I stopped reading the daily mail years ago, they are a disgusting paper even worse than rubbish like the sun. It often prints rubbish with no backing of facts. What is disgusting is if someone prints something about a individiual or company they have to be more careful else they done for it without proof (libel), yet on a regular basis benefit claimants are called all sorts of names and lied about by papers.
Not going to go into the ins and outs of the medical other than to say the new medical has been deemed unfit for purpose by various people (including the guy who designed it) however that has been ignored by the current and past governments so as such its clear what the agenda is.
The paper's should only be printing facts and need a tough watchdog to enforce this.
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Virtually all of the pilot schemes have found the majority of claimants were fit for work. 
No system is ever ideal but I'd rather people were given the chance to work rather than parking them on disability. |
Thats because they designed to do just that, they simply moved the goalposts until they got the result they wanted. These pilot schemes have told terminal cancer patients to go look for work. Want to help people work? then they need specialist work environments and employers who are willing to accept crippled workers who will have a poor attendance record. Employers like remploy which got scrapped. Removing people's benefit and telling them to queue up for jobs with healthy people is not helping them.
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I see the universal credit is starting to hit the news now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158
more rubbish really, he talks as if everyone on benefits is doing it out of choice. Very out of touch.