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Appalling. My son (25 yrs) who has ADHD is far too ill to work let alone leave the house or to even drive. He dreams about the day he is well enough to do both! The ministers should step in a parents shoes of a sick child with mental health issues and comment then!

Yes its shameful how the government and working class people see us..

Why do these politicians, when they are making speeches about welfare reforms, look and sound so aggressive. Do they really think that that it is acceptable to speak in that manner, to already vulnerable people.

are those stats even 100% reliable? I thought they were the best guess for the main qualifying illness when the assessors aren't exactly trained in each field and in many cases there's often multiple actual qualifying illnesses? 

Why get bogged down with facts when lies will do better for political theatrics!

Apparently their are only 16k work coaches at the DWP down from COVID level of 23k and they already have all on seeing the 1.6 million unemployed,so they have no chance of being able to handle a caseload of 3 million disabled.

Who care Whately and Tory

A healthy body encompasses far more than just exercise. If politicians really did care about ill health it would take stronger action on  junk food (massive increase in diabetes), alcohol (although I object to paying £5.20 for a pint in Exeter), smoking, recreational drugs (which causes considerable mental illhealth, especially cannabis which causes paranoia), gambling etc. But these industries (including crime) give donations to political parties and pay vast sums of tax.  Also, if politicians really want to decrease the numbers of children born with congenital conditions then they must emphasise the importance of vaccinations (I am the last generation who was affected by the Rubella vaccine), stamp out intermarriage and ensure that genetic counselling is more widely available (having gone to a school for the visually impaired in the 1980's we all had genetic counselling, and now that we have sequenced the human genome this will be much more accurate).  This won't go down well with this community but I do believe that adults should take responsibility when having children and adults should take responsibility for their health as adults - I have heard comments from the medical community that those who pay privately tend to take care of themselves more than those who rely on the NHS - free at the point of use.

I am surprised by Benefit and Work lack of coverage of the Conservative and Reform policy of requiring people to be UK citizens to get benefits. If implemented that would remove benefits from over a million claimants. 

According to the Conservative party conference segment by the Shadow Minster for Health and Social Care. The priority should be prevention. A healthy body a healthy mind. Exercise produces endorphins and makes people happier. Free Gym sessions for the unemployed and the disabled.

Yes surprisingly the Conservatives support free gym sessions for people on unemployment and disability benefits. 

Why are none of the mental health charities that take our money standing up for us? Why are they not unting and take the government and any other politician with these views to course for hate speech, fear mongering, discrimination etc etc.  It seems we have been abandoned by them and they are no different to the general public in their views and all they want is our donations for their organisations to run, corporate charities just there to take money.  

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/mp/helen-whately/expenses

She like most of the conservative front bench is an airhead

I am housebound without my car but I have only ever been eligible for low rate mobility DLA and now standard PIP mobility. I have always been under the impression that you can't get ERM for MH alone and that you must have some physical restrictions also. If that's true it blows their argument out the water.

Whately is dim and dishonest in equal measure. As such, she encapsulates the modern Tory party rather well.

Wanting to cut housing benefit, changing PIP to one off grants for equipment, the removal of benefits for mental health claimants, the 23 billion pounds in cuts - Labour plans of £5b seem tame in comparison to her demonisation, scapegoating and targeting of disabled people who apparently are all lying on the sofa, just getting sickness benefits through a gp sick note and 1 phone call without sending mountains of evidence to PIP for assessment and thinking that grants or vouchers can replace an independence payment that is for in and out of work 🤦🏼 it’s enough to make your blood boil

According to Helen Whately the reason people are having to pay high taxes is the vast number of lazy people claiming disablity benefits. Because they are easy to claim and give them £5,000 more a year than a full time job pays, and a new free BMW car every 3 years. While they laze around at home having goods delivered to their door, eating takeaways and smoking dope. So people choose to be on benefits and are rewarded for their lack of personal responsibility. Lord Mackinlay works so they can get off their backsides and work.

The whole segment on welfare at the Conservative conference was awful. And the audience in the hall asked to rate what the welfare system should prioritise most placed supporting ill and disabled people last. 

I imagine Helen Whately will simply take the opportunity to object to the fact that there are claimants who receive the higher rate mobility who don't use their mobility component for the motability scheme

They might as well start rounding us up and sending us off to camps. Disgraceful that we're being treated like this in 21st century Britain. The political landscape is shameful, all this constant picking on the most vulnerable people in society, will it ever end?