Hello, M.C. Firstly, many apologies for my severe lateness in answering your comment.

I would agree that when checking online, the disabled look to be catered for in law, and I find it inconceivable that they would have lost all rights in society.

However, I did read in a couple of blogs that their protection had been removed from Section 149 of the equality act. The only official record of this I could find was from the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, and it is this committee that have stated, “We are concerned that a part of the Law on treating people equally and fairly (Equality Act section 149) does not say anymore that disabled people should be involved.”

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/joint-committees/human-rights/087%20EasyRead%20Ind%20Liv%20substantive.pdf

There are a whole host of benefit reforms that have adversely affected the disabled – unfairly set work care assessments, retraction of money while awaiting appeals, and the under occupancy penalty, hence the UN inquiry.

At the announcement of the inquiry, a UN spokesman said the UK had been given time to put the matters right, but had failed to do so, and the violation has to be grave and systemic for the investigation to be going ahead.

Regarding the term “British”, personally, I have no problem calling myself British. I do find it is PC gone mad, however, if we cannot use the word “English” in other situations. In fact, I seem to remember writing a poem on this one! :-)

Thank you very much for your comment, MC, and thank you for your time.

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I confess to being somewhat in the dark about this.
Having checked online, I've found the "Disability
Discrimination Act 1995", the "Human Rights Act 1998/2000"
and the "Equality And Human Rights Commission Equality
Act 2010" - but would appreciate knowing what is being
intended by U.K. politicians as set out in these lines, since
it appears that the concerns of the disabled appear well
catered for in law.
"Disabled" covers a multitude of conditions affecting human
ability and needs a comprehensive interpretation to ensure
the most just administration of the law. What are
our politicians up to - and to what purpose - that has encouraged the above clearly indignant post?
As for "British": I resent being sent official documents
that list definitions that usually omit "English"...the
description which - these days - apparently dares not speak its name (an apologetic nod to Oscar Wilde!)
for reasons we are never told but can probably guess
with some accuracy.

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Thank you for your comment, Harry.

Yes, that would be an accurate name for them. I don't think the country is what it was. Cheers :-)

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Lynn,

I think we should call these kinds of poems `revelationals`

they make us think a bit.

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