Absolutely. Disgusting he should be sacked.

poor man this is a disgusting state of affairs. Please people come together and get rid of this terrible sham of a government.

Disgusting

Priti Patel under secretary to Ian Duncan Smith. She defended cuts to Employment support allowance. Priti Patel defended taking £30.00 a week from people with cancer and in wheelchairs.

Here we are in 2017 and people with mental health issues and those with permanent and degenerative conditions are found fit for work.

shocking and degrading

This is so sad ! Lizards running the country !

Why does British politicans seem to dislike it's own people? The very citizens they are to represnet- rich or poor...

Despicable but nothing about IDS surprises me any more!

Only one thing was wrong with this. Social housing tenants do NOT get their own gardening done. They have to pay for it themselves or do it themselves.

This is so widespread its rediculous. My mother in law who had a stroke had been back and forward to a brain specialist at the hospital. As she was a social worker which needed computer work she had been signed off work. After several falls and accidents at home the specialist at the hospital stated there has been a serious cerebral impairment due to the stroke that had damaged her balance and memory. The DSS sent her for a jobcentre so called examination where these arse holes signed her fit for work. She had to be taken to the appointment after losing her driving licence due to the brain injury. The DSS stopped her money as she had not been actively searching for work. The staff at the DSS jobcentre were absolutely disgusted that she had been sent for back to work interviews and reported the staff concerned through their management. The statistics pushed by the government had a zero tolerance to unemployed people regardless of illness or injuries. The company doing those farse so called medicals being paid for the people they signed back to work had serious and sometimes life threatening many resulting in deaths or suicides because of the position they were put in. Needless to say the Scottish and UK government passed the buck on reports and complaints. Time the bastards in government are held accountable

What is happening in this country is an absolute disgrace and utterly shameful. I do hope that this poor man finally gets some justice, humanity and compassion.

And it's going to get worse.

"If a benefits claimant can lift an empty cardboard box with both hands, I see no reason that they can't work in a fast-paced, under-staffed supermarket, juggling the jobs of six people as they sprint from isle to isle filling shelves, to the checkout, where they *must* scan 400 items per minute, or face instant dismissal." -Iain Duncan Smith

PROTESTS THE REST OF THE WORLD RIOTS AND STANDS TOGETHER TO GET RID OF THEIR PESTS WHAT DO THE UK PUBLIC DO [ NOTHING] !

Why has the response of IDS not been included in this video?? Very unhelpful.

I wonder if the Reichstag had similar letters sent as these there?

If you have a condition that will never change then why should he have to see a medical assessor ever again? The anxiety of attending one of these appointments, even when you know you are qualified for your benefit, is through the roof. Bad enough that you have to live on benefits for the rest of your life, but to have your disability questioned constantly is pressure that is unnecessary.

THROWN ON DEAF EARS

9 years later and nothing has changed, no lessons learned, no nothing...

all the people should know whats best for them the benefit system shouldnt of been changed and the people with disabilty not touched this is blood on your hands labour is the only party for the people and support the people who need it

My wife was visited by a so-called doctor and now fewer doctors will do the job they are using physiotherapists under the guise of Healthcare Professionals from Atos. My wife has arthritis plus other chronic conditions we explained that her joints dislocated easily. Maybe he did not believe us and he pulled on my wife's shoulder so hard he dislocated it!!! (To those who think disabled people are a burden on society I say this my wife today you tomorrow: what goes around comes around.) If capitalism cannot help the most vulnerable in society, then it has had its day. I think there is a growing realisation here and in America that capitalist greed and avarice has shown how that system corrupts: to quote Mr John Lennon; " there is room at the top they are telling you still but first you must learn how to smile as you kill." This of course has been going on a long time as the Bard himself put it; "That one can smile and smile and be a villain." A political system should be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable members of society. Having said that we both blame those who took advantage of a benefits system that was the G in Great Britain and blame them for some of the draconian measures now because they enabled the genuine to be vilified so as to be persecuted with impunity. However, as explained above there is no need to make peoples life a misery it contravenes human rights and plain decency. This capitalist government is drooling as it imposes pain and misery on truly disabled people. I think it is common knowledge that sociopaths and psychopaths rule; this because they will do things no decent person would and here they are doing it to the weakest members of society. I have never been unemployed you say so I am fine: no you are next after they have dealt with the weak. It makes sense to start with the weak and when you get to the strongest they are so few they don't stand a chance so we must band together now and stop this carnage. Do not believe their lies your future unless you are a member of the one percent depends on it: if you don't when they come for you and your family you will only have yourself to blame. Although ordinary people can and do do well under capitalism they are in a minority. David Cameron on the other hand is an ex-Etonian who it has been said wrecked a restaurant with his over privileged fellow Etonians then proceeded to burn £50 notes in front of a homeless man. That's what we have for a Prime Minister who got where he is on nepotism. Look at what Gordon Bowden ex-R.A.F (KZfaq) has to say about what our Prime Minister has been up to -sadly it does not surprise me. Henchman Ian Duncan Smith is following his lead they know no bounds. Well, to quote the Bard again: goodness and mercy seem vile to the vile; filths savour but themselves."

This is a video everybody needs to see. Keep on with delivering the goods, The Work Programe !

As he got a pulse he can work

Bot fly's the bloody lot of them

DWP figures - 10600 have died between jan and nov 2011 within 6 weeks of the WCA - thats about 240 per week. thats the ones we know about.

Powerful, reasoned, eloquent presentation. Excellent video.

Thanks, Dood. They're thieves who think they're above the law. They may well be wrong.

it's like 1940s Germany all over again! Ian Duncan Smith is the real life Alan bastard!!!

I've got an ATOS interview on the 17th October. My biggest worry is staying 'civil' during this hour long investigation into whether I am fit for work or not - I'm going to find it very hard to control my temper.

I always thought that society is judged on how we take care of the sick and the vulnerable. . Maybe the Westminster parties with the ties to big businesses and the banks would pause for a second and think of those less fortunate.. I doubt that will ever be the case. IDC is not the right man and the tories are looking like they always do.. The rich persons party.. I'm amazed we haven't witnessed the reinstatement of fox hunting.

shameful what is the world coming to when the tories get away with dismantling our society no surprise there i suppose

damn atos i see more disabled ppl begging in the streets due to this policy if your in anyway vulnerable this government will crush you

Drive the less fortunate into the ground, scramble on top of them and praise yourself for having such a great view... makes sense...

And furthermore they will spend more to do this

benefits has always been a easy target the MPs get caught with there fingers in the till so they have to get the spot light away from themselves.

Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere...

IDS IS ON A HITLIST!

I'm about to have all my benefits withdrawn i've been long term sick for 16 years and have medicals by a doctor every year to qualify for my incapacity benefit but the current government don't like sick people or poor people and are making them pay for the criminal financial collapse by bankers, i'm about to be made homeless just in time for winter the public needs to know whats happening its criminal and people are losing their lives just trying to survive.

Many disabled people including myself think what is point in living if we cannot have benefits in work to enable us to work or allowances made to our conditions we did not intentionally bring upon ourselves.

The moment when you realize that the taxes you pay are enforced and thus count as a form of extortion. If you don't like the 'service' you're getting for paying taxes, you are not allowed to not pay under threat of being coerced (arrested) for earning a living. Can I tell my neighbour that a portion of their money is mine, and can I, upon doing this, force them to pay when I do? Of course not. I'd be arrested for extortion. Yet the tax system in place is exactly the same. The system in effect claims a higher power than you, yourself, have. This is unlawful, unethical, and blatantly evil.

I'm so glad the paddy,s sent the Torys through the brighton grand roof.

This all could have been avoided, but NOO, Ed Milliband ate a bacon sandwich weird, let's just eat up murdoch's propaganda, he's clearly working in our interests! And adults call teenagers stupid.

Its because our society has become a Tory utopia. The me,me,me selfish society. As a taxpayer i have become quite sickend of our once great country. How anyone,with an ounce of common sense,can blame the poor & disabled for a worldwide recession (and it is worldwide) is beyond me. I work,have very little spare cash,but have enough sense to realise that if someone waved a magic wand & cured everyone of their disablities i would STILL be paying the same amount of tax.

If this poor man had been an alcoholic or a drug addict he'd have been left alone

IDS makes me sick and he makes me feel bad as i dream of doing things to him that are not normally in my nature

there is no law that states you cannot film within your own home especially when being served by public officials. That is why they cannot provide evidence of the laws. Never turn them off.

surely in this day & age shops cud put BRAILLE labels on all their food packages...??? and on ALL documentation come to that. ...

go the paddys!!

Evil

you certainly did not see this recording a year ago...it is from 18 September 2012 hope that helps

yeah your right sounds like a good idea,never going to happen here though,unless the pinko brigade decide to make one,..which I think is highly unlikely. must be very very easy in England to mark subversives out the game.

I'm afraid it's survival of the fittest when public spending needs chopping back. Any nation that spends more on welfare than education needs to make drastic changes - particularly the UK.

Mr Heffer the latest welfare reforms are harsh.Basically the coalition are hell bent on denying people their benefits.Hence cutting their income and forcing many into destitution.Benefit sanctions are cruel,how are people supposed to survive if they have no money?

Duncan Smith will not get my vote out out out i say

Yes, guilty of murder.

You've got nothing to lose if you do. In fact, if you do that I guarantee you that you will be praised and forever remembered as a working class hero.

The pain and suffering, Its sick... Cry

Right now,I am not happy paying tax or NI contributions.Because they DO NOT go where they should, but line the pockets of wealthy private investors who buy the politicians.I *would* be more than happy to pay tax if it went to help the vulnerable and disabled.This man here is typical of a vulnerable person in the UK at the minute...he probably has it better than most because he has been allowed his voice, albeit a token one. What has happened to this country?How long until we, the people, fix it?

Also worth getting a Disqus account and using it at www.conservativewoman.co.uk It's a social media group devoid of care and compassion. Why not engage with them before letting them know how you feel?

Scaremongering? Do you think the blind guy is trying it on? What part of the south east do you live in?

I have copd and rheumatoid arthritis as well as osteo arthritis. I have been penalised for breathing problems with copd, asthma, as well as lost control of my bladder. I was asked why do I have these issues, you're a young lady. It's your body why have you have all these issues. Is it because you like being like that to claim money from the tax payer. I ask "what do you mean by that?" I got told "well isn't it obvious you sooner claim benefits instead of looking for work" well I didn't know what to say after that. So I said have you read my notes from my GP or is that all my head too. Well if you can talk and use your hands then you should be fit for work, instead of being on benefits I was told. "do you have rheumatoid arthritis?" I asked her. "no I don't" she said. "well you don't know how painful it is then do you" I told her. "look it can't be that bad surely, you are on medication for it you should be better by now you are playing on it, making it worse than it is" she said. I was ready to let rip as I tried to tell her how it affects me day to day and suffer from tiredness and breathing difficulties. But she fails to understand as I told her I suffer from depression trying to end my life, she asked "why aren't you dead then?" "because they got to me in time that's why!" I told her as I was in tears. Can you imagine how I feel every morning when I can't get out of bed some mornings as I'm so ill with my rheumatoid arthritis, can you?! " I asked. I can imagine but it' can't be that bad, I am not saying some days it is but some people make it worse than it already is" she told me. It took one and a half hours, I was glad to be back home. I felt like I was being judged for my illness, not how it affects me.

Riots in the streets

Go for it, the whole country will commend you as a hero. If they arrest you, we will ensure your freedom, have no worries.

That's an insult to rats and dogs!

I don't ever remember seeing this news item on mainstream television. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen any item on the news which focuses on the persecution of the sick & disabled. Whenever I look at the National news on TV, I'm looking for any report that makes me feel as though I haven't been forgotten and abandoned by my own people. I'm always disappointed. It's like you don't exist anymore (unless of course you're trying to "fiddle" the British taxpayer as usual).

Is there a reason he can't answer phones?

next time i m lost for expletives is it ok if i give you a bell?

Xerox currently handle translation services for the DWP - they are currently handling medical records in Italian to English for 'disability assessments ' of african asylum seekers that are bogus..the only way these thousands of asylum seekers can be 'shared out ' to another eu country is if they have a medical need that cant be met in italy - hence they are given bogus disability assessments....ask Xerox UK translation dept!

this is a joke is in Duncan smith black mailing David Cameron

god bless the man

@TheKenfig putting it mildly...

The current guidelines mean that this man can avoid going for an assessment by getting appropriate medical evidence once every 3 years which states that he is completely blind and unable to use braille (assuming that is the case). A GP letter is perfect for this. As long as the evidence is submitted with the routine reapplication and is ideally less than 1 year old then he should be automatically put into the support group at the initial review stage. Without this they will usually ask for medical evidence from the GP. NHS GPs are contractually required to provide this within a set time frame, but often don't bother or leave it too long because they get hundreds of these requests and are nusy actually treating people, meaning that the claimant gets called for assessment due to lack of supporting evidence. If there is no recent evidence the policy from the DWP is to call for assessment. The 3 year rule in my opinion is fucking stupid for lifelong or degenerative conditions, but this is how it stands, so it's what you need to work around. A little bit of effort in getting decent, relevant and in date evidence from a GP or appropriate specialist and submitting this with the completed questionnaire can save someone from having to go through unnecessary assessments. A tip is to bring a copy of the ESA50 application form with you to the GP and get them to make SPECIFIC reference to the descriptors they believe that you meet (if any) and why you meet it in the letter. It's about taking ownership of your own health and financial wellbeing by putting in a little bit of effort at the application stage. The system is shit, but it is what it is.

all of this rings true to me... i have been waiting since last august 2012 on reduced rate esa after a 11 minute atos interrogation...i'm frequently hungry trying to work out how to spread everything...i have suffered so many probs over the years and i feel persecuted... even phoning dwp now i feel those people have a harder cheekier attitude on the phone... like "what do you want" after you explain... etc...i want to emmigrate

they are wrong

Just want to see how many people here actually voted for the tories at the last election ?

WTF?????

hear hear

misleading title

Atos are there for one reason and one reason only, to save the goverment cash

what I now find is your gp is frightened to go up against the medical assessment doctor even though he said I'm not fit for work. I have health conditions as long as your arm but no evidence to challenge esa doctor I'm fucked and very tired you cant beat the system . I now no why people take there life

heartbreaking video.. i too hope Ian Duncan smith, is in a accident and is left paralysed, the vile bastard.

That’s as bad as guy who lost his legs in an accident and was asked is his condition likely to improve ?? Like like he was gonna grow new legs !!!

@17iamgod I think you a whole army behind you :)

many vulnerable people on disability have now died due to govt cutting their benefits and forced back to work, but don't force young able bodied migrants coming into the country

and nazis.

Nope

:) sorry rats and dogs :)

Yeah Labour brought it in but the Tories have made it a lot worse.

LOL OK :)

Heart attack and diabetes, sorry dude but this is dietary why are we paying for people who self inflict damage!

I'm not calling the blind man a scaremongerer. I'm calling the person who named this video "Iain Duncan Smith makes a blind man beg" scaremongering, due to the fact that it's hardly begging. I live in Lewisham.

need a partner? ;)

The people complaining and calling the government disgusting should donate money to this man. Each of you donate £1 a day, and this man would not have to depend on money given by government and taken from tax-payers. The problem with this country is that we're addicted to government spending. Despite the so-called 'savage cuts', the government debt is actually increasing. The 'cuts' are not cuts to the debt or even cuts to the deficit or even cuts to spending. The 'cuts' are reductions in projected increases in spending. So, if you previously planned to increase the budget by £20 million, but now you're going to increase it by 'only' £10 million, that's labelled a 'cut'. This country is hurtling towards bankruptcy. It's been living far beyond its means for far too long. Printing money or taxing more doesn't create wealth. It only destroys wealth. Ultimately, a welfare state bankrupts itself, which is what we're seeing now. If we all helped our friends and families as our means allowed, there would be no poverty.

ids must go

mr gaffney, there is no need to verbally abuse the royalty. i don't believe in supporting the royalty but when people like yourself usesuch offensive language it ruins the argument

civil war..only answer

This is total bollox the guy has not lost one penny in benefits he is speculating on what may happen he is a proud man who is nothing more then a mouthpiece for the Scottish independence party

17 dislikes, shame on you!!

I always thought that society is judged on how we take care of the sick and the vulnerable. . Maybe the Westminster parties with the ties to big businesses and the banks would pause for a second and think of those less fortunate.. I doubt that will ever be the case. IDC is not the right man and the tories are looking like they always do.. The rich persons party.. I'm amazed we haven't witnessed the reinstatement of fox hunting.