to think that none of the Benefit Frothers..

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will be man enough to read this article and admit they may have been wrong and misled..

www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/05/benefit-cuts-fuelling-abuse-disabled-people

dla is so difficult to get anyway. I am an articulate woman and I find the forms often impossible and have had to have help to fill them in. I don't believe it is that easy to commit fraud where dla is concerned.

That is something that I have come to understand from MN sunshine, and I agree it's wrong that disabled people will be affected in that way. I don't have the answers.

Agincourt, it was the one where they said that people get the cars for free.

When I say accountable, some sort of press commission intervention. It wasn't just biased it was factually incorrect.

I wonder if it is still up?

that article is incorrect as well as the cars he has listed are not even available through the scheme

I haven't read this whole thread as rushing but I have skimmed both articles and I am at the bile in that DM article. It is so depressing and it makes me rage. Millions of people read that rag too and this is the sort of thing that makes that attitude acceptable.

Yes, I think it is time for a backlash against the Daily Mail.

how would mn exist then, most of the links are to the DM

Could replace all links with Guardian ones

are the guardian any better? do they never sn bash?

not generally, no

well, the original article I linked to in this thread was in the Guardian, and very sympathetic, wasn't it?

Oh my lordy god!

Today's Evening Standard has actually run a piece about the DWP feeding anti-disabled material to the press.

I don't know whether to cheer or cower under a dustbin lid awaiting the inevitable DWP counter-onslaught yelling louder, viler things.

Could the tide be turning?

sadly I think it will just make the haters get all defensive, bigots don't change their spots.
hopefully it will make the non bigots think, if they bother to read it.

I'm going to close my eyes and dream for the few minutes we get before the counter-attack.

Just like I did for a couple of hours the night the Lords voted against three items in the WRB. Then woke up to read a £26K cap "wouldn't apply to the disabled, just people on ESA/Incapacity Benefit... "

So that's us told. Made non-disabled by words. We'll all be just fine then.

Well, I dont know, there haven't been any nasty defensive commentson this thread..am assuming the haters have read the article and hoping just maybe they have thought twice..

What's the betting the next few days sees the release of another story from the DWP featuring a disability benefit fraud case - probably a re-report of an old one?

Just in case the public start to waver in their association of "disability benefits" with "scrounger"?

fanjo I think it is cos they think this is one of the benefit protest threads as it has frother in the title, they most likey don't realise

Yes, the title was a bit hasty

Shame cos it's a pretty informative and valuable thread IMO

someone has posted about her son dying and has been downrated on the DM, also apprently if your child goes to special school it is easier to work
wtf

nothing surprises me

And for those who still think there isn't a problem with changing attitudes towards disabled people, read this

How sad :(

It starts young too, have just written a letter of complaint to a well known high street optician as we were treated so badly when we got my DD's glasses fitted,,she wouldn't sit nicely (she is 5 and has severe autism and learning difficulties) so we were treated rudely and insensitively..depressing.

I complained about the hairdresser once, normally dd see's the main man, but this day she saw someone else, who kept telling her off for moving,,,,,she is in a WC and has athetoid cp ffs, she was not being naughty.
poor man was very apologetic. and had words with her.

back to topic, have you notice Fanjo that there have only been your threads about this? that is how little mn care, they will rant on about CB and stuff like that, but disability.....nah,