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French company, ATOS – which was found guilty yesterday of deploying useless crip detectors on behalf of the British government – had been using the fake gadgets in work capability tests with the full knowledge of British government officials, it has emerged.
ATOS – which was convicted at the Old Bailey on Tuesday of three counts of fraud – faces up to 10 years in jail after using the gadgets which they claimed could detect disability and sickness at long range, deep underground and through lead-lined rooms.
Detectives working on the case however, said the devices – which the company had been using to supposedly detect genuine disability on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions – were in fact re-badged golf ball finders that were no more than car radio antennas attached to an empty box, had no power source and were not connected to any electronics.
Although their widespread use in the UK helped make ATOS a £400m fortune, the fake devices were useless and have been compared to dowsing rods and magic wands by the people who were supposed to rely on them to detect genuine cases of sickness and disability in the Department of Work and Pensions’ so-called ‘Fitness for Work’ tests.
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ATOS to reduce ‘fit for work’ test to one question: “Are you alive?”
UK pulls out of 2016 Paralympics after ATOS declares no disabled in UK
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Toby Young – disabled children should be excluded from schools
ATOS declare George Osborne unfit for work as Chancellor
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Editor said:
Reblogged this on kickingthecat and commented:
If only!
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richard said:
Naughty boy!?(:-)
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drew said:
Don’t give them ideas……..
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love1salluneed said:
Sent to my facebook page and tweeted it. Sod the speech police.
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tunefultony said:
I would think it is basic common sense that any disability candidate who can play 18 (or even 9) holes of golf is not sufficiently disabled to claim disability and is therefore fit for work. This ‘golfing’ test is probably a better detector of personal fitness than a bogus electronic fitness detector which could not tell a cow from a sheep.
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Tisme's Page said:
OMG Tom – at the top of your page when you click the link from Facebook you get this message now!
“The link you are visiting:https://tompride.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/fraudster-atos-fined-for-supplying-fake-crip-detectors-for-use-in-fitness-for-work-tests/?fb_source=pubv1
Facebook thinks this site may be unsafe. If you’re not familiar with it, please provide feedback by marking it as spam (you’ll be brought back to Facebook).”
Gits! Is this censorship? Just a bit!
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Tom Pride said:
Tisme’s Page – someone who works for JobCentre Plus didn’t like the criticism and reported the blog to FB as spam. Please click on ‘NOT SPAM’
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Tisme's Page said:
Will do – malicious or what? Sense of humour failure JC+!!
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Tony Zimnoch said:
(in case you didnt know) You are not Spam!
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Tisme's Page said:
Maybe the crip detectors were powered by Spam? :o)
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lucyfurleaps said:
Not spam! Visit often and always find it a rewarding experience.
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Martyn500 said:
What we really need are job detectors.
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hindle-a said:
sorry ancient joke coming up-plenty of jobs in Jeopardy
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justin thyme said:
As people are knowingly dying because of the ATOS/DWP tyranny it is difficult to make jokes here – I wish I could – the problem is the ‘satire’ is really happening
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elspethparris said:
Not all disabilities are related to mobility. Some may be completely unrelated (e.g. mental health, epilepsy etc) some may bear some relation but result in pain for these, in some cases, *gentle* exercise may be recommended by a doctor, e.g. golf.
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Elly Greco said:
THIS IS NOT SPAM…
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tunefultony said:
Thank you Elspeth for your graciously-said comment, which of course is relevant. Mental illness is still illness and may or may not affect mobility. I think it is right that each case for disability assistance is decided on its own merits, rather than using a generalised yardstick. ~tunefultony.
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tunefultony said:
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAMMMM……. (~????~) … Okay, NOT Spam!!!! 🙂 [ –With acknowledgement to Monty Python’s Spamalot–]
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Dave Rendle said:
Hii their, bice blog by the way. I posted a little bit about Atos yesterday on my humble little blog, and included a link at the bottom to yours. My posts are subsequently now being treated as spam by facebook. Anyway all the best regards.
http://teifidancer-blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/atos-healthcare-tory-capability.html
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Dave Rendle said:
ah just checked again…seems ok….now , very strange…….SPAM eh?
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Johnsonas said:
Reblogged this on Johnsono ne'Blog'as.
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ThePhantomPlopper said:
I hear the detectors have been replaced by a deadly combination of Ken Clarke and a supply of Viagra. The test being that should the candidate be able to escape the former Chancellor then they are fit for work. Many senior members of both houses have expressed an interest in being directly involved with the scheme.
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