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There is a thread at the moment moaning that there are too many parking spaces for disabled people.

I wonder if they realise it's a authority lucky dip (as in "no" in Birmingham) as to whether carers go free, or have to pay a tax for helping a disabled person ?

I can't read the article @BIossomtoes, can you give a summary?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq809zrvqdo

Inside secret police warehouse as Germany targets small boats gangs

Gangs have long used garages or warehouses to store equipment in western Germany before transporting it to northern France, but Berlin passed a law last December making it a specific criminal offence to facilitate migrant smuggling to the UK.

Before that, key anti-smuggling laws in Germany only applied to nations within the EU's zone of free movement, not to third countries, which included the UK post-Brexit.

Lawyer Bernhard Schmeilzl, who specialises in UK-German law, points out that the legal situation is essentially as it was before Brexit.

Bit of a dilemma here for Brexiteers......

Some well timed tax

Thanks for this. I didn’t realise DS could even get a fee bus pass.

But I’ve just applied as he’s not only entitled to one it’ll be free anytime soon!!!

Now I just need to work on him actually having the confidence to travel on one 😂

Oohhh I need to seek that one out.

We can rarely ever find one. I often get consoled with “well it’s free to park in a normal space with the blue badge”

Brilliant - not paying will help ds get out the car into his wheelchair in a space barley wide enough to open the door 🤦🏼‍♀️

Od rather more spaces and a standard charge tbh.

I saw the thread in active but have not read it. I think people who complain about these thing are just moaning about not being able to park in a convenient place,

Near the front door usually.

This is an extract

Feroz Ferozuddin, 58, an internationally recognised trauma surgeon, was granted asylum in the UK in December after fleeing the Taliban and spent months in a migrant hotel.

He said he wanted to offer his expertise to the NHS but had to wait at least two years to complete the necessary certification and registration requirements to become a physician.

In the meantime, he applied for two NHS administrative roles as he wanted to contribute straight away, but said he was not offered the jobs as he was told he was too experienced.

“I was told that I was overqualified for these roles,” Ferozuddin said. “My long-term plan is to build a new and stable life here in the UK, while staying connected to my professional experience and continuing to contribute to public health.

Feroz Ferozuddin served as his country's minister for public health from 2015 to 2020

I’ve been following that thread, it’s maddening. The OP keeps saying that she isn’t actually attacking disabled people when of course she is. 😐

It was all a bit misleading - OP was complaining about her experience in local supermarket but generalized her complaint to everywhere - 99% of replies told her she was wrong

That’s very encouraging, it will be a real help for DD1, who will have just turned 18 then and will hopefully be achieving some independence.

Yes . It’s basically about a car park she uses where those spaces are often empty. And that car works aren’t getting it right if there’s too many empty or people are not able to find one.

Concession passes have been free for anytime bus travel since earlier this year in Manchester, glad the scheme is being extended across the country soon.
I’ve told a few people to apply for disabled travel passes, in a lot of places you can get one if you have a health condition that precludes driving (ie DS got one while he was sorting out his epilepsy meds following some breakthrough seizures until he could get his license back again). Lower rate mobility on PIP is enough for most councils for a bus pass and a blue badge.
I don’t get the animosity against giving disabled people access to things that help mobility. They don’t want people “just sitting around at home all day doing nothing” but also don’t want them using Blue Badge spaces or bus passes to go out.

Tim Montgomerie has been suspended from Reform. He set up Conservative Home years ago and wanted to do similar with Reform.

I suppose that might have lead to debate or even criticism of policy/leadership!

Leopards eating faces springs to mind.

How bloody petty do you have to be to criticise bus passes and parking spaces for the disabled.

Remember Jane's law.

"If it really mattered ...."

Was just about to post about this. Free speech latest.

Ridiculous party.
Tim Montgomerie: Former Farage ally suspended from Reform after hitting out at Zia Yusuf | The Independent

My sincere condolences on the loss of your friend and belated birthday wishes @itsgettingweird ❤

The purity tests going on with right wing parties - see also Badenoch - is quite interesting.
Seemingly happy to restrict their reach.

So they’re doing a Johnson - ejecting anyone whose views are vaguely mainstream. Montgomerie is a prize idiot, always was but it seems even he’s not idiotic enough for them.

It's like distilling, really.

I had to argue with someone when I last renewed DS1's bus pass because his high rate mobility is for planning and following a journey. The national requirements for that include more than 10 points for communication but the council's forms, that I'd been filling in for years, didn't include that and the person I was communicating with declined to tell me about the additional requirements, simply that he didn't qualify on the basis of where his mobility points were.

Thankfully, I had checked for myself and pointed out that he doesn't bloody speak and has the necessary points to reflect that so could he kindly renew DS1's bus pass, as requested, please and thank you.

Our is a free companion area, thankfully. There also used to be a flat 50p each for disabled person and companion before 9:30, but that changed to disabled person only, in our county, a few years ago, and now the flat fee is £1.

The same sort of petty that thinks children with autism are afforded educational advantages and people on benefits are rolling in money.