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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Make no mistake they will be well aware joey, I would have thought you would be looking for a new career path as politics now only seems to attract the most mercenary, machiavellian and ruthless individuals haha.
Those with a genuine human interest and compassion are being subverted...
Big business and the media are a powerful ally, the three pronged attack the government has launched on the weakest members of society over the last two years has been unprecedented.
Thousands have died and thousands more will die.
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I don't want to sound like I am blowing my own trumpet but I wish more people who think and more to the point 'feel' like I do would actually go into Politics.
I understand sometimes Govts have to take hard and sometimes painful and drastic decisions but I would hope no matter where any road in Politics may take me,that any policies I could and would support would have compassion,fairness and real understanding as to them.
I am nothing special,just I hope a guy who cares for others,particularly those less fortunate than I am.
My fear is for the people who are really sick and disabled, who really cannot do any regular steady job who get faced with a loss of benefits if they are deemd fit for some work after these ATOS/DWP decisions.
How will regular day in day out work affect their illness and disability,who can really answer that question.
In my view certainly not ATOS or the DWP and for definite not the heartless Duncan Smith.
As you say people will die or get worse, for goodness sake, some cancer patients still undergoing chemotherapy have been told they are deemed fit for some work, has the Govt any idea the massive stress and energy lost during chemotherapy that can happen.
The annoying thing about this Govt to me is that it has not got a mandate for these policies, the Conservatives didn't get an overall majority in the last election, therefore they got no mandate from the voters to implement the policies as they were and had they been a minority Govt they could likely never have done so.
They led in the last election but did not win it outright.
By the same token, none of these polices as to the sick and disabled were in the Lib Dem manifesto at all, so how they could use their votes given to them by the voters on all they said, to support near in full these welfare and benefit reform policies is beyond belief and in my view totally wrong.
I support benefit reform, I agree benefits should be unified and simplified but these reforms are being used to belittle and attack the weakest and most vulnerable.
Yes there are probably some fiddlers and scroungers as there are on tax at the highest levels and in Companies too.
I hate though this continuous sledgehammer that the Govt brings out against the most vulnerable, I hate more the fact the Lib Dems are allowing it too.
At the next election, Candidates from the medical profession will likely be standing in a number of seats to highlight the opposition to the also wrong across the board NHS reforms, I hope many people will stand as candidates and also shout as loud as they can as to the heartlessness of these welfare and benefit policies too.
How many people will have died or have become even more ill because of them in that time to 2015
is as you point out likely to rise significantly.
I just hope post 2015, we get a Govt,no matter its form, that at least has and shows it has, a heart especially in its policies that affect those in the greatest need and who are the most vulnerable.
If I do go into Politics, I hope I will hold on to my being a concensus politician,there are plenty that exist now in all parties but it seems extremes dominate,people like Duncan Smith and also the ridiculous George Osborne with his never missing a chance to try to demonise those on benefits.
These policies have gone way too far, they should be stalled and looked at again, for me ATOS should be removed from the whole process and Duncan Smith should out the process too, if he won't agree to move from Works and Pensions then move him anyway, let the heartless man he is go on the backbenches.
This Govt. has all the welfare rights groups,the Citizens Advice and endless charities involved with the care of people sick and disabled, all telling them the dangers, fears for the future and wrongs of these benefit reforms.
If they really won't listen to them then I really hope voters shut their ears when the likes of Duncan Smith and the truly discredited Lib Dems come to them for their votes next time round.