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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: roverstillidie91 on April 21, 2024, 11:34:45 am

Title: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: roverstillidie91 on April 21, 2024, 11:34:45 am
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-to-cite-britains-sicknote-culture-in-bid-to-overhaul-fit-note-system

Absolutely unbelievable.

Neoliberalism and austerity plus Brexit has destroyed this country.

How much longer can we have these in power for?
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on April 21, 2024, 12:03:16 pm
Quote from: roverstillidie91 on April 21, 2024, 11:34:45 am
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-to-cite-britains-sicknote-culture-in-bid-to-overhaul-fit-note-system

Absolutely unbelievable.

Neoliberalism and austerity plus Brexit has destroyed this country.

How much longer can we have these in power for?

About 6 months.
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Filo on April 21, 2024, 12:47:42 pm
I shouldn’t worry too much, he could say anything now, he won’t be in power to get them in anway
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: ravenrover on April 21, 2024, 12:57:23 pm
A multi millionaire man who has never done a hard days work in his life
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Bristol Red Rover on April 21, 2024, 02:38:45 pm
The last paragraph in that article is the most important. Investing in health services is a way of getting more people back to work.

For sure some take the piss out of the system, many more are crippled by it. Universal Basic Income would also solve most of the issues Sunak is referring to, and probably at a huge cost benefit.
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 21, 2024, 02:47:34 pm
Quote from: Bristol Red Rover on April 21, 2024, 02:38:45 pm
The last paragraph in that article is the most important. Investing in health services is a way of getting more people back to work.

For sure some take the piss out of the system, many more are crippled by it. Universal Basic Income would also solve most of the issues Sunak is referring to, and probably at a huge cost benefit.
And some of those genuine cases become crippled by the system because of those taking the piss out of it.
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Bristol Red Rover on April 21, 2024, 04:11:05 pm
Not as black and white as you suggest. Mainly it's because the system is unintelligently managed as most aspects of benefits and social care are. Sunak's daily mail rhetoric shows his level.
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Bentley Bullet on April 21, 2024, 04:24:25 pm
Quote from: Bristol Red Rover on April 21, 2024, 04:11:05 pm
Not as black and white as you suggest. Mainly it's because the system is unintelligently managed as most aspects of benefits and social care are. Sunak's daily mail rhetoric shows his level.
I'm not suggesting it's all Black and White. If it were, the piss-takers would be identified sooner. It's the Grey areas that are the problem.
Title: Re: Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system
Post by: Bristol Red Rover on April 22, 2024, 01:44:27 pm
I was referring to the black and white in the suggestion that the problem of the disadvantaged in the system is mainly caused by the piss takers - its a daily mail perspective,  a use of the divide and rule method.

No, its mostly the fundamentals of the whole system of social care, including the lack of UBI, the under investment in health and social care.