This Government promised to protect the most vulnerable when making cuts, but current proposals in the Welfare Reform Bill will leave disabled people the hardest hit.
I am blind in my right eye and have limited sight in the other and have been searching for work for the last two years.
However, if I don’t find work and my support is stopped, I will be financially dependent on my wife and I don’t know how we will cope.
That is why I am supporting RNIB and the Hardest Hit campaign, calling on the Government to keep its promise and improve the Welfare Reform Bill to make sure disabled people do not become the easiest targets of the cuts agenda.
Disabled people and those with long-term conditions, along with their families, already face challenges on a day-to-day basis, including barriers to getting into work and education and meeting the extra costs of living with a disability.
Further cuts to the support disabled people depend on risks pushing us into poverty, debt and isolation.
We can all take action to defend disabled people’s rights at rnib.org.uk/campaign. Mr Nicholas Adams, Lochgelly.
The right to die with dignity
The attempt by MSP Margo McDonald to resurrect her assisted suicide bill is a welcome move which will give piece of mind to those terminally ill people who do not want to suffer an agonising slow and painful death.
It should not be up to prosecutors to put people on trial who help a loved one to die. This would be the hardest decision a person ever has no make. No-one will be forced by this bill to end their life, that is simply scaremongering.
However the legislation will probably fail due to religious organisations, who will marshal a campaign which will scare our already cowardly politicians who put a few votes above principle.
People should have the right to die with dignity. A. H. Dundee.
Follower of fashion
I was saddened to learn that Peacocks has gone into administration.
Losing such a helpful shop — with its own “Urban Spirit” fashion wear — hammers home in a disastrous way that, once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Customers (such as myself) will be unable to obtain this shop’s own-generated brand style of apparel, which I so loved to wear. — J. I. Matthew.
In a rut with cycle path
Dundee claims strong “green” credentials — well here’s something the council needs to sort if they really mean it.
As a commuting cyclist I’m disappointed at the state of some parts of the Kingsway cycle path. Most of it’s OK, but there’s a section between Old Glamis Road and Graham Street that’s more like an assault course.
The path surface is rutted with tree roots and parts of it turn into a sea of mud in wet weather.
If we’re trying to encourage folk onto two wheels, this isn’t going to help, as it’s downright dangerous, especially in the dark.
It must be a nightmare too for folk on mobility scooters, or mums with pushchairs. Two-wheeled Tam, Kirkton.
Shame on the dairy delivery van driver who parked over three disabled spaces.
Shame on the dairy delivery van driver who parked over three disabled spaces.
Both my husband and I are disabled and must have both doors opened wide to get out.
There is now a fine for parking in disabled places and not before time. Irene Hinshelwood, Broughty Ferry.
Scottish Independence would be great news for David Cameron. He only has one Tory MP in Scotland.
Scottish Independence would be great news for David Cameron. He only has one Tory MP in Scotland.
He would also say goodbye to all those pesky Scottish Labour MPs and come the next election he would take full command of Westminster without the Lib-Dems. Tom Black, Russell Place.
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