IDS finally gets his ESA disability benefit cuts

[iansheff]

Well as the title says IDS finally got his cuts pushed through, more misery for the disabled from a so called caring Government.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-force-through-esa-disability-7512289

[Anna B]

Make your disapproval known at the next election.

[iansheff]

And how many people lives will this caring Government have destroyed by then?

[jane2008]

Even without this they are destroying my daughter's by cutting direct payments.

[Anna B]

And how many people lives will this caring Government have destroyed by then?

 

I agree totally. Trouble is Nobody seems to care.

 

More and more on SF and in life in general, I've come across not only total indifference to the plights of others, but people who actively fight in support of the government's heinous cuts, mostly I assume, because it doesn't affect them directly, and they don't have the imagination to achieve empathy with those that do. Yet people are having their lives wrecked through no fault of their own. It disgusts me.

 

I would say protest, loud and long. But I'm exhausted. If I could go to an island where I could get away from the rest of the human race I would.

[Hesther]

First they attacked the Disabled

And I did not speak out

Because I was not Disabled

Then they attacked the Sick

And I did not speak out

Because I was not Sick

Then they attacked the Single Mothers

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Single Mother

Then they attacked the Unemployed

And I did not speak out

Because I was not Unemployed

Then they attacked the Children

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Child

Then they attacked the Low-Paid Families

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Low-Paid Family

Then they attacked the Under 25's

And I did not speak out

Because I was not Under 25

Then they attacked the Pensioners

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Pensioner

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

 

borrowed from Pastor Martin Niemoller

[Quik]

I thought this only affected jobseekers?

[Anna B]

I thought this only affected jobseekers?

 

Cuts affect everybody down the line.

[Quik]

Cuts affect everybody down the line.

 

Possibly but as i understand it it just creates parity among jobseekers and does not affect disability benefits for those who can't work?

[ECCOnoob]

Typical socialist worker.... Sorry, I mean Daily Mirror spin.

 

"dark day for disabled people" "forced through policy"

 

Horse crap.

 

Only "disabled people" affected are those deemed fit to work but aren't working.

 

Those severely disabled or with life long conditions will carry on receiving DLA just like they always have.

 

Our elected leaders have voted and put the bill forward. A load of unelected old farts have tried to block it. Now they cant. A winner for democracy and our elected house.

 

People who don't like it get their say at Election time.

 

Those of us who agree with the cuts had to put up with 13 years of Labour's interference and inflation of such benefits, massive overspends and inflation of the public sector.

 

In 2015 the people voted and we are where we are. Democracy is just that.

Edited March 8, 2016 by ECCOnoob