Mucking around in tutus is all very well and good, but I should write something about this. The government proposals to ‘cut the wealthfare bill’ by trying to avoid giving benefits to disabled young people was defeated in the Lords this week. They were trying to deny young crips their automatic right to benefits if they are fortunate enough to have moderately wealthy parents. Labour said that proposal ‘crossed the line of British decency’; I’d go further – it crosses the line of human decency! Even the daily mail called the proposals callous. My proposals weren’t poor, but growing up they needed the extra money they got from my benefits to help support me. Bringing up a kid with something like CP isn’t cheap: we need support and special equipment to live. That costs money. I daresay, hard working and industrious though they were, there’s a chance that, without the extra financial support they got from my benefits, my parents would have had to put me in a home. I dead to think what impact these proposals might have on other families.

And what really gets my goat is that the Tories now intend to force these proposals through the Lords by the back door. That really does get me worked up as it smacks of arrogance – they are putting their interests in cutting the deficit before the concerns of the Lords for the needs of people with disabilities. Something really must be done to get these inhuman arseholes out of power before they really start ruining people’s lives!