Incapacity

Incapacity benefit is being phased out and the much tougher employment support allowance ESA is disqualifying 93% of claimants from long-term support.

Disabled people are marching for our lives | Sue Marsh 2011

Incapacity benefit tests face overhaul after damning report

Society daily 24.11.10 Patrick Butler 2010

Alwyn ap Huw explains what is really wrong with Incapacity Benefit, and demonstrates why Tory plans to bully the sick and disabled are, in a word, crap.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Fuelled by cheap money, massively increased private debt, hideous public debt figures (esp. if you include PFI, unfunded public pensions), hidden worklessness (Incapacity benefits, students sent on pointless degrees to keep them off the rolls), and a bloating of public sector non-jobs.

Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008

I fear that the changes being made to tighten up on Incapacity benefit will in fact prevent genuine cases from much needed benefits as liars will always lie a little more.

A Giant Leap For Personkind ? Newmania 2008

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

Ross Gay reads “The Proverbs of Hell” from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake 2007

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

Suzanna Wise reads “The Proverbs of Hell” from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake 2007

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

2007 » October 2007

In 1913, the eugenicists succeeded in getting the Mental Incapacity Act through parliament.

How eugenics poisoned the welfare state 2009

I suppose if Gibbons had been recounting "The Decline And Fall Of Cool Britannia" he might have decried Incapacity Benefit and Big Brother (or, worse still, Jeremy Kyle), the twenty-first century equivalent of panem et circenses.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009