"Coercion, tears, government rhetoric, employment gap and welfare reform" from Disability Now.
It sounds like a contemporary article doesn't it? All the ingredients are there, a desire to reduce the number of those claiming IB, disability groups outraged and a complicit media readily producing articles on benefit scroungers.
Except this was 2007* not 2011. Not of course that you'd know that unless you were well informed enough to know who Peter Hain is** and that his tenure of the DWP was in 2007 under New Labour.
*estimated
**Winner of the "I've been Tango'd political award"
Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout loud enough to drown out this tide of abuse against us. Disability Hate Crime, lack of full legal protection, people in care homes costing too much to be let out and not one political party willing to fight for us.
Too right. It could be 1850, too, with all the b****cks about the undeserving poor. I've just written a bit here if you're interested.
ReplyDeleteI was on TV with Peter Hain talking about the closure of Remploy factories, he's a very arrogant person. New labour, old Labour, any Labour the leader requires, he's not called the hit man for nothing
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