I find this absolutely terrifying. And we all know what this means - pushing disabled people into jobs that aren’t at all suitable, by stopping their disability payments. As for the claim they’re going to increase mental health services to get the mentally ill back into work, well just read my previous posts about what NHS therapy is like. It’s worse than useless, to the extent that my therapist refused to give me real therapy, saying there’s no point in my case, and me committing suicide seems like a reasonable plan. That’s NHS therapy for you! These things are never about helping the disabled, they’re always about the economy. While those in charge live like kings.

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    Vowing to “help” people on disability find jobs is a nice way of saying threaten their livelihood at the expense of their health. Wouldn’t expect any less from Starmer.

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      The “help” is threatening disabled people with death essentially and forcing them to be exploited - but when have the bureaucrats of death ever cared about such “trival” things, there is always a statistic that needs to look prettier.

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      The threat is meaningless if I am threatened to rely on others.

      Might as well threaten me to sell a spade. If I put myself out there to try to sell that spade and every person I talk to says “no thanks”, then you can’t call me lazy. Maybe people are just all set for spades and I’m just getting in their way!