What Labour Said Then, What Labour Say Now And Why They Can’t Be Trusted On The Work Capability Assessment
What they said then …
Labour will: “increase support for claimants to return to work, replacing the old one-size-fits-all model, which writes people off as completely incapable of work, with a tailored, active system that addresses each individual’s capacity”
A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work (PDF) – The Green Paper which proposed the Work Capability Assessment in 2006
What they say now (2014)
“We want the assessment to be part of the process of ensuring disabled people who can work get the support they need to do so, not to threaten or punish them. The test should be a gateway to identifying and assembling that support.”
How Labour would reform the Work Capability Assessment – Labour Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions Rachel Reeves and Shadow Minister for Disabled People Kate Green
Then (2006)
“We will work with health professionals, personal advisers and disability groups (including the…
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Same Difference 
I remember all too well when New Labour was in office, and what a bunch of fiends, no better than this lot. Now we have Marxist Milliband continuing to support every fecking motion that Tory boys put forward. Milliband stood with Cameron to take away the sacredness of marriage. Labour is all about the destruction of the UK, beginning with them tearing down the boarders and then making that speech that if we did not accept immigrants flooding in we were not British.
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Ukip are the only party with a policy on immigration that makes sense the others the conlablibdum party and the greenies are all for unfettered immigration, UKIP wants to introduce a system such as the type used in Australia New Zealand And the US where you have to be alb to bring something to the country, not just come for what you can get out of it. Yet some liberals consider this to be xenophobic and vile, personally I think flooding the nation with immigrants to slash incomes is vile and lead by greed.
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