I’ve always been a quiet follower of politics, even took an interest in the markets stock exchange playing the stock market challenge on ceefax many moons ago, I wasn’t to bad at it either, well I was playing with pretend money the real stuff makes you question yourself more.
Jeremy Corbyn came on the scene, someone who spoke to me on a personal level, being disabled since the turn of millennium and being put under so much pressure and stress by the later years of Labour in power, then the Tories steamrollered into so many peoples lives and destroyed them, they’re still at it now, fortunately the EU referendum and the medias love of Jeremy has seen the vile rhetoric die down for a while.
If your not disabled or don’t know a disabled person who is dependent on welfare you will be more or less oblivious to the cruel regime, most don’t think assessments are a bad idea, of course that’s a natural reaction, after all it’s right and proper that welfare should go to the right people, not many would have disagreed with that, only the assessments are not carried out by medically trained people, these assessors are trained for approx 5 weeks, to decide who is or isn’t going to receive welfare. I could list the problems of others who have been through these assessments, a couple of notable ones “do you expect your arm to grow back?” yes seriously, from a receptionist from Lancashire who had to retire from the job on medical grounds, was told “ our instructions are if they have one eye and can press a button then they’re able to work” my own experience, “you don’t need to use your shoulders to power a manual wheelchair” I don’t know about other people but my hands are attached to my arms which in turn are attached to my shoulders, I can’t make my hands work without some shoulder action. I passed the assessment luckily. Its a lottery not anything to do with your disability, see channel four dispatches program, who filmed the best assessor who broke every rule repeatedly lied and filled forms in before the applicant was seen, this was the ‘best’ assessor.
Where my waffle is going why Jeremy? He has offered honesty, fairness and too right the disabled community has taken him on almost as a saviour, last hope call it what you will, he is the only person we can trust to try and put things right, the £30 a week cut from the ESA work related activity group to incentivise disabled people in that group to find jobs we know he would get it reversed pronto, these people have not been found fit for work, they have been found able to work with help at some point in the future. The Iraq war he knew it was illegal, he was right so many things he has campaigned on and he has been proved right. The media has tried it’s hardest with help from all sides of Parliament to rubbish him from the day he was elected and yet his belief in democracy and his debt to the members who voted for him and his constituents who have voted him in for over 30 years, he stands for what I and many like me believe the country needs, a caring genuine honest politician who will promote those same values that have been stripped from so many. There isn’t anyone else who will fight for people like me, the others all succumbed to the “we have to be seen to be hard on welfare” routine heard an awful lot in 2015 election campaigns Rachel Reeves said we will be even tougher on welfare, Harriet Harmen promised to “kick peoples backsides into work” Whilst IDS promised to keep up his eugenics program.
I’m on old fool with what many would call fanciful ideas about the world Id like for everyone to live in, ah well I can dream
Excuse my waffling
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