How the British people were taught to hate the disabled

Benefit Scrounging Scum reports:

...The most important issue of all is the message sent by a British government to the British people.

That disabled children who aren't the most disabled of all will have their support cut to 'justify' increasing the support to the most severely disabled children by less than £2 a week.

That newly disabled or seriously ill adults living alone will lose the money previously deemed vital to pay someone to provide care.

That children with serious illnesses and disabilities will have their entitlement to National Insurance contributions removed.

An entitlement previously supported by politicians of all parties as sending a crucial message of the inherent value of life.

That people with serious illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis, early onset Alzheimers or cancer will, after 12 months, no longer be entitled to the financial support they spent their working lives paying National Insurance for if their partner earns more than £7500 per year.

I could tell you of how this was sold to the British public. A people with 'it's just not cricket' hardwired into our DNA.

Of how carefully, deliberately, knowingly successive governments moved from all agreeing that it was inhuman to demonise the sick or disabled to carefully, deliberately, knowingly, drip feeding a complicit media into a propaganda exercise stunning in its success, to label these very same people as unworthy of empathy, compassion or support.

Of how calculated this rebranding exercise was to ensure the public believed the empty promises of 'always supporting the most vulnerable' because, after all, these people are mostly faking fraudsters anyway. Doesn't it say so in the papers, on the news, even on the BBC?

I could try and explain to you that this isn't about eliminating fraud, that this will affect you or your family when inevitably accident, sickness or ageing moves you from being 'not yet disabled' to 'one of us'.

I could try, but that's the nightmare of 4am no-one wants to remember when they awake. I could tell you that understanding, that empathy, that sense of life altering devastation is an insight that will only come to you when it's too late...