Stopping benefits for drug addicts will lead to bigger problems
Benefits cannot ever be the sole source of income for drug addicts. It’s impossible. Even if they live in squats and eat and drink next to nothing, they still do eat and drink. So while we should be seeing an increase in the number of these people encouraged into rehab clinics (not that there are enough of those in the first place), it is fundamentally wrong to use the threat of stopping benefits to achieve an otherwise laudable aim. It will only lead to more crime, suicides, and despair.
tags: addiction, benefits, counselling, drugs, mental health, therapyTory plans for the sick and unemployed are dangerous and crazy
It must be loony Tuesday. The Tories have announced plans to have all 2.64 million incapacity benefit claimants reassessed by doctors and, if passed fit for work, placed on Jobseekers’ Allowance, which would mean a benefit cut of £20 a week. That is, if they win the next General Election. Presumably they’ll all be lined up in grey overalls, have their heads shaved, and be forced to file through a gate so they can all get examined by men in white coats in time for the following General Election? Insane!
I recall how long it took me last time I needed to get my passport renewed. Whichever colour of UK government we have, they are all to date notorious for being slow-moving behemoths; the ‘wind of change’ politicians love to talk up usually turns out to be just slow-release flatulence.
tags: benefits, Conservatives, incapacity, policy, politics, unemployment
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