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No, not true. people arriving in small boats (or in lorries etc) do so as asylum seekers (which does not require them to have any legal status because being an asylum seeker is a legal right and seeking asylum is a legal process to obtaining refugee status - until then, they have a right to...

True but your post has nothing to do with the points I was making - my post was relating to Sunak’s ‘sick note’ comments which applies to everyone not just NHS employees - so my point still stands that GPs are suffering from long term stress and burnout and take time off work/away from patients...

And many are simply on long term or repeated sick leave post-Pandemic, with stress, PTSD, Long-Covid, and debilitating exhaustion from understaffing problems. I don’t think Sunak, being all chipper in their faces about how he wants to end ‘sicknote culture’ and end ‘over-medicalising’ the day...

Good post. There seems to be some rather judgmental attitudes being expressed on this thread - geez, I thought unfounded accusations that those with invisible disabilities are ‘sponging off the welfare state’ disappeared with ‘onyerbike’ Tebbit and the ‘authoritarian populism’ of Thatcherist...

With PIP people still get seen by a healthcare professional if they have a face to face and have application assessed by healthcare provisionals anyway if over the phone - but yet, the process of assessment is contracted out to the private sector- however anyone suggesting millions of people...