Latest article in our New Statesman series on cuts to services and the people who are directly affected. This article is about the closure of the Independent Living Fund – a fund which pays for extra carer hours for people who have severe disabilities. Quite the charming political class we have, nodding all of this through.

Says Penny Pepper in the article:

“I’m actually working on a piece about Godwin’s Law, because I think this is quite scary. I really do. It does have parallels. Like the Colin Brewer [issue] – unbelievable.”  It’s one of the reasons that Penny speaks fervently against assisted suicide (she writes in more detail about this below). “I’m not against suicide – I think that suicide is everyone’s right. I’m completely against any change to allow doctors to assist with suicide. It it’s too dangerous and that is what the doctors in you saw in Nazi Germany did.”