 million on sick!

[HairyArsedBloke]

Someone elsewhere pointed out that all these people moving from sickness to unemployment will be ‘useful’ to mask the underlying increase in unemployment that is due to occur over the same time.

[Platypus]

I wonder how many are mentally ill due to psychosis through cannabis usage.

So anyone on the sick is either a scrounger or a druggie. You show all the intellect of a Daily Mail reader.

Sheesh. I hope it never happens to you.

[TheBigYinJames]

So anyone on the sick is either a scrounger or a druggie. You show all the intellect of a Daily Mail reader.

I think the trouble is that for every x people who are on it legitimately, everyone always knows someone who is on it when they shouldn't be - for some vague leg or back problem. It's the wasters who stick in your mind and who spoil it for everybody else.

If you go to Morrisons in Glasgow, there are more disabled parking spaces than standard ones.

[Xenophon]

If you go to Morrisons in Glasgow, there are more disabled parking spaces than standard ones.

[Cyberman]

So anyone on the sick is either a scrounger or a druggie. You show all the intellect of a Daily Mail reader.

Sheesh. I hope it never happens to you.

So let's just allow everybody to scrounge. After all, MPs have their mouths in the trough, so why not everybody else. Didn't people vote for it when they elected New Lie ?

[EternalOptimist]

So anyone on the sick is either a scrounger or a druggie. You show all the intellect of a Daily Mail reader.

Sheesh. I hope it never happens to you.

There is another category, and in my opinion this category is the real problem.

They are on the dole for legitimate reasons, they are seriously trying and wanting a proper job, but while they are waiting they are seriously skint so they do everything they can to maximise their income, so they play the system. For every true scrounger there are probably 20 of these guys, they milk the system while they are in it, but they dont particularly want to be in it.

The system need to be tightened up, simplfied and streamlined.