to think that disability affects you all?

[LadySybilDeChocolate]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1380515-AIBU-about-the-government-lying-about-DLA#29486359 I'm talking about this thread. Your support is needed. Disability is an ongoing issue and the disabled are being bastardised at the moment. Children are having vital benefits cut, as are those who really need them. We all know someone who's disabled. By burying your head in the sand you're ignoring the needs of your relatives, your friends or your children.

I know plenty of people who have a disability. They range from my lovely nephew who is autistic to my mother who has Osteoperosis and heart failure. These cuts would affect my family. What about yours?

oh dear seems yet again this thread has died.what is it with mn and real issues. I am bored of the bumping.
why ? why can't the people who will post over and over again about rubbish ignore real stuff like this

I just don't know Seven. It's sickening :(

Have posted that on FB and twitter, Glitter. We can only keep trying. You have a lovely family.

Maria Miller has a script that she won't divert from. It's always the same.

That's shocking, LadySybil. Especially about the walking stick which shows just how little she knows about hypermobility syndrome, given that he'd likely struggle to hold onto the walking stick even if it did help.

who is this Millar woman?

she's the MP for disabled people.

www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2012/jan/17/disability-living-allowance-video-diaries

millar women well who is she i say but think i end up banned form mn

doesn't she like disabled people? there was i nice man on who talked sense

I can't open any of these links.
what is her full name so I can have a google

They are debating it now, no votes as yet I think. Will let you know what I find out x Fingers crossed for the best.

Maria Miller is the Minister Against Disabled People.
That's the only appropriate title for her.

Glitter

I was looking through some documents for something and found a letter I got a year ago from my MP who had kindly forwarded my concerns about PiP to Miller. The letter she sent back to him was a wonderful cut and paste job with exactly the same phrases she is using now, ie 'DLA an out of date benefit', 'making it simpler' and 'The new PiP making people sooo much more independent'.

So that is why so many disabled people will lose more independence under the new system then. Let 'em wither away. No one will notice. Scourge of society in any case.

I'm waiting. I hope it goes well for all disabled people.

I think I got that letter too madhairday

Maria Miller for example....etc etc

So far....We're screwed. Will let you know on what asap.

"Do disability rights cost too much?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16596799

We lost.

The changes are going ahead.

oh fuck

By 16 votes. I'm gutted and am crying.

:(

Awful news. What now? :(

Keep signing the petition then it HAS to be debated again.

Need to get 100k signatures.

no, 22000 have already signed we are already nearly a quater of the way there. 1000 signatures are on average a day. We just need to keep pushing it.

On another note...

It's not over yet. We can still fight this and loads of other propsals that will affect us. The DWP have already sent out a form to the public asking for the opinions of the disabled and charities about the propsed PIP and assessments, it shows 13 case studies so you can get a very rough idea of what is to come.

If they want opinions on it.......I say we give it to them. Download the form, print it off, sent it to them and tell tham exactly what you think of it and dont fucking hold back. Question everything you think you are not clear on, ask for details, who's doing the assessments, what qualifications do they have, what medical background do they have, whos going to support those who can not do face to face interview for mental assessments, what is going to be int he mental assessments, what about those who can not leave the house, what tasks are there, what provisions will be taken into account, compare what is better with the original assessments than to the new ones, what's going to add more stress by the new assessment...If we have to have then we will have it on OUR terms with OUR needs kept in mind, not some stupid tick box system.

Hit them with everything you can think of. We'll drown them in paperwork, we WILL get this thing stopped.