‘It has to stop’

I may have attacked the Daily Mail in the past, but this article about the effects of coalition cuts on people with disabilities is well-rounded, humane and well worth a read. While I am hesitant of it’s talk about morality as it is a subjective construct, it paints a vivid, harrowing picture of what life will be like for many of ‘us’. As it says, Condem Britain is a place ”[w]here our Members of Parliament kick 12 bells out of vulnerable people but allow the extraordinarily wealthy to leap through tax loopholes designed to protect their already huge stash.” and where, it goes on ‘some are so materially rich that if they lived to be hundreds of years old – and never did another days work in their lives – it would not dent their coffers and others die for want of a warm bed and a regular meal.” As the writer notes, ”such disparities are obscene”. This overt oppression of those with disabilities by the government must stop. Who knows, now papers like the Mail are publishing such articles, maybe the tide has turned.

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