ONCE again we have dear old Iain Duncan Smith trying to heal up to a million disabled and sick people by — you’ve guessed it — forcing them into work or be put on workfare schemes because “Arbeit macht frei,” which as all good Tories will know, translates to “Work makes you free,” though IDS’s version is “Work is good for your health.”

I’m guessing that IDS wants his slogan put above every single DWP office in Britain.

Duncan Smith has constantly lied to the electorate. In fact the UK Statistics Authority stated that he had breached the code of practice relating to the use of national statistics for his claim that 8,000 people moved into work as a result of the planned introduction of the coalition’s benefit cap.

Duncan Smith has also refused to publish the number of people who have died after being questionably passed as “fit for work.”

His excuse is that the “real numbers could be too misleading and emotive,” which I’m sure will comfort the families of those who have taken their own lives because of benefit sanctions — the families of people like Richard Sanderson, an unemployed man who stabbed himself through the heart twice when his family faced losing their home to housing benefit cuts.

When IDS comes out with his usual drivel of “too many sick and disabled people have been left languishing in a life without work, when work is actually possible for them,” what he really means is that, to him, it just doesn’t matter if some sick or disabled people take their own lives because that’s a pound or two saved for “the hard-working taxpayer.”

It would be good to say that at least we have an effective opposition party intent on pressing Duncan Smith to stop vilifying and attacking disabled people, but at the moment there’s more important things than defending those least able to defend themselves. They are too busy trying to pick a leader.

Enough is enough, the attacks on disabled people cannot go on. The rancid right wing cannot be allowed to continue down this path. Who the hell is going to help us fight these continual IDS ideas?

Given that many a word is spoken in jest, I’d like to finish off with a joke.

A guy walks into a pub and sees Iain Duncan Smith and David Cameron supping a pint. He goes up to them and asks:

“What are you two doing here?”

IDS says to the guy: “I intend to slaughter 1,000,000 disabled people and three clowns.”

The guy asks: “Why the clowns?”

IDS turns to Cameron and says: “See, no-one gives a crap about disabled people!”

• Clive Arnold is a carer.