Reposted from Kate Belgrave
This one goes out to every prat MP and commentator who says we must keep hacking away at social security until there is nothing left to cut. I like to think this story will remind those people about some of the crap that disabled people have to put up with as they take the brunt of cuts:
Video: I didn’t have a carer and I was so thirsty I went to Asda at 5am in my wheelchair to get a drink with a straw and help
A week or two ago, I again accompanied Angela Smith of Wembley as she travelled to her jobcentre and work programme appointments in her wheelchair. (I first went with Angela to Wembley jobcentre about a month ago). Angela has a master’s degree and worked for about 20 years in policy and disability support until she was made redundant…
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Heart breaking.
The sooner this government goes the better.
we might get a worse government!
Only if it’s a Tory/UKIP coalition.
this is disgusting!!!
With labour agreeing with the austerity measures, the future looks very frightening indeed!!
Whoa! Labour seems to have committed to the same spending limits as the Coalition, for the first year of a Labour Parliament. That’s not the same as agreeing with Tory austerity measures. Labour intends to make different decisions on how the money is spent.
How many poor and disabled people are consigned to another year of misery and slow death by that cynical promise, designed to buy back a few votes from the wilfully ignorant and the morally vacuous?