In my 10 years in the courts I saw shedloads of criminals pass through who were on sickness benefits.It is simply never possible to judge what percentage of these were genuine by simply looking at them but I suspect that the number would have been tiny. Work was clearly anathema to them but they were never too sick to commit offences.
2.7 million are now on sickness benefits and our feeble government has apparently 'realised' that this is draining £235 billion annually out of the economy. The knock on social effects are appalling with countless children being brought up into an anti-work, give-it-to-me culture.
Were the non genuine to have been seeking work, could the government have possibly justified allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the country 'to do the jobs our people will not do' thus consolidating the problem?
Is this not just 'sabre rattling' from Labour? Don't they actually want ever more be people to be dependent?
Will 'tough' rules now be enacted which will - as is customary - fail to address the problem?
Will those lefties implementing the plans not do the usual trick of twisting the rules so that some genuine people may be attacked so as to create bad publicity?
THIS SITUATION IS AN INSULT TO THE GENUINE who will now be quaking in their boots wondering if they will be unjustly targeted. Horrendous!
If Labour are genuine, why did they not let Frank Field do the job he wanted to tackle 11 years ago?
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