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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.
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.Sunak accused of launching ‘full-on assault on disabled people’ | Welfare | The Guardian
It's as if Covid never happened.
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.It's not specifically about Covid, I think.
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.
I see what you mean, though I fear there's a danger of post-hoc reasoning here.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.
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 SunakWell that's what you get when your PM has a bigger fortune than the ruling king of your country.
(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.are now estimated to be worth around £529 million, almost a 30 per cent decrease [on last year].
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.