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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

people were sick, disabled and vulnerable during the last labour government and they did sod all to improve things

Yes there were sick and disabled under Labour.

.Labour increased cold weather payments to £25 from £8+ the Cons had it at.

Labour brought in the winter fuel allowance.

Labour brought in the less than ideal pension credit but it was still something that helped the poorest pensioners.

Labour never froze benefit increases.

Labour brought in the minimum wage despite the Cons voting against it every step of the way.

Labour were wrong to bring in ATOS to carry out assessments of the sick and disabled but never put the humiliating, degrading testing criteria that the coalition did.

Where people with terminal cancer having to fight for benefits wrongly stopped, having to fight for months, then forced to be wheeled into court, then winning their case.
Too late for some of them.

The Labour Party never had the United Nations stating that as a government they'd acted against the human rights of the sick and disabled.

That adds up to a government being vile in my book.
Had Labour done that I'd have said they were vile too.

It's a disgrace.
I've been part of representing cases for people with motor neurone disease, having their benefit's stopped because they didn't go to an assessments centre, and the assessors wouldn't do a home assessment.

So to Parmnion too, don't call me a hypocrite.
Biased against the heartlessness and cruelty of this government I may proudly be, but I'm no hypocrite.

Frankly anyone who supports any government discriminating against people sick and disabled as this one has since 2011, astound me.