Comments on: Holes in Conservative welfare plan

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:43:07 +0000

I'm disabled the disability after an accident is called paraplegia. Mr Purnell once stated he was going to look into my case a week before he left, running away.

I have no bowel and no bladder the function has stopped I use my finger to empty my bowel and i use a catheter to empty my bladder. It's now about work i would work now I've been looking for work for weeks months years, I've failed, the one job I did find, I found myself and I ended up back in hospital undergoing emergency treatment.

The fact is a lot of people are disabled, but tell me who are these magic employers that want me.

the one question you failed to answer once before, when i asked who the hell are these employers who will allow me to take my medication during the day, allow me a carer to help clean me up when i mess myself, help me when i need to empty my bladder.

I do not know a single employer I have filled in now 800 job applications, Tesco even refused to answer my application saying where could we use you.

So answer the question who is going to employ me... thats the real question.

You ran away from the job so asking you this question is not really important anymore, I spent 40 odd years in labour, boy that was wasted......

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:52 +0000

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By: treborc

treborc — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:52 +0000

Ask Labour because they are doing the same thing with the same person Freud, I'm sorry this is about which one can hurt the most vulnerable the worse and right now it's Labour

By: Badger Puzzle

Badger Puzzle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:26:01 +0000

It was made quite clear to me at the Fringe discussion of this with Freud himself that they were intent on scrapping the Future Jobs Fund.

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By: Seamus

Seamus — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:51:29 +0000

Fact it Workhouse, you're just cheesed off 'cos they've invaded your territory.

But don't feel insecure. Nobody can hammer the sick, poor and vulnerable quite like you.

By: septicisle

septicisle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:13:23 +0000

I notice that nowhere in this does Purnell address the feasibility or likelihood of moving 500,000 individuals from IB onto JSA when there's the simple fact that there's no jobs for those people and that even if there were employers are loth to touch those who have been sick for years with a ten-foot barge pole. The real point here is that there is next to no difference between both the Tories' and Labour's policies: both are intent on further impoverishing the most vulnerable in society, not because it will save money, as it almost certainly won't, but because the focus groups and tabloids demand it.

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Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:36:19 +0000

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By: Lee Griffin

Lee Griffin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:09:18 +0000

Interesting fight going on isn't it. On the one hand you have a party demonising the poor and the out of work, threatening them with destitution and a life of crime if they don't follow the government's prescribed course of “work-fare”. And now you also have the Tories giving their own perspective on the same thing!

Is this really about picking (what are minor) holes in Tory policy, or outpourings of jealous petulance at them coming so close to Purnell's own frankly despicable policies?

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