Post by gwinnie on Jan 21, 2012 17:33:49 GMT
Welfare Reform Bill: Where is our national conscience?
By SONIA POULTON
Last updated at 11:41 AM on 17th January 2012
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Frustration: Cameron's Welfare Reform Bill has been at the heart of the 'hunting season of the disabled'
Over the past week, as the hunting season of the disabled has continued, I have had moments when I have been forced to ask, of no-one in particular, ‘what is wrong with us?’
And I have questioned that in response to the way our country - and our elected and unelected leaders - have approached and dealt with the issue of welfare reform and, more pertinently, the budget for our sick and disabled.
Personally, I have loathed David Cameron’s Welfare Reform Bill from the beginning.
Not just because I view him as a hopelessly out-of-depth and and incapable Prime Minister, which I do, but because it is the singularly most reprehensible attack on our vulnerable - our disabled - that this country has witnessed in many years.
And while I appreciate that it was Tony Blair’s government who created the original blueprint for this welfare reform, it has been David Cameron‘s Coalition who have fought, without mercy, to bring this particular kind of national masochism into being.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2087784/Welfare-Reform-Bill-Where-national-conscience.html#ixzz1k7Cayoao
By SONIA POULTON
Last updated at 11:41 AM on 17th January 2012
Comments (58)
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Frustration: Cameron's Welfare Reform Bill has been at the heart of the 'hunting season of the disabled'
Over the past week, as the hunting season of the disabled has continued, I have had moments when I have been forced to ask, of no-one in particular, ‘what is wrong with us?’
And I have questioned that in response to the way our country - and our elected and unelected leaders - have approached and dealt with the issue of welfare reform and, more pertinently, the budget for our sick and disabled.
Personally, I have loathed David Cameron’s Welfare Reform Bill from the beginning.
Not just because I view him as a hopelessly out-of-depth and and incapable Prime Minister, which I do, but because it is the singularly most reprehensible attack on our vulnerable - our disabled - that this country has witnessed in many years.
And while I appreciate that it was Tony Blair’s government who created the original blueprint for this welfare reform, it has been David Cameron‘s Coalition who have fought, without mercy, to bring this particular kind of national masochism into being.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2087784/Welfare-Reform-Bill-Where-national-conscience.html#ixzz1k7Cayoao