Aren't you just asking that we bring back the universally accepted unit of measurement for public policy debates, the Wales?

Except on sugar.

Very revealing that the general public is in favour of measures that mean more money for the median voter, against measures that mean less money for the median voter, against more money for those who aren't the median voter, and for less money for those who aren't the median voter.

Going to be really depressing if the main outcome of this is a set of rules for file names and URLs that makes government and NDPB websites significantly less accessible.

In a similar vein, no PIP is not (simply) about “helping the most vulnerable” - it’s about supporting dignity and independence of folk for whom that is more challenging/expensive than for those without a disability or LT health condition.

The UK’s welfare system has never (just) been a safety net.

If someone opted not to use Motability they could still use their PIP mobility component (paid as cash) for literally anything they want. This could even include a lease car not on the Motability scheme.

Whether you get an entry level car, or a scooter, or a wheelchair accessible vehicle, or a fancy car, is slightly besides the point. You still get the same amount of mobility PIP benefit.

If you pick a nicer car you have to pay for the excess cost, often up-front. But that’s a choice you make.

Motability is a charity-run vehicle leasing scheme. It’s good value and helpful for PIP recipients because it typically bundles together a vehicle lease, insurance and breakdown cover.

Eligible claimants sign up to have their mobility payment made directly to Motability. It’s a convenience thing.

Both components of PIP are paid, by default, as a cash benefit (the daily living component and the mobility component).

The government doesn’t tell you *how* to spend that money. Part of the premise of the benefit is that recipients should be able to make decisions for themselves. “Independently”.

For example, living with a disability or certain health conditions may increase the costs of your domestic living situation, or make you more dependent on transport to get around.

This could be true even if you’re in work and well paid. Your dignity & independence is more expensive than for others.

PIP (and its Scottish equivalent, ADP) is a cash benefit paid to certain people in recognition that their health situation increases the costs they face with daily living challenges and/or getting around.

It has nothing to do with whether you’re working or not and it’s not means tested.

Anecdotal experience: the phenomenon is that some practitioners dabble in academia, not that academics are driven to combine academia with private practice.

The “young and able” you speak of will rarely have security of an academic job before branching out into legal practice. Usually the reverse.

Isn’t it, if anything, the reverse?

That a handful of those in legal practice do a turn for Unis as tutors/running specialist courses, as a bit of intellectual/vocational stimulation?

Anecdotally, the contact hours now expected of salaried legal academics leaves little time for any side hustles!

No you don’t. 🤣