Sicknote culture, UK clone

Talking heads in Poland revel in painting a picture of Poland as an outstanding country, in its shortcomings and in its achievements. More often than not, their claims are based on weak foundations, incomplete statistics or simply ignorance of the outside world, which tends to share, to different degrees, most of Polish faults and strengths.

One case in point is the so-called sicknote culture, which is seen as a typically Polish invention, but in fact has easily reached other nations, recently the UK. Britain is just waking up to the extent of the problem, with less than a fifth of incapacity benefits lawfully claimed and the system of handing out sick notes ridiculously lenient. Striving to tone done the unemployment figures, Labour pursued policies which actually encouraged people to claim health benefits instead of registering as the jobless. It recently set up a make-shift review procedure to sift through those pocketing government help, but it's the new cabinet that is going face the issue in its entirety.

Brilliant language:
1. a sick note,
2. claim incapacity benefits,
3. claim government handouts,
4. a claimant,
5. be on incapacity benefit,
6. undergo stringent medical tests,
7. put on unemployment benefit,
8. a massive underestimate,
9. a freeloader,
10, a taxpayer,
11. suffer ill health,
12. be in a wheelchair and on continual painkillers,
13. The rot starts at the top,
14. They were caught stealing,
15. the benefits culture,
16. DLA.