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The drumbeat goes on: the missing disabled people from the general election campaigns
Disabled people are often made to feel invisible – yet one in five of the population are disabled. Where is the empathy for them in austerity Britain, asks RUTH HUNT
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AMID the noise of an increasingly toxic general election campaign, there is a group desperate to hear news of what might happen in the coming months and years.

That group is the disabled, who over the past 10 years have faced the brunt of austerity-related policies.

In this campaign, with political parties trying to outdo each other on the number of trees they will plant and how much money will be spent on the NHS, the country has been informed that austerity is over, yet it seems for the disabled that won’t be the case.

 

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