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To want to go and kick this man right up his ignorant arse

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OhDoAdmit · 09/11/2011 08:46

I am rushing off to work so sorry if this has been done.
I am also sorry for the DM link but they are rather good and this sort of story.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058976/Future-mayor-sparks-outrage-saying-parents-using-disabled-children-planning-permission-huge-extensions.html#addComment

This man has made one of the crassest comments I have seen. He has epitomised the current demonisation of people with disabilities and actually taken it to a whole new level.

Now I realise that this thread will bring out a whole heap of 'my neighbour's cat's uncle had a blue badge and he ran a marathon last week' type of comments. But I will ignore them - thats is what the DM comments page is for.

Just a few thoughts before I go and work with families who are clearly raking it in from haveing a child with complex needs Hmm

Having adaptations to your home is unlikely to ADD value and will put most buyers off.
Looking after a child at home will save the tax payers at least 2k per week per child
People who have severely disabled children often have to give up work to provide care - yes even when the go to school full time. How does your boss like you taking a few hours off to take your child to the dentist? Well imagine having 3 appointments in one week, a month or two in hospital per year plus being called to the school on a weekly basis because of seizures, temperatures, falls and unexplained prolonged bouts of crying... Still think you could hold down a job?

This guy is a fucking knob.

I am angry

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pigletmania · 09/11/2011 18:15

My cousin has MS and needs adaptations to the home, as does my friends dad, they are not pretty, and really you are at a disadvantage when trying to sell the property. Who wants a hulking great lift in your dining room Hmm. Or a lovely astetic tracking hoist in the bedroom Hmm

TheHumancatapult · 09/11/2011 18:30

He's a twunt adapted ffs they do not consider storage as essential and often any grant does not cover the costs

But afraid Preston is a tinder box waiting to go up :(

TheHumancatapult · 09/11/2011 18:33

Yeah in sure people would Like the floor lift , light switchs so low there going to need to bend to reach them the low kitchen work tops

JuliaScurr · 09/11/2011 18:33

piglet If only I could take advantage of the tracking hoist; sadly our house is not adaptable, so I must content myself with the free parking (if available). That's the beauty of disability; so little effort to get MS, so many benefits to scrounge, so many aesthetically pleasing pieces of equipment. Who knew so much could be done with white tubular aluminium and beige vinyl?

plainwhitet · 09/11/2011 18:40

Particularly appealing is our outside concrete ramp, which causes anyone over about 5 foot to bang their head on the porch; a real selling point. Also might I add, in our neck of the woods we have part of the funding on a loan, which if you sell the house within ten years of the adaptations, you have to pay back. Very annoying not to be able to pocket the profit should our dd die and we sell our gorgeous adapted bungalow.

LineRunnerSaturnaliaCometh · 09/11/2011 18:40

My friend's son needs a lift to get upstairs and it's taken out about half of her kitchen. Like pigletmania and many others have said, it puts you at a disadvantage when trying to sell a property.

pigletmania · 09/11/2011 18:50

Oh I know Julia big chunky white hand rails, grips etc. linerunner my friends dad has a floor lift and it takes out most of their dining room and a nice gaping hole in the celing. It will devalue the house, as people have to spend money to take all the stuff out.

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OhDoAdmit · 09/11/2011 18:57

Yep we cant move because of the amount of money payable to the council if we do. Mind you we cant move because the idea of finding a adapted property or reapplying to adapt a non adapted property is enough to send me screaming for the gin bottle.

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saintlyjimjams · 09/11/2011 18:58

Talk about clueless. He's clearly never tried to apply for a DFG then.

Planning permissions are the same anyway. I know someone who needs an extension, has had one approved regarding DFG funding, and had the need officially recognised, but has been refused planning.

Haka · 09/11/2011 19:03

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Pixel · 09/11/2011 19:16

We went to look at a house to rent and got there to find it was adapted with a lift. It was an ugly great box that took up half the living room and half the bedroom, we came away wondering why the rent wasn't significantly cheaper to compensate. Obviously we should have been clapping our hands in glee at being offered such a bargain!

The worst thing about Mr potato head's Crompton's comment about "if something should happen to the child" is that he's assuming others, even the parents, think like him, ie that it's only a disabled child, doesn't really matter if it dies. How else to explain the fact that he thinks that the money would be the first thing people would think about when a child has died?

Binfullofmaggotsonthe45 · 09/11/2011 19:18

I can't quite believe he has picked this subject to lead his way into becoming future Mayor!

I think approx one in twenty families has a child with disabilities, so statistically, in a village or other rural area what are the chances that all the properties are being eaten up in rural Preston by hoardes of these apparent money grabbing, land guzzling families?

How easy does he think it is to extend a property in Central Manchester/Leeds etc? Can't he understand that people need space to extend outwards?

When we adapted my grandmothers house it was a godsend for daily life, but the wet room/hoist/rails/ramps looked bloody hideous - it was like living in a medical centre. When she passed away we had to rip it all out just to sell the property as we were advised we wouldn't even get a viewing.

I think the agreement comments on the DM site are even sadder though. Bitter and twisted gits the lot of them.

Don't worry ladies, he may next year's Mayor, but he certainly won't be the year after....

Haka · 09/11/2011 19:19

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ihatecbeebies · 09/11/2011 19:21

Aw damn Angry my DS only has ASD, unfortunately for us he's able bodied so no big fancy extension for me then....Hmm what an arse...

ihatecbeebies · 09/11/2011 19:23

I'm really quite sickened by his "if something happened to the child" comment.

CardyMow · 09/11/2011 19:32

Oh, my Councillor Crompton. I shall just have to tell my friend that her flat house should have adaptations to make it worth three quarters of a million pounds.

Her DD is wheelchair bound with quad CP, and she is in a Second floor flat, and even on medical grounds, is only 428th on the council housing list because her flat is 'an adequate size for her and her DD'. Regardless of the fact that she has to carry her 6yo up two flights of stairs, lay her on the floor then go downstairs and carry her wheelchair up the stairs.

Councillor Crompton, for example, is a massive, complete, total and utter fuckwitted twatbag IMO.

travellingwilbury · 09/11/2011 19:40

I have nothing else to say but I want as many people as possible to read what a twat this man sounds .

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OhDoAdmit · 09/11/2011 20:27

People have started getting replies apologising for 'how the press took his comments out of contact'

I have yet to receive a reply to my lovingly crafted email and now I have the right hump.

Pah

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OhDoAdmit · 09/11/2011 20:27

context

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PeneloPeePitstop · 09/11/2011 20:31

I've had an apology for the local press taking his comments out of context.

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OhDoAdmit · 09/11/2011 20:49

Just got mine.

I replied

Thank you for the standard reply that you have been sending to everyone who has complained about your comments.

I note that you apologise for the actions of the press and not for your own.

I look forward to your full reply and am interested to find out just how your words were taken out of context.

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stillfrazzled · 09/11/2011 20:58

OhDoAdmit, I hereby do admit that I actually quite love you. Grin

Keep going.

Sevenfold · 09/11/2011 21:06

can we send him a link to this thread?

stillfrazzled · 09/11/2011 21:10

Not a bad idea to let him know quite how many people think he's a massive twat.

Mind you, he sounds the type who'll start threatening to sue, like that advertising eejit a while back.

ouryve · 09/11/2011 21:23

What an absolutely insensitive, nasty excuse for a dick Angry

Given the time and resources, I'd love a house with somewhere to convert into a safe space for my boys with ASD. Would that somehow be taking advantage of them? No. It's giving them what they need. Most people wanting to extending houses would be thinking of an extra bedroom so they can have one each for the kids (who will, guess what? get to leave home one day, so is that room really so necessary) or a guest room, or of creating dining or entertaining space. How on earth is any of that more necessary than creating the space to care for a disabled child?

And while some disabled children are life limited (and I'm sure their parents aren't rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of all the extra space they'll have when they're gone) many others will most likely end up living with their parents well into their adult life.