Just when the Tories thought we’d all forgotten how utterly verminous they are, here’s Fiona Robson!
People take part in a demonstration to demand more funding for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), in London [Image: Reuters].
This Writer’s personal favourite among the reasonable responses to her hysterical tweet of “How many people claiming to be unfit to work were fit enough to travel to & physically MARCH around London yesterday?!” came from Sue Perkins:
My guess? Far fewer than those suffering as a result of your party's willful underfunding of key services. https://t.co/CutNMQfzTu
— Sue Perkins 💙 (@sueperkins) March 5, 2017
What a brilliant reminder of the harm being done to the vulnerable – every day – by Conservatives.
Perhaps we should be grateful to Conservative councillor and “committed Christian” Fiona Robson. She’s reminded everyone just how nasty the Nasty Party (copyright Theresa May) can be, perfectly timing a spectacularly crass intervention for the week of Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget.
That intervention was a tweet in response to a quarter of a million people taking to the streets of London on Saturday to protest against hospital cuts in England. “How many people claiming to be unfit to work were fit enough to travel to & physically MARCH around London yesterday?!” she snarled.
Vanishingly few, I would imagine. It may have escaped the attention of members of the “they’re all scroungers” brigade like Robson, who sits on Carlisle City Council, but the workplace fitness assessments brought in by the Conservative Government have seen people literally at death’s door told to get on their bikes and look for work.
One of the people who replied to her tweet said it had happened to their sister, who had been given just months to live.
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what do you expect from a party who puts down that a person with no legs can climb stairs with his hands and this must have gone through the hallowed gates of the reception at the assessment centre, then the assessor,then a decision maker, so that would be three people and then this turns out to be a clerical error, the reason that the nhs has such difficulties is when you have 3 jokers do a assessment like this and other examples what really happens, they go back into the NHS,well done another feature to be added to
The Continuing storyline of
What’s the Story Lying Tory
Fiona Robson’s comment is just one more of so many contemptible which even many Tories would find disgusting as even they can become ill and infirm.
They never ever stopped being nasty.
I would have loved to have gone on the march on Saturday but I can’t even get to the post office to post a mandatory reconsideration request to the DWP, My carer will have to do it for me because I can’t walk very far or travel on public transport due to the severity of my illness, but guess what?!! I am fit for work!!