I agree with Mel Stride, the whole mental health thing has gone too far, says Nigel Farage

I agree with Mel Stride, the whole mental health thing has gone too far, says Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has praised Mel Stride

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Nigel Farage

By Nigel Farage


Published: 21/03/2024

- 22:45

The medical journal The Lancet talks about falling birth rates...

The medical journal The Lancet talks about falling birth rates.

It talks about them falling across the Western world.


But of course, it talks also about the really quite steep decline here in this country.

And it says that the only way we can deal with this is through open immigration.

Otherwise, the magazine says we won't be able to sustain economic growth, but they do concede that it will lead to staggering social change.

Yet an ever increasing number of people are not working, they're being registered as disabled, and most of them are for reasons of mental health.

Mel Stride

Nigel Farage has praised Mel Stride

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And it's extraordinary. They can get an extra £390 a month.

If they register with mental illness and they don't even have to go out and look for a job.

This is 14 times the number anticipated by the government when it put in this category, called substantial risk of mental health problems in 2011.

And into all of this, the pensions minister and actually, I have to say, Mel Stride, full marks to you, has said we should not let normal life anxieties be classified as mental health problems.

That the whole thing has gone too far.

And he believes we need to get a chunk of those who are claiming these benefits back into the workplace.

I have to say, it's not always that I sit here and agree 100 per cent with ministers, but I do on this one.

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