People wonder why people hate politicians.
The latest reason is Lord Freud.
A multimillionaire ex banker, and current Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Freud believes that disabled people who work should not get the minimum wage.
Well, that’s fair enough. People who are born with a disability, or pick one up on the way through their lives, should get a wage nearer to £2 a week because some of them work slower. Oh, but now he’s apologised. He’s been found out, realised it was offensive and he’s actually committed to the disabled. In short, he LOVES the disabled.
Me? I find it absolutely sickening. Disability covers a wide range of issues, some severe, some not so severe but all, without exception, a barrier in life. Does Lord Freud think that the disabled deserve to be disabled? He certainly said, and it cannot be denied, that he said some disabled people are worth less than able-bodied people.
David Cameron was caught on the hop in the House of Commons and said merely that Freud’s comments were not the policy of the government. Now pardon me, Dave, but this is one of your underlings. This is someone in our pay, not that anyone elected him because he’s a Lord, so he probably thinks himself a bit above ordinary folk, especially someone with a disability. How can this man keep his job?
I suspect he won’t keep his job for much longer.
When you hear the stories of people who suffer with disability who make amazing steps to get work, you wonder what world these politicians live in.
Cameron doesn’t get it, and why should he? Osborne doesn’t either. I doubt that Clegg, once of Westminster School which represents the best education money can buy, gets it either. These are not our representatives, they act like, behave like, they were born to rule.
Make no mistake: this is a government that regards the disabled as a nuisance and has made many people’s lives an even bigger misery with the botched introduction of PIP.
I’m sick of it.
The pressure will build on Freud and sooner or later he will do ‘the decent thing’ and retire to the lucrative back benches in the Lords and doubtless some lucrative directorships, probably not paid at the minimum wage.
I’m afraid Freud has to go.
