Over the years Jen and her
brother, who were both effectively written off at the ages of four and three
respectively by a diagnosis of severe autism with learning disabilities, have
benefited from disability allowances, Statements of Special Educational Need
which provided them with access to the education they required, and years of
speech therapy from the NHS. One senior registrar once said to me that their
progress was a miracle, but I say it was in large part down to our welfare
state.
All this is now being swept
away by the Tory government. Meanwhile, the rich get richer, the poor pay a
hugely disproportionate burden of tax, and the Daily Mail tells its idiotic
readers that we should leave the EU and lose the tattered remnants of our human
rights. It does my heart good to see that there are still those who will stand
up and protest.
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