Listening today to Mr Kwarteng saying the reversal was “The right thing to do” ,I was hoping one of the interviewers would put him on the spot and ask Why was it the right thing to do?, them follow up any answer with, Why did you do it in the first place then?.
The PIP system….
I’ve had first hand and indirect experience of that over the years.
It’s amazingly cruel by design and relies on tricks and simply wearing claimants down to the point they give up.
It’s a despicably cruel system.
I won’t even go into the utter contempt the government stow by expecting people with complex mental and or physical problems trying to explain them to what are in the vast majority of cases are physio therapists.
Yes, physio therapists. Most doctors/nurses etc won’t go near the system for obvious reasons.
Sorry to go on.
Oh feel free. 🙂
I’ve been put through this a few times. The first time they actually lied and changed what I’d told them, which went then to tribunal. My tribunal against the DWP was over in under 5 minutes, and they ruled against the dwp and atos.
The second interview- or ‘medical showtrial’ as its best described, I was pretty peeved by the previous, and explained to the Autism carer who accompanied me that the ‘doctor’, who was sitting opposite, and i referred to in the third person, was little better than one of Dr Mengele’s assistants and should in my opinion be treated the same.
They stopped that medical there and then after only a few minutes and I’ve not heard from them since. I think in all fairness had it gone on i’d have grabbed them by the throat.
