An Open Blog to David Cameron MP

Dear Mr Cameron,

I, like many other disabled people in the UK today, are appalled and sickened even further by reading your proposals for the removal of people from IB and DLA. What you forget to say is that there are genuinely disabled people out there, I am one of them, who cannot work and need this money to live. You make this sound like an attack on the genuinely sick and disabled and you surely have not forgotten that we also have a vote. I am certainly not voting for someone who is going to make my life more difficult than it already is because he has no idea of how meagre these benefits are, and are the lifeline which gives us a modicum of independence. I dread to think what will happen to this once great country of ours if Labour is elected to another term, which is what will happen if people do not vote Conservative.

I cannot believe that you Mr Cameron, would be so callous and insensitive to people who are genuinely disabled. There are no jobs in this country and employers, take it from me, would always employ an able bodied person over a disabled person any day of the week. Ignoring that fact, or saying it doesn't happen is ridiculous in the extreme. I had hoped the Conservatives would have had some experience of life as it happens outside of Westminster but it seems that these policies are thought up by people who want a 'one size fits all' stripping of the meagre monies we have to live on. We are still reeling from the mauling by the last work and pensions secretary before he resigned and it's a complete disgrace. Yes, there are scroungers, workshy, feckless people out there but NOT all benefit claimants are, you should rethink this idea as it is just scaremongering for those of us who have a small amount of independence, and frightening for those who cannot see any future if this happens.

When I was able to work I paid tax to support those who needed it, now that I am disabled I am being looked after by those who pay tax now; just like I did. I did not begrudge my tax being paid and neither should tax payers today, but they are always told that the people on benefits are workshy, feckless morons who have never paid tax in their lives. This is a monstrous lie, completely reprehensible, disgraceful and morally insulting! Previous taxpayers who are now on benefit are always treated like the rest, it stinks Mr Cameron and until you redress this appalling attack on the sick and disabled then you will never get my vote.

If those lucky enough to have full health are happily joining the 'bash the sick and disabled bandwagon' then they had better hope that they never become too sick, or disabled to work because they will have voted in a disastrous state of affairs whereby they are stripped of any dignity through the inexcusable act of becoming sick and disabled under a Conservative government.

Yours,
silversapphire

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