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Shame on you David Cameron!

I find it disgraceful that David Cameron, himself the parent of a severely disabled child (now deceased), could find it funny to use jokes about disability at his opponents' expense. He clearly had not progressed very far from the spastic jokes that he no doubt laughed at as a public school twerp.Jokes about disabilities are every bit as offensive as racist remarks, and there is no place for either in today's society. Your qualified apology for what you said was not enough, Mr Cameron.

John Connelly ● 4961d8 Comments

To turn this very old political jibe upside down, might it be said that the Labour party knows the cost of anything??? And with say Day Centres being closed it makes you wonder just what values they do have?As regards ESA this did need to come in and actually it was a Labour initiative. There has been backtracking on DLA and I am not certain what the upshot now is or whether the final touches remain yet to be announced.

George Knox ● 4960d

I would hazard a guess that the vast majority of the previous front bench were millionaires Vanessa and were educated at Public Schools though you seem to ignore that fact and I would also guess that the Keens amassed a tidy little fortune from their stint in politics

Paul Fisher ● 4960d

Change the record Paul or get a bigger vocabulary. This is not about me, it is about a government stuffed full of millionaires who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing and who delight in bashing people who have not had the undoubted advantages that their wealth has bought them. Would that as much energy was put into stopping tax fiddles and curbing exorbitant fuel bills. To actively target people with disabilities is cruel and heartless, I still have a badge that says, "If the Tories had a heart, they'd sell it" as true today as when Thatcher ruled the roost.

Vanessa Smith ● 4960d

Think William Henry Beveridge.Brown carries a lot of responsibility for doing adverse things to ordinary decent working families.To attack the person on account of background tends to be just another area of bigotry and marginalisation - like for instance being racist.

George Knox ● 4960d

You come across as extremely bitter Vanessa and also quite jealous which is strange as I am sure I recall you stating that you took full financial advantage of perhaps the most controversial Tory policy when you bought your house using the right to buy scheme?

Paul Fisher ● 4960d

"but so is bashing people because of their background."Is it? It's what this rabble of a government do all the time to decent ordinary working families and those unfortunate enough to have lost so much from their policies. This shower haven't a clue - in other words they just don't get it and they never will because of their wealthy and privileged backgrounds.

Vanessa Smith ● 4960d

‘the spastic jokes that he no doubt laughed at as a public school twerp.’Are you qualified to say this by also having been to public school, or do you know he had that sense of humour at school or do you think he learned such jokes from non private school bully boys, etc, etc?  I agree that what he said was unacceptable, but so is bashing people because of their background.

George Knox ● 4960d

Add to that the disgraceful attack on benefits for people with disabilities and nurses, and you have to ask if the Tories have any humanity at all.

Vanessa Smith ● 4961d