It is simply no longer possible to be disabled and a Tory, says angry activist

[Northerner]

Ellis, 59, a mild-mannered disability rights adviser from Lancaster, who has used a wheelchair for the past seven years because of diabetes-related nerve damage, suddenly found himself landed with the job of explaining to the country why this latest set of disability cuts were intolerable – even to a committed Conservative supporter.

“I want to highlight what a load of crap disabled people are going through at the moment. That’s something good that has come out of this,” he says, in an upstairs room at Lancaster’s, Here To Support centre, a precariously funded advice centre, that currently receives about 60 calls a week from people locally who believe they have been wrongly refused disability benefits and are in financial and emotional turmoil.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...e-conservative-disability-graeme-ellis-labour

 

[Copepod]

I find it hard to believe that anyone who supports the rights of anyone other than wealthy people can honestly be a Conservative supporter. More likely to be a volunteer / supporter of organisations such as Here to Support, CAB etc.

 

[AlisonM]

I see from Aunty they've done a U-turn.

.../Ministers say they will not target other benefits to pay for axing cuts to disability payments as they seek to heal a rift over last week's Budget.

Welfare Secretary Stephen Crabb made the pledge in his first speech since replacing Iain Duncan Smith, who quit with an attack on the planned cuts.../

I should D*** well think so too.

 

[Northerner]

Osborne went awol today... 🙄 Speaks volumes to me that they didn't see all this coming.

 

[AlisonM]

Osborne went awol today... 🙄 Speaks volumes to me that they didn't see all this coming.

True that. I think part of that was arrogance, they really thought the 'skiver/cheat' labels would be enough to let them get away with it. IDS certainly caught them on the hop though. But if he had such serious issues, why did it take him so long and why go along with it at all? Two faced git, I'm thinking. And there's still that £30 p/w reduction for folk in the WRAG group to come. Like many others, I'm likely to be hit hard by that. I'm looking into getting myself advanced into the Support Group since I'm increasingly limited and unlikely to improve at all, but need to talk to CAB and my GP about it before doing anything. The whole prospect of jumping though all those hoops scares me silly.

 

[trophywench]

Well they are all in it purely to make money for those who already have more than enough of it and everything they do is specifically designed so as not to place any blame for any part of anything, going wrong.

It's OK if the elderly or disabled die of course whatever may have led up to their deaths since being either is not their fault. And the death certificates won't give the cause of their deaths as eg 'Loss of Benefits' or 'Fuel Poverty' - so QED. Neither of those things ever caused anyone's death - and you'd be incredibly stupid to ever think it might have.

The Sugar Tax will be used to fund more sport in schools. Lovely. But of course if people don't BUY the stuff any more or the manufacturers reduce the sugar content and therefore legitimately avoid the Tax, there won't be ANY money for Sport in schools. But it won't be the Government's fault at all whatsoever. It will be OUR fault for refusing point blank to support Sport in Schools - and you'd be incredibly stupid to ever think it might be the Government's.

I hadn't actually used to be cynical, I used to believe what people 'in Authority' told me. But Life has taught be when I MUST be cynical.

Look for the Hidden Agenda in EVERY blooming thing - you'll find it !

 

[SB2015]

They describe the extra sport in schools as if it does not already happen. Staff put in hours working with students organising sports clubs as well as exercise classes, climbing wall, matches, ... They also withdrew all the funding for the scheme that arranged sports across primary schools, and then reintroduced in under a new name as if it was their idea.

They did the same when they suddenly declared a new idea that every pupil would have a designated tutor. Have they been into a school? I have worked in and visited many schools and the tutor system, as well as a house system in many, was in place everywhere.

 

[trophywench]

A bit the same as having a nominated GP who has overall responsibility for your care. I was told last year who mine was (since my existing one had retired) and although I must have been to the Drs nearly 10x for various stuff since - I have yet to meet her and when I've asked 'Are there any with Dr M available?' there never are. Nor have I seen her, you know, odd times you're about the place and they come out for the loo or whatever, or seen her name come up on the screen in the waiting room that announces the appointments as the docs call people in. She isn't on the website either!