{"id":24160,"date":"2018-01-16T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/16\/the-new-work-and-pensions-secretary-is-an-insult-to-disabled-people\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:37:00","slug":"the-new-work-and-pensions-secretary-is-an-insult-to-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=24160","title":{"rendered":"The new work and pensions secretary is an insult to disabled people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In previous roles, Esther McVey never cared about the impact of her policies and appeared to relish removing disability supportAs backlashes go, the days following Esther McVey\u2019s appointment as the new work and pensions secretary have seen intense criticism. Between 2012 and 2013, as minister for disabled people and later employment minister, McVey was famed for defending the indefensible, saying it was \u201cright\u201d that people were having to use food banks and claiming that benefit sanctions \u201cteach\u201d jobseekers to take looking for work seriously&nbsp;\u2013 going as far as comparing unemployed people to naughty schoolchildren being punished by a teacher \u2013 despite the destitution and death that sanctions have since caused.&nbsp; Related: Calls for Theresa May to reconsider Esther McVey&#8217;s move to DWP Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/jan\/16\/esther-mcvey-work-pensions-secretary-insult-disabled-people\" target=\"_blank\">The new work and pensions secretary is an insult to disabled people<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In previous roles, Esther McVey never cared about the impact of her policies and appeared to relish removing disability supportAs backlashes go, the days following Esther McVey\u2019s appointment as the new work and pensions secretary have seen intense criticism. Between 2012 and 2013, as minister for disabled people and later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}