Yeah, that’ll help! 🙄
People with depression or anxiety could lose sickness benefits, says UK minister
Submitted 7 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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NickwithaC@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you want daily violent attacks like we have here in America, do just that.
The rich won’t mind. It doesn’t affect them.
SattaRIP@kbin.social 7 months ago
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!" vibrs right there.
Spendrill@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Tory MPs could lose their seats on the gravy train says hapless, feckless prole. I imagine I am more right than he is.
JohnSmith@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I give the Tories this: they leave nobody under false impressions about what they stand for. Keep the ground rent racket going, homelessness must be a crime, being sick is no reason to skip work, mental health issues are just life’s normal ups and downs, ad infinitum. Quite charming, aren’t they.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 7 months ago
The darkly funny thing about this, is that he's saying this because there's an election coming up.
Clearly thinsk this'll be a vote winner with their electorate.
MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s a race to the bottom and the Nasty Party is right out in front.
FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
They know that suppressing disability benefits will cause excess death, they just don’t care.
It doesn’t matter to them if their decisions drive vulnerable people to destitution or even suicide, so long as they can feed a few extra bodies into the gears to pump their numbers.
People with mental health conditions and other disabilities need support that the health and social care services can’t provide because the government have spent over a decade cutting them.
Instead we get thinly veiled eugenics, a cynical revival of social Darwinism.
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
2008 and the start of austerity was now close to 16 years ago. It went out of fashion everywhere else but we bloody stuck with it 💪🇬🇧
Cagi@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This goes back to Thatcher’s implementation of Reaganomics. Cut services sand taxes, turn the economy into the lawless wild west, blame government for the resulting shitty life for workers as justification to further cut services asnd taxes. 2008 was just feul for the fire.
Cagi@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Disabled people dying means a smaller tax burden. That boon can be turned into corporate subsidies or tax cuts.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I mean driving people to an early grave is one way of doing that.
LinyosT@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Ah yes. Let’s make people’s already troubled lives worse.
That’ll surely solve problems and not create more.
MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Typical Tory strategy straight from their pander-to-the-right-wing-playbook.