Disabled? Think You Have Rights? You’re Wrong!

This is the transcript of my YouTube video "Disabled? Think You Have Rights? You’re Wrong!".

As regular viewers of this channel know, I tried to report the 335 Starmer MPs who voted for the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill on its second reading on July 1^st.  The report I submitted was rejected by the Metropolitan Police within an hour of the submission.

This was, of course, a major blow for me personally as I had felt that I’d stuck my neck out for nothing but I decided to continue to pursue this path now I’m on it so I did what the rejection email from the Met Police suggested I should do – go to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau.

On the 16^th July, I went to my local CAB for a separate issue but decided to see what help I might be able to get to try to hold those 335 MPs to account for the disability hate crime they committed.  The young lady was appalled as I gave her the details of the Bill the MPs voted for and how it constitutes a disability hate crime.  She even agreed that it seemed to her to be the hate crime I have maintained it is.  She was not, however, legally trained so she took the details of the two cases my ex-wife and I had discussed with her to someone in another room who, I assume, did have some level of legal training.

When she came back to the room we were in, she gave my ex-wife some paperwork to help with her case although, to be completely honest, she had stated that there wasn’t much hope for a positive resolution so our expectations weren’t high. 

On the matter of my disability hate crime case, however, she said that there was nothing they could do at all.  I asked how that could possibly be the case.  The Bill breaches The Equality Act 2010 and the Rights of Disabled People that are enshrined in The Human Rights Act 1998 and, as the anti-fraud defence and economic rationale for the Bill have been discredited, the only possible motivation for the Bill is hatred of the disabled which makes it a disability hate crime.  Although MPs are protected from prosecution for what they say in Parliament, they are not protected for any acts they perform and voting on bills in Parliament is a conscious act. 

When it’s time to cast their vote, an MP must make a conscious decision to walk into either the ‘Aye’ lobby or the ‘No’ lobby and then, according to the MPs’ Guide to Procedure, the MP must “place your pass flat against the middle or lower half of the pass reader for 1-2 seconds. The left-hand side of the screen will say "Name recorded" and the right-hand side will display your name and photograph”, another conscious act.

The fact is that, while voting for a bill is not in itself a criminal act, voting for a bill that breaks the laws of the country most certainly is, in my opinion at least and that of a number of people I’ve discussed this with in person or online.

The lady suggested that I consider starting a class action suit against the Starmer regime which would be a brilliant idea except where’s the money going to come from to start with and how many people would actually willingly put a target on their back by helping to bring the case to court?

She said that I could report them again but I asked what the point of that would be because it was rejected the first time round and I was pointed in the direction of the CAB who say they can’t help.

So, the result of my trip to the CAB is the revelation that disabled people have no Rights at all in the UK.  Our Rights have been eroded over the last 15 years, first by the Tories and now the Starmer regime.  We are treated like criminals, guilty of fraud until we can prove ourselves innocent during the disability benefit assessments.  We have our bank accounts monitored now, taking away our Right to a private life and to spend our money how we please and giving the DWP the power to take money from our bank accounts if there has been an overpayment, even if that overpayment was an error on the DWP’s part.  We can’t even have a say in the legislation that affects us or define what is and is not disabling.  If we complain, we are ignored at best, actively silenced at worst.  And now it seems as though we only have the Right to report a disability hate crime, no matter the size or number of perpetrators, but we don’t have the Right to have the crime investigated or get justice.

I reported the 335 Starmer MPs because I believe what they did constitutes a disability hate crime and because I, and thousands of disabled people, have been personally injured by the consciously cruel act committed by those MPs, not physically damaged but psychologically.  The stress and anxiety that they have caused has and will continue to affect us, making those of us with mental ill-health even worse and bringing on stress-related mental health conditions in those formally mentally healthy.  And let’s not forget the effects of long-term stress on a person’s physical health.

So, I genuinely ask the disabled community – where are the Rights we’re supposed to have?  Can you find one Right that we have and that is actually still enforced?