Since when have we not been first in line for the Tory knife? Year after year of Austerity impacted disabled people and their families 11 times harder than the average person, and impacted the severely disabled 19 time harder – loss of Social Care, loss of Day Relief Centres, loss of Home Visits, loss of Independent Living Allowance, Bedroom Tax on ‘spare’ rooms needed for storing medical equipment or over-night attendants, etc.
Government repeated refused to undertake a Cumulative Impact Assessment because it would have show just how damning their continued treatment of the most vulnerable is society really is. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities presented a devastatingly critical report on Government behaviour:
and the Gov just said they “strongly disagreed with the Findings” and nothing changed.