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January 10, 2012 9:26 am

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  • Anonymous

    I’m disabled and what annoys me more then  somebody calling me a retard or cripple or  house bound or  what ever, is the accusation is that I’m work shy.

     I have now been with Remploy, Shaw trust, and the Job centre, the fact is unless your really able to get around then the chance of getting a job is now zero. Labour has put all the problems of getting employed onto the disabled person, they did nothing at all to help employers employing people. Blair stated employers had to have a social conciousness over disabled  people, which is rubbish. Employers make profits and money and have a retard cripple call me what you like doing sod all , at the moment employers are cutting back to  reduce costs and they are not going to employ people.

    How many of Miliband staff are disabled, how many disabled people does he have as special advisor, yes I know you have to give £100,000 to become an advisor in Labour.

    The lowest employer of the disabled are the Government, why, well according to my MP because Parliament is old and not fit for purpose, then get it sorted you made the DDA which stated saying a building was not fit would not be accepted.

    So all this nonsense of spending the hours looking for somebody within labour who was offended over stupid childish comments, yet we are suposed to be happy Miliband calls us work shy scroungers I know which is the worse and Miliband hits the target each time he states we are the party of the hard working as he had done again to day.

    Stop using people like me hitting the Tories because your a dam sight worse then they are.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=599376817 Richard Tamerighi

      Having worked for 30 years in first the civil service and latterly the NHS  but now medically unemployable due to industrial injury,I am dependent on opiate painkillers which in themselves are debilitating and have an incurable blood disorder so  I share your feelings and epathise with you in your predicament.

      Benefit being routinely reviewed every two years means that I have ‘enjoyed’ the routine cold humiliation by   benefit agency in house medical examiners,my benefits have ALWAYS been routinely refused only to be restored at appeal -  and I have attended numerous appeals with both consultants and union barristers in tow-which has proved both costly and unnecessary for the Benefits Agency yet the cycle of humiliation and vilification as a supposedly ‘workshy lazy’ individual continues…the problem is outwardly I do not look ill and there lies the issue…in fact I have been told so many times ‘you don’t LOOK ill’ I begin to wonder how  exactly I am supposed to look.

      The part that sticks in my craw the most is that most if not all of the present reviews  of the welfare system and consequent attacks on sick and disabled began under New Labour and continued under the ConDems- its the latter getting the flak which I am not too bothered about but knowing my own party is mostly responsible for this attack does bother me.

      I do not have any problem with the principle that if you are able then you should work and not expect the state to keep you indefinitely if you are able and simply refuse to work but there now seems no end to the assumption that if you do not work and are disabled you are a scrounger in fact its become the in vogue phrase to most people which I find offensive and for some causes considerable unnecessary personal stress too.

      In addition employers only want the youngest and brightest of workers in general,many highly qualified and able bodied people are out of work for no better reason than there are no jobs for them….so where are the supposedly ‘work shy’ ‘lazy’ ‘benefit scroungers’ supposed to fit in the great scheme of things? All very well stopping benefit but what jobs are the sick and disabled expected to do?   

      As it happened the largest employers of disabled people was the voluntary and local authority sector where disabled persons job placements were paid for or sponsored by government funding in the main,which has now mostly been reduced or  stopped completely so a valuable area of work for the long term sick or disabled has pretty well dried up due to pressure on budgets.
      No normal employer is going to want to make allowances for the needs of people who can not turn up every day due to their illness  or make arrangements for those who have special requirements especially when there is a huge pool of able bodied persons to choose from…as ever this and the previous Government have not thought things through, preferring to let the Tory media and its prejudice set policy.

      I have to admit I am more than a little disappointed  that Ed Miliband has jumped on the same populist bandwagon of disability prejudice….and questioning my wisdom of remaining in the Labour Party.

         

  • M A Slater

    So What? You found someone who objects to something a politican says. Big Deal!

    Look hard enough for a few days and you will be able to find someone who objects to virtually anything.

    Storm in a teacup. Just like Abbott’s rcist comment. And yes, it was a racist comment by McPherson’s and the law as enacted by Labour’s definition.  I thought it was racist, therefore it was racist. Just goes to show what a crap law it is really.

    Can we all have a rather more important discussion about substance and policy, rather than this sirt of petty non story, just like Abbott’s comments and Boris’ holiday.

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