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Inspired by the "science" of eugenics, Nazi Germany sterilised or put to death the long-term disabled, particularly the mentally-troubled, in the interests of creating the supermen and -women of the master race. This was before they got round to the homosexuals, Slavs and Jews.
We do not believe in such crude stuff. Instead, we label such people as "shirkers" and deny them benefits. Is it any wonder that so many have taken their own lives? From the time that the cold-blooded Peter Lilley set the programme of discrimination in motion, no government or political party has been free of blame.
Now the WCA is to be abolished. In the last programme of his series, Jolyon Jenkins asks whether its replacement is going to be any better.
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