I edited my post because it turns out, according to the government, that 16 million people in this country (24% of the population) are "disabled". I thought 9 million was fanciful.
This is clearly ridiculous. It is a scam to keep the unemployment figures lower, which seem to be far worse than the 1980s.
Long story short, massive numbers of people who are perfectly capable of working doing fk all and getting paid. They need to have all benefits withdrawn and they'll soon get to work - the ones who do not pass a common sense test of "disabled".
Fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are now 2.8 million people classified as not looking for work because of health issues
Let's cut to the chase. There are millions of people who are choosing not to work and being paid not to. Then we are importing large numbers of people - with all the costs involved in that - to fill the resulting vacancies.
We can surely agree it is not "right wing" to suggest that this is absurd and needs to change.