Newsthump is satire but soooo close to the truth.
Is it really satire anymore when there are significant numbers of people out there who actually believe this line of thinking?
I’m so tired of disabled people not being believed. It sucks so much.
Especially since nobody is immune to becoming disabled in the future, even if they are healthy now.
There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there. And the conservatives (in my country at least) latch onto that and ignore the vast majority that they hurt whole trying to avoid that tiny minority taking advantage.
And I’m 100% convinced it’s because they would scam the system themselves.
There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there
That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.
None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).
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Also lets not forget the 19 billion pounds in benefits people are entitled to that go unclaimed because they’ve made it (deliberately of course) too hard and/or shameful to claim.
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BBC is run by the gov, which is owned by the billionaires, so I don’t think they deserve the exemption…
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True, but as you say, that’s merely a technicality at this point, so it’s still all run by and for the same people, and it isn’t us…
They’re not lazy, they’re just disabled.
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Jeremy ‘Berkshire’ Hunt
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