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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

If you stopped posting gibberish we might be able to understand you...

How these who in remploy going to get work in this climate then ask me that question remploy got 20,000 people into work also why cant the factories stay open as interim until the climate better then.

Like many disabled the lies coming out is disgusting truth should be open why remploy being closed.

list a quote from poster on forum why the move is wrong.

It is hardly surprising that many disabled people are deeply sceptical about the government's motives.

Firstly, they claim to have overwhelming support from DPO's for this policy. They did exactly the same over the abolition of DLA, although the Responsible Reform report proved that they had blatantly lied and the exact opposite was the case. It would be very naive to believe anything they say without having the truth there in black and white. Indeed, one of the criticisms of the Sayce report was the anonymous nature of the quotes.

Secondly, it is quite staggering to read Maria Miller's comments in her ministerial statement. She goes on about supporting independent living and yet she is closing the Independent Living Fund as well as taking away vital support from 25% of working age DLA claimants (a benefit with just 0.5% of claimants who are not genuine).

Miller also goes on about the government's commitment to the UN Convention, but of course she conveniently forgets to mention the report issued only last week by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, which had a long list of concerns and criticisms of the government in respect of that very Convention!

If all the supposed savings from these closures, which are a personal tragedy for those affected, are ploughed back into helping people into work then fair enough, but the suspicion remains that much of it will simply go into the pockets of work programme providers, who have provided consistently poor results.

Most disabled people remain highly sceptical of this government for many good reasons. If the government were really committed to helping people into employment, then why will 25% of working age DLA claimants lose their support? This will add tens of thousands to the dole queue as many will lose the Motability car that enables them to get to their (often very poorly paid) work. Others who lose vital care support will have to give up work or cut their hours.

Also, the government have done nothing to address the widespread discrimination by employers. Indeed, their desire to scrap the Equality Act, in the name of slashing red tape, will make things even more difficult for disabled people.

The enormous difficulties faced by the disabled in the recruitment process can be shown by what happened after the previous Remploy closures in 2008. A year later, only 1 in 20 had found employment...a very sad and damning statistic.

Given the history of lies from Maria Miller, you would have to highly gullible to blindly believe what she is saying now. I hope we can look back in a couple of years and see that lots of disabled people have been put into proper jobs that are suitable for their qualifications and their health but that would require a fundamental change in attitude by the government, which I think is highly unlikely.