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Sunak accused of launching ‘full-on assault on disabled people’ | Welfare | The Guardian

It's as if Covid never happened.
Sunak said Britain was proud to have a strong safety net of welfare payments to those who needed them, but he also said the country had a “sicknote culture” that needed to be tackled.

He said “something has gone wrong” since the pandemic to increase the number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick, especially with mental health conditions.

“Most worrying, the biggest proportion of long-term sickness came from young people … parked on welfare,” Sunak said.
 
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It's not specifically about Covid, I think. His main target is people with various mental health issues -- particularly anxiety and depression -- whom he thinks doctors are too willing to certify as being unfit for work, and he wants, instead, to have them examined by “work and health professionals” who will try to explore with them work they might be capable of doing.
 
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It's not specifically about Covid, I think.
No? He's scratching his head about data that shows the effects of long-covid on the general population, as well as the lingering psychological damage from the shut-down. This is not a mystery.
He said “something has gone wrong” since the pandemic to increase the number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick, especially with mental health conditions.

“Most worrying, the biggest proportion of long-term sickness came from young people … parked on welfare,” Sunak said.
 

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No? He's scratching his head about data that shows the effects of long-covid on the general population, as well as the lingering psychological damage from the shut-down. This is not a mystery.
I see what you mean, though I fear there's a danger of post-hoc reasoning here.
This is relevant, I think
My main point, though, which I didn't make very well, is that his plans attack all long-term sick benefits, particularly for people with mental health issues. What may have caused these issues is secondary.

Meanwhile,

 
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Well that's what you get when your PM has a bigger fortune than the ruling king of your country.
Are you sure about that? The PM's father-in-law has a bigger fortune than does Charles, certainly, but according to the Evening Standard, Rishi and Akshata Sunak

are now estimated to be worth around £529 million, almost a 30 per cent decrease [on last year].
(most of which is Akshata's stake in her father's company, Infosys, rather than her husband's money) while Charles is thought to have inherited something in the region of £2 billion from his mother.
 
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I dont often have good things to say about my country, but this... this almost makes me proud:

voters frustrated with politicians’ ‘desperate’ culture war tactics

Electoral strategies based on culturally charged and divisive issues repulse swing and undecided voters, who see politicians as “playing to the crowd” or “jumping on the bandwagon”, according to research
A Tory culture war campaign message saying “the woke mob is taking over” led to a 10 percentage point decrease in Tory voters likely to back Sunak at the next election.
 

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The Conservatives have been about 20 points behind Labour in the polls since the end of Liz Truss' brief but eventful spell in office 18 months or so ago, and nothing Rishi Sunak and his government do moves the needle at all. I think at this point they've pretty much given up all hope of winning the next election and are trying, instead, to salvage what they can by trying to persuade their core support base to turn out and vote for them rather than stay at home or turn out and vote for Nigel Farage's Reform party.
 
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True, but the story was more about how these hostile ads bring a negative response from the voters surveyed. While I only mentioned the Tory anti-woke ad as the worst case the same effect held true for Labour ads calling the tories racsit, driving people away from the party rather than bringing support.
 
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Instead of showing Congress, apparently CPAN sometimes shows the British House of Commons. Which they are doing now.

It feels like th se guys talk to each other way more than Congress which seems to just give speeches to empty rooms.
 
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