Comments for Campaign to protect Disability Benefits

Comment on Bury/Bolton ME/CFS Support Group by annette w

annette w — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:02:10 +0000

hello just emailing my support as a fellow sufferer of m.e also a member of ‘action for m.e’ ‘make some noise for m.e’ and m.e positive leicestershire and a smaller offshoot support group in n.w leis/ashby.

regards
annette wilford

Comment on Muscular Dystrophy Campaign by John Lezemore

John Lezemore — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:44:19 +0000

To all concerned the effects of the cuts is castastophic to all with ill health, we have been thrown to the dogs without and concern or thought from the poeple in power who no doubt are very comfortable in their secure surroundings.
There is a campaign group called 38Degrees their web site is http:// http://www.38degrees.org.uk/spending-cuts.

They direct you to your MP have your say, we have to gain momentum together and fight back, I have emailed my MP twice and he has written direct to G.Osbourne and I await a response no doubt a negative one BUT the more that fight the better please support the campaign, I am in the process of losing my home after 26 years, can do nothing about it beacause I am ill and my wife a pensioner can you imagine the effect.

PLEASE FIGHT DONT LAY DOWN AND TAKE IT FROM THE NOBLES.

Comment on Campaign to protect Disability Benefits by valerie

valerie — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:47:57 +0000

i think we should all remember that even labour were after our dla. after a long fight they decided to stop it at age 65 and give the money to social services – but not all would be eligable for care – can you imagine it. they would never manage. both parties are as bad as each other.

Comment on Bob Williams-Findlay, MA by Cate

Cate — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:41:42 +0000

Bob, I hope you have forwarded a copy of this to your own MP and all those in the government’s Work & Pensions Dept. who are involved in planning changes to the benefit system.
They also need to remember that we are all (at least potentially) voters and that we all pay taxes (is there anyone out there who doesn’t pay VAT?) if we have any money at all.
I hope you get contact with someone who actually makes an effort to understand the difference between short-term “sickness” and long-term functional differences from the average – if enough people keep on at enough MPs, maybe some of them might eventually catch on (let’s keep living in hope).

Comment on Bob Williams-Findlay, MA by Summer Meadows

Summer Meadows — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:46:29 +0000

Bob, you explain the situation very well, especially the way losing a benefit like DLA can have a knock on effect, both to you and the British economy.

Comment on Please sign here to support this statement by E Stratton

E Stratton — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:25:16 +0000

These cuts to disability will make my life so difficult as to be unliveable. It’s not all bad though, George Osborne will still have his £4 million offshore, tax-avoided trust fund.

Comment on The Princess Royal Trust for Carers & Crossroads Care by Gillian Mushens

Gillian Mushens — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:56:04 +0000

I would like to know how those at the top would cope being a carer and at the sharp end of the poverty line whilst prices go up, if you do not drive you receive no help towards public transport for someone who has had a stroke and is housebound and depends on you.

Due to circurcumstances I cannot work as I am a full-time carer and can only do 15 hours voluntary work. Yet the debts keep pilling up. Sometimes you dread getting up in the morning. Apart from a good GP, social services are rubbish, our carers centre has limited resources. I am sick of fighting bureaucracy. I could do a better job myself and for less money. When are we going to be paid the going rate for the job ie the minimum wage of £5.93. Make those who refuse to work, work for a short time in the carer profession that will soon change their tune. As for those at the top make them pay their whack and bankers to pay back all we have bailed them out and stop hastling those who cannot pay throug no fault of their own.

Comment on Please sign here to support this statement by DiabOdds

DiabOdds — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:06:22 +0000

I can appreciate Diabnicks comment regarding Diabetes and complication. I have peripheral neuropathy in my hands and feet, I am blind in right eye and very poor sight in other eye(currently being treated. I have chronic asthma, Endometriosis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Diabetes Mellitus 39 yrs and completely knackered ! I receive DLA and severe disability allowance and my Mortgage payments have been drastically cut. I am worried sick as I am not able to pay the extra for my mortgage as it is already restricted. I will end up Homeless if more cuts are to happen on 20 of October. Stress is a killer and esp. with a chronic illness never mind a few. Seems us disabled folks will have to beg for bread and water as we have No right being unfit to work. The sooner a group is set up to fight these cuts that are being made on the Countries most VULNERABLE the better I say.

Comment on Campaign to protect Disability Benefits by mick

mick — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:13:03 +0000

im still recovering from an automobile accident,and some of me will never recover.however before this i was a volunteer carer.a person i was caring for managed to get a higher rate of dla.one day i took this person with me as i was travelling to a diffrent town and thought he might like to come along for the ride.imagine my thoughts when he said to me.its the first time ive been out ov this town for 14 years…what do you suppose pple like him will face if dla is took away?.what kind of jail sentence will he face?,life?this is nothing but a disgusting attack on sick pple.like disabled pple are living the life of riley like our elected poloticions ….poloticions can bang their gums 24/7,but they are not saying anything different since the short while ago when they got caught with their hands in the till.it isnt disabled people that are criminals,so why are they spinning it this way?perhaps they should start banging their gums about the billions it is costing to keep immigrants and their offspring living in our country.lets have some cuts there aswell .

Comment on Please sign here to support this statement by Andrew R

Andrew R — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:48:28 +0000

Providing for the sick and disabled and their careers defines our society as civilized, a return to a world where those groups rely on charity or means tested benefits is a return to the values of Victorian Britain and the poor laws. Thanks to Nye Bevan and the Labour government of 1945 this attitude had been consigned to history and defined post 1945 Britain as a truly civilized society. Today we are being threatened with a return to a form of barbarism that only this Tory/Liberal government would contemplate and consider morally justifiable.