Dangerous, Worthless Politicians
- CW
- Jan 9, 2016
- 3 min read
Here is a copy of the email I sent to my Local MP. If you would like to nick it, change the name and send it to your MP, please feel free.
Dear Mr McCabe
I have just signed the following official Petition:
“We demand GPs only decide who is fit to go back to work, not the DWP!
The decision on who is and isn't fit enough to work after illness, injury and disability should come from a health professional, not the DWP who are pressured to get people back into work by the government. They should also be third party so no bias is involved.”
I signed this as I know, or know of far too many people who have been harassed about their health by the DWP to the point of cruelty. And I challenge the current system in our country on a basis of LOGIC, as follows: If in order to be signed OFF SICK FROM WORK one needs a medical note from a qualified medical doctor why is it that a person who is physically signed off be such a trained professional can be told by an UNQUALIFIED PERSON that they are fit for work? Here are the problems with that:
Forcing unfit people to work will worsen their health and put them in further danger of increased illness
As a result, more pressure is placed on the NHS to then deal with their worsened condition
If a medical professional has signed them off, but they return to work and suffer injury at work, it can very easily invalidate their own liability insurance, and/or the employers liability insurance if they had returned to work against medical advice.
The result of 3) would be – unemployment for the individual; potential legal action against them; potential legal action against a company for liability purposes; back to square one with the individual who might then be signed off work with ADDITONAL INJURY to the medical issue that a Doctor never said was fit to work anyway.
…and so on…
I am sorry to say that I deplore the way that in this country we allow those who run it to be totally uneducated and/or unqualified in the area in which they oversee. Is our minister for Education a qualified teacher or education expert? No. Is our Minister for Justice qualified in Law? No (and nor was he qualified in education when he messed that up.) Is our minister for health qualified in any area of health provision? No. Are the DWP QUALIFIED to make medical judgements on an individual’s suitability to work? No.
I fully understand that there ARE people in this country who play the system and cheat the system. They are lazy and should be treated as criminals as they steal from the tax payer every time they make their false crime. But these people are in the minority, and there are so many people who are unfit to work (many through mental health issues including PTSD and anxiety) who live in fear of being threatened to work or starve in a system that seems more like something best suited to a Dickensian novel than a nation than is facing an aging population crisis. We need to get a handle on this issue sooner rather than later. I therefore urge you to stand up for this issue and fight not just out of compassion (though a little of that won’t go amiss) but out of logic and sensibility. If it takes qualification to sign off UNFIT, it should take qualification to sign FIT.
Kindest regards
Colin Ward
Please also sign the Petition here:
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