{"id":90025,"date":"2026-02-13T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90025"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:19:22","slug":"dont-be-disabled-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/13\/dont-be-disabled-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be disabled in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/obr.uk\/box\/international-comparisons-of-health-related-welfare-spending-and-generosity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is from the Office for Budget Responsibility<\/a>, in 2023:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46-550x356.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46-550x356.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46-463x300.png 463w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46-600x389.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-13.15.46.png 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The message is, don't be disabled in the UK: we really do not support those who are at all well.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what Sir Jim Ratcliffe has to say about that?<\/p>\n<p>Or Farage? I can't help but think they are mates.<\/p>\n<p>We really do need a politics for people that can deliver a politics of care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Office for Budget Responsibility, in 2023: The message is, don&#8217;t be disabled in the UK: we really do not support those<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/13\/dont-be-disabled-in-the-uk\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,87,147,106,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-health","category-inequality","category-politics","category-politics-of-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90027,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025\/revisions\/90027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}