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Opposition Day Debate and disabled people
by Carerwatch
There was an Opposition Debate
yesterday in the House of Commons – called by Labour on a motion to
condemn the recent statement by Lord Freud about disabled people
possibly working for less than the minimum wage. Lord Freud has since
apologised and the motion was lost.
However
for those of us who have been watching the debates on Welfare Reform
since 2007 – it was chance to see how far in some ways we have come and
how far in others we haven’t moved forward at all.
For
the first few years of welfare reform no one had a clue what it would
be like in reality. All we had was Freud and James Purnell talking pure
theory.
That
has certainly changed. All MP's now have a deluge of disabled
constituents coming in to their surgeries, and they have found out what
it is about. So the debate is finally informed amongst MPs. Yet still
they do nothing.
Fundamentally the big problem with Employment Support Allowance remains. Both Tory and Labour parties have not Read more of this post on the Carer Watch blog
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