tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post6197779858731914136..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: I'm confused by the BBCMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-79022762947638250802012-04-10T10:14:56.353+01:002012-04-10T10:14:56.353+01:00NBWK, there *have* been disabled protests. I'd...NBWK, there *have* been disabled protests. I'd like to refer you particularly to <a href="http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/invisible-invincible-my-day-of-protest/" rel="nofollow">this Latent Existence post</a> about a fairly recent protest relating to the Spartacus Report. The pictures, words and videos show wheelchair users chaining themselves together across Regent Street with other disabled people doing a "slow walk", clogging the streets just as you suggest.<br /><br />Journalists attend, but it barely scored a blip on the media radar.<br /><br />It also explains that being, y'know, disabled, protesting in the capital isn't quite as simple for many of us as taking one day off work and hopping on a train with a Cheap Day Return. Ramps and spaces need to be booked in advance, medication and care schedules need to be worked around, many of us would need a carer accompanying us (at best, an extra train fare and lunch, at worst, having to pay a PA's hourly rate) and the physical impact of spending a full day out and about can last days or weeks.<br /><br />An additional issue is that we cannot ask a PA to assist us to do something illegal (so once the police say "move" we have to agree or be abandoned) and that those of us who are dependent on state benefits fear that they may experience financial consequences should they take the risk of being marked as a "troublemaker".Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-11450310147448360822012-04-09T23:00:39.794+01:002012-04-09T23:00:39.794+01:00I hear from a lot of Brits with disabilities (othe...I hear from a lot of Brits with disabilities (other club footers as meself) about all this NHS claptrap, but I don't hear anyone saying its time to have 10,000 wheelchairs and 50K crutch-riders show up outside the H of L and Numero 10 Downing and putting on a real stink of an upset-we-are-and-ain't-leavin'-soon to-do. Letters get you nowhere, calls get put on hold, email - a joke, ya? But clog the streets, make the Bobs haul folks off in their wheelchairs by the hundreds, and all on the evening telly - guess what? That is how you get some real awake-time from those sleepy-minded MPs.NBWKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02939426405910201139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-57942750216189505802012-02-24T23:47:40.893+00:002012-02-24T23:47:40.893+00:00Excelent post! BBC should take care more of their ...Excelent post! BBC should take care more of their online activites. <br /><br />Oh, and serem ti se u carapu! Keep writing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-14022292916540809302012-02-24T23:47:18.660+00:002012-02-24T23:47:18.660+00:00Excelent post! BBC should take care more of their ...Excelent post! BBC should take care more of their online activites. <br /><br />Oh, and serem ti se u carapu! Keep writing!Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-38830966421048585252012-02-19T17:18:15.672+00:002012-02-19T17:18:15.672+00:00Thank you for simplifying it all, so helpful among...Thank you for simplifying it all, so helpful amongst all the wordspeak. Keep it up!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07282827549397366897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-10098954481729699562012-01-19T13:04:02.113+00:002012-01-19T13:04:02.113+00:00We're experiencing the same from the Beeb rega...We're experiencing the same from the Beeb regarding the Health and Social Care Bill. For the past year and a half, everyone who is anyone in medicine has opposed this bill as representing the breaking up of the NHS, but the Beeb hasn't reported it. Now they have tried to tag that opposition onto the row about NHS pensions, as if it's got something to do with that. There's definitely someone leaning on the Beeb to stop them reporting on these issues.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06174792040950067339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-4804738119498179112012-01-19T01:12:47.033+00:002012-01-19T01:12:47.033+00:00Brilliant piece of writing. I agree with everythin...Brilliant piece of writing. I agree with everything you have said. So many things in articles written about WRB, confuse and get the facts wrong misleading the public about what its about. <br /><br />Could write lots more but brain has conked out. Just found your post after clicking at the bottom of Sue Marsh's post today.<br /><br />p.s I have ME tookatharinenoreply@blogger.com