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[mirrorshard]

"The work and pensions secretary, David Blunkett, today urged hundreds of thousands of people on incapacity benefit to stop watching daytime TV and start looking for work."

http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/story/0,11499,1588833,00.html

"Mr Blunkett said getting back to work "will overcome depression and stress a lot more than people sitting at home watching daytime television"."

This hardly needs comment, but I think we can now safely say that he's enthusiastically following the Tory^WNew Labour tradition of bashing the unemployed, the poor, the sick, the old, the young, and the abnormal in the hope of getting a quick boost in the polls, on the basis that we wouldn't vote for him anyway.

Comments

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I think the whole *point* of Incapacity Benefit is that you are. for what ever reasons, not able to do just that. The 'incapacity' bit is the clue there I think.

[tiquetoque.livejournal.com]

That wasn't my point ;)

*pulls a Mathew*

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

No Mathewing in my journal, or I'll have you ignored ;)

[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

I suspect someone shall have to carve the definition of the word "incapacity" onto a big slab of rock and then drop it on Mr Blunkett's head.

Possibly he thinks that being disabled gives you the right to make sweeping generalisations about disabled people. :p

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Disabled? He's secretary of state for work and pensions! Truly, I should be so disabled.

*coughs something about tokenism*