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@mehercle @TomG07581187 @Elizabe13014545 Are they?…….Few would agree with that.

@RealismHelps @TomG07581187 @Elizabe13014545 Yes . Everyone's a "scounger".

There should be a better way of calculating benefits. They were intended to help people out who had fallen on hard times. No family should be getting more than a family who go out to work. If the working family can manage on X amount so should the family on benefits.

@doingalrighty @Marblechops79 I guess your self-interest was more recent…..grow up.

@RealismHelps @Marblechops79 The first firm evidence of empathy and caring for the sick and injured in society was about 400, 000 years ago. You haven't reached that stage yet so you're a good few stages behind.

So basically if we got rid of these 16 million people we would have an enormous economic recovery? Government debt would disappear in a few years! 😳

@cripsextremist @theBrianaMills @crileyb_86 Let’s stay as we are….

@cripsextremist @theBrianaMills @crileyb_86 How?

Why is it always ‘disabled people need to get a job’ but never ‘billionaires need to pay tax and give up their mega yachts?’

@dannyyoung35 That says a lot about you. Bye then.

@RealismHelps You do not have the first clue what you are talking about. You say you like civil conversations. On that basis I would not advise you engage further.

The fact that there are so many disabled people having to fight their corner on here is a sad reflection of the mindset of much of this country.

@doingalrighty @Marblechops79 Below? It was a few thousand years back some of us learnt to walk……

@RealismHelps @Marblechops79 I'll always have the satisfaction of knowing that you're way below me on the evolutionary scale

@theBrianaMills Because the latter pay more in tax in a year than you or I in a lifetime

@doingalrighty @Marblechops79 You being treated like you’re stupid is the best way? That’ll happen regardless….

@RealismHelps @Marblechops79 It's the best way to deal with idiots

@mehercle @TomG07581187 @Elizabe13014545 You’d prefer to give the scroungers how much?

@RealismHelps @TomG07581187 @Elizabe13014545 "Benefits scroungers". Make them crawl . Feed them on a bucket of gruel a week . Your extensive medical qualifications tell you there's nothing wrong with her . The cheat !

@doingalrighty @Marblechops79 Given your posts thus far, it’s hardly a surprise…..

@Marblechops79 @RealismHelps Yeah. I sit in this wheelchair because I enjoy being abused and treated like I'm in some way stupid. Pass me that badge of honour 🤡

@doingalrighty @lilKatniss7 @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Read the report……

@RealismHelps @lilKatniss7 @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Talking about PIP specifically. Keep up

people in the UK love to spread this propaganda that people living on disability benefits are living a nice cushy life with all this ‘taxpayers money’. i’m sure most disabled people would trade all the money in the world to be healthy, i know i would.

@doingalrighty @ayeayechickenp1 @Chuffin_ell @andyburnham Blocked?

@RealismHelps @ayeayechickenp1 @Chuffin_ell @andyburnham Just being a physical presence and available is a part of caring. Like you, I don't know exactly what time I'll need to take a shit, want to go to bed, have breathing difficulties in the night. You're actually a fucking idiot.

We need to stop saying unpaid carers “don’t work.” We do work. The difference between a paid carer and an unpaid carer isn’t the work. One is paid. One isn’t. The refusal to recognise unpaid carers as workers is one of the biggest blind spots in social care. @andyburnham

@PardonMyPain @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying The chances of you having paid in anywhere near what you get are slim….

@RealismHelps @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Foolish to assume I didn't already pay for me. And those who came before me, as well as those like yourself who will inevitably join the ranks.

@danbarker It’s a simple value-for-money issue

One thing that the UK should improve quickly in social care is children's residential care. I doubt most people realise: it costs more than £300k per year on average to look after a child in a children's home. There is one recorded instance where it cost £63k per week (not a typo). To put that into context, the average person in the UK (freelance/employed/other) earns £566k over their lifetime in today's money. You may even say high expenditure was ok if it was an utterly exceptional experience for children, but care leavers on average report lower happiness or life satisfaction than others. They're also often rushed into leaving care at 18 - the £300k per year stops. One day almost £1k per day is spent on their wellbeing, the next day it is not - they may get a one-off £3k grant, and have to fend for themselves on £10 per day universal credit. 85% of the industry in the UK is run under a private firms. Again, that would be wonderful if the power of the market meant that kids were getting a great experience and a positive future. But overall the current model is not benefitting the children who we as a state look after enough, despite spending £300k per year to try and give them a good life.

@Marblechops79 Yup - I wonder if it started from US TV where teens ‘need’ a therapist to ‘belong’?

@RealismHelps Society is seriously fucked up when incentives are lined up that make people want to label themselves disabled I guess it’s the aspect of many people wanting to wear it like a badge of honour Another form of narcissism

@Marblechops79 It's incentivised financially, but becoming more & more socially acceptable - almost like badge of office for many.

@RealismHelps Totally agree Driver But I find it highly dispiriting in a once stoic nation that so many are willing to label themselves “disabled”

@squall_loire @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Everyone does, but only some admit it. It's like random drink/driving testing at Xmas, the main complainants are the drink drivers.........

@DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying "I know people like this" Of course you do 🙄

@PardonMyPain @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Those of us paying for you and them, think otherwise...........

@DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying It's safe to say most of us who've been through the gauntlet of applying for and retaining benefits would rather include the negligibly few people who may take unfair advantage, than make the qualifications even more restrictive & humiliating. It's grueling enough as it is.

@Jasmine11637695 @DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying Which is total B.S. as everyone knows.

@DavidEn09902678 @thisisemtrying PIP fraud rates are practically zero, with far more money being underpaid than overpaid. Claims also require copious amounts of medical evidence, arduous questionnaires, and assessments from outsourced staff who are incentivized to reject applications. >