Friday, 17 June 2011  Tory MP suggests Sick & Disabled work for
less than Min Wage  And so it begins.  No-one ever seriously
doubted that Conservatives would challenge the Minimum Wage the
minute they got into power.  Despite it being the most popular
and effective policy introduced by Labour during their term in
office, despite it ensuring a minimum level of security for
everyone, we were all just waiting for this government to start
trying to persuade us that it "constrained free markets" "held
back business" or was simply "un-necessary regulation"  Even I
didn't expect them to argue that sick or disabled people should
work below minimum wage because they are "less productive"
though.  Whatever attempts Philip Davies MP (Con) makes to dress
this up as actually being in the interests of disabled people
themselves, he obviously can't see how sickeningly frightening
his remarks are.  Of ALL the solutions to the problems of a fair
wage, equality of employment and access to suitable jobs for
sick or disabled peo