Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP #ukcuts #dla #solidarity

RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

@leftfootfwd reports Gov to cut Disabled Living Allowance by 20% – outrageous on top of incapacity benefit cuts. http://bit.ly/fUkfS0

RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @OtherTPA: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition – Left Foot Forward http://goo.gl/mq1Xd

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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Do these B***ards have no conscience!!!!….I’m not having that!..i’ll see them in hell first.

Shame on her and shame on this so-called “caring Government”!

I do not wish to be relegated to staying behind closed doors for the rest of my life! We are in the 21st Century not the Victorian era where anyone with a disability remained hidden so as not to embarrass others outside their homes!

I need my DLA to perform the normal functions of my everyday life which others like Maria Miller TAKE FOR GRANTED! Shame on you Maria Miller and shame on Nick Clegg and his cronies for allowing this travesty of a government to facilitate this disgraceful decision.

I have had enough of this LibCon Party and intend to resign – end of!

RT @OtherTPA: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @FalseEcon: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @OtherTPA: RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

This is terrible RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

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They’ve done some pretty disgusting things, I though the removal of DLA from people in residential care was as low as they would stoop. Way to go coalition, you have surprised even me with your callousness.

As an aside I wish IDS would stop LYING about DLA being an out of work benefit, it isn’t and never was.

RT @leftfootfwd: [UK] Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

For a “…clearer, more targeted benefit, with an objective assessment”, read a cheaper, stingier benefit, which you need to be a deaf, blind and dumb, schizophrenic, paraplegic in order to qualify for.

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/12/supporting-disabled-people-not-sustainable-says-coalition/

I can’t believe the DLA application process can get any more stringent. It already states that if you are 100% blind, deaf or lost any limbs – you will not necessarily qualify for DLA!!! I was rejected and therefore severely limited and cold right now.. aye, well done Tories & Lib Dems for making your big society an uncaring, inflexible place of opportunity for so few.

What can we do to calm their relentless crude cruelty?

What can we do??? more shocking Condem crap: RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP <DLA is too expensive, apparently

The Conservatives made a lot pre-election of Labour’s social care funding consultation including an option where some future claimants with lower levels of need would lose the benefit. I swear they pledged to keep it unchanged in their manifesto.

So few pre-election pledges left standing now – mostly those around Cameron’s “I’m not an old style nasty party Tory” posturing

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

The consultation document from the DWP on this is a total joke, its only criticism of DLA is that some claimants believe it is an out of work benefit not a universal one. If they wanted to remedy that why can’t they just write to all claimants telling them so? No, far too easy and not what there intended purpose is they just want to cut the number of claimants and reduce how much those claiming receive.

RT @yonmei: Maria Miller, DWP Minister, says Disability Living Allowance "unsustainable" http://tiny.cc/fw054 #ConDem #ToryFail #Disabi …

RT @yonmei: Maria Miller, DWP Minister, says Disability Living Allowance "unsustainable" http://tiny.cc/fw054 #ConDem #ToryFail #Disabi …

There are no words to express my contempt for this person, for the civil servant who thought up this scheme, and for any Coalition MP who does not fight it.

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

Chris-the Government are forever peddling the idea that DLA is an out of work-benefit -they are lying through their teeth re numbers -they include people over 65 when it suits them -the evidence is mixed as even the DWP re effect on employment-it helps many disabled people to maintain/acquire employment-they constantly utilise the media to portray it as easily got and rife with fraud-it has the lowest amount of fraud associated with it-they intend to remove 20% of the cost as you say by lowering numbers and/or how much people receive-making three categories into two will be interesting-it will cost a lot of money to “retest” people regularly-a waste of money in many cases-long-term conditions -I view with horror that being in possession of a wheelchair etc may result in removal/reduction in mobility payments-it is purely designed to put people off claiming it-the consultation period is ridiculous-the attack against the disabled continues-what happens to Carers Allowance-currently based on receivership of Carees middle rate care ?-the Government is confused ,incomponent,cynical and above all nasty -all decent people must hold them to account-we must not remain silent

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

Ah, here we go. Tory broken DLA promises exposed http://www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk/2010/12/previous-tory-v.html

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/12/supporting-disabled-people-not-sustainable-says-coalition/

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Supporting dis ppl not sustainable http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/12/supporting-disabled-people-not-sustainable-says-coalition/

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

UK cuts via @Dis_PPL_Protest #Disability Living Allowance deemed “unsustainable" http://bit.ly/iiTVjK Gov't will not protect vulnerable

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Thanks for this post – it’s important to cover this issue as disability often gets overlooked or misrepresented.

If it’s of interest, I’ve written a full analysis of the proposed DLA reforms here. By far the most worrying elements of this are the arbitrary 20% cut, the introduction of conditionality into disability benefits, and the proposal for this measure to cover not just the 1.8m disabled people of working age who receive DLA but also the 1.2m people under 16 and over 65 who also receive it.

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RT @leftfootfwd Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition: http://bit.ly/fUkfS0 reports Rosanna Singler

What most people in the media fail to report is that Disability Living Allowance is not paid to people to prevent them from working. The benefit permits people to work, and indeed a lot of people who receive do work. The benefit is designed to pay for expenses that are incurred upon disabled people that act as a barrier to them living an independent life. For example, a person with mobility difficulties, may need taxi’s to get to and from work everyday, but an able-bodied person would not need this. If the disabled person did not get this they would not be able to work, and therefore, the benefit actually helps people live their lives independently and become part of society, unlike in former years when the cost of doing anything was so prohibitive, most people with serious health conditions were not able to dip into their savings, just to go to the local shops. This is reality. Many disabled people face a cost to do ordinary day to day things, and Disability Living Allowance was paid to help people overcome these barriers, and is not an income replacement for people who are not in work. The media fails to report and highlight this difference because there is a lot of hostility in many of the internet message boards about claimants being able to work – no one said that they don’t and rely on this money as their sole source of income. The reason this allowance is being targeted is because it actually entitles people to numerous other services, such as the taxicard, motability, etc. Each of these things help disabled people live independently, and in many cases the services provided prevent people from becoming unwell which would make them a bigger burden on society. The cost of administering a system of continuous tests is absurd and wasteful. They won’t have to check if someone with motor neurone dysfunction still has it after every three years. Either scrap the system altogether, or just let people with permanent disabilities claim this money without the stress of having to have constant tests.

Perhaps the Coalition should ask themselves whether THEY are sustainable. Would that there were an alternative.

RT @leftfootfwd: Supporting disabled people not sustainable says coalition http://bit.ly/gLe4gP

An utter affront to humanity. Indeed, a crime against humanity! How cruel can you get? We must rid ourselves of this poisonous filth before they destroy any more lives! 5 more years? I don’t bloody well think so! 5 hours is too long!
Solidarity with the sick and disabled! They shall not pass!
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They promised not to remove DLA or Attendance Allowance for over 65′s. One thing governments are very careful about is protecting benefits pensioners already have. 1. There is a huge number of over 65′s who vote and there is a lot of them. 2. The newspapers are always very sympathetic to pensioners, nothing like a picture of an old granny looking cold and hungry to tug on the heart string’s. When it comes to disabled people who are under 65 then its a different story. There isn’t as many of us, many don’t vote, we’re less active, many disabled people are politicised, the press aren’t sympathetic in fact just the opposite, we’re feckless scroungers, we’re often not photogenic. So we really are an easy target. How many people could we expect to demonstrate and what would the reaction be. Add to that the prejudice that is still rife.

I think it’s discrimination at it’s most extreme. We didn’t vote for this party – infact the only reason the lib dems were able to even form a coalition was because of votes it gained from students and those wanting a fairer future and now this? Surely we should all be fighting for another election??? Get them OUT! The damage they will do in 5 years will be a disaster with suicide, homeless, jobless, all rising. We need to fight back! I want another election – I certainly didn’t vote for this party – along with the rest of the country.

We need general election, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Demonstrations do not work. M.Thatcher used dressed as miners police to provoke violence during miners’ demonstrations to put the public against them, so did USA during the Anti Vietnam war protests, and possibly during these recent demonstrations – why they all wore balaclavas/masks? I was circulating message that journalists are to inquire into violent participants ID within Freedom of Information Act since Thursday morning, may be because of that only 7 arrests! as they could not arrest the police/hired violators, it would have come out!

New Government, as suggested by Ken Livingstone should raise taxes for the higher earners, introduce better standard free education for everyone, better medical care like in France.
Also:
make agreement with ALL off shore places not to provide off shore services to the UK nationals/residents/businesses, like France did long time ago and the French businesses have to pay ALL taxes in France since and stopped seeking residence in off shores;
abolish Royal Prerogative by which antidemocratic Acts are implemented ( re Iraq War, etc etc;
People should participate in the daily decisions/votes directly, without EXPENSIVE CORRUPT MIDDLEMEN/MPs, all have to be given free internet and vote on everything by pressing a button – no useless debates, useless PM’s speeches spending most time attacking the opponents – useless rhetoric costing too much.
Monarchy/aristocracy concept should be revisited.
They have to work, as aristocracy do in Europe, do good for their people. Not a single penny should be paid from taxes. They have enough.
Revolting, how billions are to be spent on the useless Royal wedding while the same money taken from the vulnerable, in fact same young people as William or Katie – why 2 should cost more than the rest of the nation?
We are not in the Middle Ages any more.
Royalty and aristocracy are the same human beings as any one else, no exceptions.
Their argument that they attract tourists have to be looked into: if so, employ them to parade at the shows – or may be wax figurine/look alike do better? No one will care/notice! Just look for a cheaper contractee.
Existence of apartheid ( private v state education, health care) existence of the parasiting class milking millions if not billions out of the people are violating human dignity within Article 8 HRA. UK is the last in EU retarded in mediaeval state of savageness, disrespect to the people whom the “untouchables” owe everything without giving back anything.
Reading a book aloud by Duchess of Cornwall to the poor children in Westfield does not compensate billions spent on her upkeeping.
Let them be a part of the big society, let them work hard, like anyone else.