Some of these pieces were originally on the 'Red Squirrel Party" Blog, but I thought they might detract a little from the more political polemic there.

So I started this one.

The title, just in case the odd reader may not have fathomed it, is a deliberate mis-spelling. Because those of us who are disabled know very well how the non-disabled are all too prone to "diss" us about what we are (or or sometimes erroneously think we should be) able to do . . .

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Oh, what's the bloody use?

What a difference a year makes. there on the right, today, there is a quote from our politicians that goes beyond irony.

'This house… acknowledges the government's collective determination to build upon the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and create a legacy that shines a light on the abilities and achievements of disabled people."
Hasn't it bloody well just shone a light on our 'abilities' and our 'achievements' this last year? As far as this government is concerned (and the Opposition is no better), whatever your 'abilities' are, your opportunities for making any us of them have been increasingly disabled; what 'achievements' that we might have once had in our sights are being ever further put out of our reach.

And, of course, cuts, cuts, everywhere. I'm having to wait longer and longer now for the only ameliorative treatment that makes life even vaguely resembling what's normal for non disabled people for just one month in three. Thanks to NHS cuts, that's now going to be one month in six.

I'm weary of it all. Why don't they just round us up and put us on the trains to the gas chambers and be done with us forever? At least it'd be a quicker death, and the pain of it would be short.
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