[jambutty]

There is only one person who can say that someone is able to or not able to work and that is a doctor. And certainly not some jumped up politician or banker or as someone was already spelled it with a “w”.

I’m sure that there are a large percentage of claimants who are swinging the lead but weeding them out is going to be difficult and plunge doctor against doctor.

Sorry Tealeaf but this government and their various ‘think tanks’ have hijacked your “crackpot ideas” label.

It seems to me that this Freud guy is setting his stall out for private companies run by him and his cronies to wean people off Incapacity Benefit and into work for a fee.

He told the paper it would be "economically rational" to pay as much as £62,000 to a company which managed to place an incapacity benefit claimant in a job which lasted three years or more.

Nice little earner but it doesn’t reduce the overall cost to the taxpayer very much. All it does is transfer most of the money from a sick person to the pocket of some rich banker.