Its the continuation of that attack under Labour that has annoyed me the most, while you expect it from the Tories, and with an extended stay in power its just gotten worse. Labour should be doing a moratorium on old cases and settling rather than just letting DWP continue to play bad cop.
I am convinced that its motivated by the current and projected long term sick as much as anything as Labour are desperate to get the economy moving by doing anything but taxing the rich or starting the full reversal of Brexit.
And that number is still rising. I don’t doubt that the majority of those are genuine and have been failed by a lack of NHS funding to tackle the issue properly, and a continued refusal to do so. I also don’t doubt that long term disabled claimants have been pulled into this new purge by Labour because some of the newer long term sick are under the same pot of money now.
Its the continuation of that attack under Labour that has annoyed me the most, while you expect it from the Tories, and with an extended stay in power its just gotten worse. Labour should be doing a moratorium on old cases and settling rather than just letting DWP continue to play bad cop.
I am convinced that its motivated by the current and projected long term sick as much as anything as Labour are desperate to get the economy moving by doing anything but taxing the rich or starting the full reversal of Brexit.
Since Covid its about 850k people added to the long term sick from the last reliable source I checked: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/economic-update-inactivity-due-to-illness-reaches-record/
And that number is still rising. I don’t doubt that the majority of those are genuine and have been failed by a lack of NHS funding to tackle the issue properly, and a continued refusal to do so. I also don’t doubt that long term disabled claimants have been pulled into this new purge by Labour because some of the newer long term sick are under the same pot of money now.