The first example in the article is an interesting one.
A mum who has looked after her severely disabled daughter which requires her attention and that of 2 full time carers, 24 hours a day, for the last 35 years.
Now this at home service has been withdrawn and the daughter has had to move into an assisted living facility “miles” away. The mother has now been diagnosed with lung cancer.
The mother also complains:
> It’s disappointing that it’s come to all this, especially after looking after her on my own for all those year
You didn’t, you had the help of 2 people at all times, presumably on some shift rotation for a total of 5 or 6 people plus yourself.
I can imagine the facility is a better place for the daughter now, following the mother’s diagnosis and the inevitable difficulties around aging. If she wants I’m sure she can attend the facility for the entire day to help and be present in her daughter’s life.
I would be happy knowing I will have more space to aid my own recovery, and be happy the daughter is still receiving the professional care she obviously needs.
There will be significantly less of us requiring care once they strip £350 a month away from over 600,000 disabled people, since many of us will simply die.
They are just adjusting and getting things ready is all; its all part of the plan.
This isn’t anything new. The cuts made in the last 13 years to social/mental health are ridiculous.
Still Rishi Sunaks wife has directly benifited from the budget and so fuck the poor.
As Rishi would probably have said: “Those people are not Conservative anyway”
(he said this about people he excluded from Covid help)
They should just come right out with it and roll out their eugenics policy.
Similarly, the Government will bang on about multiple schemes available to help with the costs of living, and so on.
What they don’t tell you is that it’s allocated mostly to councils, everyone has their own scheme and criteria, and there isn’t much if any financial support at the moment.
Broadband social tariff for example? Universal Credit only. Any other disability payment or benefit? Get stuffed. Also, the tariff is really bloody basic.
Care? If there is anything available, it’s woefully inadequate, utterly incompetent, and not person centred, focused, or any thought given to the quality of care provided.
Got a problem with a provider or want to switch? Solely at the behest of social services, who you cannot get in touch with.
Complaint? Similar issue.
Care companies are making a great deal of money, paying their staff shit wages (which is why they can’t get staff), and the staff that they do get, are scraping the barrel. Not to mention that any training provided is woefully inadequate.
Essentially, if you’re disabled, you’ve got to fight EVERYONE for every little thing, and even then, you’ll be told to get stuffed or ignored. If and what you do get, is so little and/or so poor, it makes you wonder why you even bothered in the first place.
This doesn’t take into account the effect of social isolation, no social interaction whatsoever, ability to be independent in any shape or form, or try to better yourself in any way.
If you do, or try to have any kind of life, you’ll be ground into the dirt, while they simultaneously pull the rug out from under you and hit you with sanctions for not trying to better yourself.
Surely it would be easier for all involved if the government just told us outright to fuck off and die?
EDIT: Social Tarrif- working tax credits, and most importantly, PIP have been excluded for some reason.
One last kick to the teeth from our friendly tories
We’re getting closer and closer to “the showers” aren’t we.
We havent had a carer for six months now. Our last one quit after getting terrible excema from OCD (COVID fears, very real when if he spread it to my disabled brother he could have killed him. I will never forget those DNRs). Now there’s just noone.
Everyday is a struggle.
Didn’t they say months ago that they would increase benefits with inflation? I’m still waiting.
I’m on a 5 year waiting list to see someone to get ADHD medication. Yet I have a PIP and UC assessment every couple of years and they say things like “Why hasn’t anything been getting better? You should be trying harder”. Like, how am I supposed to wait harder???
Ah round 2 of the great purge, can’t wait to see if I survive this one
I have been disabled by severe mental health issues for years. I can’t get anywhere near treatment and am not fit to work. My PIP renewal claim – which took 15 months of stress and anxiety and being terrorised by every white envelope that showed up – just cut my rate by 22%.
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Nothing has changed for me, I was not treated, and am actually significantly worse. But they know I can’t fight it – there isn’t enough support out there to help anyway, and I couldn’t take another 15 months of being frightened out of what is left of my mind.
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This is how they treat us – they have been doing it for years. This is death by government policy.
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If they offered me a lethal dose of something at this time, I’d take it (just think about the Medical Aid in Death scandals in Canada to get an idea of why this is NOT hyperbole).
Anyone could become disabled through no fault of their own, whether it is accident or illness. Those who back such cuts should remember that because no one ever thinks it will be them who ends up paralysed in a car accident or who finds themselves battling a genetic illness they never knew they had.
I don’t understand why people aren’t more upset about this. We are all only one simple accident away from being reliant on this kind of support, even those with 100k jobs. Anyone reliant on working for their income will eventually need government help if they become disabled, and it can happen just from tripping over. That’s just from self interest, even if you’re unable to summon any empathy for other human beings.
I’m epileptic, the NHS fucks me harder than Johnny sins.
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The first example in the article is an interesting one.
A mum who has looked after her severely disabled daughter which requires her attention and that of 2 full time carers, 24 hours a day, for the last 35 years.
Now this at home service has been withdrawn and the daughter has had to move into an assisted living facility “miles” away. The mother has now been diagnosed with lung cancer.
The mother also complains:
> It’s disappointing that it’s come to all this, especially after looking after her on my own for all those year
You didn’t, you had the help of 2 people at all times, presumably on some shift rotation for a total of 5 or 6 people plus yourself.
I can imagine the facility is a better place for the daughter now, following the mother’s diagnosis and the inevitable difficulties around aging. If she wants I’m sure she can attend the facility for the entire day to help and be present in her daughter’s life.
I would be happy knowing I will have more space to aid my own recovery, and be happy the daughter is still receiving the professional care she obviously needs.
There will be significantly less of us requiring care once they strip £350 a month away from over 600,000 disabled people, since many of us will simply die.
They are just adjusting and getting things ready is all; its all part of the plan.
This isn’t anything new. The cuts made in the last 13 years to social/mental health are ridiculous.
Still Rishi Sunaks wife has directly benifited from the budget and so fuck the poor.
As Rishi would probably have said: “Those people are not Conservative anyway”
(he said this about people he excluded from Covid help)
They should just come right out with it and roll out their eugenics policy.
Similarly, the Government will bang on about multiple schemes available to help with the costs of living, and so on.
What they don’t tell you is that it’s allocated mostly to councils, everyone has their own scheme and criteria, and there isn’t much if any financial support at the moment.
Broadband social tariff for example? Universal Credit only. Any other disability payment or benefit? Get stuffed. Also, the tariff is really bloody basic.
Care? If there is anything available, it’s woefully inadequate, utterly incompetent, and not person centred, focused, or any thought given to the quality of care provided.
Got a problem with a provider or want to switch? Solely at the behest of social services, who you cannot get in touch with.
Complaint? Similar issue.
Care companies are making a great deal of money, paying their staff shit wages (which is why they can’t get staff), and the staff that they do get, are scraping the barrel. Not to mention that any training provided is woefully inadequate.
Essentially, if you’re disabled, you’ve got to fight EVERYONE for every little thing, and even then, you’ll be told to get stuffed or ignored. If and what you do get, is so little and/or so poor, it makes you wonder why you even bothered in the first place.
This doesn’t take into account the effect of social isolation, no social interaction whatsoever, ability to be independent in any shape or form, or try to better yourself in any way.
If you do, or try to have any kind of life, you’ll be ground into the dirt, while they simultaneously pull the rug out from under you and hit you with sanctions for not trying to better yourself.
Surely it would be easier for all involved if the government just told us outright to fuck off and die?
EDIT: Social Tarrif- working tax credits, and most importantly, PIP have been excluded for some reason.
One last kick to the teeth from our friendly tories
We’re getting closer and closer to “the showers” aren’t we.
We havent had a carer for six months now. Our last one quit after getting terrible excema from OCD (COVID fears, very real when if he spread it to my disabled brother he could have killed him. I will never forget those DNRs). Now there’s just noone.
Everyday is a struggle.
Didn’t they say months ago that they would increase benefits with inflation? I’m still waiting.
I’m on a 5 year waiting list to see someone to get ADHD medication. Yet I have a PIP and UC assessment every couple of years and they say things like “Why hasn’t anything been getting better? You should be trying harder”. Like, how am I supposed to wait harder???
Ah round 2 of the great purge, can’t wait to see if I survive this one
I have been disabled by severe mental health issues for years. I can’t get anywhere near treatment and am not fit to work. My PIP renewal claim – which took 15 months of stress and anxiety and being terrorised by every white envelope that showed up – just cut my rate by 22%.
​
Nothing has changed for me, I was not treated, and am actually significantly worse. But they know I can’t fight it – there isn’t enough support out there to help anyway, and I couldn’t take another 15 months of being frightened out of what is left of my mind.
​
This is how they treat us – they have been doing it for years. This is death by government policy.
​
If they offered me a lethal dose of something at this time, I’d take it (just think about the Medical Aid in Death scandals in Canada to get an idea of why this is NOT hyperbole).
Anyone could become disabled through no fault of their own, whether it is accident or illness. Those who back such cuts should remember that because no one ever thinks it will be them who ends up paralysed in a car accident or who finds themselves battling a genetic illness they never knew they had.
I don’t understand why people aren’t more upset about this. We are all only one simple accident away from being reliant on this kind of support, even those with 100k jobs. Anyone reliant on working for their income will eventually need government help if they become disabled, and it can happen just from tripping over. That’s just from self interest, even if you’re unable to summon any empathy for other human beings.
I’m epileptic, the NHS fucks me harder than Johnny sins.