I just came across a video from Channel Four News showing a group of disabled people cheering and glorifying IDS’s resignation, and I must say it left a bad taste in my mouth. While his resignation is a piece of good news, to carry on like these so-called ‘activists’ were doing, saying things like ”We got you IDS, and now we’re gonna get the other tories”, is not the way to conduct ourselves. It frankly made ‘us’ look immature. It was fronted by Paula Peters. I know her: she is a relative newcomer, but seems to be becoming one of these pushy types who thinks she can speak for everyone. The venom in what she was saying did not fit the situation, and made the whole disability community look childish, especially with her rather shallow rhetoric; we should not be talking about ‘getting’ people, like children in a playground. Nor should we be grandstanding right now, but welcoming this news with civility. While this resignation is to be welcomed, to welcome it so childishly gives everyone the wrong impression.