GE2024 – Excuse me but haven’t you forgotten something?

This is the transcript for my YouTube video "GE2024 – Excuse me but haven’t you forgotten something?". 

I don’t know about you but I’ve been watching a lot of coverage of the bun fight that we call the General Election (or at least I had until a couple of days ago) and I noticed a glaring omission in the offers put forward by the main parties.

I’ve heard culture war crap from the Tories (Blue and Red) and I’ve heard a lot about the Rights of different demographics of voters that they are vying for with one exception – the disabled.  Now I agree that the Rights of the LGBT (and whatever new letters have been added this week) and BAME communities are important as are the Rights of the groups I haven’t listed to keep this video as short as possible but, I’m sorry, the Trans community is a small one, dwarfed by the size of the disabled community, yet I have seen Trans Rights highlighted but not Disabled Rights. 

It hurts me to buy into a hierarchy of Rights position especially as I have a Trans Facebook friend and Facebook friends from the wider LGBT and BAME communities but I’m disabled and I despise the fact that my community which cuts across all the other demographics is being ignored in this election (if I’ve missed any coverage on disabled Rights, please let me know in the comments with as much detail as possible so I can look it up for myself).

The Tories have scapegoated, tortured and killed many people over their 14 year reign of terror but the rhetoric coming from The Kid Starver Party suggests that it’s a situation that may continue or even worsen under a government under their control.  Disabled Rights have been trampled on by the Tories, especially if you happen to be a disability benefit claimant, and those Rights will all but disappear under another 5 years if they win the election.  The situation doesn’t look as if it will change under the Red Tories either.

It would be nice if the disabled could be offered something other than more of the treatment they’ve been getting over the last 14 years but no one seems to want to talk about the disabled except in a negative light if they’re mentioned at all.  Isn’t it about time that changed?