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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It has absolutely nothing to do with affordability, money, for once, Livia. Blue Badges don't cost anything more than a piece of paper and some printer ink. They just give you the right to use pre-existing spaces. It's about "invisible" disabilities being taken as seriously as the obvious ones, and that is all. I very much hope it's a scheme that's adopted UK wide because I actually think it affects even more people than the physical disability issue. Getting someone with a physical disability across a busy car park or street is hard. Getting someone like my daughter across one is dangerous, to her, to us, to other pedestrians and to road users. For now she's still small enough to be carried short distances but that won't be forever.
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I was speaking generally, not about blue badges per se. Personally I'd like to see people prosecuted and fined for using disabled spaces where you should display a blue badge... ironically, our local hospital car park is the worst for that.
George Freeman, who made the remarks yesterday, was one of my MPs when I worked for the Tories. And I have to say, his comments don't surprise me.