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Bloody Ian Duncan Smith!

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Justlostitwithhim · 09/10/2011 01:10

Everyone needs to see this: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046924/Parent-child-ADHD-Have-free-car-1-5bn-taxpayer-funded-scheme.html

I'm so angry I can barely speak. Would anyone be prepared to join me in putting together some sort of pressure group to stop this? I could have cried when it mentioned naughty child syndrome. I think my son has ADHD and he gets overstimulated and is frightened. Why shouldn't such families be entitled to a car? SN, mental or physical massively impact on any family. I'm sure there are better brains than mine who can think of a way to make a stand. Please feel free to include any ideas or thoughts and perhaps we can consolidate them and try to fight this.

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Triggles · 12/10/2011 09:41

That's true, they'll bury the retraction in the back, where nobody sees it. After all, we wouldn't want to confuse the general public with facts.

GossipWitch · 12/10/2011 16:57

Offs yet another daily-mail-government-backed-disability-discrimination-article!!!!

I do have to wonder, when the government have stopped being arseholes to the disabled, just like they were with the single mums, if they'll start with the charities or immigrants....

Triggles · 12/10/2011 17:03

I wasn't aware they'd stopped with charities and immigrants... or single mums for that matter... Hmm

GossipWitch · 12/10/2011 18:08

true triggles lol

unpa1dcar3r · 12/10/2011 18:12

No they haven't. They've just side tracked for the time being cos disability is the big issue and the benefit cuts!!!!
Don't worry guys they'll come back to the other groups as soon as it fits their dubious agenda!
You saw it here first haha.

Triggles · 12/10/2011 18:22

Personally I think they have a big wheel, like on Wheel of Fortune. They spin it and it comes up "disabled".

Okay folks - today we makes disability cuts.

Next day it comes up single mums.... and so on... Grin

GossipWitch · 12/10/2011 18:35

hahaha I wonder if they have a cabinet piece where they decide to actually unline their pocket's, mind you it could be the booby prize! he he Grin

Triggles · 12/10/2011 18:56

some days I think cutting benefits to the disabled is considered a "bonus round" where they get double money.... Hmm

MadameSin · 12/10/2011 21:15

Am bloody fuming Angry Do these clowns honestly think we are queing up to get our children diagnosed with any old label to get a discount off a car?!?! Once again, it's a tiny minority who are taking the p* out of this governments slack and flawed benefits system that creates such hatred towards those who are in genuine need of it's support. What is the DM's agenda, I just don't get it. So much in that article is inaccurate as well as inciting a hatred for our children and their families. I honestly felt sickened and frightened reading it. Please, please everyone who has commented on this thread, complain to the PCC using this link www.pcc.org.uk/ Don't be put off by their terms etc, just write how you feel

unpa1dcar3r · 12/10/2011 22:06

Their agenda is to turn 'society' further against us by spinning lies and false stories because they are a Conservative paper and the Conservatives are the ones cutting all the benefits.
So to achieve this they make 'society' believe we are all miscreants and deviants and then when they do cut all the benefits everyone will go 'ooh goody the Tories are wonderful stopping money for all these miscreants and deviants, now my taxes are safe'
In effect it is an oxymoron as many of us will buckle under the added strain of having even less money and will end up losing the plot, getting sectioned and our kids will be taken into care which will cost them a helluva lot more than they are paying out now.
But they don't think like that. Cos they're lying, greedy, manipulative, cheating, completely non-altruistic arseholes who do not give a flying fart for the 'Big Society' that our esteemed leader bangs on about.

Next question! Wink

GossipWitch · 12/10/2011 23:18

i have posted to the pcc

signandsmile · 13/10/2011 18:19

yay unpa1d, have just read that out to dh, Grin without stopping for breath! Grin

unpa1dcar3r · 13/10/2011 21:54

Lol Sign...u can maybe tell I do sociology yeah!!! Wink

insanityscratching · 18/10/2011 17:33

So who's got a response and what are we going to do about it?

molepom · 18/10/2011 18:33

Oh goodie, just what we need, more ignorance to feed the general public, as if we weren't having a hard enough time as it is on a general day to day basis.

tiredoffightingwithjelly · 18/10/2011 18:39

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schmollandresident · 18/10/2011 21:39

I complained and received this email today:

Thank you for writing to the Press Complaints Commission about an article in the Mail on Sunday on 9 October. We have received a number of complaints about the coverage, framed under Clause 1 and Clause 12 of the Editors? Code.

In the circumstances, it was our intention to write to the Mail on Sunday, summarising the concerns all the complainants have raised.

However, we have subsequently been informed by the newspaper that it published a correction in regard to the article on 16 October in its inaugural Corrections and Clarifications column on page 2. A copy of this is attached for ease of reference. The correction has also been appended to the original article online, which may be seen here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046924/Parent-child-ADHD-Have-free-car-1-5bn-taxpayer-funded-scheme.html

In the circumstances, do please let us know if you would like to proceed with your complaint ? which we would be happy to consider formally ? especially if you consider that there are any outstanding points which have not been addressed.

I look forward to hearing from you within the next seven days, if at all possible.

A copy of the Code of Practice can be accessed using this web link: www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html .

Further information about the complaints process can be accessed using this web link: www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/process.html.

Information about our service commitments to complainants can be accessed using this web link: www.pcc.org.uk/complaint/charter.html.

Further information about the PCC can be found on our website www.pcc.org.uk .

Yours sincerely

Madetofeellikeafake · 18/10/2011 21:42

The correction does not refute the use of the term 'naughty child syndrome', but uses it again. I will complain since it is pejorative and actually hate speech. Anyone else?

molepom · 18/10/2011 21:46

Found their "Correction":

Last Sunday we said some 3,200 families of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder were believed to have been given cars under the Motability scheme. In fact that total is the combined figure for two categories of recipients of the Higher Mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance and includes other behavioural disorders. Recipients choose whether or not to spend their allowance on a Motability car; generally about 30 per cent do so. Also, we described the qualification for the Lower Mobility component, rather than the Higher Mobility component required to claim a car, for which individuals must be declared virtually unable to walk.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049659/Corrections-clarifications.html#ixzz1bAVEe5lJ

molepom · 18/10/2011 21:50

Agreed Made.

They need to apologise for using the term Naughty Child Syndrome as does Mr Duncan Smith.

Unless we can publically label them with Ignorant Arsehole Syndrome then I would say an apology is the least they can do as well as mentioning the FACT that ADHD is actually a recognised mental disability and it's not a new discovery but infact quite an old one.

Madetofeellikeafake · 18/10/2011 21:52

It's not nearly enough is it? I looked on the DM website and they have chat rooms to debate stories; the most awful things were being said about ADHD children and their parents, so it has obviously stirred up abusive responses. I think they should be disciplined for using the phrase 'naughty child syndrome'.

molepom · 18/10/2011 21:58

I agree with you totally, I just dont know how to go about it.

There just isnt enough high profile people who could made a difference or throw a bit of weight behind us to get anyone to actually give a shit.

It stuff like this that makes us realise just how much we are on our own.

MadameSin · 18/10/2011 22:00

Did Duncan Smith actually use the term 'naughty child syndrome'?? I also complained to the PCC and feel they have skirted around the issue in their pathetic attempt to correct their initial article. I don't think the only complaints were about the facts regarding eligibility, but more on the offensive insinuation that ADHD is not a medically recognised condition ......

molepom · 18/10/2011 22:02

Short of showing the world and his mother video evidence of ADHD suffer's brain working differently to those who do not have the condition, to PROVE to the more ignorant among us (who usually are those in a position of responsibilty or/and power) that we're not bad parents, we're not making it up and it's a real and serious condition that needs more understanding on a wider scale.

Madetofeellikeafake · 18/10/2011 22:04

It's hard to tell isn't it? I think on reflection it's probably the DM, or they'd have made a bigger issue of Duncan Smith having said it. And you're right, it's highly offensive. DP is currently studying it as part of a psychology degree and we know children with the condition who certainly aren't naughty.