Kate Garraway’s ‘entitled’ comment sparks outrage as GMB viewers fume
Kate Garraway’s comments about Crohn’s disease received backlash from GMB viewers (Image: ITV)
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway has come under fire over comments she made during a discussion about PIP payments on the ITV breakfast show. The star was described as “entitled” as she was dismissive of life altering condition Crohn’s disease amongst other remarks as she seemed to side with constant reassessment of people on the disability payment.
Taking to X viewers vented their fury. “Kate Garraway on #GMB seems to think that Crohn’s disease is a bit of a tummy ache “it doesn’t stop you leaving the house” – well, that’s the entitlement talking.” Another added: “If you’ve never seen a friend or family member cry and puke from the pain of stomach cramps before filling their pants with bloody diarrhoea I guess you wouldn’t think Crohn’s disease is much of a problem. A third chimed in: “You have too many people casting judgements on health conditions they have no understanding or experience of. That’s a problem!!! #GMB.”
A fourth fumed: “Omg so Kate saying you can only have PIP if you literally can’t get out of bed. What rubbish, people on PIP can and do work!”
A fifth opined: “Kate On PIP ‘Changes, to get disabled people IN to Work’. PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT IS NOT AN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT.”
Meanwhile a sixth shared: “They’re named degenerative diseases, by those who study it, for a reason. If we taxed the ultra rich way more there’d be more available to help the vulnerable. I’d argue that is the government’s job.”
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Dr Shani Dhanda appeared on the show to question why the government needed to constantly reassess people with life long conditions who receive the benefit.
Dr Shani Dhanda appeared on Good Morning Britain discussing PIP payments (Image: ITV)
Kate responded: “I will I will give the argument that was given to me. Because it’s a huge financial commitment on behalf of the taxpayer, and people might need it one year, and there might be people that have degenerative conditions that things get worse and they need more.
“But there might be people who actually it gets better for. So the argument was given that by assessing every year, you can be clear that the money is going to the people who really need it,” she said.
“I’m only being hard on this because I think it gets to the absolute nub of of what we want as a society and what the government says it wants, which is it wants to help disabled people to work, and cutting this is going to change that,” she continued.
However Dhanda pointed out: “A lot of people actually use PIP to stay in work to compensate for other government failures. One of which is access to work, paying for workplace adjustments.”
