Question Time

[Churchlawtonblue]

You sort of answered the question in your penultimate sentence, people living longer, therefore more people. Plus the question wasn't about disability benefits it was asking if he felt that Britain is lazy and has a sick note culture. Not everyone who has a sick note is on disability benefits.

Very true , but the living bit doesn't answer all the question does it, ie its not proportional.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

A lot of workplaces and their culture of management / middle management bullying twats makes people sick.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Very true , but the living bit doesn't answer all the question does it, ie its not proportional.

No but it was the only thing I could see. I'm not one for statistics and such. I just don't see that the majority of people in Britain are lazy and have a sick note culture but maybe I move in the wrong circles? :-)
Sunak is cushioned and maybe spoke without thinking (not that I like defending ANY politician of any party) I don't know. But if he did he needs to apologise to the hard working people of this country who are fighting to keep their heads above water. :-) JMHO

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I’d be amazed if he genuinely doesn’t - i think he just said it to by some time as he was catching up with the question

Is he that moronically stupid?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

If that is the case, then how do you explain why number of people on disability benefit has nearly doubled in the last 20years ? When we are all living longer and healthier lives?? Something doesn't stack up does it?

Sit down and have a little think.
Because we live longer we are more likely to end up with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s.
Indeed rates for those are rocketing.
These qualify you for attendance allowance. Not means tested. For life.
Attendance Allowance is a disability benefit.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

No but it was the only thing I could see. I'm not one for statistics and such. I just don't see that the majority of people in Britain are lazy and have a sick note culture but maybe I move in the wrong circles? :-)
Sunak is cushioned and maybe spoke without thinking (not that I like defending ANY politician of any party) I don't know. But if he did he needs to apologise to the hard working people of this country who are fighting to keep their heads above water. :-) JMHO

I'm no fan of Sunak , I think he's a dick, but something doesn't stack up.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Sit down and have a little think.
Because we live longer we are more likely to end up with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s.
Indeed rates for those are rocketing.
These qualify you for attendance allowance. Not means tested. For life.
Attendance Allowance is a disability benefit.

Thats a good point, but are you saying that in the last 20years we have had nearly 3million more people with dementia who now qualify for disability benefit? Seems a lot to me?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Sit down and have a little think.
Because we live longer we are more likely to end up with dementia and/or Alzheimer’s.
Indeed rates for those are rocketing.
These qualify you for attendance allowance. Not means tested. For life.
Attendance Allowance is a disability benefit.

To be fair, the rates for working-age people has also gone up significantly, and they're not likely to be getting dementia. The increase in working-age people on disability is largely driven (80%) by more people claiming for mental health and learning disability related reasons. They make up 44% of all claimants now, compared to 27% twenty years ago. That doesn't mean that people are more mentally ill now than they were back then (though it's a possibility), just that there's likely more awareness of it. It's worth mentioning that less than a third of people who report a long-term disability are actually in receipt of disability benefits. Certainly my mum spent most of her life eligible to claim them but refusing to do so because she didn't want the intrusion (and in reality, was probably too proud to do so).

One funny fact to go along with the 'everything they touch turns to shit' narrative the Tories have carved out for themselves is that they brought in PIP assessments with the aim of reducing disability benefits by 20%, and ended up increasing them from 9.4 billion to 14.7 billion. Great work. So all of that bullshit they forced disabled people to go through saved fuck all and increased costs by 50% in ten years.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Mbanda mbanda they drink it in Rwanda.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Is he that moronically stupid?

First I’ve heard of him last night, as a Tory he wasn’t the worst. Not saying a lot.