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(It’s not satire. It’s Grant Shapps!)
Tut tut tut! Mr Shapps has been caught playing fast and loose with official government figures I see.
Nobody should be all that surprised that Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps has been telling porkies about how the Tories have supposedly managed to ‘scare’ nearly 900,000 people off disability benefits rather than face a medical assessment. After all, this is the man who conducts his private businesses under numerous pseudonyms.
Turns out that just the same number of people now are voluntarily choosing to come off disability benefits every month under the Tories as they did under Labour – probably because they simply get better and don’t need the benefit any more.
As Sue Marsh so eloquently put it when she was interviewed on Sky News recently about it – people are honest!
Thanks to research by the indefatigable Declan Gaffney we can see clearly that the number of people who choose to come off disability benefits hasn’t changed at all because of the Tories stricter benefits regime as Shapps claims.
Mind you, that doesn’t explain why the mainstream media have been completely ignoring this outrageous distortion of official data by Shapps to back up his lies claims.
As usual, it’s unpaid bloggers we have to count on for the real information.
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Here are links to three blogs which explain in greater detail how Shapps and the Tories have grossly manipulated the figures to suit their own political ends:
Grant Shapps owes us all a correction and an apology (l’Art Social)
GOVT’S DISABILITY DISTORTION EVEN WORSE THAN IT LOOKED (THE SKWAWKBOX BLOG)
Tory Central Office MORE dishonest than DWP??? (Diary of a Benefit Scrounger)
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Indeed ,I found it very concerning than on hearing it I as far from expert/knowledgeable person who has not even had experience of the process knew exactly what this was about,wheras the media MP’s so called experts ,indeed former Ministers flaunted their stupidity/maliciousness with glee.To be honest I am sure they do not care-repeat a lie often enough(with helpful propaganda via press and an unquestioning media barring notable exceptions) no matter the besmirching of many citizens(and memory),Despicable.
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Whenever any of them open their big gobs it’s just to spew out a whole load of fiddled figures and downright LIES.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented:
Press does not fact check lies in UK either.
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SORRY TOM..I cant let this pass, because i looked into this..
900,000 scared off incapacity benefit is utter bollocks..because ironically its the same 900,000 that were diverted onto incapacity benefits and were GENUINE !! they were part of the hidden unemployed..so what the tories did was make 900,000 hidden unemployed suddenly disappear..its all in a document called The Real Number of Unemployed 2012 .published by sheffield hallam university..
PLEASE DO SOME FACT CHECKING NEXT TIME..OK???
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Erm… Bob. That’s exactly what I’m saying in the blog post above.
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ERM er ok i didnt get the labour bit ..it threw me..as the doc i came across suggested the 900,000 were diverted to incapacity under tory administration..did i send you the document on this>? its very clear in what i says..also the sheffield hallam university is place tories often go to as theyve done this before..so it validates that doc even more..
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Am I wrong to believe that certain cancer patients are automatically entitled to disability benefits until they are cured? Are the government seriously condemning THEM as work-shy? Maybe they’d prefer it if these people got on with it and died sooner!!!
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it wouldn’t surprise me that they sent Atos to every hospital in UK and assessed all the patients as fir for work..not only that but the private health bods wont have to treat them that way they can ‘cherry pick the easiest to treat..
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