Don't dare to be disabled or sick in this rotten country. This government is even worse than the last one, and that's putting it mildly. Their latest wheeze is to time limit the contribution based WRAG (Work Related Activity Group) of the ESA (Employment & Support Allowance) to 12 months retrospectively, so that IF this change is made law it will come in to force in April 2012 and those unfortunate enough to be in this group will have their money cut immediately, so they won't be able to pay rent, pay for food, or medicine and well, make your own mind up about where that's going to lead. But the Department for Work & Pensions are starting to send letters to those affected NOW, why? They are obviously all of one mind that this nasty government will get its way in the House of Lords when the bill is debated, and you know why? Because they have shifted the reading of the bill from the main floor of the house, where they know they'd be defeated and put it instead into a side room where there are not enough places for a decent enough hearing and therefore not too many objections - nice eh? Bet these bully boy millionaires are all congratulating themselves on how they are getting their own way so easily, but then it's easy to do when you circumvent democracy isn't it.
This group is meant to be for people who could work given the right support, but in fact people with terminal illnesses, people from hospices and those really too disabled to work are being put into this group because the company being paid by the government to find people fit for work is happily doing this even where people are way too ill or disabled to work. It stinks and everybody just lets it happen but a word of warning, disability doesn't care who it strikes next. Keep baying for all the benefits to be stopped and you may very well end up being on the receiving end of this government's nastiness towards those unable to fend for themselves. Even jobcentres are wholly disgusted at the people they are seeing for work related interviews (a condition of being in this group) saying people from hospices and those too ill or disabled to work, they say they have never seen these people before and they are shocked. This government is failing those who need this care at the very time they need it. But why should they care? They don't have to worry about paying bills, or not knowing where their next meal is coming from.
I am amazed that instead of blocking this nastiness by this wholly abhorrent government, people are actively encouraging it and in some cases even pre-empting it. Where has the compassion and the caring gone? stifled that's where. It is now ok to abuse the disabled, mock them, throw stones and verbally have a go because people know they can do it and get away with it. Try writing to your MP but because they are so blinded with being in power they are not even remotely interested in helping. I've written to mine three times now, a conservative member for my area, and surprise, surprise - nothing.
While we are busy giving our money away to other countries and worrying about their welfare, we are taking it away from our own people. Those who have jobs and their health seem to be thinking they are better than their disabled countrymen, but like I said earlier disability doesn't care who it picks and chooses. Seems we all have to suffer for those 3% who play the system and who really are the scroungers but we are always told we are all the same, yet what about those who have paid into the system when they could work? Why are they having money stopped arbitrarily? If you haven't paid in to the system you cannot have any benefits paid – end of! But no, we take in everyone from anywhere and give them money, no wonder we have to start taking it off the disabled, as they can't afford to keep paying out to keep the world.
It is downright disgusting and because not too many people know what's going on unless they have a family member with a disability, they're being kept in the dark by this rotten excuse for a government. Seems to me it is wholly the fault of the disabled of Britain who has caused the dire financial state we are in, not the bankers. No, if it were the bankers they'd be penalised surely?
What an utter disgrace this government is. In a few years time when the scale of their nastiness becomes apparent when the disabled are out on the street, or worse they will have some serious questions to answer but in all probability we will be propping up another useless excuse for a government, and by then it will be too late.
This party has gained the nickname the nasty party and boy are they ever showing their true colours now. They forget that the sick and disabled in Britain have a vote, we will use it at the next election, if we still have homes, and are still here. Seems to me we won't be if this government keeps on the way it is.
Nasty by name???
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