Sunday, 19 October 2025

When the Government Punishes Need: Labour’s War on Disabled People

 

There’s something deeply rotten about a government that chooses to balance its books on the backs of those already struggling to survive.

The Labour government’s plan to make “tough decisions” on welfare isn’t just an abstract policy it’s a direct assault on disabled people’s dignity and independence. Disabled people are already enduring the cruelty of a broken DWP system, one that punishes need and treats claimants as suspects instead of citizens. Every form, every assessment, every humiliating appeal is designed to wear people down until they give up.

Now, to make things worse, they’re targeting the Motability scheme  the very system that helps disabled people stay mobile, get to work, attend appointments, and live full lives. When they take away adapted carswheelchairs, and accessible transport, they’re not just taking away convenience. They’re taking away life itself.

Meanwhile, the same government refuses to touch the wealth of billionaires and corporate tax dodgers many of whom hide their fortunes in offshore accounts while preaching “fiscal responsibility.” What’s wrong with taxing billionaires? Why is it so politically unthinkable to make those who hoard obscene wealth contribute their fair share, but so easy to take from the disabled, the sick, and the poor?

This isn’t economic prudence. It’s moral failure.
It’s cruelty masked as reform.
And it’s shameful.

If Labour truly believed in equality and fairness, they would start by rebuilding the broken systems that disabled people are forced to navigate every day not by making life harder for them. They would see that mobility, accessibility, and welfare are not luxuries. They are lifelines.

But instead of justice, we get slogans. Instead of empathy, we get punishment. Instead of taxing billionaires, we get policies that strip disabled people of the bare minimum they need to live.

This government isn’t helping disabled people “get back to work.” It’s making sure they can’t get anywhere at all.

Evil isn’t always loud. Sometimes it wears a red rosette and calls itself “responsible.”



Author’s Note

I’ll always be fighting for those who are under-treated, unequally treated, or ignored by society. If this matters to you too — speak up. Share, write, contact your MP, and refuse to let silence become complicity. Disabled lives deserve dignity, not dismantling.