When I popped out to get some milk earlier there was a police van on the street outside the lair. As I walked past, swearing and shouting “Biscuit”, an officer who was searching someone turned and looked me up and down.…
In January I wrote to Maria Miller, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for disabled people regarding the proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance (DLA). The only response I got was a standard photocopied letter from the Department of Work and Pensions.…
Happy Valentine’s Day, or as I declared earlier, “Happy Complicated Love Lives Day”
I’m ticcing a lot about love at the moment:
“I love you.”
“I love sheepdogs.”
“I love you shaded donkey.”
Sadly love isn’t really the thing on my mind today.…
This afternoon I went with Leftwing Idiot to a protest, organised by the group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC). It took place outside the headquarters of ATOS, the company which is set to make a lot of money from the changes to disability benefits – they’ve been given the contract to re-assess everyone who gets Disability Living Allowance and to take it away from at least a quarter of them.…
It’s a month before Valentine’s Day and a month before the end of the government’s poorly thought out consultation on Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Today, bloggers from all over the UK are writing to mark One Month Before Heart Break. Rather than love and romance, February 14th 2011 threatens to bring heartbreak and despair to many disabled people.…
Over the last few weeks students, past, present and future have been protesting about the proposed increase in tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance. In the last few days the presence of disabled protesters at these demonstrations has been widely debated in the media.…
I was talking to Laura on the phone on my way to work about the cuts to public services.
She asked if I was in the cab that Access to Work provides. I said, “Yeah, although I expect it’ll get slashed by 25% like everything else.”…
At lunchtime I joined thousands of people on a march from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy to protest against the occupation of Palestine and the atrocities that took place on the convoy ships taking humanitarian aid to Gaza last weekend.…
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