Virtually three million folks within the UK are unemployed and unable to work as a result of they’re sick or disabled. In response to the right-wing media, these folks aren’t practically as unwell as they declare. In the meantime a UN committee warned that disabled folks within the UK are subjected to a “traumatising” advantages system.
We have now a social safety system that’s been stripped to the bone and hundreds of thousands of individuals are struggling to afford the necessities in consequence, but each of the principle political events are determined to be seen as “robust on advantages”.
So what’s gone flawed with our social safety system? Why are politicians so intent on alienating those that depend on it? And the way can we construct a system that provides everybody the help they want?
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Kaliya Franklin, freelance incapacity coverage professional and campaigner, and Mikey Erhardt, campaigner at Incapacity Rights UK.
Music: Considerate by Lee Rosevere, Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org/music/lee-rose…/considerate‑2/, used underneath Inventive Commons licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
