Sunak vows to end UK ‘sick note culture’ with benefit reform 

UK has a sick political problem

I'm not going to take lectures from a multi millionaire who has never needed nor will ever need the Welfare State

we don't CHOOSE to be ill and disabled, we WANT to work yet CAN'T!

I went to the doctors 3 years ago telling them regardless of how much I sleep I was exhausted the next day. I went into work and was falling asleep at my desk and was let go. I’ve had this issue for the 3 years and now through benefits am earning 4 times less than I would be making at work. Does this guy actually think people want to be ill and earn f all from Benefits?

It's the Tories that are sick 🤮

This government has been making people sick 😫 🤒 for the past 14 years

40 billion lost to PPE, what about tackling some of that.

Never mind that automation is taking jobs, never mind zero hour contracts, never mind people with long covid, never mind anyone who is a corporation registered abroad but trading in the uk dodging many millions, never mind having empathy for anyone who paid onto the system for many years who fall on hard times , this shows how wicked the Conservatives are and what like empathy they have yet turn a blind eye to the tax dodging super rich not paying tax.

The guy is coming for the disabled and needy instead of billionaires? This is insanity.

The people are just sick of the Tories. 14 years of endless failures. Tories out. General Election now.

When did Sunack attain his medical degree. Thinking that qualified drs are not qualified to diagnose illness and illhealth. Better get job centre workers to do this. Next they will be able to prescribe medication and then no need for drs. That will cut down the costs. Then get the sick to work. What happens when aireline pilotsbh have depression? What a world we live in. We need to get the healthy into jobs first. Then parliament should give jobs to sick people to prove their points.

I was a carer for over thirty years for a disabled parent and it practically killed me. I am still suffering the mental and physical effects of those years and I also found out that I have Asperger's Syndrome which means that it was a miracle that I got through it all at all. I would be one of the first that the DWP rules would target because I cared all the decades that the Tories didn't and it practically finished me off. I have sheaves of notes from a clinical psychologist saying that I shouldn't be in a workplace for my mental and physical health's sake but I suspect that Sunak would have the DWP ignore them. What he wants is for me is a denial of existence, any hope of recuperation and an early grave instead. That is his 'perfect' Britain. The last 'holiday' I had was a day trip to Felixstowe in 1976!!!! Previous to that, a weekend in Doncaster to see relatives!!!! It must be one long holiday to have all those resources, SUNAK!

so pick on the sickest people in society and HE doesnt even pay his taxes in the UK. He sends his billions to the Cayman Islands. Utter disgrace picking on easy targets.

Insulting and belittling people..what a disgraceful person.

It made me feel truly disgusted the fact he's announcing these cruel measures with the words 'Social justice' ironically plastered behind him. The Tories have had 14 years to fix the country, but instead used the opportunity to create an ever widening gulf between the rich and poor. They have hit society from every possible angle and utterly decimated systems that were there to protect the vulnerable. Rolling back reforms and safety nets to the Victorian era which they seem so fond of recreating, where low paid workers had little protection from wealthy businessman, life expectancy was low, and poverty became a trap. Their ethos is cruel, arrogant and devoid of any iota of empathy for those unfortunate to not be born into a privileged life. The only good thing about Sunak's latest plans to kick people when they're down is his advisors are totally oblivious to just how despicable they make this government sound, and seem determined to treat most of the country and it's citizens with contempt. Surely there is some way to force a general election before they can do any further damage and take us all to the point of utter societal breakdown.

Here's my sick note: "Sunak, I'm sick of you, please go".

Get the Tories OUT.

They always resort to changing benefits when they mismanaged the country!

No, we just have a sick prime minister.

Classic Tory shaming. I remember the 80's when the Tories came out with "Single mums are a drain on society" and many of the people of the UK, rather disgracefully, seemed to agree. Totally ignoring the fact that sooooo many single mums are that because men deserted them. Or because their spouse had died and left them widowed. So easy for the establishment/politicians to come up with ways of scapegoating their own failures. The country is a mess. I could've told them that 'tax cuts' may be what wealthy people want but that other things have a priority too. Mental health crisis isn't going to be helped by hitting the struggling even further.

2 simple rules for life; No.1 - Never trust a tory No.2 - Never forget rule number 1

Get Sunak out now.. A traitor..

Rich ppl expecting poor ppl to work themselves to death

Fibromyalgia Warrior Here ! Exactly ! Some medical conditions fluctuate not only daily but can change moment to moment week by week month by month ! I'm not capable of work. I also have multiple mental health issues and chronic pain & chronic fatigue. These are all genuine & a nightmare to live with, they are certainly not an excuse preventing me from working. Who would live with these conditions & situations given the choice?

So many people sick, sick of the tories.

How to lose the next election.

Tory was an old Irish word for "thief"

More work for less money and stress that's why people are sick

If he wants fewer people to be depressed he could call a general election. That would cheer people up.

The billionaire kid telling the poor to graft🤡

Never worked a day in his life

There is enough money for israel, enough money for sunaks universities abroad, enough lee -way to allow huge corporations to dodge 100,s of millions in tax paying whilst they register the companies abroad, there are still people with long covid, there are people who are sick with mental health because there jobs are zero hour contracts and not full time, there is plenty of money to be made being a supermarket and again automation are taking more and more jobs have become obsoleat. In 14 years all this uncaring government has done is made life harder for the many whilst the rich don't care, sunak is a fake another Thatcherite cut from the same cloth as cameron may johnson and truss all have zero legacy. General election now. Oh there is aways money, we get this rhetoric before every tory general election picking on the vunerable.how we have not had someone to take out one of this lot is beyond me as they just think they can do what they like, well one day one person may just one day have enough of it all, and they have the nerve to be afraid, they help onebody but themselves.

Get the Tory’s out for good

People are sick of sunak

Tax the big businesses and the wealthy instead of picking on the poor. His actions are treasonous as far as I’m concerned.

Try stopping A boat first.....then deal with YOUR OWN FRAUD

We have SICK politicians , they ALL need to go .

Tax the rich.

All of the problems in British Society right now and Sunak's priority is to clamp down on the sick and disabled. How utterly disgusting.

Aint it just amazing how its always the rich politicians that call out sick disabled people.

delivering this speech in the centre for social justice, what a joke

The problem with our country is the multimillionaires in parliament that have no idea what its like to live on benefits.

Not at all, they simply have a sick politicians culture

How about clawing back some of the millions paid for dodgy PPE deals? How about the exorbitant track and trace debacle? What about 400 million unpaid tax the Treasury won't chase up? Shameful and pathetic.

Cynical. Nasty. Out of touch. And wrong about everything as usual. Get the oligarchy out.

If the DWP assessed the Tories, they would probably find them unfit for work.

We have a sick rogue government problem.

Disgusting behaviour rishi no other way of saying it😮

Britain doesn't have sick note culture, it has a 'Tory blame victims' problem.

Why does Sunak keep picking on the disabled people ,its because we are easy targets, he should be ashamed of himself, If the NHS was fit for purpose,then there would be less waiting lists and less sick people, So stop blaming sick and disabled people....

We have a billionaire Prime Minister who doesn't understand poverty.

How often do we see Westminster empty. The most idle people in the uk

The UK has a Tory problem.

Yes we do have a sick culture we are sick of spineless prime minister's who no one voted for....

Sick of the slavery this day and age.

Why doesn't he concentrate on stopping the boats, who have committed a criminal offence entering the UK illegally

Maybe Sunak and his wife should stop ripping off the taxpayer. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

The tories need to go

Mental . First they have a smoking problem now they’ve got a sick not problem ? What kind of boll 🔒s is this? Total 🔔 END!

Probably one of ian duncan smiths ideas, the most vile man in politics in england.

We have over 6 million waiting for ops on the NHS. Maybe sort that out first Sunak

As someone who suffers from mental health the benefits is not enough.

Since austerity to pay for the evil that is the banking system, they've been happily killing the vulnerable off, it makes me sick to my stomach, I hope to god the British people finally see that their is value in all humans, not just those that can be ground down in their jobs to make richer people richer, so they can buy a better super yacht than their rival, there has to be more than this.

Sick of the Tories

We need to change the government NOW

Living is a full time job for people with pain and conditions and those who are not well in whatever capacity. Putting doctors against their patients and threatening the sick is truly unacceptable.

These poor people cannot do normal jobs . Not there fault . NHS on its last legs , junior Doctors on strike , GPs leaving on mass for pastures new .. where they get the respect they deserve with no sign of any new ones to replace them . What about the millions of fit young boat men sitting in 5 star Hotels . recent empited OAP homes , gated complexes etc etc all getting paid for nothing??? Plenty of rubish to pick up on the Motorway and central res , Lots of plastic on beaches, rivers and parks to be cleared . put them to work , paying tax . finding somewhere to live and to see how hard it is to live here , they might earn enough money to buy a boat from home office to go home on

The last 14 years of the Tories is the reason why there are so many people on the sick with depression.

Of course he's punishing the poor. If this was really about money, he'd be closing the tax loopholes that mainly benefits people like him.

Rishi should come and work on a building site for two weeks this summer and then see if he needs a sick note

its always the hyper rich shitting on the people at the bottom.

People off sick and disabled are not off because they want to be, tories have really hit rock bottom- disgusting

The UK has a sick making work culture.

It has a notably sick culture in Parliament.

This gov’t has made people sick, both mentally and physically!

Someone needs to deal with the sick Government culture ASAP.

Perhaps if the NHS weren't falling apart due to systematic neglect by the Tories, we wouldn't have so many sick people, and if workplaces treated people as humans instead of commodities, maybe more people would be willing to work through it.

Where's the ceasefire from DWP against disabled and vulnerable citizens? Welfare reform has a body count of around 120,000 and rising #BeingSaneInInsanePlaces

How can a billionaire talk about ppl who are sick? Hes probably got his own doctors,therapists,councillors, he wouldnt know the first thing about depression, and anxiety.Hes never had to deal with money troubles, never had to deal with housing problems let alone the cost of living, hipercrit. Hes sending billions to ukraine. Sending ships wherever the USA are when we dont want to be involved in any kind of war.ive been driven to suicide to get away from my life in the past, im constantly worrying about being blown away with a nuclear weapon. I even save my empty water bottles incase there's a war. He doesn't have to worry, hes got his own private bunker on his own private island. Thanks for your support Sunak. Thanks alot.

Another thing, PM saying "work pays" but it doesn't. Many people face terrible working conditions, very long hours, no work/life balance, bullying from superiors, and all for a pittance that doesn't even cover living costs! As a result, millions are on universal credit just to top up what employers keep insisting they won't pay. Over 60% of the benefits bill is spent on the state pension. Then a much smaller amount makes up disability benefit. The massive increases in unemployment are due to a national crisis entirely of the Tories own making. Extremely punitive austerity cuts to all public services for 14 long miserable years. Billions squandered on Nightingale hospitals during Covid that were never used. Billions more squandered on HS2 financial mismanagement. But they still blame and punish those who not surprisingly can't cope with it all anymore. The crisis in people's health is the result of a broken society. One where healthcare, food, warmth, sanitation, and dignity are now seeming to look like luxuries more and more can no longer afford. These things are human rights! Take them away, and broken Britain is what you're left with. There isn't truly an epidemic of illness. There is an epidemic of extremely pernicious attitudes from the bigots running the country, that is sickening people to the soul. If people were treated with respect and dignity, and actually PAID for work they do, almost none of these problems would exist.

Start looking after people then. The people in this country are miserable and so many are barely scraping a living.

Usual tatic attack the least powerful and most vulnerable. Welcome back to 1936. Find somebody vulnerable to blame.

Cutting benefits would leave more money for migrants.

meanwhile others working till 68 for pathetic money

What we need is to change the government and send the nasty party into oblivion! We've had enough Rishi! Off you pop back to California abd you true home!

UK workers have THE LEAST RIGHTS in Europe. It is time for the Tories to step aside

He is a liar.. He said that they want to stop GP's "signing people off" But a GP does not do this. It is the DWP THEMSELVES that do the assessment..

Leave the mental health alone and look at the mental in your government

What he needs to do is look at all the tax payers billions they stole during covid and leave the disabled alone.

People are more aware than ever that min wage slavery is a pointless endevour that will never lead to anything worthwhile (ie home-ownership, lifestyle improvement.) So yea, people opt for alternative lifestyles, benefits, student life, van living, homelessness etc. I will not be forced into wage slavery again. I'll take crime or homelessness first. So let's see how he deals with the wave of consequences that follow.

I used to work for the money advice service, I think a lot of people assume that people claiming disability benefits/pip are scroungers and they're not. Those are the hardest benefits to get and the process when you apply is very, very intrusive and most of the time they actually say no to people. Most people with mental health problems are still on UC but are marked as having limited capacity for work with work related activity meaning that they still have to work with their work coach to prepare themselves for work. Very rarely is a claimant marked as limited capability for work and work related activity. So they're not paid mass amounts of money every month like the general public seems to think that they are. They get £360 to live on for the month which isn't physically possible. I think it's disgraceful that the government is going after people with mental health problems and disabilities instead of stopping migrants and immigrants flooding into the country and going straight into the benefit system. They're the reason why the benefit system is a mess. Not disabled people.

So, after making half the country sick by their policies he's going to try and force those sick people into appalling work conditions or starve and freeze.........luckily it's him that will be out of that job soon.

Will he end the BOAT'S CULTURE first?

We are all sick of this heartless corrupt unelected PM. The quicker he is out of office the quicker his corruption can and should be investigated. Changing policy to suit his father in law’s business interests should be a criminal offence and his actions are treason.

Politicians make fine decorations, and there are bare lampposts all over the country.

The Government ALWAYS seem to latch onto this as a problem. Disability is NOT a lifestyle choice. It's often a byproduct of working oneself into an early grave anyway. The disabled are an easy target that has been latched onto by successive regimes. We're marginalised from Society anyway so our voices are weak and further weakened by this sort of attitude. Disability can happen to anyone at any time during their working life. It's horrific to think that we're going to be facing further iterations of poorly trained, poorly qualified people who have quotas to fill in terms of slashing costs. This has been tried before and always ends up costing more money than it saves. Idiotic and facile approach to solving a perceived problem that is not going to be reflective of an often complex reality.

Sick of Sunakkers the Unelected and his Merry Wokers.

Ironically Mr Sunak's Birthday is May 12th, this is International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. One Of The Worst Invisible Misunderstood Disabilities There Is !!

I'm not going to be lectured on sickness by somone who until recently didn't know how to use a debit/credit card in a shop, taxes me to point of destitution, debauches the value of the pound in my pocket to the point of being monopoly money, and then tells me I'll have to die on the job into my seventies while putting *illegal* economic migrants up at our expense, and to top it off has more money than any person could earn honestly thousands of lifetimes over.

This is ridiculous! We need to improve peoples health! We don’t need to be stripping healthcare judgements from clinicians!