Proof: Jackie Logan with her blue badge.
It is government attitudes to disability that are encouraging gammons like the man in this story to inflict their ignorance on the vulnerable.
Under the Tories it is Department for Work and Pensions policy to try to tell disabled people that they aren’t ill at all.
That has filtered down to the general public and we end up with a man verbally attacking a disabled woman for doing something that is well within her rights.
This story tells me that there should be a legal punishment for people like this man, who waste the authorities’ time with their bigotry.
This ignoramus could cause serious harm to a vulnerable person with his belligerent bullying – and he should be made to pay for it.
A woman who suffers from a serious heart defect was verbally abused in the street for using a disabled parking bay.
Jackie Logan, 29, has three leaking valves and atrial fibrillation in her heart, resulting in increased, irregular heartbeats and as a result she is often left breathless.
She has also suffered from arthritis since the age of just two and has the condition lymphoedema, which results in her legs swelling up and causes her problems walking.
Jackie has a blue badge which allows her to park next to her place of employment in Halfway.
However… she was aggressively approached by a man who criticised her for parking there.
“He told me I wasn’t disabled, that I was breaking the law and that he would be reporting me. He kept saying that I looked awfully fit to be disabled and wouldn’t listen about my blue badge.
“He was there for about 10 minutes, just arguing with me. It was a really upsetting thing to happen and it’s quite intimidating when a man suddenly approaches you out of the blue and starts having a go.”
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