It might as well be Atos - they've got the most experience in completely disregarding the opinions of doctors and specialists.

spot on GG.
If this goes ahead i can see people dying or ending up more seriously ill than they were originally.
I was signed off for 3 months initially,looking back i probably should have been off at least another month or 2. with the new rules that might come in no way would they have signed me off for so long. many people are going to suffer if this happens.
very wrong.
scummy politicians.

Before the end of this parliament we'll be back to beds in corridors because after all the hospital closures, there simply won't be the availability of beds on existing wards.

On course for two lies in one poster

from that link.....

[iUniversity degree courses should be sliced in half to 18 months because, for most students, there is too much time wasted, he claims. "Most students are twiddling their thumbs. [uMany only get one lecture a week.[/u This is nonsense, particularly with tuition fees so high."[/i

Things must have changed drastically from when I went to uni 20odd years ago.

There aren't any jobs for them anyway so they will just go onto unemployment benefit instead of sickness benefit.

The other problem Sally is who's going to employ me? I've been out of work since 2004, my arthritis has got progressivly worse, it will never get better. I can keep it under control but still prone to flare ups and severe fatigue which can put me on the sofa for days. How fair is it of me to my bosses and colleagues to be off sick more than I will probably be in work. Work was causing my constant flare ups and fatigue. I was in a vicious circle. I'd work, get more ill, have time off and get better then within a few weeks of being back at work I was back to square one.

JSA is considerably less than ESA too. I don't care what anyone in government says; this is a cost cutting excersise. My health and well being has nothing to do with it so why they are carrying on with the pretence when just about the whole of the country now can see it is beyond me.

steph i replied to you on a DP thread. hope no more ops for you.(think it was the dogs and scooters thread)
hope you well.

So the Government thinks that GP's are capable of handling 90 billion pounds in NHS budget, but they aren't qualified to write a sick note? You simply could not make this up.
What is all this guff about patient power, letting GP's take responsibility for treating their patients not beurocrats etc, etc, etc, etc.

What is amusing, or would be if it wasn't so tragic, is the number of people I've seen or heard comment along the lines of: "if I'd know this <insert any one of many policies> was going to happen, I'd never have voted for them".

Put it down to bloody-mindedness, blindness, stupidity or whatever. Many who voted will never have known a previous conservative administration, others voted LibDem and suddenly find that their nice incumbent MP has morphed into a Tebbit attack-dog and still others obviously really believed what Cameron was telling them.

I do think a benevolent dictatorship would be far preferrable to the sham of democracy we currently enjoy.