I’m not sure the motability scheme is the hill I’d personally choose to make my stand on. Let alone turn down and MBE for.
When one in every five new cars is under the motability scheme then it’s clearly went beyond its initial purpose.
SendMeTheMoon24 on
You’re literally evil if you slightly reduce the amount of free things you give disabled people out of kindness and compassion!
Loreki on
This is a particularly tacky form of protest I feel. They ask people before they are announced if they want one. People often submit themselves for it. So to go through the process, only to turn round and “reject” it is pretty ugly.
The better way is to refuse to participate at all in this nonsense.
Much_Regulars on
Good for her. We need people with principles.
This is not quite the crux of the article and I recognise that (but it feeds into the bigger picture)and as a visually impaired person I’ve received numerous emails from the RNIB about their concerns over changing road crossings in recent years. Road crossings. Something we’ve had figured out for quite a while now!
These changes luckily haven’t been brought into my normal part of England, yet. But when visiting London, traffic crossings were a huge issue. I was lucky enough to have a colleague there to help. But she was also confused by the gendered street lights. Literally “well I think it’s two men signs but it’s green so maybe you can cross now?”. I’ve never felt more alienated in my own country than when visiting London. It is not accessible to visually impaired people at all.
The RNIV clearly spent a lot of hard work and money (including some of my donations) to fight this rainbow and gender shite, on the grounds of common sense. But labour will not listen. So now my membership is cancelled and us with disabilities will need to just bow down to the holy alphabet squad. And for visually impaired people it’s now harder than ever, but labour don’t give a single shit. You’d think the RNIB would be a respected institution Khan would want to work with to improve London for everybody. But no. He’s labour. They only care about a certain faction of the voting public now and will sacrifice disabled people if that’s what it takes.
I just want a fucking colour or sound that tells me when I’m safe to cross an unfamiliar road. The same colours and shapes used throughout the entire country. But nope, London cares more about catering to those privileged enough to have money, and Khan doesn’t see me as a human with a disability who may need some assistance to cross the road (the whole point of traffic lights, need I remind you!). God I hate this shit.
Anyway sorry for my rant. Good on her for sticking to her principles and looking out for disabled people like me.
EDIT: having considered he opinion on notability, I disagree with her there. There is clearly an issue when 1/5 new cars are “sold” under this scheme and that just makes me angrier. It’s such an easy scam for the lazy. It should be scrapped.
tacitusvanderlinde on
Regardless of agreeing or disagreeing with her, fair play for sticking to her principles, a lot of people would put them aside to get a title.
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I’m not sure the motability scheme is the hill I’d personally choose to make my stand on. Let alone turn down and MBE for.
When one in every five new cars is under the motability scheme then it’s clearly went beyond its initial purpose.
You’re literally evil if you slightly reduce the amount of free things you give disabled people out of kindness and compassion!
This is a particularly tacky form of protest I feel. They ask people before they are announced if they want one. People often submit themselves for it. So to go through the process, only to turn round and “reject” it is pretty ugly.
The better way is to refuse to participate at all in this nonsense.
Good for her. We need people with principles.
This is not quite the crux of the article and I recognise that (but it feeds into the bigger picture)and as a visually impaired person I’ve received numerous emails from the RNIB about their concerns over changing road crossings in recent years. Road crossings. Something we’ve had figured out for quite a while now!
These changes luckily haven’t been brought into my normal part of England, yet. But when visiting London, traffic crossings were a huge issue. I was lucky enough to have a colleague there to help. But she was also confused by the gendered street lights. Literally “well I think it’s two men signs but it’s green so maybe you can cross now?”. I’ve never felt more alienated in my own country than when visiting London. It is not accessible to visually impaired people at all.
The RNIV clearly spent a lot of hard work and money (including some of my donations) to fight this rainbow and gender shite, on the grounds of common sense. But labour will not listen. So now my membership is cancelled and us with disabilities will need to just bow down to the holy alphabet squad. And for visually impaired people it’s now harder than ever, but labour don’t give a single shit. You’d think the RNIB would be a respected institution Khan would want to work with to improve London for everybody. But no. He’s labour. They only care about a certain faction of the voting public now and will sacrifice disabled people if that’s what it takes.
I just want a fucking colour or sound that tells me when I’m safe to cross an unfamiliar road. The same colours and shapes used throughout the entire country. But nope, London cares more about catering to those privileged enough to have money, and Khan doesn’t see me as a human with a disability who may need some assistance to cross the road (the whole point of traffic lights, need I remind you!). God I hate this shit.
Anyway sorry for my rant. Good on her for sticking to her principles and looking out for disabled people like me.
EDIT: having considered he opinion on notability, I disagree with her there. There is clearly an issue when 1/5 new cars are “sold” under this scheme and that just makes me angrier. It’s such an easy scam for the lazy. It should be scrapped.
Regardless of agreeing or disagreeing with her, fair play for sticking to her principles, a lot of people would put them aside to get a title.