BILL KICKS INJURED

PASS the sick bag after hardline Con MP Phil Davies cooed he was wooed by heartless slasher girlfriend Esther McVey’s chips when her £2,400 Universal Credit cuts will leave families relying on foodbank charity to eat. WHY is Tabitha falling off her horse more valuable to Tories than injured paramedics, shopworkers, traffic wardens and train drivers?

Unsaddled riders will be exempt from the scrapping of free legal support. But it will hit up to 350,000 claimants, including grafters who are harmed at work.

This illustrates a gaping flaw in the Civil Liability Bill, which MPs will be voting on tomorrow.

It is falsely hawked as a clampdown on fraudulent whiplash claims. The Bill doubles to £2,000 – or £5,000 in road accidents – the limit below which legal costs aren’t repayable in England and Wales. It would be a £1.3billion gift for insurance fatcats at a £146million cost to the public purse with heftier losses for hurt workers.

I’ve no gripe with the Government U-turn excluding cyclists, pedestrians, vulnerable road users and Tabithas but I do to the cheating of hurt teachers, coppers, firefighters and nurses. That’s why injury specialist Tom Jones, head of policy at Thompsons Solicitors, told me: “This is a Tory car crash that robs injured workers whose claims have nothing to do with whiplash.” I hope MPs stop this injustice.