To Think the Tories Are Actually At War With Disabled People?

[JoffreyBaratheon]

I've been mired in the grim process of my son's DLA being changed to the new benefit, PIP. During this time, I have heard the stories of other disabled people and their loved ones. This may make me biased. Or human.

On every forum I have been on for help, can see that thousand of other disabled people, their carers, appointees and loved ones are being pretty well tortured by the vicious cuts and the new, brutal system being forced into place.

Benefits advisers and people at charities in the front line trying to support people like us also seem to report they feel like the disabled are under attack.

Now I will never understand why the most disadvantaged people in society are being forced to pay for the mistakes of bankers and rich people. Losing DLA will be a blow to our family - most of all my son but all of us - we won't recover from. To multi millionaires like Campbell, no doubt it's back pocket change so they are incapable of understanding what they are doing to ordinary people.

The past few months going through this hell, I've often felt like we might as well cut to the chase, sew the lack triangle on our clothes, and wait for the work camp to open. And I don't say that lightly, as someone whose grandad was present during the liberation of Belsen. (Wasn't it another tory - Gove - who said historians got it wrong and the British were donkeys led by lions, or words to that effect - so we know the contempt in which we are held by these chinless wonders already).

AIBU to think that people like Cameron and IDS are targeting disabled people and their carers, specifically?

Samcro it really is enough, already. How much more humiliation do people with disabilities have to endure?

I think this is a really key issue - not just cuts in PIP and other benefits, but the fact that politicians have contracted assessment out not to the NHS but these private companies, who have instantly lost sight of people's humanity. Treating people in such an insensitive way, and just - the bottom line - putting them through this when they already had an adequate benefit, assessed more professionally, and not giving money to private companies' shareholders for the privilege of being treated like this.

I think the next thing to fight for is an end to face to face interviews, as they are being held in such a hostile kind of way, that is degrading to people and makes them positively more ill or stressed. As these private companies doing the assessments can't seem to behave in an appropriate manner, and this has cost the taxpayer - they should be compelled to pay back every penny the state gave them, and that money given to the NHS to assess people, instead.

Thanks for the advice - I've passed it on, I hope my nephew can get something moving, he was 18 last June and he's left the house less than a handful of times since then and suicidal.