Isabel Oakeshott Comments About Disabled People

Isabel Oakeshott was on the panel on last night’s Question Time on BBC.

The question was asked: “What’s the best way to help people with disabilities into work?”

The second question raised this evening #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/jhJWO3gsTG
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) November 23, 2023

It comes as ‘An estimated 370,000 people with disabilities and chronic health conditions will be ineligible for incapacity benefits worth an extra £5,000 a year and forced to look for work under planned reforms unveiled by the chancellor in the autumn statement,’ reports The Guardian.

Tom Waters, an associate director at IFS, said: “Of the 370,000 people who will lose out from this reform, the overwhelming majority are expected to nonetheless remain on benefits, just with a lower level of income. Only 10,000 – 2.7% of those affected – are expected to move into work.”

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This was Oakeshott’s take on the plan…

“I think people on disability benefits and sick pay are an enormous untapped resource”

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott says reform to the disability benefits criteria, announced in the autumn statement, is not “unreasonable”#bbcqt https://t.co/kngz6jcWcz pic.twitter.com/oOBIgDgCCa
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) November 23, 2023

Reactions

https://twitter.com/fatzdomingo/status/1727791270519591156

As the mother of a special needs 35 year old daughter, the staggering ignorance and cruetly of what Isabel Oakeshott says here is inexcusable.@BBCNewsnight https://t.co/dvyHI9P7b3
— Gina Miller (@thatginamiller) November 23, 2023

Claiming people on incapacity benefits “muck around” from a woman who moonlights as a ‘journalist’ and right-wing air head#bbcqt pic.twitter.com/OqSpynnIub
— David (@Zero_4) November 23, 2023

“I think…” says Isabel Oakeshott… and that right there was her first mistake #bbcqt

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— Stuzi 🐝🐝 (@stuzi_pants) November 23, 2023

What Isabel Oakeshott means is:

“Why shouldn’t we work disabled people to death?” #BBCQT https://t.co/KpB3x569bV
— Andrew Morris (@AndiMorris85) November 23, 2023

Sick up to the back teeth of people like Isobel Oakeshott demonising chronically sick and disabled in this country. Nobody chooses to be this sick or disabled. They would work if they could. No one is “mucking about.” Stop bullying the most vulnerable in society. #bbcqt https://t.co/LYLeJCq6Nc
— 💙 🇺🇦Fritha Malcouronne. 🇺🇦 💙 (@NomadicWriter) November 23, 2023

Does anyone else know poorly people who muck around for 6 months? https://t.co/GOKIehzgRV
— Julia Coleman (@hopeospical) November 23, 2023

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