The Tories have used the Coronavirus crisis to attack disabled women
Actor Rory Kinnear’s disabled sister Karina died of Covid-19 recently: writing about it, he tried not to criticise the government too harshly. Would many other women with disabilities agree with that choice?
How miserable, how underhanded can a country’s government be in attacking its most vulnerable citizens?
This Writer would suggest that the UK’s Conservative government is writing the book on how to betray the people who need state help the most.
Women have been disproportionately attacked by Tory cuts since they first slithered back into office in 2010, along with people who have disabilities. It doesn’t take genius to work out that women with disabilities are doubly endangered by a Conservative government.
But now we have the evidence, courtesy of gender equality charities the Fawcett Society and Women’s Budget Group. It shows that:
- Six in 10 disabled women are struggling to buy necessities from the shop during lockdown. A third have run out of money altogether.
- A fifth of disabled women said they had lost support from the government during lockdown, while almost half reported having lost help from other people.
- Six in 10 disabled women are fearful of not being able to access medicine.
- 38 per cent of disabled women who have children said they were finding it difficult to ensure their children have food to eat during the coronavirus emergency.
- Disabled women were found to be suffering from social isolation and loneliness more than others — with a quarter saying they had not ventured out of the house once in the last week, in comparison to 17 per cent of all those polled.
But it seems worse is to come with the easing of lockdown, including problems with face coverings – who should wear them, the impossibility of lip-reading – to wider isolation, more cuts and restricted access to services.
And you know what the government spokesperson will do, if challenged? They’ll shrug.
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Agree – the fascist women hating tory boys will claim ‘not our problem guv – it’s up to individual women including disabled women to access help and support!’ Such a lie conveniently puts onus on women not the fascist tory boys who have destroyed the tiny support that was existing for women and especially disabled women!
The deliberate and institutionalised callous cruelty of the fascist tory boys under their women hating dictator boris is limitless! UK can now claim the infamous title of ‘third world country/failed state’ but the fascist cruel and callous tory boys don’t care!