#Disability benefits have already been destroyed, Liz friggn Kendall

As a person who has been campaigning for benefits and decent housing for all for more than 20 years, I have to ask – does Liz Kendall not realise that the job of destroying disability benefits and disabled people has already been TOTALLY done? 14 years of Tories mate.

It is already very, VERY hard to get PIP thanks Liz. How about you try it. And it is also very difficult to get benefits which don’t require you to work when you cannot, or to regularly attend useless jobcentre ‘courses’ on putting a CV together for the 1,00000000th time. Give me strength.

Here’s me ranting about that. Enjoy and please rant yourself.

And in case anyone who knows eff all turns up here to say that disabled people who really need support still get it – do me a favour. People who are most in need are the people whose support is targeted most aggressively, because the government feeling is that those people can’t fight back.

If you want a good example, let’s take a moment to remember the Tories’ slaughtering of the independent living fund not so long ago. That fund paid for 24/7 care support for profoundly disabled people who required that support to live their lives. The government went after them anyway.

So – time to piss off, Liz. You’re playing an old tune which was garbage in the first place.

And if Liz actually wants to hear from a real person, here’s Niki, a mother of a disabled son, talking about the absolute farce that has been trying to get benefits and support for her disabled son. She explains that getting this support is actually now her full time job. She also says that most people she knows give up trying to get benefits and housing help because it’s just impossible.

New podcast: housing, autism and unbelievably bad councils. Oh yes.

Welcome to my new podcast.

I’m working on the podcast for the next few months, so probably best to head over there for interviews with people with housing and benefit issues.

There will be a proper launch in the New Year 🎊. Am putting up a few episodes here before then.

whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com 

The podcast is called Who Voted For This, because that is what I think when I muse on the state of housing, benefits, homelessness, disability support and social security in general.

It’s is also what I think when I listen to the asinine politicians who’ve orchestrated the whole wreck and can’t see a support service without wanting to trash it.

These are the first two in a series of episodes which feature interviews with parents of children who have autism. All of these families have housing problems.

They also all have very unhelpful councils. Am much enjoying getting stuck into those clowns, because my word am I over decades of excuses and inaction from councils. Hope you enjoy that part of things as well.