The DWP has given figures to Panorama showing that what is referred to as "our sicknote culture" costs the nation at least £16 billion annually.It is estimated that two thirds of the people drawing these benefits are 'fit to work'.
Both Major and Blair/Brown were happy to oversee the DOUBLING of people on sickness benefits in order to cynically conceal - no apologies for split infinitives - high unemployment figures.
So. What is to be done about it? When? By whom? And how do they propose to weed out the perverse from the genuine without laying unnecessary stress on the legitimate claimants?
[May I remind readers that we "have to" import immigrant labour to do the jobs our own
people will not do!]
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7399038.stm
