This morning the Tories have shown their true intent. They plan to get one in five people off incapacity benefit and into work, thereby saving £600 million. This money will then go on schemes to get people back into work. Never have I heard anything more barbaric, selfish or arrogant: the Tories seem to think that people choose to be on benefit, as if they are too lazy to get a job. Any intelligent person will know that that is not the case – most of my friends want desperately to work, but there are simply no jobs that they can do. Now we will worry that, if the Tories get in, we could get our benefits taken from us and have to live off charity.

And what are the Tories planning to do with the money they save, other than lining their own pockets? Reforms to the education system, including the introduction of more vocational schools and courses. In other words, a return to the old repressive 11+ system, where kids who failed were blighted for life. It was a system designed to perpetuate class barriers, despite Tory bull about a parity of esteem. Now the Tories are trying to justify reinstating such a system by trotting out a load of crap about ‘choice’ and the decentralisation of power, but anyone can see that that’s just a front for the same old Tory policies, coming from a group of people who thinks it’s their birthright to rule. To such people, we crips are, at best, lazy, and at worst a pest to be got rid of.