Blunkett barred from Paralympics

[poppet2]

Whatever next!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196551/Games-jobsworth-bars-ex-minister-Blunkett-Paralympic-opening-ceremony-GUIDE-DOG.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[dvp82]

He wasn't barred for the ceremony as the story states he as given an alternative seat within the stadium. He just wasn't for whatever reason not allowed to sit in his original seat due to having his guide dog with him.

 

It's a shame there isn't a picture of this alleged exposed seat on a blustery gantry.

[cressida]

Pity he couldn't have been informed of this beforehand, seems like a lack of communication

 

I don't particularly like the man but have to be fairminded and it seems no-one cared enough to provide him with enough information

[Scare]

What's a blustery gantry? He's blind so does it matter where he sat? .. He could have taken the other seat.

[Rampent]

Pity he couldn't have been informed of this beforehand, seems like a lack of communication

 

I don't particularly like the man but have to be fairminded and it seems no-one cared enough to provide him with enough information

 

He a millionaire Tory posing as a socialist. I care for him very little. He should pay his OWN way. I would have him in the bins outside.

[rubydazzler]

What's a blustery gantry? He's blind so does it matter where he sat? .. He could have taken the other seat.

What other seat? Do you mean you actually don't know what the words 'blustery gantry' indicate, or are you seeking a more exact description hopefully to reinforce your prejudices against people with physical disabilties?

 

Everyone seems to be missing the point that this is the Paralympics, organised with the sole aim of enabling people with differing abilities to compete. If they can't even accommodate a blind person who uses a dog to enable him to get about in the seat that was reserved for him, they obviously aren't doing a very good job, are they?

 

Let's just leave aside that it happened to be David Blunkett, and concentrate on the bigger issue?

[Plain Talker]

He a millionaire Tory posing as a socialist. I care for him very little. He should pay his OWN way. I would have him in the bins outside.

 

Do we know that he didn't pay for this seat?

 

Also, whatever folks' personal gripes against him are, why should his poor dog be

a) refused access, and

b) made to sit with him on this alleged blustery gantry?

[Rampent]

Do we know that he didn't pay for this seat?

 

Also, whatever folks' personal gripes against him are, why should his poor dog be

a) refused access, and

b) made to sit with him on this alleged blustery gantry?

 

I would feel sorry for his dog - not him. If I booked the seats he would be sat with all the regular folk - who might get wet. What makes him so special?

[JFKvsNixon]

I’d imagine what has happened is that people with disabilities are given appropriate seats for their disability when they buy their ticket, and Blunket was given a standard hospitality ticket by Channel 4.

[rubydazzler]

I’d imagine what has happened is that people with disabilities are given appropriate seats for their disability when they buy their ticket, and Blunket was given a standard hospitality ticket by Channel 4.

I can't see why any normal seat would be unsuitable for a guide dog to lie under. They go on buses, attend meetings, go to the theatre, into restaurants, pubs and all sorts of different places and situations. Most of the time, no-one even knows they're there.

 

And he wouldn't have been in an ordinary seating area anyway, would he? I'd be willing to bet he just encountered a badly trained jobsworth, with a chip in his/her shoulder who wanted to make some sort of non-existent political point.