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Tories tell the disabled: ‘we will track you down’
An attack video so outrageous it has already been deleted shows exactly how the mainstream political parties scapegoat disabled people for votes — and do lasting damage, explains RUTH HUNT
THREAT: Minister for disabled people Tom Pursglove in the deleted video
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THERE is no mistaking that elections are near because the Tories, and to a slightly lesser amount, Labour, are back demonising benefit claimants. In a recent Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) video, now deleted, that featured the minister (supposedly) for disabled people, we can clearly see the Tories are not targeting just any benefit claimants but instead only those with disabilities.
The video showed the minister, Tom Pursglove, preparing for an early morning raid with the police. One camera shot lingered on the specially designed DWP stab vest and was accompanied by the words, “We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice.”
For a start, we need to ask, what does that do for those with disabilities? It does nothing but cause alarm when there is so much need. A social care crisis, underfunded NHS and staff, scandal after scandal in care, especially for those with learning disabilities and mental illness, an extreme lack of accessible homes — the list goes on and on.
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