"In reality, the ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ is the justification used by successive administrations for social policies which were always destined to cause preventable harm, and guarantees that no administration will be held to account for what is government-induced human suffering on a vast scale."
Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.
In 2025 I spent £90 a week on care.
I spent over £2000 on mobility aids, including repairs/servicing, though the year for my mobility scooters, plus an unknown amount charging my scooters.
I spent at least an extra £15 a week on fuel in the cooler months compared with years when I was more active.
Not sure about taxis in total, but between £15-30 a month.
Plus the costs of ready meals and prepared veg packs for my bad weeks, when I have very little ability to do all that low budget cooking poorer people *should* do.
This is all money that goes to other people from my bank, mostly businesses.
My disability benefit? The amount the government contributes towards the extra costs of being disabled.
From April 2025 it was £73.90 a week.
Yet somehow the media and politicians convince people we get loads of extra money. And everytime the media stories increase, it heralds new cuts for disabled people; it's about scapegoating and cuts to our income.
“The callousness of the #Labour government has been exposed. Its own backbenchers have rightly hammered it.” #RichardMurphy
Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.
Inter alia multiple breaches of #UNCRPD
Link to #DNS's website:
Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human…
#Starmer & #Reeves’ #Labour currently following in the #Conservatives’ footsteps - goose-stepping all the way to #democide / #genocide of even more #disabled folk. Some 300,000 killed via #austerity and the (deliberate?) tragic #Covid19 mis-management fiasco. How many do the #reds intend to kill off?
Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
Link to website of #DRUK :
Disability Rights UK (#DRUK), said: “With almost 60 per cent of #Covid deaths being those of #disabled people, it is hardly surprising that the Covid inquiry found that pre-#pandemic planning failed to take sufficient account of those with pre-existing conditions, those living in deprivation or those from minority ethnic communities.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
Link to #DisabilityNewsService #DNS website:
The first report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has shown how successive governments displayed a “criminally negligent” attitude towards protecting disabled people and other groups at risk from pandemi…
Another account of the #UNCRPD report and #UKgov’s failures including deaths, this time from #BigIssue.
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
“The #UK signed the #disabilities convention in 2009, but it has still not been incorporated into British law.
In 2016, an inquiry by the #UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (#UNCRPD) found that the UK was in breach of three of the Convention's articles
The same inquiry found that welfare reforms introduced since 2010 had "adversely" affected #disabled people.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
Colin-Roy Hunter
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