As a mum to a child newly diagnosed with a disability I've written about the budget from a slightly different perspective:
"Until a ’cause’ directly impacts upon your life you have little interest in it, it is not important to you and does not affect you in any way.
Perhaps you can feel sympathy towards people afflicted by disability, mental health issues, poverty, homelessness but as it doesn’t directly affect you you're less likely to campaign for it..."
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