Chris Grayling, the Tory work and pensions minister, launched fresh attacks on benefit claimants this week, despite his smear that they are fakers being proved wrong.
Grayling says the Tories’ Work Programme has failed to force enough people with long term health problems into work—because they are “sicker than expected”. This gives the lie to the Tories’ claim that people are feigning illness to avoid work.
But now Grayling, an MP who grabbed thousands in expenses, plans to change the rules. He wants to redesign the scheme so people originally deemed too ill to join it would be forced to do so.
This would hit tens of thousands of disability benefit claimants. Grayling is also set to force unemployed people to work for free for six months—or risk losing their benefits.
He claims this will “help” them. In reality it will help bosses by giving them free labour—and it will particularly help those bosses who happen to be Tory party donors.
John Nash, Ryan Robson and three others set up Sovereign Capital in 2001. It owns the Employment and Skills Group (ESG), which has grabbed £73 million worth of government employment contracts. Nash and his wife Caroline have donated £182,500 to the Tories since 2006. Robson has given them £267,866 since 2003.
Plush
Grayling’s attack is based on the idea that people on benefits are lying “scroungers”. But he’s the real scrounger. Grayling claimed over £100,000 in expenses to renovate a plush Pimlico flat. He says he needed the flat close to parliament to carry out his work—yet he hardly ever uses it.
Grayling’s neighbours certainly don’t seem to see much of him. One said, “There is a light on occasionally, but he is not here very often.” After seeing a picture of the Tory, another said “I have no idea who this man is.”
He’s never there because he has three other flats within the M25. He spread his expense claims over two years to avoid going over the maximum limit. And he used the money to completely refurbish his flat—pushing its value up.
Grayling’s real aim is to throw people off benefits regardless of their circumstances. More evidence of this emerged just last week. The Tories employ private firm Atos to test people with disabilities and get them off benefits.
An investigation revealed that the government have dictated no more than 12 percent should be declared unfit to work.
The Tories want to force people onto lower rates of benefit, or none at all and enrich their mates in the process. They are the real lying scroungers—not people on benefits.
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Yes but it is such hard work trying to damn the sick and disabled.
So tiring thinking up new lies and smears, he deserves a pad just in case he needs a LIE down
Haha see what I did there?
Three words…. Pot, Kettle, Black. Can’t really say any more than that.
40p per mile is expenses. £10 for a meal if staying overnight for work is expenses. A B&B bill is expenses. Paying more for decorating a private home than it would cost to buy a home most places in the UK isn’t expenses. It is pure theft and abuse of the system and power. The man is disgusting, a leach and needs to be prosecuted with the rest of them when this black period of UK history is over, for both fraud and abuse of human rights through discriminating the most vulnerable in society. These people are true fascists and need to be stopped. Now.
If ANYONE deserves a very long & excruciatingly painful death it’s that condecending twat, quickly followed by Ian Duncan-Smith & the same too for the majority of the rest of the blue bellied interbread conservative criminal bastards really!
My sentiment exactly
glad to hear from you ann…the whole rotton system is a crime and the sooner its swepted away the better…regards..sandra bowes-rennox.
The people demand the fall of the regime!
well what can i say nice money if you can get it and what a shower they are save money and then take it back…WHAT A SCAM…regards…sandra.
ps what can you expect from these con artists.
This man is getting harder to stomach by the day. I’m surprised someone hasn’t put him and his boss out their misery by now.
i quite agree when will he stop running his mouth off?
and the show goes on jeff3
Wow, he is really asking for trouble!
your so right…a three ring circus…grayling…atos…dwp and the sooner its cancelled out the better…let the battle go on.
That’s a lot of benefit, £100,000!
well you know what they….YOU CANT EDUCATE PORK JUST STUFF IT AND CURE IT…right shebear…regards…sandra.
He’s a greedy pig.
Pigs are more intelligent….
wells guys its grayling and his nazi state and his denial of targets along with atos and the dwp..liars all but cudos to that doctor who went undercover to expose the lies told to us what can you expect from a mp who does not live in the real world but la la land and those who suck up to this goverment to gain contracts worth millions [money talks the more the louder] well make a pact with the devil and the guy with the tail and horns wants paying and us disabled goe to the polls in 2015 PAYBACK screw up and kill over 30 people a week LOOK OUT GRAYLING WHATS IT LIKE PAYING ATOS BLOOD MONEY WHATS IT LIKE..NO MERCY FROM YOU what can we expect from a tory they always look down on the working
class
I reckon Atos will probably be assessing some of their own staff quite soon, I have the names, addresses, contact details & even quite a bit of personal info on the lying bastard quacks I’ve been having problems with! I’m NOT BEING QUIET about it either! I’m now getting offers of money to provide that info to the friends & relatives of some other genuinely disabled folks who are also going through the grinder because of those lying bastards. Could be a bloody good earner this!!!…PMSL
Im still mortified that this is all going on, i mean the everything that goes against atos is ever being exposed, how it hasnt become open as the biggest deception ever yet is beyond me.
hi steve..i like your style cudos to you and how right you are..the bastards we must not keep silent…heres a good one for you..the appeals tribural asked the dwp for evidence of my past medicals [both of which i passed] and when i chased it up last week the dwp wanted me to pass on the message to the tribural to tell them that they have a huge volume of work and they would send it on when they could i did not know i had to do these cretins work for them so i told this to the tribural and its been duly noted what a nerve…they have 14 days to send it on or the judge will do something himself..what do you thick bloody nerve eh…regards..sandra..THE FIGHT GOES ON.