IDS - work is good for your health

Exactly FarNorth.
This is from the man who asked for the FOI results and was denied them for a long time.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/27/statement-on-dwp-mortality-data-new-approach/

Can you imagine anyone wanting to take the job over from him, whitewave, after he's made such a mess of it?

I notice that Lansley has been rewarded with a seat in the Lords for messing up the NHS. Can't imagine anyone wanting to take that over from Hunt, either.

scottishindependence.com/2015/08/benefit-cuts-dont-get-people-back-into-work-new-research-proves/

Researchers from Sheffield Hallam and Glasgow universities added: “Welfare reform does reduce public expenditure and thereby the budget deficit but it does not, it would seem, lead to higher employment or lower unemployment.”

I often wonder if IDS has some friends in very high places or if he is a man that DC et al would, for some unknown reason, be worried about crossing.

If, however - in view of IDS's apparent inability to deal with queries and criticisms in a forthright and convincing way - DC does get rid of him, unless the Conservative Party suddenly has a change of heart, it really makes no difference - other than a presentational one - whether IDS pushes forward these policies or someone else.

I think Cameron is grateful that he has IDS to take the flack

I had a quick look at the Mail and Voxpop links and found the same (to me) worrying reporting. In both reports he will be saying X Y and Z. He hasn't said anything yet.

Personally, I think work IS good for mental and physical health: tied to feelings of self-esteem, independence and finding a place to stand where disability is not the only thing people see. What I don't think is that threatening to deprive people of benefits they need to survive will help find work for them

Most of these articles are simple - and effective - scaremongering. Most of the problems IMO are related to untrained and wrongly directed assessments. If it's difficult for someone to understand or complete the blizzard of forms to claim benefit it seems hardly likely those people will be able to cope with work even if there is a job for them somewhere

Before anyone leaps to tell me I know nothing about it : I am currently on long-term medical leave (this time with brain-damage and cancer) and was off work for several years a while back with severe depression. When I went back that time it was a slow, hard crawl with a lot of help to get back behind a desk and be able to do the job I used to. There are no magic wands.