Whilst the Telegraph story is still there, the link to it from the front page seems to have disappeared.

I did hope it had disappeared completely after I posted a message saying some of their facts were wrong. Never mind, tomorrow the media will be scapegoating someone else for a few days.

Survivor wrote:
Whilst the Telegraph story is still there, the link to it from the front page seems to have disappeared.

I did hope it had disappeared completely after I posted a message saying some of their facts were wrong. Never mind, tomorrow the media will be scapegoating someone else for a few days.


I wrote a message with some detailed criticism of the article which has NOT appeared on the comments on the website.
So it could be my "fault".

papasmurf wrote:


I wrote a message with some detailed criticism of the article which has NOT appeared on the comments on the website.
So it could be my "fault".

Nice one. The more nasty stories like this we get taken down the better.

I know that knocking stories sell papers, but over recent years, there seems to have been increasing pleasure taken in knocking disadvantaged groups. I don't think we're in a Nazi-type situation, but it was foundations like this that they built on. It makes for easy popular politics.

I wish I'd got a link to a picture of a poster of theirs that showed a man sitting in a chair with another man in a white coat standing behind him and writing on it telling people how much it would cost to keep that man over his lifetime.

The American version of this counter-attack against the cost of keeping disabled people has been to cut benefits so that people are reliant on charity (mostly churches) or end up in prison, which, ironically, is much more expensive, but doesn't attract opprobrium. To judge by what people are telling me elsewhere, various other countries are following suit.

I think it's well worth our while to keep fighting back against attacks on vulnerable groups. Mostly, when I write responses on sites like the Mail, the Telegraph, the Times etc., I like to remind the readers that what has happened to me could happen to them. We have to keep that sense of connection.

I think that this site is fantastic in the way that it helps individuals to fight for what they're entitled to in the way of disabilty/incapacity benefits. I shall carry on recommending it to others, just as I shall carry on fighting back against the political and media scapegoating that could end up with us not having these benefits to claim if we don't keep fighting back.

Survivor wrote:
I don't think we're in a Nazi-type situation, .


To be brutally frank I do.
There is NO good reason to give a WCA to all IB claimants as nearly one million will have retired off it by 2014. (That is not counting the ones who will die between now and then.)

I will be 63 years old in 2014 and according to my GP,in a worse physical than now.What alot the "oldies" have to look foward to.