Below average film, slightly boring, some funny moments without meaning to be. The political propaganda in this is farcical as someone with personal experience of the benefit system much in this film is either exaggerated or made up, thankfully not many people are stupid enough to buy into the nonsense.
shareThe political propaganda in this is farcical as someone with personal experience of the benefit system much in this film is either exaggerated or made up,
As someone who worked in Job Centres as the New Deal was coming in I can sadly say that it was horrendously unfair back then and from what I hear from ex-colleagues it has got far worse.
The problem is that the introduction of medicals by outside firms who are paid by the number of people who are removed from a particular benefit, has created a system where far too often people are thrown off ESA by those with a vested interest only to then, in 2 out of three cases, win their appeal about 9 months down the road.
The real damage is done in this 9 month period where sick people are made to suffer extremes of stress and anxiety at a time when physically they are least able to handle it.
The Government continues to hide the numbers of suicides linked to this situation as the current edition of Private Eye reveals, and the long term aim seems to be not necessarily to cut numbers of benefit recipients but to move them to the cheaper JSA rather than the more costly ESA.
This issue should not be about left or right, it is about treating human beings with dignity and fairness when they are most desperately in need of it.
There are many problems with the Benefit system in the UK, but medical fraud is not one of them. Holding a mirror up to society is not propaganda, it is a reflection of the truly ugly way those most in need have been treated by both Tory and Labour governments alike at least since 1997.
This is how it is-maybe not in your personal experience-for too many. Plus cuts in services, why do you think there's such an increase in food banks..
shareThe increase in food banks is in the main down to people having failed to learn the skills of preparation, cooking and efficient rotation of the ingredients available.
The ease at which instant 'meals' can be purchased at what appears to be a bargain price is not entirely their fault, but not attempting to bother trying their hand at making something from scratch and making variations on a theme over the following days is.
There will of course be exceptions through unforseen circumstance, but ingrained short-sightedness will be the reason for swelling numbers asking for handouts alongside the genuinely needy.
And this is what the Tories honestly believe because they've never experienced hardship themselves.
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