Via Sueworld.

[elisi]

Welfare Reform Bill prompts protest in London.

Activists and disability campaign groups are staging a demonstration in opposition to the government's welfare proposals.

Campaigners say the changes in the Welfare Reform Bill would see half a million people lose their benefits.

Press release here and pictures here.

And on Twitter.

(Wouldn't it be nice to have a government that cared?)

Comments

[redjaywrites.livejournal.com]

Heaven help us, Britain, SHAPE UP.

[elisi]

As long as the Tories are in power, this will be the way - all we can do is complain as loudly as possible and hope they give an inch or two... :(

[redjaywrites.livejournal.com]

Aye, my sentiments exactly. I can't help but feel my year of eighteen-year-olds is responsible since the government went to pot the first year we could vote... Despite all attempts to keep the Tories out. The coalition government is NOT working and the sooner they work that out, the better.

[elisi]

I'd be more inclined to blame the well-off middleclass, to be honest. (The 18 year olds, I guess, voted for Nick Clegg, and have now been put off politics for good.) Stupid coalition.

[redjaywrites.livejournal.com]

,i>I'd be more inclined to blame the well-off middleclass, to be honest.
Probably a good point there.

The 18 year olds, I guess, voted for Nick Clegg, and have now been put off politics for good.
Guilty as charged and disappointed as predicted.

Stupid coalition.
Amen.

Hell, never mind Ianto, the Master could - if he put his mind to a less malicious use - do better. *prompted by icon*

[elisi]

Who to vote for: The devil you know. /cynical

Hell, never mind Ianto, the Master could - if he put his mind to a less malicious use - do better. *prompted by icon*
"Every day is a day I don't take over world." <- approximate future line of Alex's.

[redjaywrites.livejournal.com]

Alex OwO

[elisi]

I so want to get back to writing him, but TIME! /o\

[trialia]

*sighs and nods in agreement*

That said, my family have been Lib Dem voters my whole life, and I certainly wasn't going to vote Tory or Labour since both had previously proved to be groups of assholes - and still are. I'm a LD party member and I'm frankly disgusted with Clegg, don't even get me started on this bullshit. *sighs again*

Also another disabled person being hit by these bastard cuts. The NHS ones have already kicked me in the teeth by forcing the closure of my local hydrotherapy pool, when hydro is the only form of treatment that has proved helpful for me in 25 years, with the exception of painkillers - and those I keep having to increase, I'm already on morphine. (I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.)

[elisi]

Am in a bit of a rush, but I have an older post here which beautifully sums up my thoughts. I just do not agree with conservatism. :(