Sick.

Tonight a bit of plagiarism from the Spectator below. In Tory blue guys.

Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on what he calls the UK’s ‘sick note culture’, saying the taxpayer ‘cannot afford’ the current levels of sickness benefits. In a speech today, the Prime Minister said GPs should not be writing sick notes for patients, but instead specialist teams linked to the benefits system should be assessing whether someone is fit for some kind of work. There will also be tougher sanctions for people out of work and not looking for a job for more than a year, and a tightening of the work capability assessment.

Some of these reforms have been in the pipeline for a while. What’s new is the rhetoric. The Tories have, for a few years, not done the strivers vs skivers division, perhaps because polling suggests that the public are more sympathetic to people on sickness benefit than they were back in 2010, when George Osborne and David Cameron were very much wedded to that kind of language. Sunak today sounded very like Osborne, arguing that he did not believe people were three times sicker today than they were a decade ago. 

Yes I would like to make a point. The self employed don’t benefit from being given a sick note and Doctors may give them for other genuine reasons. Secondly we are a sicker younger generation than a decade ago. The last 6 years were a concoction of Brexit drain and pandemic. Social media has ruined brains and 25% of those under 7 years of age have a smartphone. The Nation has had three Prime Ministers in one year and the leaders are no longer shining examples. Sorry but the late Great Britain became sick and the stretched benefits system is down largely to bad management not bad health.

In all the cities I go to I see an abundance of Gyms , people running in parks, old age walking groups , moves away from smoking and alcohol especially the young. Diets , vegan , health promote , Yet the brains are being frazzled by comparison compete , puffed up lips , enlarged bums , plastic surgery, drastic surgery. People are trying their best but if 10 million are added to the population in 10 years yes we are stretched. Low interest rates and give away pandemic funds, QE and asset bubbles are the causes for sickness. As for the Doctors they always say they are stretched yes indeed writing repeat prescriptions and making faceless consultations like the robots that will replace them. On top of it the disease that affects the masses called Entitlement where people’s expectations are ill founded and real living has to be made not given. Work gives health with self esteem.

Recovery will happen when we realise the importance of giving, sharing and helping each other to find peace of mind and the realisation that less is more. The road to recovery is just up ahead and we can do it when we gather these principles and search our spiritual being rather than solo strive. Heal the Nation and make Britain well again.