Originally Posted by bigsinky

I am in a pretty unique position in that at one stage in my career i was a fraud investigator for the dole. I was also responsible for setting up an intelligence unit so had some insight into the facts and figures. the unit was staffed with investigators and admin staff capable of detecting about £15M of benefit fraud in Northern Ireland. the conservative estimate for fraud in Northern Ireland at that stage was about £125M. that was 15 years ago, so when you ask do you think there are 2m sick in the uk, most definately yes. Put it this way the live caseload for incap in NI is around 10% of the population circa 125,000 people, so i would expect there to be at least 2 million in the UK

Originally Posted by bigsinky

"well, Mr Smith, if you can't return to work, we'll arrange to have you put down"

"what!!!!"

"yes, sir, new conservative initiative, voluntary euthanasia."

"but i am sick i can't work"

"sir, there is a ressession going on, you're adding to the burden on society, you either return to work or we arrange to have you killed"

Originally Posted by Dingdongler

Sorry, but your statement makes no sense. Nothing you have said provides evidence that 2 million people are too sick to work

Originally Posted by bigsinky

whatever