UKIP Candidate’s Flyer Suggests Benefit Claimants Should Not Drive
January 21, 2015
I’ve just seen this on Facebook:
This UKIP flier came through my door, it seems to be suggesting that benefit claimants should not be allowed to drive, thereby solving all our transport problems!
ATOS Miracles are asking if this is a UKIP ‘policy’ or just one candidate’s opinion. Do you know, readers?
Either way, this candidate clearly has never considered the fact that many benefit claimants don’t drive, because they physically can’t, but that they do need to be passengers in cars beause they physically really can’t catch a bus!
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bloody ridiculous… people who are disabled become house bound soon enough as they get older without clowns like this coming out with stupid things…. how are disabled and elderly meant to get to Dr’s and hospital appointments? chiropodists/opticians/ etc.do these stupid ukippers think people on benefits should do nothing but sit at home doing nothing? next it will be no TV at all……….. already benefit recipients have been maligned because SOMEONE decided they all had widescreen TVs that were massive.(mine is a flat screen tv thru necessity.no space for anything else, but its only 18inches from corner to corner. anything less i wouldn’t see due to cataracts.and bought from our nearest towns cash convertors for less than £80 about 6/7 years ago…computers we will all need for claiming benefits soon including us pensioners by all accounts.so they cant knock us having those.i can master a desktop , laptop if i have to though screens are too small for me to see properly… but mobile phones and online…. no way. 1, cant seen screen at all hardly. 2 i don’t WANT to be online 24/7 I’m on long enough when at home. 3. i simply cannot master either going online on them or touch screen phones. my mobile phone is one designed for the elderly,. its only basic n no internet.and thats all i am prepared to use.
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oh and i am a non driver. have to use taxis if i need to go anywhere as i am finding it increasingly more n more difficult to get up off a bus seat in spite of grab/hand rails etc. the seats are far too low. my daughter has to go with me n pull me up from a sitting position.. this will 1. reduce even more my independence 2.if the govt do as they keep saying and take bus passes of us, it’ll cost as much as going in a taxi to get anywhere.
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People are saying this may not be genuine….could be a ploy by an opposing party….check it out….
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & THE SIEGE OF BRITAIN POLITICAL JOURNAL.
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A bit early for April Fools’ day isn’t it. Mind you, let’s hope UKIP keep them coming. There can’t be much of the electorate that they haven’t alienated yet.
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Just one candidate’s opinion.Certainly not mine,as a UKIP-supporting nonmotorist.
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I’ve been on benefits for 14 months now, after being a tax payer for over 20 years. My car was bought while in employment and is maintained by my dwindling savings. If one of my 100s of job applications is not successful soon, and I am unable to remain mobile, my chances of finding a job are almost nil. Without a job I will not be able to keep a car indefinitely; without a car I’ll have less chance of a job. I have been sympathetic to UKIP until now, and have even considered voting for them. Now no chance.
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