Absolutely, but when the obesity is also more than likely to be the result of disability, there's am extra level of disturbingly calculating, especially when they've singled out three areas (for now*) for this policy: alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity. Anyone who writes policy in these areas knows that none of these have simple solutions and in general they have complex and deep-seated causes, and they equally know that this is going to further stigmatise people with complex disabilities/MH issues, but they've taken that knowledge and decided that none of it has any value beside the opportunity to kick a vulnerable minority group for political advantage.
* I say for now because there is also a pilot programme in Jobcentres to 'offer' people MH therapy. Now given that Jobcentres are themselves an abusive environment known to be the cause of considerable stress for disabled people, and that they are caught on a pretty much weekly basis compelling people to do things they can only legally ask them to volunteer for, the potential for abuse is appalling. And that one's the pet project of Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader/ex-Deputy PM, not the Tories.
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Date: 2015-04-17 05:16 pm (UTC)* I say for now because there is also a pilot programme in Jobcentres to 'offer' people MH therapy. Now given that Jobcentres are themselves an abusive environment known to be the cause of considerable stress for disabled people, and that they are caught on a pretty much weekly basis compelling people to do things they can only legally ask them to volunteer for, the potential for abuse is appalling. And that one's the pet project of Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader/ex-Deputy PM, not the Tories.