While fortunately I don’t think Lyn and I have been effected too badly by the changes (yet), this Guardian article reveals the true horror behind the implementation of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the degree to which the Tories are screwing up disability benefits. It’s horrific when you look at what is going on: people with very severe conditions are being forced off benefits and into work, often after being assessed by people who are completely unqualified to do so. People all over the place are loosing their mobility and means to live; many have been left totally isolated and vulnerable; there have been starvations and suicides. But where is the media attention? Where is the outcry? That’s what gets to me: disabled people are suffering because of what the tories are doing, (a situation now bound to get even worse with the removal of european human rights legislation) but nobody seems to care.