IDS Tells Disabled People To Work Their Way Out Of Poverty
Disabled people should have to work their way out poverty and not simply be taken out of it by state financial assistance, Iain Duncan Smith has said.
The Work and Pensions Secretary said it was not the role of government to pay the disabled enough to stop them being poor and that the correct way to escape poverty was by working.
“We won’t lift you out of poverty by simply transferring taxpayers’ money to you. With our help, you’ll work your way out of poverty.”
Mr Duncan Smith said many sick and disabled people wanted to work and that the Government should give them support to find jobs and make sure the welfare system encouraged them to get jobs.
The Work and Pensions Secretary also dismissed protests against his policies, which his party’s conference had been subject to.
In his wide-ranging speech, Mr Duncan Smith also criticised the old Employment Support Allowance benefit for signing people off work when they were judged by doctors as too sick to work.
“The ESA has Labour’s essential mistake at its heart – that people are passive victims. Of course if you treat people as passive that’s what they’ll become,” he said.
“It’s no wonder, when the system makes doctors ask a simplistic question: are you too sick to work at all? If the answer is yes, they’re signed off work – perhaps for ever.”
The PCS trade union, which represents civil servants, said Mr Duncan Smith had “fundamentally failed in his job”, however.
“How Iain Duncan Smith, who was fundamentally failed in his job, has remained in his post is a political mystery that will confound pundits for generations to come,” the union’s general sectetary Mark Serwotka said.
“Universal credit has been a textbook case of how not to overhaul public services and his cruel cuts to social security support for unemployed, sick and disabled people bring shame on the UK as a civilised nation.”
The Work and Pensions Secretary’s policies on disability have faced sustained criticism in recent years.
He has also been lambasted for closing Remploy factories, the scrapping of the Independent Living Fund, cuts to payments for a disability Access To Work scheme and cuts to Employment and Support Allowance.
Fitness to work tests have also been the subject of much disquiet, with critics labeling them unfair, arbitrary, and bureaucratic.
The Government’s so-called “bedroom tax” also primarily hits disabled people, with around two thirds of those affected by the under-occupancy penalty being disabled.
Same Difference 
you cant make these stories up hes blaming labour for signing people of the sick its just that day in day out hes doing the same mistakes perhaps he blame the nazi for his aktion t4
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A Disability denier that’s what IDS most definitely is, it’s not political ideology it goes further than that, there is no remorse for those who have died because of his and his govt’s policies because they achieve what they want, to reduce welfare by any means possible and if that includes thousands dying he and his cohorts are getting what they want and set out to do.
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So we have them telling the weakest to work themselves out of poverty and then you have the Huntsman telling the poor they need to work like the Chinese, what’s next Osbourne telling the rich they are in for another pay cut
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On a practical note, did not his department’s scheme to find work for the disabled, that used millions in subsidies paid to large corporations, achieve a success rate a less than 1 in 10. So iIf extremely, well funded corporations can only manage to find employment for about 10 percent of those judged to be nearly fit for work, how can the be disabled be expected ton find work,- let alone find work and make and raise themselves out of poverty.
Ordinarily, I do not believe that personal attacks or behavioural speculation are morally right or likely to be accurate. However, it’s difficult to hold the concept of morality and Ian Duncan-Smith ( IDS) in the same ethical space – an ethical oxymoron you might say – and with respect to the reliability of assumptions, as to IDS’s mental state he has made so many delusional statements, and for so many years, perhaps it’s not unreasonable to conclude he is both morally corrupt and delusional.
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Really sick it’s beyond belief power has corrupted them
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The bloke is a prick and a limp one at that.
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The whole point is not to get people working but just to save money so that already rich people such as ids can be richer still. If the WCA actually did what it says on the tin the assessor should be able to say precisely what sort of work and the hours that you can actually work, to just say oh you can manage to walk 50 metres without pain once a day you are fit for work is ridiculous in the extreme.
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