It’s far easier to find scapegoats than solutions It’s also much more politically convenient for right-wing newspapers to blame others and exonerate failing governments 🖋️ FisherAndrew79 for ipaperviews
They would have you believe that millions of British people have suddenly decided to feign illness or disability somehow. In his article, Nelson let’s out this disablist dog-whistle: “many are categorised as too sick to work: some actually will be”. He cites no evidence for suggesting that people are faking illness.
As Labour’s shadow mental health minister, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, herself a A&E doctor, has pointed out: “1.6 million people have been left to suffer on long waiting lists for mental health treatment.” This record backlog might explain whyNelson notes that “people are signing [for sickness benefits] on at twice the rate they were pre-lockdown”. He might also note that NHS waiting lists for treatment have increased by 60 per cent since 2019.
Many of us pay household insurance too. We may never claim it but it buys peace of mind. It would be stupid to demonise victims of fire, flood or burglary for receiving payout just as it is perverse to do so against those with disability or suffering illness. Instead of this finger-pointing and divisive rhetoric, we should be having an informed debate about NHS funding, societal stigma, the chronically low rates of UK benefits, or the workplace discrimination that prevents many disabled people from working or advancing.
But it’s far easier to find scapegoats than solutions. And much more politically convenient for right-wing newspapers to blame others and exonerate failing governments.
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