tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post2035451953442331381..comments2024-03-28T07:14:01.343+00:00Comments on donpaskini: Freud the Frauddonpaskinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05963534291677598324noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33451096.post-62386769778406194742008-02-02T18:36:00.000+00:002008-02-02T18:36:00.000+00:00My favourite bit of the interview is where he clai...My favourite bit of the interview is where he claims the number of people who should receive IB is the same as it was in the 1970s, without telling us why. So hours worked, stress levels, inequality, numbers of people in debt etc apparently have no effect on illness.<BR/><BR/>That's only explicable as an astonishingly stupid belief that all disabilities/illnesses are genetic and that genetics decide what happens to us regardless of circumstance.<BR/><BR/>If private/not for profit companies can help people back to work, okay. But the whole point should be that they're only used in extremely difficult cases where state support isn't adequate. Certainly the Tory proposal is to get the state paying private companies to get people work who statistics suggest would find work themselves anyway. I hope we don't move down that route and only use private companies where the individual isn't going to find work themselves and their case has moved beyond the state's capacity. (Of course, that capacity could be higher if we wanted it to be and funded additional capacity.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com