Living on the dole -- England

Suddenly almost 900,000 people in England are feeling a lot better. From The UK Telegraph:

900,000 choose to come off sickness benefit ahead of tests
The 878,300 who decided not to have an official assessment of whether they were fit for work was more than a third of the total number of people claiming sickness-related benefits.

The statistics also revealed that some claimants cited conditions such as �blisters�, �sprains and strains� and �acne� as preventing them from having a job.

More than 46,120 people claimed incapacity benefit because of �behavioural disorders due to the use of alcohol� while 29,130 claimants cited drug use.

Ministers said the figures showed the full extent of how millions had been �trapped on welfare� for decades.

Emphasis mine -- the Ministers can not say anything else because it would bring to light the plain and simple fact that their "Social Justice" has de-incentivized the workforce and people found it easier to lay about on the Dole instead of getting off their fat bums and finding a real job. The Ministers are the ones that need to be at the head of the unemployment lines. The rest of the article goes into some detail on the reforms that are coming into practice. We need to do a bunch of these here but the Democrats would never let it happen; they are building up their voting base of the institutional poor and the illegal immigrants with free stuff -- this would throw a monkey-wrench into the works... And a tip 'o the tam to Lucianne for the link.