Concern as ministers failed to consider what would happen to disabled people who need equipment during a blackout

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  1. I don’t think this headline is fair, the government is put in place to make difficult decisions. They will have weighed up all the different considerations and realised that the need for electricity to run life sustaining equipment is not a problem that affects them, so who cares.

  2. Recent history has shown us that if the Tories are proposing a course of action that will lead to disabled people dying they probably consider it an acceptable cost at best and a welcome byproduct at worst, there’s no reason to assume they’re oblivious.

  3. Disabled and vulnerable people dying is pretty much in line with Tory policies. They want an able-bodied and obedient work force to sponge off, not humanity.

  4. This may be a stupid question.. does these MPs have no idea why there’s a civil service of knowledgable people?

    Ego is a dangerous drug.

  5. Disabled people (or any vulnerable person, renter, or non-Tory voter) dying quietly and without fuss is basically the Tory mission objective at this point…

    ‘Let the bodies pile up…’ and all that.

  6. just think of all those people who switched to bt’s ip phones (as opposed to copper) for their landlines. no 999 for most of them. (bt ran out of batteries / emergency mobiles)

  7. What’s being discussed is a 3 hour power cut with 24 hour notice.

    If a 3 hour power cut is a life threatening event for you then you should absolutely be provided with a battery backup to protect against that risk, with or without the supply problems this winter.

    3 hour power cuts happen, and normally without notice.

  8. The blackouts have the ability to kill able body people as well, the proposed time are 4pm to 7pm, think of the influx of people leaving work early, tied in with school chucking out time dark and rainy December evening no street lighting, traffic lights out, creates the perfect storm for RTAs to spike.

  9. With this government they call this mass failure an acceptable loss of life

    Just like the 100,000 during the pandemic

    we D O N T matter

    This government doesn’t care we need a new government completely not a new party we need a new everything new politicians new guidelines new everything

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