J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
I know about deference but the sort of enthusiastic cheering for the onslaught goes beyond deference for many and into cheerleading.
Outrage as Tory MP claims she felt threatened by 'thug gang' of campaigning OAPs and disabled people
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I know about deference but the sort of enthusiastic cheering for the onslaught goes beyond deference for many and into cheerleading.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Why silent?
I'm imagining lefties handing out leaflets silently like JWs... hey why not it would freak them out
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Going for a 'Children of the Corn' effect?
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Silent pickets can't get done for the noise !
and some people going in for legitimate constituency work (ie complaining to the MP about how their crap policies are affecting them) need the support not disruption.
Standing quietly with placards and handing out leaflets can be surprisingly effective ...
and some people going in for legitimate constituency work (ie complaining to the MP about how their crap policies are affecting them) need the support not disruption.
Standing quietly with placards and handing out leaflets can be surprisingly effective ...
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wobbly
i'd suggest a flood of complaints about the threat of people waiting at bus stops or looking in shop windows.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Priti Patel forgets the first job of an MP is to represent her constituents. It's obvious she only seeks to represents certain constituents. Then there's her unfortunate association with the Bahraini government for whom she's done PR work and on whose behalf she's asked questions in the Commons. She's evil... 100% evil.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
She seeks to represent fincap; no-one else...that's her role as an MP.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Being under the boot of a government whose policies deleteriously-affect swathes of senior citizens and disabled people is all the reason (NOT "excuse", NOT "justification") needed.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Bully's best mate" syndrome.
panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
It doesn't say anything about closure of a day centre on that article, just that a man had been hit by a train and police were not treating it as suspicious.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
This is something I've proposed locally when our ward councillors are on the stump next year, 'cos it would freak them out to fuck.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
She'd represent a tyrannical despot in a second if Tony Blair hadn't cornered the market in shilling for tyrannical despots.
Lazy Fare
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equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I think what panpete is asking for is a link to something about the day centre closure as it wasn't mentioned in the article you linked to.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
I'm glad Priti Patel felt intimidated. Being disabled or old doesn't mean you should be nice to those who make your life miserable.
I'm glad my mother never lost her sense of outrage, and was capable of the odd act of "Chalenging behaviour" when she faced the double challenge of the early stages of dementia and a brain tumour. I'm glad she fought death to the last breath.
panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
Just to confirm, yeah I was.
I think that in the 21st century society is starting to be really anti-disabled.
Maybe because disabled people remind us that we are all one accident/illness away from becoming disabled and losing our independence and some people are afraid to consider that possibility.
teqniq
DisMembered
What the fuck. I hope to grow old disgracefully behaving badly all the while, though I feel reasonably certain you don't mean it in that particular context. You mean we/they should just bend over and take it up the arse with no hint of a complaint. Fortunately they chose not to.
Lazy Fare
New Member
Well that's just a brief report of the incident as reported on the day. Why would you expect them to have a full report on his circumstances?
The centre that was threatened with closure was the Solace Centre:
http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/fight-against-ealing-cuts-begins-8135524
In the end, what they did was this:
http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...ace-centre-users-shocked-disappointed-9524832
In the days before Peter jumped, he expressed great anxiety about the threatened closure of the Solace Centre. I know that for a fact.
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panpete
Blokes name, birds body.
Hi Lazy and thank you for the links.
I'm sorry you had to go through the loss of two people you knew, through suicide as a result of bollocks austerity.
This age of Austerity is just too much for some people, and it is really sad.
The centre sounded like a good centre. I read that it is self-help based, which, surely saves money, even though I find it distasteful (not you) to talk about budgets when it comes to people's fragile mental health, anyone's health for that matter.
A place to go 365 days a year, sounds really good for someone with mental health problems to go to, a refuge.
"“If a decision is made to close the centre, all eligible customers will be helped to use their personal budgets to plan their support from other providers, including the voluntary sector. Many Ealing customers are already supported to use personal budgets and we have found that it has given them the flexibility and control to tailor their care and support to meet their own individual needs.”"
Since when did service users/patients become 'customers'?
I don't believe the council spokesperson, I think that he/she had to say that to keep himself/herself in a job :sigh:
This world has become so money obsessed that no one is noticing, and I sound like a paranoid freak with this post, but it really makes me despair, even though I don't live in ealing.
Your friend Peter felt so gutted by this, that he was prepared to go through the pain of jumping to his death, and for that I am really sorry to hear.
Where I live we have made a wildlife garden and are trying to set up a drop in centre with funding from a church, even though I am not religious. The gardeners and handymen have made the communal space and some christians from a church nearby are setting up a drop in centre and it's in a tiny flat, that you can't swing a cat in.
So, from the links you posted, it looks like they have moved the drop-in centre moved to a space that is insufficient for their needs even though the old one was perfectly fine, all because some bankers 'need the money', poor bankers, bless them, sod the mental health service users.
Over the last five/six years, its really pissed me off, because money comes into everything. As a mental health service user from the 80's, while i was aware they had budgets, budgets have never been such a huge feature in the life of a service user, us service users were glad of the services, but never had to worry about budgets, and it's all getting a bit fucked up for my liking.
I think that the accountants and finance departments of mental health services should worry about budgets, cos that was their job, not the patients/service users.
I mean, I had an operation last year, but I didn't have to discuss with the surgeon how much it costed, and he didn't have to talk about finance, because it should be up to the financiers not the doctors/patients/service users.
It's ok for the two vulnerable people who are being housed in the space where solace was, but what about all the other service users, who now have a 'personal budget', and now need to be 'personally responsible' and stop being such needy people, all of a sudden.
I dunno, maybe the service users of solace are happy in their new smaller place, but why skimp on stuff, just so bankers can have their money, because at the end of the day, that's all it is, this austerity bollocks and it's really pissing me off, I have lost a mh care co-ordinator, and two support workers from charities, who had to stop seeing me, because "the council stopped their funding" and I have had enough, it needs to stop.
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meh
She will get what she deserves
one bullet and 0.5 m3 of waste ground
one bullet and 0.5 m3 of waste ground
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
No need to apologise, it's an emotional subject.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
zippyRN
Orange, Fuzzy, and allowed to possess Cat As
I am still waiting for the thousands of Death certs and /or coroner's verdicts which prove this 'phact' often trotted out by the economically illiterate ...
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