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What is Lord Freud worth per hour?

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GrannyTwice Wed 15-Oct-14 15:01:38

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2793896/miliband-calls-welfare-minister-lord-freud-sacked-saying-disabled-people-not-worth-minimum-wage.html

gillybob Wed 22-Oct-14 22:20:09

Our problem Lilygran is that we do quite a bit of second tier work (we are the supplier of the main supplier) and it is the first tier who agree or disagree the risk assessment. Some of the items we have been asked told to "risk assess" are absolutely ridiculous, but you have a point. It is the insurance companies who insist on this.

Yes I too am very glad I was given the chance to prove myself, sadly not enough people are .

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Eloethan Thu 23-Oct-14 01:57:05

George Monbiot wrote an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday about the sort of depersonalised language that is so often used now to describe human beings.

He alleges that in a House of Lords debate Lord Freud described the changing number of disabled people likely to receive the employment and support allowance as a "bulge of, effectively, "stock"". Following the ensuing furore about his choice of the word "stock", the transcription in Hansard instead recorded the word as "stopped". GM says he has listened to the recording several times and believes the word used was "stock" - and in any event the word "stopped" would make the sentence meaningless. Given Lord Freud's use of the word "worth" to describe human beings as if they were just economic units, I'm more inclined to believe GM did not mishear.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/21/cleansing-stock-doublespeak-people-killing