Britain's attitudes toward the disabled sucks.
New poll commissioned by Scope shows the alarming levels of discrimination disabled people face in daily life.
More than half of disabled people say they have experienced hostility, aggression or violence from a stranger because of their condition or impairment (56%).
Half of disabled people say they experience discrimination on either a daily or weekly basis.
More than a third (37%) said people’s attitudes towards them have got worse over the past year.
58% of people thought others did not believe that they were disabled and 50% of people said they felt others presumed they did not work.
http://www.scope.org.uk/news/attitud...-people-survey
It beggars belief that 2 in 5 disabled people are finding that their fellow countrymen have become more efficient at persecuting them.
Richard Hawkes chief executive of the charity Scopehas said: "Much of the welfare reform debate has focused on disabled people as benefit scroungers, and many disabled people feel this has led to the public being more sceptical about disability issues and more hostile to those who receive support."
In the county of Suffolk alone a total of 143 attacks were carried out between 2005 and 2010 with numbers showing an increase over the past three years.
The figures, obtained by a Freedom of Information request, show that between 2009 and 2010 there were a total of 34 attacks while back in 2007 to 2008 there were 20.
Here is one recent example...Nikki Cross was jailed for three years after carrying out a “vicious and frenzied” assault on wheelchair-user Douglas Dean.
Cross, 19, kicked and punched the 62-year-old repeatedly, causing him to fall into a ditch full of water.
As a result of the attack, which took place in Wingfield in Suffolk in March last year, Mr Dean suffered a small brain haemorrhage and permanent damage to his left hand.
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/su...abled_1_819853
Why is this happening? I would suggest it is for the same reasons EDL nutjobs assault brown people after a dodgy Daily Mail headline.
For example The Sun
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...d-hotline.htmlMany scroungers are easy to spot. As with our readers' overnight reports, there are notorious cases on these pages of supposedly incapacitated people climbing a bridge, appearing on a TV endurance show and even lap-dancing.
The Mail
http://istyosty.com/tmp/cache/2d8743...b9bcdc045.htmlThe great disability benefit free-for-all: Half of claimants are not asked to prove eligibility
This is grossly inaccurate and misleading and has no basis in truth. There are no Disability Living Allowance claimants who have never been asked to provide evidence, by definition all are required to complete a tortuously long application form is a prerequisite of a successful claim. There are Special Rules for claimants who need their claim processed quickly, terminally ill people for example, – they add up to 1.2% of the DLA caseload or 37,800 people.
But my main criticism lies with the minister himself. Note the highlighted sections.
It does not take a genius to note that 39% does not make a majority, vast or otherwise, despite what the headline says. The only way one can make it so is to as the closed claims to the figure. But there is no evidence that would suggest that these cases were closed because the DWP would have found them to be fit for work had they assessed the claim. They may have been many reasons, apathy, death and recovery from illness spring to mind. The data was manipulated to allow tabloids to label disabled people as workshy scroungers.25 January 2011 – Majority of people found fit for work as Government presses ahead with reforms
The vast majority of people who apply for Employment and Support Allowance are either being found fit for work after undergoing a Work Capability Assessment or stop their claim before they complete their medical assessment.
The official statistics, published today, demonstrate why Ministers are determined to reform the welfare system and press ahead with the reassessment of those on the old style incapacity benefit (IB), which began in Burnley and Aberdeen last year and will roll out across the country later this year.
Employment Minister Chris Grayling:
"It’s unacceptable that so many people have been written off to a lifetime on benefits and these figures show just how vital it is that everyone who has the potential to work receives the right help and support.
"We are determined to get the medical assessment right and provide the necessary help for those that need it, however these figures show just how many people are found to be fit for work and not entitled to ESA.
"Our new Work Programme will ensure that those found fit for work will get the help and support they need to get a job. Those found too sick or disabled to work won’t be expected to and will continue to receive the support they need to lead fulfilling lives."
For new ESA claims from October 2008 to May 2010, the breakdown is:
Support Group (for those who cannot work now or in the foreseeable future and need unconditional support) – 6%
Work Related Activity Group (for those who cannot work now but with the right help could work in the foreseeable future) – 16%
Fit for Work - 39%
Claim closed before assessment complete or assessment still in process–39%
Ministers have already made changes to the way the Work Capability Assessments recognise people suffering from mental health conditions and those with cancer.
If this is the Big Society, I'd rather have the small one, thank you.
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Originally Posted by snuggans
with the mbilliionaire backer who funds her to bribe addicts into getting voluntarily sterilised. They also discussed the history of eugenics in America where 60000 were sterilised in one case a law which survives to this day for being "feeble minded and promiscuous. 
