Health benefits of PIP

The DWP has published an impact statement in relation to the impact of PIP: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dla-reform-wr2011-ia.pdf
An overall loss of half a million awards is anticipated. Apparently, this is potentially good for the health of disabled people:

“Health impacts
21. Income and health are related, with those on low incomes having higher rates of disease, ill health and mortality than those on high incomes. However, evidence is limited as to whether a change in income has an effect on health. DLA is intended to provide a cash contribution to the extra costs associated with disability and complements a range of support available to disabled people, including income replacement benefits for those who are unable to work. It is therefore not expected that reducing one source of support for disabled people with lesser barriers to participation will have an adverse impact on health.

22. It is possible that the policy could have positive impacts on health if it leads to more disabled people moving into work. Health impacts will be considered further as the detail of the policy is developed.”

Indeed. Best example of double-think I’ve seen for a long time.

And Margaret Thatcher said that 1984 was an example of what happens when left wing ideology takes control!

She may have a point though as Mr cameron is obviously one of those darned socialists:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dave-cohen/david-cameron-britains-first-socialist_b_1234072.html

This is very scary stuff. Next they will be telling us war is good for our health and reduces obesity.

well a good war would certainly do wonders for youth unemployment levels

*wanders off, rattling his sabre at iran*

Well, it sorted out the unemployement of the ‘30s. Is there something they’re not telling us?

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?’”

Syme to Winston Smith.  George Orwell – 1984.