tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post2781090248859386036..comments2023-03-30T05:27:28.532-07:00Comments on Flat Out: Inclusion? Forgotten? Ambition? Lost? I don't think so!DavidGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-1963711490960902882014-08-12T16:37:23.788-07:002014-08-12T16:37:23.788-07:00(Missed this when it was first posted).
Exactly. ...(Missed this when it was first posted).<br /><br />Exactly. I'd rather be campaigning on disability hate crime, but the Coalition has turned this into a fight for survival, and Labour sat back and let them, so for Kate Green to criticize us for fighting the battle Labour helped forced on us is ever so slightly bizarre.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-30269025182811554632014-07-23T15:48:59.970-07:002014-07-23T15:48:59.970-07:00Wow. I hadn't seen that article.
I have writte...Wow. I hadn't seen that article.<br />I have written on numerous occasions that for the past few years we have been on the back foot, fighting to retain the rights we had already gained instead of moving forward and looking to expand the rights we had.<br />This is for the simple reason that what we had is being taken away from us and our independence, security and support is in serious jeopardy. People are facing losing their social care or the financial means to remain independent.<br />When the very basics of your life are threatened, that is what you have to focus on. You have no other choice.<br /><br />So yeah. A few years ago I was fighting for better access for disabled academics, better NHS wheelchair provision and things like this. Now I'm fighting for people to retain their care packages and DLA or (if I look back to academia) cuts to DSA to allow disabled people to get there in the first place.<br /><br />What do Kate Green and Simon Steven suggest I do? Continue looking at inclusion in academia? Seriously?<br />I agree this isn't what I *should* be fighting for. But it is not because I'm choosing my battles badly. It is because those battles shouldn't even be there in the first place. And Labour is complicit in this. <br /><br />FTR to Clive. As a Spartacus author I am still awaiting fame and fortune. ;)Spoonydochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530660179706960529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-76120708926252134142014-07-22T02:14:42.471-07:002014-07-22T02:14:42.471-07:00I know most of the prominent figures in Spartacus,...I know most of the prominent figures in Spartacus, in most cases from before there even was a Spartacus and going back as much as 10 years. Nothing could be further from the truth than your allegation (especially given the vitriol Stevens regularly directs at them).DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-70851988866057526082014-07-18T10:25:06.210-07:002014-07-18T10:25:06.210-07:00I have started reading Simon Stevens report as men...I have started reading Simon Stevens report as mentioned by DPAC. I have always noticed the "style" of his writing. This is not his work, but has been written by another person. There's a certain arrogance, where he quotes Simon Duffy as a "competitor". There is no competition, this is deception.Shirley Knotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12928840143097972206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950890435770299116.post-14809762038196964362014-07-18T06:35:23.359-07:002014-07-18T06:35:23.359-07:00You might want to add that Stevens has called care...You might want to add that Stevens has called carers "abusers", this is after I asked him what he thought of us carers.<br /><br />FTR I've no time for DNS - Pring is an idiot, or Spartacus - their leaders are in it for money and/media mentions and/or laptops, both are now bezzie mates with Stevens.<br /><br />PS- Why this blog is classing me as admin I have no idea, clivegsdClivegsdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01661638187437544130noreply@blogger.com