SilverbladeTE
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The sick insanity and stupidity of the UK's "new" disability system is like something out of Kafka...
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Yes, Thatcher! What's up with all that insane adoration?
It seems to me you've got no idea of what the UK was like before Thatcher.
It was only during the other lot decade of "cool britannia" that it sharply came down and with it manufacturing but we all know that was the decade of banking and finance.
ATOS tell woman with mental age of 3 yrs to get a job (not satire – please share)
Fahmeena is 30 years old. She can’t walk or talk and has an estimated mental age of about 3 years old.
She likes to be called Princess Meena. Here she is:
ATOS – in their wisdom – have assessed her and have decided that Princess Meena doesn’t need any benefits and she should go and get a job instead.
So Meena’s sister – Farzana – has decided to turn to social media to ask for ideas about what job she could do.
Here’s some information to help you with ideas for work for Meena:
Meena has Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), brain damage, Cerebral Palsy, can’t talk, can’t walk, has a mental age of 3, is incontinent and likes wearing pink and Minnie the Mouse headbands as well as making shitbombs.
If you have any ideas for jobs that Meena can do, you can post your ideas under the hashtag#JobsforMeena on Twitter.
Presumably Princess Meena is an example of one of the myriad ’scroungers’ unfairly claiming disability benefits we hear so much about.
Not a word of this is satire I can assure you, but I’m sure many people will have the same question as I have.
What have we become in this once great country that we turn our backs on people like Meena?
.Answers on a postcard please to your MP.
Silver good advice from Anna8 - hope you do appeal it goes well for you too. Try to get some support.
re: Margaret Thatcher - as one who lived and worked during her years as prime minister - I can tell you one thing the unions would have brought the country down before they'd have given in, I'm working class my father was a bricklayer and still working at that time, he hated the Labour party and weak politicians, they would not have stood up to them.
You only have to look at the retirement pensions of civil servants, teachers, doctors etc and compare them to the average pension of a working man currently at £120 per week ( and in those days not as many people had cars, walking to the bus stop in freezing conditions at 5.30am in the morning, times were very hard) , is that right?
I'm not knocking unions, they have their place, I'm still a member of one, but too many rights and fantastic benefits for selective parts of the working force is not right.
I didn't particularly like MT and didn't agree with a lot of her policies - but we've had better and worse Prime Ministers, what I don't like is disrespect for the dead. I don't want to start a political debate though.............