Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Dunky Smiff must have the goods on Call Me Dave, cos he's long past his sell by date.

Hmmmmmm yep good point especialy with so many back benches wanting him removed.

That must be a very silky poll. Most people have never heard of IDS. He seems to be doing a good job.

Many more wish they had never heard of him.

They have only transferred a few people onto universal credit as a pilot.

Hays LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL ......"He seems to be doing a good job".


That poll is from a background of mostly disabled people who are historicaly tory voters.

If you go on the site you will see that they are dismayed at the £140 million (and growing) pounds IDS as thrown away on Universal Benefit.

Nothing to do with politics.

he he ha ha LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Hays again

"They have only transferred a few people onto universal credit as a pilot",,,,ends

It was meant to be hundreds of thousands and now 3 years behind target date.

I think it will be scraped anyway.

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 13%

Labour majority of 70 plus.

It seems to pretty much on target. It will be a better system as well.

Theirs always one comedian in the room.

Former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder tells of humiliating Atos medical assessment

http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2013/dec/former-soldier-suffering-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-tells-humiliating-atos-medical#.UqmhEiVF_zE.twitter

More nonsense. You expect some claims to be refused and then overturned on appeal. The alternative is giving disability benefit to anyone who asks.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

I know someone who went through the atos thingy.

He filled in the forms truthfully, then sat back and waited to be rejected, but a decision came back a few weeks later saying no action.

Mind, he is genuinely disabled.


Lots of lead swingers on the disability wagon.

hays just admit you dont have a clue how the system works.

Its the Decision Maker at the DSS who makes the decision on wether a claim is successfull or not.

It is quite clear that there needs to be a tougher line taken on all sorts of benefits. The history of disability benefits is that a helpful doctor would say that you needed the benefit and then you would get it forever. It is time to be more realistic. Like it or not, the new policy is popular withe public.

Nothing could be furher from the truth now. Your local GPs diagnosis is not enough these days. In fact its often just put to one side and not bothered with.

Claimants have to get at least 2 supportive letters/diagnosis and its the one from a specialist that is the one that counts. Its the one the decision maker will accept or reject and then the case would go to an appeal if rejected.

The claimant can then get further evidence from an idependant medical source and send it to the DSS where another Decision Maker (not the first one) will review the case and either award benefit ot still allow it to go to an appeal.

A much better system.

Well it certainly would be if I d Smith hadnt had a hand in informing ATOS certain targets had to be met each week by every individual working for them, which has directly led to thousands of claimants being assessed wrongly and ultmately going on for 500 suicides now.