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You do understand that a lot of the protest is against the THREAT to remove support, don't you? For example only today, our benevolent and loving government decided that it was going to permit people in care homes to keep the extra support that allows them to travel outside of those homes, after a year of "investigating" whether this might actually be incredibly cruel and massively unfair. Even with that threat lifted, there is still the very real possibility that when they move from DLA to PIP, they will lose that money, so the threat still remains. A great many disabled people are literally terrified that what support they get will be removed because some arse in an office somewhere has decided they aren't disabled any more.

The state of the worlds finances have not and never will be the fault of the disabled, nor even the fault of the miniscule number of fraudulent claimants. Its not even the fault of the able-bodied unemployed..but again and again they are the whipping boy for Osbornes idiot ideas, the victims of IDS and his ideologically drive crusade.

And I'm glad to see that you can diagnose disability by sight alone. Maybe you should get a job with Atos doing WCA tests? They operate almost entirely on misinformation. FACTS are the last thing that they bother to look at.

You want to stick to some facts, maybe you should stop trying to use a case of fraud to prove that someone who is actually disabled can access huge amounts of cash? Its disingenuous and misleading in equal amounts.

mattyrm wrote:

BrassScorpion wrote:This cartoon covers part of the problem pretty well.

No it doesn't.

Its not funny either, which should be the point of a cartoon.

That cartoon should be used as a means test for our political leaders.

Let me try to explain real slow. Disabled people get disabled through little or no fault of their own. The man says they don't deserve any help. The anvil falls on said man through no fault of his own. No one helps him. He satys under the anvil because alone he can not move it, he would need help. The man being treated the way he thingks the disabled should be treated.

It is never as funny when you have to explain.

Easy E wrote:

Let me try to explain real slow. Disabled people get disabled through little or no fault of their own. The man says they don't deserve any help. The anvil falls on said man through no fault of his own. No one helps him. He satys under the anvil because alone he can not move it, he would need help. The man being treated the way he thingks the disabled should be treated.

Thanks for that.

If it wasn't for your staggeringly astute observations and subsequent explanation I would never have understood the subtle nuanced humour of that immensely complicated hastily drawn 6 panel cartoon.