Comments on: Welfare Failure http://richardspring.mpblogs.com/2008/01/09/welfare-failure/ Member of Parliament for West Suffolk Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Robert http://richardspring.mpblogs.com/2008/01/09/welfare-failure/#comment-673019 Thu, 22 May 2008 08:19:09 +0000 http://richardspring.mpblogs.com/2008/01/09/welfare-failure/#comment-673019 Before my accident and disability even through Thatchers years i worked, I left home and found a job, the job was rubbish the pay was a joke. But I enjoyed the job later on I worked for major building companies until one day I had a fall broke my back and ended up struggling to cope. I've been part of the New Deal and now the Pathways to work, and both are the biggest waste of money, everything is done to make me work, nothing is done to get employers to employ me. Labour have said it's a companies duty as social justice for companies to look at disabled people, while the government themselves close down the employment of the disabled, I was to be employed at a benefits office along with four others, we did the training passed the exams and the benefits office was closed. Labour now says it's up to private companies to take the strain, well they are not willing to do this without the government covering the loss, because never in a million years will I make money for a company. 5.30am I rise with help from my wife, Then she puts a catheter into my bladder, then she helps me empty my bowels this takes about two hours, now then I will mostly vomit due mainly to the drugs and the pain, 9am I will get dressed get my wheelchair ready for the day, have an injection of morphine to control the pain, which puts me out for an hour wake up have something to eat take all my medication this is now 10.30. I do this seven days a week every day of the year, who is going to employ me. The sad fact is Labour has no idea what real disability is about Before my accident and disability even through Thatchers years i worked, I left home and found a job, the job was rubbish the pay was a joke. But I enjoyed the job later on I worked for major building companies until one day I had a fall broke my back and ended up struggling to cope.

I’ve been part of the New Deal and now the Pathways to work, and both are the biggest waste of money, everything is done to make me work, nothing is done to get employers to employ me.

Labour have said it’s a companies duty as social justice for companies to look at disabled people, while the government themselves close down the employment of the disabled, I was to be employed at a benefits office along with four others, we did the training passed the exams and the benefits office was closed.

Labour now says it’s up to private companies to take the strain, well they are not willing to do this without the government covering the loss, because never in a million years will I make money for a company.

5.30am I rise with help from my wife, Then she puts a catheter into my bladder, then she helps me empty my bowels this takes about two hours, now then I will mostly vomit due mainly to the drugs and the pain, 9am I will get dressed get my wheelchair ready for the day, have an injection of morphine to control the pain, which puts me out for an hour wake up have something to eat take all my medication this is now 10.30.

I do this seven days a week every day of the year, who is going to employ me.

The sad fact is Labour has no idea what real disability is about

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