Tory MP Blasts IDS Plan to Grab Mentally Ill’s Cash As 'Brainless'

Plans to strip benefits from the mentally ill unless they agree to treatment were savaged as "complete tosh” today – by an influential TORY MP. Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the Health Select Committee, said the proposal was “unethical, unworkable nonsense” and “fundamentally flawed”. Iain Duncan Smith is looking at forcing claimants with depression or anxiety to undergo therapy as a condition of getting sickness benefits. But Dr Wollaston said: “Presumably this complete tosh planted by someone who has no understanding of consent to treatment.” Posting on Twitter, she added: “When I say it’s a ‘no brainer’ I mean this unethical, unworkable kite flying comes from someone with no brain.” Read more on the Daily Mirror website.