Wednesday, May 11, 2011

We Were All Thinking It.

Disabled people to march in London against cuts to benefits and services
They can't be that disabled then.

10 comments:

JuliaM said...

It's a pity the usual suspects are digging in and ramping up the hyperbole and hysterics all the way to 11.

While no-one wants to see the genuinely disabled affected, the tone of this campaign is becoming very off putting.

Senior said...

The protest wasn't organised by disabled people; it was organised by charities with links to the TUC, which has links to the Labour Party.

Disabled people trust the charities they use so much, that if they're told they're going to lose their benefits - they'll believe it. To get disabled people to protest, charities have taken advantage of this, by deliberately frightening them online, in newsletters and verbaly with scaremongering propaganda.

James Higham said...

Disabled in the head?

JuliaM said...

Ross, you've got this one scheduled in OoL but it's got no title atm- do you want me to put this title in?

Ross said...

Oh, I'd decided not to put there after all. Wasn't sure of the reaction. Must learn how to delete those posts.

JuliaM said...

I wouldn't worry about the reaction - it's a good post :)

Mark Wadsworth said...

It's awful, but yes, I did think that.

On the BBC coverage, the reporter interviewed a blind lady. The reporter told us (the viewer) as introduction that this poor lady had seen big cuts to her disability benefits.

Well, no she hadn't, actually.

Laban said...

Did they march, or stagger ? Or shuffle ?

Ross said...

They staggered and shuffled.

Which was unfortunate as passersby thought it was a zombie attack and terrible things happened in the ensuing panic.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Right, blogger swallowed my hilariously witty real life sob story from the BBC about a blind woman who, and I quote verbatim here, "had seen her benefits reduced".

Well, exactly not.