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David Gillon ([personal profile] davidgillon) wrote 2015-10-22 12:34 am (UTC)

Re: "Oh my!" is right

Damned if you do; dead if you don't.

Sigh, indeed. And when disability activists were condemned as 'extremists' (and this was groups who were writing reports and raising petitions), it was one of the few* disabled MPs in the House who did it.

I regularly see disabled activists being told that if they can send a tweet, they can hold down a job (people saying this include at least one Tory MP) and any attempt to educate is usually met with abuse.

It's undoubtedly a long struggle ahead of us just to stop the slide, never mind get us back to where we were in 2005 or so.

* Even fewer since the election, we're down to him and another Tory.

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