The "Brave New World' we live in.

[Lindylanka]

This week in the UK we have been watching the Paralympics. Many wonderful and heartwarming tales of courage and endurance from young disabled people. This event has been well supported by the public, but there is a much darker side to disability and how disabled people are treated. The very meaning of words such as 'illness', 'sickness', 'disability', and 'fitness for work' have been redefined.

A part of the Paralympic opening ceremony focused on Prospero and Miranda from Shakespeares 'The Tempest', and the words "Brave new world, that has such people in it" was quite a highlight of the show.

Please read the link below to understand what is really happening to disabled people here, as they are harried onto work programmes, on which one can be found fit for work when wheelchair bound and sick, or have COPD, or terminal cancer, or any of the multitudes of things that can happen to people because medical science just does not have the answers.

It is happening to PwP too, because we need to keep moving to survive, and if we can move, no matter what other issues we have, we are fit for work. We are the trial, the white rats of this particular social experiment.

Where ever you are don't let this happen in your country. It started here with a media campaign against the disabled, hate crime has risen tremendously, and by press releases from government. This latest news is terrifying for disabled people of working age, especially the ones with degenerative conditions, we aren't all the elite athletes at the Paralympics, and our needs are complex.

Read and see what happens when a country can be lulled into thinking it is ok to blame the worst off in society for the global economic crisis.

guardian.co.uk/society/20.....

[jillannf6]

hi

a good article -i ia m behyodn work now aged 66 nbut had to retire from teachign on ill health groudns aged 47

i wonder wha tbenefits would eb available now for me/

other than the horror of havign to get mysle fto work each dayh

lol JIll

[PatV]

I couldn't connect to your link, sure would like to. Here in US the blather about Medicare and social security being "Entitlements" is making me sick After I've sunk my good money in it. Be glad when this election is over. It's criminal that we don't have a single payment plan like you guys. Just my opinion. I agree there is bias against "disabled" and it's ugly. i have PD and my daughter has TBI and is on disability, but her disability is invisible. I feel sorry for vets coming home from Afghanistan with TBI. We should help each other, there's plenty to do.