AIBU to think Blue Badge holders can use parent and child spaces?

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This article says that Blue Badge holders can't park in P&C spaces but I thought they could and that they were a legal requirement whereas P&C was a courtesy? Have I been wrong all these years? Can Blue Badge holders park in parent and child spaces? | Oxford Mail

I only clicked on this post because I misread it as Blue Peter Badges!

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It’s all so ridiculous isn’t it.

I am one of those most hated disabled people - I’m so disabled I can’t work. I used to work, in a very well paid career, and then I slowly became so disabled with very complex and rare autoimmune issues (one of my issues affects less than 1 in 100,000 and can be life threatening) I cannot work now. I haven’t worked since I was 35, I’m now 45. I wish people would understand that some people genuinely cannot work for a whole myriad of reasons and it doesn’t make us any less deserving of empathy than those who are able to.

Having a disability is something that can happen to anyone. People would do well to remember that.

They really are shit bags aren't they? I think the person making the comments on this thread was probably just rage baiting but very unpleasant.

Having a disability is something that can happen to anyone. People would do well to remember that.

This!

Purely within the context of BB holders parking in P&C space. A struggling mammy with a baby in a car seat that needs to get the pushchair out of the boot then wrestle the toddler out, then come back with her shopping to pack away in car, has chosen that of her own free will by having kids. In contrast a disabled person who may have pain and difficulty mobilising or have to get a wheelchair out and get into it, then go and do their shopping and pack it away in the car on their return, then put the wheelchair away, doesn’t really have a choice do they ? That’s the difference.

You have some bizarre axe to grind.
Babies have two parents, this is the third or fourth time you’ve chosen to use a misogynistic, patronising poor “struggling mammy” insult.

Someone parking in a P&C parking baby with children has nothing to do with the life of anyone else, wheelchair or not.

I worked as a disability outreach worker for over twenty years and in the last few years I’ve watched the tide of opinion turn against disabled people and the support they receive. Mostly because people with little or no experience of disability, believe without question the various narratives of the governments of the day, which then translate into the nonsense printed by the Daily Mail etc.

What really used to piss me off was when people would blithely say ‘Well if Stephen Hawking can work………..’ If all disabled people were able to access even half as much support as he received - both in and out of work - the unemployment rate for that demographic would be much lower. Unfortunately for us mere mortals that doesn’t happen because we are not national treasures.

I genuinely fear for the future of the disabled in the UK - especially when I see some of the throw away attitudes on forums like these.

Did you mean to tag me, because if so I don’t know what you’re talking about. I was answering another poster who used the ‘struggling mammy’ narrative.

Is there really any need to be so unpleasant. This is not disability/parent top trumps. The question was clear. Is it acceptable for BB holders to park in P&C spaces when there are no disabled spaces. The answer is just as clear - yes it is, and the law recognises that.