NEARLY half of disabled people feel ignored and forgotten by political parties campaigning for the general election, a new survey showed today.
Disability charity Sense polled 1,000 people with complex disabilities and found that 47 per cent believe disabled people and the problems they face are not important to political parties.
The same percentage said that politicians do not do enough to engage disabled people to secure their vote.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
Here are the voices of DANIEL KEBEDE, FRAN HEATHCOTE, HOLLY TURNER and LEANNE MOHAMAD explaining why they will be taking part in the People’s Assembly No More Austerity demo next weekend



