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Quietly Despairing
May. 8th, 2015 04:32 pmA Conservative majority is the worst of all possible results for disabled people, and I'm genuinely scared of what the future may bring.
What little moderating effect the Lib Dems had is gone (I'm actually surprised they got as many searts as they did), leaving the likes of IDS and Freud, and Osborne, free to take a knife to disability benefits. In fact they don't even need to bring in anything new for things to get massively worse for disabled people as so many of the disability cuts have had the worst part of their impact delayed until after the election in order to disguise their impact from the electorate.
The Tories have promised £12Bn in further benefit cuts, and we know from leaked documents that DWP think the only way to achieve that (given pensioners have been bought off with the promise of no cuts affecting them) is for absolutely savage cuts of disability benefits, cuts so controversial that the Tories will have to unlease the worst of scrounger rhetoric in order to try and justify them.
It's a scary time to be disabled in this country.
What little moderating effect the Lib Dems had is gone (I'm actually surprised they got as many searts as they did), leaving the likes of IDS and Freud, and Osborne, free to take a knife to disability benefits. In fact they don't even need to bring in anything new for things to get massively worse for disabled people as so many of the disability cuts have had the worst part of their impact delayed until after the election in order to disguise their impact from the electorate.
The Tories have promised £12Bn in further benefit cuts, and we know from leaked documents that DWP think the only way to achieve that (given pensioners have been bought off with the promise of no cuts affecting them) is for absolutely savage cuts of disability benefits, cuts so controversial that the Tories will have to unlease the worst of scrounger rhetoric in order to try and justify them.
It's a scary time to be disabled in this country.
