Actresses Cherylee Houston & Shannon Murray support #spartacusreport
"Disabled people have been fighting for years to establish our equality
in society, these changes are tantamount to setting back the clock forty years
where decisions about our independence were made by others. These changes
will take away basic human rights from many disabled people. DLA enables
disabled people to work, travel, engage in their local community, which in turn
enables us to contribute more fully to society both financially and socially."
Cherylee Houston, actress, Izzy, Coronation Street
"As we were slowly inching closer to equality it is ridiculous and
alarming that we are rapidly moving away from an inclusive society and back
towards discrimination and segregation; the haves and the have – nots.
The impact of the proposed cuts will be hugely detrimental to most
and to some utterly devastating. Please do not underestimate the damaging and
harmful consequences of cutting very necessary benefits to very needy people.
Many people don’t seem to appreciate that living with a disability
is incredibly expensive, benefits like DLA aren’t frittered away on extravagant
luxuries, they are desperately needed to pay for basic travel expenses to work,
PA support, respite for family carers, food and heating and having some
semblance of a “normal” social life.
These benefits provide us with the ability to contribute to
society; to remove them is to erase us from society and infringe our human
rights.
It has been proven it isn’t financially prudent to reform DLA and
it certainly isn’t ethical or moral to target the most vulnerable in our
society; after all isn’t that what bullies do?"
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hello* all!
although severely disabled!
I can still use a computer*
look's as if the EU*
coalition's true master's!
if you follow politics,
are taking up the fight!
read here. V
http://enil.eu/
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