But without clear evidence, in the form of comparable figures, that is also hyperbole.
(Noshy love, you know me well enough to understand that i am not picking a fight with you!)
I'm certain that I would never pick a fight with you Brun!
I've been married too long to go there.
I have intimate knowledge of the system, having been through the whole experience.
It is unnecessary and humiliating, the government does not believe your GP, your specialist, yourself! The key reason why it is a sham in every way that it exists, is that there is no jobs for these people no matter the disability. The reason it exists is to stop giving benefits even if they pass the intrusion into their health! Even if the person being assessed has no chance of being employed, no employer would hire them.
It exists, to help the bean counters in Whitehall look as though the country and politicians are doing something about benefit cheats. Whilst it is about moving money from the disadvantaged to the rich. The disadvantaged do not have a voice inside the government, the rich do. It's all about where the tax dollar goes.
But the real embarrassment about the atos system is the government believes them!
The assessors are not doctors, specialists, clinicians, or diagnostic technicians.
They are ex nurses or been within medicine!
And to top it off, they get paid for getting disadvantaged people off benefits, as a bonus!
I don't believe that stats, or even how many people have died is the issue, but to let one die is morally wrong. Too let that many, (if true) is genocide on a scale that should be everybody's concern. Because who's next? The old. The young. The unemployed?
Oh yeah, these have been targeted as well!