The controversy only begins when you look at solutions to the problem.
How do you identify somebody who is pretending they have a bad back and separate them from somebody like Vince who I assume genuinely does have a bad back? We can't, the process would trample over their human rights more than likely, there's that phrase again raising it's ugly head.
People with depression is the one for me. Why are they being encouraged to stay at home, alone, with no support group around them, totally isolated with a box full of medication they have to neck every day?
For me, I'd sack every analyst and pen pusher in the NHS and Home Office and start saving these people, because being able to provide facts and figures on how many people have come into the hospital with broken bones and how many people died of the lurgey, is much less important than saving lives, that will always be a fact.
People don't and can't work because this country is a pushover of a nation.