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?

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Sorry

molepom could I ask you to link that paperwork on the brothers thread when it's released? Just in case we miss it. I'm v good at giving what for

It isn't over.

Frothers not brothers sorry keypad issues

Where is the frothers thread?

paperwork is here

if only mn hq would make this a proper campaign

It's in politics, big lomg thread, hang on.

Found and Posted my love. I'm going to bed, long day tomorrow and DS is still awake. Long night ahead I think.

It's been an official MN campaign for just over a year:

Stop the Abolition of DLA

The #frothers have taken it more mainstream - not just the same old exhausted people fighting.

ahh see I wouldn't have known anything about that, bet I am not alone

First I've heard of that too.

thanks.

glad it isn't just me

so depressing. and I've barely heard it reported in the news.

I'll sign. I wish in a way that disability did affect us all. My father is profoundly disabled after a stroke nearly 20 years ago. In that time, I have found the ability of otherwise nice people to overlook, ignore or judge him to be quite astonishing.

If the measure of a society is the way we care for its vulnerable members, then for all our veneer of civility we have failed terribly and continue to do so.

Yeah, there weren't enough people to keep that DLA campaign thread bumped - and I seem to remember it attracted trolls and disability-benefits-enviers.

have you seen the thread in the news topic, zilch about this, just a benefit bashing thread. (well the troll like op is bashing)

Thanks for the link to the consultation document. Reading through that the narrow criteria is frightening, even more so than I thought. It's terrifying.

We can keep fighting. But it sometimes feels futile.

Crow (2010) points out:
?If you look at what happened then, it was incremental. Nobody woke up one day and said ?Hey, let?s institute a programme of mass murder.? They started off with ?These people cost a lot, this isn?t good, this doesn?t fit our ideal population?. Those little ideas kind of seeped in and grew, and kind of softened people up with it and when people were ready to accept it, they upped the ante a bit more, and it kept on building?....

This is a quote about the Nazi's programme of eliminating the 'useless eaters', (aka disabled people). It started off with disgruntlement about how much 'they' cost.

That's scary stuff, Bakelite.

how in earth take away fact im disabled fow they expect carer to work .Call today from Addenbrooks can you bring ds2 in tomorrow please as we need to run some tests.Need to be here about 8.30 and takes around 3hrs .

So cue me trying to sort out childcare luckily ds1 is old enough to put ds3 in sn taxi and get dd in to breakfast club so he cna drop on way to collage

oh and while on phone he has all day test for the 16th Feb booked to .

I have signed, although I fear it is too late.

I didn't give much thought to disability, it happened to other people I suppose. Then in September I gave birth to my gorgeous little girl who is severely mentally and physically disabled. I have suddenly found myself taking on the role of nurse and carer, as well as mother. I never thought this would happen to me and my family, but disability really can, and does, affect everyone.