Update From UKIP Candidate Who Thinks Benefit Claimants Shouldn’t Drive
With many thanks to ATOS Miracles on Facebook.
We SO love Mum Juice the bogger-with-integrity who alerted us to the UKIP candidate, Lynton Yates, who was leafleting that unemployed people should not be allowed to drive. UKIP didn’t even know this until we publicised the fact thanks to Mum Juice.
UKIP suspended him in January but reinstated him in February (WHO on earth would do that?). He’s been acting the arse again and parking in a disabled bay. You’ll see his own comments show he has no concept at all about what restriction/disability is and what qualifies one for support.
Eg: he says: “I wasn’t stopping anyone from parking and I had a meeting at 10am.
“I’d like to apologise for any embarrassment.
“I don’t have a blue badge but I was only there for a fairly short time.
“My agency man was there and would have ran out if I was stopping others from getting in the disabled bays.”
…of COURSE he was stopping others from parking there…he filled the space…those of us searching for bays know what it’s like to slowly drive by and see the spaces filled up. We don’t look for a Lynton lackey to ask them to move…for many of us it means we just have to drive home and come back another day to see to our business….
The article says: ‘Mr Yates says he does have mobility issues and suffers from flat foot: “I have a growth on the heel that’s given me problems. I could apply for that as a disability but I don’t.
“I could claim benefits and it would allow me to park in the bays.” ‘
Really? Is Mr Yates SO out of touch with reality he thinks he can get a blue badge for such problems? The most basic conversation with constituents would show him wheelchair-bound people who cannot get blue badges…but we must respect him and his flat foot and growth…
UKIP should never have let him near any candidacy again after his mega-shambles to have cyclists go on pavements, etc., yet here he still is AND happily thinking himself above the laws and regulations in total disregard, disrespect and misunderstanding of what disability is and what the law and regulations are.
We already showed this guy up once helping UKIP to keep their candidacies clean but back they went like a ‘dog returning to its vomit’.
Same Difference 
Yet again, a stupid Muppet who thinks that Disability parking is for those with mobility problems …. NO IT SODDING WELL ISN’T!!!! They are there for anyone at all with a disability that warrants a Blue Badge. The spaces have marked sections either side to allow disabled people to open their car doors fully!! Anyone without a blue badge using the spaces, I will happily assist them to become disabled … there and then.
Chris, a succinctly stated and well formed point. Such actions make up much of the difference between having ‘an illness’ and it being a disability. Or as David Starkly, stated, though he did not realise it, turn people with a disability into victims of the ignorant or selfish.
Reblogged this on Britain Isn't Eating.
There is a great deal of ignorance around the issues disability. My guess is that oft boosted British reticence to complain about health issues (particularly amongst, so I gather) has enable ignorance to persist, which, in turn, left a void into which the self-seeking and greedy could use to minimise their responsibility to others less well financed than themselves. More succinctly, ignorance has enabled the greedy to get any with being even more greedy. However, recent benefit changes have forced those with disabilities to start having conversations with family members and friends about their disability or disabilities and in so doing chipping away at that veil of ignorance. In addition, this direct communication, especially as it’s supported by the professions, invariably holds sway over that dispensed by third parties and especially that dished by our notoriously misleading daily newspapers. There are, as any ‘bell curve’ (standard deviation) will show those that stand outside the reach of discourse and it appears, Mr Yates is one that group. So why would you choose (and then reselect) Mr Yates as a candidate? The answer to that is to be found in a comparison of the ‘Bell curve’ and total support available to U-Kip; provided, ignorance is kept to a minimum – so, ‘samedifference’, keep up the good work.
I would have sprayed his car with yellow paint stating I abuse disabled parking privileges on his bonnet and doors. He is obviously going to abuse every privilege should he win a seat in May.
I agree with the last comment 100% and I would love to shred his car tyres so he at least gets to know what it’s like not to be able to go out. I too have had to give up shopping etc cos some stupid non-disabled idiot park in disabled bay . Again this reinforces that UKIP will make disabled people’s lives a misery if they get in
I’m often moaned at when I park my Transit van, in Disabled bay. Then my ex wife puts her badge on the dashboard. It’s not always the driver who is disabled.
Then there’s the looks and humphs when you’re shopping in a supermarket with a wheelchair and an attached trolley! They just can’t wait a little time for you to choose what you want and vacate the area.
The last person who took me was really upset by people; he couldn’t believe the lack of manners and outright hostility.
Things have changed.
NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING DOES NOT WORK IN UK
IT HAS NEVER WORKED
Anti austerity blogs should not even be mentioning UKIP, only going to get at most 4 MPs, when they already just have 2 second hand Tory MPs.
TELL THE POOR ABOUT THE SMALL PARTIES
THAT ARE THE BIGGEST PARTIES
WHO WILL HAVE THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN UK HISTORY
100 MPs and more guaranteed anti austerity MPs can be gainedf by the 75 per cent of all non-voters that are the poor voting different on Thursday 7 May.
Especially in Tory and Lib Dem MPs.
WHO ARE THE PARTIES OF THE POOR OF THE LEFT?
BY HOW MUCH ARE THE NON VOTING POOR THE MOST POWERFUL WE HAVE EVER BEEN
Labour and Tories have already lost, with Labour predicted to get 277 MPs and Tories 264. The Lib Dems cut in half from the over 50 MPs, down to not even 28 MPs.
326 MPs minimum is required to form a UK government.
So the Tories will remain in power in a caretaker government, maybe for the next 5 years.
But even if call a second general election this year, all we will get is even fewer MPs from the big parties and a TORY / LABOUR COALITION, so austerity will continue for 5 years just the same and getting worse.
VOTE DIFFERENT – VOTE SMALL – SEE HOW TO END AUSTERITY
See:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk