Free Wheelchairs, the Shame of our Nation

In the usual spirit of British decency and fiscal prudence, which Team Starmer doubtless aspires to emulate if not to surpass, His Majesty's Government is taking a can-do attitude towards the abilities of disability scroungers. Those with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, arthritis and amputations are being turned down for personal independence payments some forty per cent of the time, besides the usual shirkers with cancer, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, emphysema and the notorious migrants' malady of PTSD. Claims based on autism, anxiety and ADHD are already being met with sniggers of disdain as part of the Government's plan to cut spending on idle invalids and paraplegic parasites so as to leave more funds for tax cuts and wog-bombing. Assessments for personal independence payments are based on the suspects' ability to jump through various hoops before tribunals which rarely trouble themselves with the possibility that certain conditions and symptoms may not always be bureaucratically consistent in their manifestation; and applications are routinely turned down on the first attempt so as to provide beneficial exercise.