When I first saw the title of this article, I prepared myself to get angry. With a headline like ‘Do disability Rights cost too much” you expect it to be one of those pieces of bullshit arguing that disabled people are nothing but worthless parasites. It is, however, nothing like that. It’s actually quite an interesting potted history of the disability rights campaign, from it’s origins to the present day; it covers things like DLA.

It ends with the following: ”All of this was largely uncontentious in years of plenty, but austerity has brought with it demands that the welfare state be cut back. DLA costs billions and the Treasury is committed to finding an alternative that will see the rising bill reduced by a whopping 20%. No wonder there is such concern among disability campaigners. A struggle for rights which began half a century ago is threatening to go into reverse.” Well worth a read