Infantilising disabled people is a particularly pernicious type of disability discrimination in our society, and is totally unacceptable from a member of government.
Most severely disabled people lack any form of income other than benefits, and to describe it as pocket money is deny them autonomy
OMG. WTF. How fucking disrespectful. He's speaking about people with disabilities like they're children losing some pocket money and needing to get a paper round. These people are unhinged neoliberals. They should have no place in the Labour party.
He does understand how averages work presumably so why would he think this statement helps either? ------"The minister also pointed out that the £4,500 number was an average figure, and he did not want people who receive PIP at home to be “unduly worried” by that."
Just to run with his ridiculous analogy for a minute, if you cut your child's pocket money so that they can't afford the bus to where the jobs are, they're worse off no matter how many jobs they could theoretically do
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Most severely disabled people lack any form of income other than benefits, and to describe it as pocket money is deny them autonomy
power corrupts