Rare political posting
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article3137459.ece
Scroll down to the bottom of this, for a section titled "A tip for those with doubtful disability". This ends with the phrase
"Next time you see a young person in a wheelchair, tip it over and drag the occupant down to the nearest job centre, lecturing him or her all the while on the dignity of labour."
This is terrible, on so many grounds, firstly, how dare someone suggest that people in wheelchairs should be humiliated in such a way, furthermore, how does anyone partaking in this exercise know whether the person they've just removed from their wheelchair is working or not. Not forgetting that there are many people, not just in wheelchairs, who are truly incapable of work full stop.
This is just one of many suspect articles he has written recently, and quite clearly the editors are keen to allow the controversy to brew or just don't bother to read what their columnists actually write.
It doesn't really surprise me to be honest, people are so up in arms about scroungers and those who are supposedly work-shy, that they forget that many of those who are claiming benefits, really don't want to. It's not a fun life living on benefits, with a constant fear that you could be called for reassessment and potentially lose what money you have, even if you're still as at the same level of disability as before.
I'm not particularly upset about these things, as I know my rights and am fairly thick skinned, but I do worry about those who are very vulnerable and therefore could be damaged by these types of comments and the general attitude against those claiming Incapacity Benefit at the moment.
Scroll down to the bottom of this, for a section titled "A tip for those with doubtful disability". This ends with the phrase
"Next time you see a young person in a wheelchair, tip it over and drag the occupant down to the nearest job centre, lecturing him or her all the while on the dignity of labour."
This is terrible, on so many grounds, firstly, how dare someone suggest that people in wheelchairs should be humiliated in such a way, furthermore, how does anyone partaking in this exercise know whether the person they've just removed from their wheelchair is working or not. Not forgetting that there are many people, not just in wheelchairs, who are truly incapable of work full stop.
This is just one of many suspect articles he has written recently, and quite clearly the editors are keen to allow the controversy to brew or just don't bother to read what their columnists actually write.
It doesn't really surprise me to be honest, people are so up in arms about scroungers and those who are supposedly work-shy, that they forget that many of those who are claiming benefits, really don't want to. It's not a fun life living on benefits, with a constant fear that you could be called for reassessment and potentially lose what money you have, even if you're still as at the same level of disability as before.
I'm not particularly upset about these things, as I know my rights and am fairly thick skinned, but I do worry about those who are very vulnerable and therefore could be damaged by these types of comments and the general attitude against those claiming Incapacity Benefit at the moment.