I know that mental illness is very real. It is a serious issue; in many cases it is tragic. Yet, forgive me, but I am beginning to worry that it has began to supersede disability in the wider sense. That is to say, as an issue mental illness is taking more prominence; and those with physical conditions are beginning to get elbowed out of the disability rights movement we founded. Look at the Lib dem confidence, where mental illness is being pushed to the fore. I Suppose it’s fair enough – the mentally I’ll have rights to fight for too, certainly – yet I am worried that the voices of those with physical disabilities are at risk of being drowned out, our movement overtaken, not in any overt, conspiratorial sense, but just as a general trend.