"We are all in this together!" NOT.

I find this story disgusting in the extreme. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-wo ... 0k-1986312

The man heading up ATOS, the organisation responsible for testing and depriving the disabled of benefits is on a mind-boggling annual income funded by the UK taxpayer. . In line with the current practice of naming and shaming offenders, Thierry Breton, a Frenchman who is CEO of the French company, is the man who heads up the benefit testing of disabled UK residents, at the cost of the UK taxpayer.

Very annoying - again

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Lets be careful out there !

Why was French firm given this contract anyway?

Stupid EU rules again I suspect.

Yes but you try buying a French company - you would soon be stopped

Stupid UK gov again selling off the silver

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Trying to deal with ATOS is an absolute nightmare. The staff at DWP are doing their best and do try and help, but their hands are tied.

How did it come to this ??

A French firm has now been gifted a multi million £ ( billion ) contract to assess the ability of folk who were born and bred in this country. Stop and think about that for a minute.

My GP knows my entire medical history, and is the one person I would trust with that information. The government have now decided that my GP's opinion counts for nothing, and my entire future is in the hands of a foreign owned company who's philosophy is all about profit and rewarding the CEO to the tune of £2+million.

I give up.

My Mrs went through all manner of hassle trying to claim some benefit.

In the end she went to tribunal and won. A lot of the previous rejections were based on a DWP 'doctors visit'.

This doctors visit involved him coming through the front door, asking 4 or 5 questions in about 2 minutes and then disappearing. Throughout this visit she was sat in her orthopaedic chair and was clearly in pain.

On the basis of this visit he wrote that she didn't qualify.

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ATOS are about delivering savings to the exchequer. The more savings, the better the bonus they can achieve.

Plus of course these contracts were Government written so will be of poor value to the taxpayer.

On balance more blame lies with the Government rather than ATOS who are just a private firm looking to play the best possible hand it couldn't believe it was dealt in the first place.

This new system has stripped me of any hope and dignity I might have hoped for. I have been under the care and control of my GP for the last 10 or so years, and that GP knows everything about my medical history going back to the year dot.

That GP's knowledge now counts for nothing apparently, and a private French firm called ATOS are supposedly much more able to assess my condition in a 10 minute interview. I don't think so.

Moley

Absolutely disgusting. My Mrs had a similar experience and she opted to appeal. It went to Maidenhead magistrates court and she won her case.

Apparently the number of appeals has risen sharply and so has the number of won appeals as a direct result. The 2 people in front of us at Maidenhead also won.

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ATOS has nothing to do with saving government money. If that were true then the privatised agencies would not be making such huge profits at the taxpayers' expense, with some of the privatised agencies leading the way in tax avoidance.

Sure, a lot of the blame lies with successive UK governments, and that blame is thoroughly rooted in treason against the British people. A large part of the blame also lies with the British electorate for voting the LibLabCon into power, and for failing to be fully aware of just how treacherous and deceitful the political elite and their banker colleagues really are. The UK government, along with its predecessors, is a wiling pawn in the relentless the destruction of the British national State and its eventual total absorption into the developing one-world EU, G7, G8, G20, Bilderberg led, UN guided, one-world government.

ATOS, along with other outsourced agencies, such as G4S; SERCO; Capita; the privatised water & sewage, gas, and electricity supplies; waste disposal; railways; traffic wardens, and associated automatic fines; the coming privatised road tolling; 'academy' schools, etc. etc. are all part of the globalisation program to bring everything under the control of the evolving fascist one-world centralised world government that is under-girded by the UN's Agenda 21. The whole purpose of Agenda 21, which is enthusiastically deployed by local authorities around the globe, is to bring everything under the control of the one-world government. To all the above can be include the deliberate open-door policy of unrestricted immigration practiced by successive governments, and aimed at under-mining the indigenous British culture.

Moley. these agencies are supposed to be very low empathy. They not supposed to show any real concern for the suffering they impose on the needy. Greed, and the raw lust for power are the prime motivators under the developing one-world system. The increasingly sub-human behaviour of the NHS towards the needy, especially the elderly, is another facet of the zero empathy fascist standardised one-world system.