davidgillon | Making A Nuisance of Myself Again

I've already mentioned my opposition to Disability Confident and making myself heard online over their Swansea event last Tuesday, but I got a tweet on Thursday night from the journalist John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, asking if I'd run my eye over the article he was writing and give him some comments. So I read through it and flung a bunch of stuff his way, expecting him to pick out maybe a sentence. Instead he quoted about a page worth!

The article has a quote from the Director of the Institute of Directors - Wales, saying that it would be a mistake to enforce disability rights legislation, immediately followed by me noting that industry has had 60 years to comply with disability employment law and clearly isn't about to do it voluntarily. Point to me I think! (I should actually have said 70 years as I'm counting from 1944). It also linked to my new blog on all the "inspiring" quotes coming out of attendees, which made his insistence they were impressed by their stories look ever so slightly at variance with the recorded facts.

It then goes on to let me comprehensively shred the entire initiative for refusing to even acknowledge that disability discrimination exists. I don't think Disability Confident are going to be very happy with me when they see it on Monday.

Result!