Tories Unveil Tough New Campaign Poster on Benefits as They Announce Plan to Make the Lazy 'Work for the Dole'

David Cameron announced a crackdown on the workshy yesterday, declaring 'the free ride is over.

The message was carried on the first of a new series of posters, featuring the slogan: 'Let's cut benefits for those who refuse work.'
Tories hope the series of slogans starting with 'Let's' will show the party wanting to work with the public to change Britain.
Earlier posters suggesting that Mr Cameron alone would achieve things were deemed a failure.

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Pentagon Continues to Use 'Personality Disorder' Discharges to Cheat Veterans out of Benefits

An army sergeant who had received 22 honors including a Combat Action Badge prior to being wounded in Iraq by a mortar shell was told he was faking his medical symptoms and subjected to abusive treatment until he agreed to a "personality disorder"(PD) discharge.

After a doctor with the First Cavalry division wrote he was out for "secondary gain," Chuck Luther was imprisoned in a six- by eight-foot isolation chamber, ridiculed by the guards, denied regular meals and showers and kept awake by perpetual lights and blasting heavy metal music---abuses similar to the punishments inflicted on terrorist suspects by the CIA.'

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Cancer Victims Threatened With Benefit Cuts

Terminally ill cancer patients are being threatened with benefit cuts if they do not attend, it has been revealed.

The interviews are for people seeking employment and support allowance, which replaced incapacity benefit and income support in October 2008.

Cancer sufferers having chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or who are terminally ill, are meant to be exempt but a new report reveals many are still being forced into the meeting with benefit bosses.'

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Draconian Drug Tests

The government's welfare reform bill, due to return to the House of Lords in October, will give Jobcentre staff unprecedented new powers that are intrusive, potentially coercive and take the benefit system into worrying new directions. As the bill stands, benefit claimants who refuse to answer probing questions about their drug or alcohol use or attend a substance misuse "assessment" could see their benefit withdrawn for up to 26 weeks and potentially have Jobcentre staff "impose" one or more drug tests to determine whether there is or has been any drug in their body.

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Nationwide Lie Detector Tests To Catch Benefit Cheats

Currently 25 local councils use voice risk analysis technology to test if a claimant is providing false information but now the scheme will be roled out nationwide.

In Harrow, north-west London, where the technology was first introduced, officials estimate they have saved £300,000 in three months by rejecting fraudulent claims.

Unemployed people could also be forced to carry out "community punishments" such as litter-picking or gardening if they miss meetings designed to help them back into the workplace.
And single parents and those on sickness benefits will have part of their weekly payments stopped for not keeping to a promise that they will make themselves ready for work.

The tough sanctions have been put forward by a Government adviser and could be adopted by ministers as part of a new regime to end Britain's culture of benefits dependency.

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