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TheGrimSqueaker wrote:

Tizme1 wrote:I guess she is referring to the fact that Labour appear content to continue with the WCA in some form or another.

That is a very ...... interesting choice of words you have used there Tizme, especially the word "content" which is, if I may say, somewhat loaded?

Labour have said, in the short/medium term, that their intention is to make changes to the WCA to make it more fit for purpose, to use it as a tool to aid rather than a stick to beat; mind you, to achieve that they need to transform the culture at the DWP, but I think there will be some major changes there early on as the active colluders & enablers who have aided the Tories in their vindictiveness are removed.

Kate Green has said that she is treating the Spartacus "Beyond the Barriers" report very seriously and is on record as saying that although

she would not want to scrap the assessment immediately, but would want to replace it as soon as possible.

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I know some, including Ephe, would like WCA scrapped immediately and a return to IB while the situation is reassessed; and I know some, like Sue Marsh, feel that it may be a case of making improvements, albeit cosmetic ones, to the current system while that reassessment goes on. I'm lucky, I'm not having to live with the realities of this process on a daily basis, I can only imagine the plunging feeling in the stomach that accompanies the arrival of that brown envelope; so I don't know all the rights and wrongs of this whole thing. But I do think that is more than a little disingenuous to use the word "content" when, quite clearly, Labour are not content with the status quo; they may not be moving quickly enough, their policies may be a little opaque at present, but I think, I hope, that real change will happen ...... if people give it a chance to happen.

Tizme1 wrote:

TheGrimSqueaker wrote:

Tizme1 wrote:I guess she is referring to the fact that Labour appear content to continue with the WCA in some form or another.

That is a very ...... interesting choice of words you have used there Tizme, especially the word "content" which is, if I may say, somewhat loaded?

Labour have said, in the short/medium term, that their intention is to make changes to the WCA to make it more fit for purpose, to use it as a tool to aid rather than a stick to beat; mind you, to achieve that they need to transform the culture at the DWP, but I think there will be some major changes there early on as the active colluders & enablers who have aided the Tories in their vindictiveness are removed.

Kate Green has said that she is treating the Spartacus "Beyond the Barriers" report very seriously and is on record as saying that although

she would not want to scrap the assessment immediately, but would want to replace it as soon as possible.

https://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... -election/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I know some, including Ephe, would like WCA scrapped immediately and a return to IB while the situation is reassessed; and I know some, like Sue Marsh, feel that it may be a case of making improvements, albeit cosmetic ones, to the current system while that reassessment goes on. I'm lucky, I'm not having to live with the realities of this process on a daily basis, I can only imagine the plunging feeling in the stomach that accompanies the arrival of that brown envelope; so I don't know all the rights and wrongs of this whole thing. But I do think that is more than a little disingenuous to use the word "content" when, quite clearly, Labour are not content with the status quo; they may not be moving quickly enough, their policies may be a little opaque at present, but I think, I hope, that real change will happen ...... if people give it a chance to happen.

Grim, as you might guess from my previous post, I am quite angry so I am in fact going to go and make a cuppa! Just thought I'd answer this though because I wanted to say if I was going to load any word in my comment you quoted, it would be 'appear'. I don't think the person who made the tweet has any real understanding of what either Labour or Greens [or probably any other party] is actually saying. I'm with Ephe on this. WCA should be scrapped immediately. People are dying ffs. I too am lucky in that it doesn't affect me - though who knows, one day it might. But either way, people dying because we can't - sorry I mean won't give them the basic support they need? Not in my fucking name.