UKIP doesn't hate disabled people.There is just a zesty twist of prejudice.
Late last night I had a discussion with a UKIP supporter who started a thread asking a interesting question. "Why do the left-wing try to restrict the free speech of UKIP supporters". I made the following reply: It is because UKIP are anti-minority and want to privatise the NHS. The original poster went immediately on the defensive and for the rest of the night we where debating UKIP's stance on disabled people.
Unfortunately this thread was deleted by the original poster.
I think it had something to do with myself winning the argument and having a person suggest I was a A1 professional politician. Whatever the outcomes where I don't think they matter. Personal gratification only serves ego and ego will not stop peoples rights being eroded.
Due to this I want to highlight the concerns I raised:
1. In the following video below at 6 mins 40 seconds Nigel Farage says he would like to adopt a streamlining approach similar to a big business who would want to run the NHS. This is exactly what the Conservatives talked about prior to getting elected in the 2010 election. What followed was the mass privatisation of the NHS. Do not be fooled. Nigel Farage is a Right-Wing Small Government Libertarian. He wants to privatise the NHS.
Also during the 17 min period Nigel Farage is questioned why he has a poor attendance & voting record during his time in the EU in relation to receiving a huge Salary. The speaker then says anyone in any other job would get the sack. Nigel replied It is because he had a plane crash and was recovering from an operation. He then went on to say he didn't need pain killers while recovering. Nigel is a pure hypocrite. He argues for huge welfare cuts for the sick and vulnerable but when it comes to himself he makes excuses why he should receive his salary while not working just like some kind of sick pay.
2. There have been considerable welfare cuts since 2010. UKIP supporters want to convince people that UKIP are different and pro-disability. However when inspecting their Basic Cash Benefit scheme they would see to it that the old Incapacity Benefit would be set to the same rate as Job Seekers Allowance. Incapacity Benefit now called ESA retains the original structure of incapacity benefit and can range between £100 & £213 a week
based on a single person. This is because ESA includes premiums for different types of disabled people in different types of situations.
If these changes go ahead single disabled people could lose up to 60% of their ESA income per week.
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Example.
Janet is a single disabled women with Chrons Disease. She can be fit one day then bed bound the next day in aggravating pain. She doesn't have a carer and has to hire one for 2 hours care a day.
She is in the ESA support group. She gets paid the following:
Personal Allowance £71.70
Additional Component £34.80
Enhanced Disability Premium £15.15
Serve Disability Premium £59.50
If Janet had a disabled partner living with her She would also get a carer premium which is paid at £33.
Here is the source I used:
http://www.nhs.uk/CarersDirect/money...-how-much.aspx
If the Basic Cash Benefit scheme replaced ESA Janet would lose 60% of her income.
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UKIP have been extremely quiet about their welfare policy for disabled people and actually pulled their 2010 manifesto off the web to hide their true intentions. However I have a copy of this manifesto and to prove my point the image below explains their welfare policy.
3. In Margaret Thatchers days most people have bad memories but one good thing she did was that she recognized the needs of disabled people.
Her Governments legacy was the creation of Disability Living Allowance and the abolishment of congregate care for disabled people. She wanted disabled people to be a part of society.
However UKIP want to abolish this and have radical reform on social inclusion for disabled people. They want to send people with learning difficulties back into congregate care away from society.
In a disabled persons perspective congregate care is worser than a prison. It is like a urban ghetto where you will be placed for eternity without anyway to get out. It also is some what comparable to a concentration camp because the process of sending a disabled to congregate care doesn't consider the disabled persons personal preference. It is simply a Government incarceration.
Many UKIP supporters would say I am trying to scaremonger people. Maybe that is correct if the reader is not a minority. As for the multitude of minorities in this country including the disabled the fear of being incarcerated against ones wishes is very real and it is spoken out by disabled people in fear on a daily basis. A good example would be the protest group ATOS Miracles comparing the French IT Firm to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
And just in case UKIP supporters deny they are going to send people with learning difficulties into congregate care I have copied their policy from their manifesto and included it below for the readers of this thread to view.
As someone who belongs to the disability community Your Able, Atos Miracles and DPAC I can tell you that the fear of UKIP for disabled people is very real. This is why I decided to get at least 10 articles on the behaviour against disabled people which UKIP seem to not care about showing.
These sources are from media sources, local newspapers and social media feeds.
1. Ex UKIP Candidate Geoffrey Clark calls for abortion of disabled people.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...isabled-people
2. Godfrey Bloom mocks disability at Oxford Union.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...i-9087751.html
3. UKIP members mock ADHD.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...n_4609441.html
4. UKIP leader caught using disabled parking bay.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News...0501164323.htm
5. Ex UKIP candidate suspended for suggesting that organs of the criminally insane should be made available to law abiding citizens.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4218805.stm
6. UKIP bans disabled man as candidate.
http://metro.co.uk/2007/02/28/ukip-b...didate-134848/
7. UKIP member claims he mocks disability all the time on Twitter.
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/ukip-lab...family-idiots/
8. Conservative MP is secret UKIP member and suggested that it would be better to kill children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties than provide out of borough genuine care for them.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/n..._joining_UKIP/
9. UKIP use BNP slogan "Love Britain, Vote UKIP".
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...n_4872664.html
10. UKIP candidate Dr Gasper says PinkNews.co.uk readers should be sectioned under the mental health act.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/04/30...al-health-act/