“Let’s make disabled kids Pay” (Compassionate Conservatism)

Diary of a Benefit Scrounger

By Sue Marsh

“Cut, cut cut” Am I becoming white noise yet?

Has the shock worn off? Do you have cut fatigue?

Well, every now and then, one squeaks through the gaps, sickens me, fills me with disgust. Just when I think I’ve got to grips with the unremitting onslaught facing sick and disabled people, I hear something else that stops the noise for a moment or two as it lurches into view in all it’s horrible glory.

This story in the Mirror points out that :

“the disability element of the child tax credit [has been] cut from a maximum £52 a week to just £25.95.

Around 100,000 families could lose up to £1,366 a year – or more than £20,000 by the time their child reaches 16″

Disabled kids, bearing the brunt of deficit reduction. Nice. Just where everyone thought the cuts would fall eh? Just what we hoped a “Compassionate Conservative” government would do. Because obviously, “protecting the most vulnerable” was never supposed to apply to disabled children.

May 3rd, just three days before the General Election seems a long, long time ago now doesn’t it?

“But in making these decisions I will want to, if I am elected, take the whole country with me. I don’t want to leave anyone behind. The test of a good society is you look after the elderly, the frail, the vulnerable, the poorest in our society.”