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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to be shocked at benefit cuts for terminally ill people?

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spookshowangellovesit · 21/09/2011 12:47

there are no words for this, i just can not understand this or any one who would condone this behaviour under the bracket of the country is in debt so everyone has to take a hit, the tories are making tough decisions.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14999755

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1973magpie · 22/09/2011 21:31

I am appalled that this is even being considered, it's a disgrace

electra · 22/09/2011 21:37

Even the MN tories are not defending it.

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spookshowangellovesit · 22/09/2011 21:50

i know i am surprised there hasnt even been a peep or a vague attempt.

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SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 21:54

Right so if ESA isn;t payable for those disabled as a child what do tehy do?

SSD have already said they will siogn ds3 off, they simply do not have the manpower or resources and know we will care: when we go, if there's no SW, is he to be left to die alone? He can't really ask for help, wouldn't know where to start.

StuckInTheMiddleWithYou · 22/09/2011 21:59

It's the fucking cunting bastard tories, this is what they fucking well do.

They don't give a flying shite about anybody who isn't rich.

The hardest it with this, will be those with low paid partners (like me) who can barely support the household on wage and ESA at the moment.

This will reduce our income by a fucking third. A THIRD.

Here's something sad, look on the government petitions website. Look under the DWP section.

Thousands of people have signed up to remove benefits from rioters but there is barely a few hundred signing up to protect the sick and disabled.

I hate this fucking arsehole of a country, I really fucking do.

SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 22:02

electra · 22/09/2011 22:12

Surely they are in breach of the human rights act? Stuckinthemiddle :(

SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 22:13

What, thea ct tehy want done away with?

The act that was the only way umpteem years ago my friend's mum could get an education for her DD who ahd (passed away now sadly) Spina Biffida?

Sevenfold · 22/09/2011 22:15

imo in a few years time you won't see disabled people or children, they will be in institutions.

StuckInTheMiddleWithYou · 22/09/2011 22:17

You think they care?

Anyway, the human rights act is only there to give prisoners teles, init?

Nobody cares, all anybody cares about in this country is punishing "scroungers", chavs, immigrants and anybody else different.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 23:17

Well if anything good comes of this it ahs motibvated ds1 to consider politics.

He might have AS but at 5 he ahd the verbal assessments typial in 16 - 21 year olds and an ability to look you in the eye and convince you day is night.

Now I just have to make sure that apart from making sure kids like ds3 are fed his issues do not consist of free yugi-oh for everyone and a ban on chilli.

(Actually he is sat watching QT as he cannot sleep applauding anyone who is anti death penalty so you know, he has promise)

unpa1dcar3r · 22/09/2011 23:17

Get this then; mate of mine fought/appealed and eventually won a tribunal for her autistic child relative to have the mobility reinstated. Took months of course, almost a year in fact.
And guess what? The DLA are now appealing against their own decision makers to get it taken away again.

Hahahahahahahaha you gotta laugh cos it's just so freaking insane you couldn't make it up.

My own 2 SLD boys are reviewed every 2 or 3 years. They have a genetic condition (fragile x syndrome), incurable.
Or maybe it's just me forgetting to give them that magic pill I lost down the side of the sofa?
I have to redo eldests in 2013, when these changes come in and when he is coincidentally 16. I'm bricking it already.
He got put down to LRM last time cos apparently "this child makes a conscious decision not to walk" a statement from some random GP (i've never actually met one who's heard of FXS) who never bothered to meet my son and i've never heard of. Also because 'he only needs supervision in unfamiliar places' (even to he qualifies for HRC cos he needs '24/7 supervision' .
So A) I guess when he throws himself to the ground with fear and anxiety I should just trow him over my shoulder (all 5'8" of him, taller than me) or scream in his face to walk B) even tho he 'needs 24/7 supervision' i can allow him to walk to the corner shop alone to buy a pint of milk?????
(he would never even attempt this and has absolutely no concept of money and would never speak to anyone he doesn't know anyway and on top of that I couldn't ever dream of letting him outside the front door alone)

I eventually got it overturned at tribunal but it took 8 months, lost £28 per week, and made me ill with the stress not to mention the amount of paperwork- reports and such like- i had to get from so many professionals to back me up (was also doing finals at uni)

Truly shameful.

SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 23:19

Yep, ds gets HR care for his supervision, it took years to get any mobility and then only LR.

So basically he needs a 1-1 at home and watching him in garden (true) but not when in the town or supermarket?

Sevenfold · 22/09/2011 23:29

i wonder what will happen to people.
the people with indefinite awards(dd has one at long last) will some bod who knows nothing decide that she is a scrounger and say she shouldn't have any benefits? sod the fact she can't walk or talk.
this government are the scariest I have known,
because yes we (poor fools) did think DC would understand our plight, would know what it was like, like fuck he does, it is almost like he and his government are punishing the disabled, ill and vulnerable.

carernotasaint · 22/09/2011 23:30

And yet there seems to always be a media blackout on programmes like Question Time when it comes to issues like this. Probably because the BBC dont want to upset the Tories in case they take away thier cash cow the licence fee.

SanctiMoanyArse · 22/09/2011 23:32

from what I can work out, theya re using lifetime awards as evidence that the last lot didn;t bother checking up on claimants and have indicated they will cease. But that's ridiculous tbh.

ds3's is until 16. After that the fight begins. Wrote off ds1's chances years ago!

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spookshowangellovesit · 23/09/2011 06:55

just realised that my dd claim takes her to when she is 16 too. is that what they did then at last review. give claim to 16 then they will sort it out.

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Sevenfold · 23/09/2011 09:02

dd got hers after this government came in, was always daft that we had to renew so often, not like brain damage cause by a crap doctor/midwife at birth can be repaired.
she was 16 when she got it at long last

aliceliddell · 23/09/2011 13:03

www.disabiltylawcentre.co.uk I think they just won a case where the council wanted to cut Social Services because they 'must balance the budget'. Try collecting tax from evaders.Stuck I've got a Tshirt with that quote on it

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