IDS Criticised For Calling Non Disabled People ‘Normal’
Same Difference was watching this debate live yesterday and saw this moment. We wondered whether IDS might have said ‘non disabled’ to take back the ‘normal’ but going by his record, the Telegraph’s interpretation is most likely correct!
Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has been criticised for referring to people without a disability as “normal”.
His comments during a parliamentary debate about employment rates appeared to suggest that those with disabilities were abnormal.
SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford said that the comment was as a “shocking insight” into Mr Duncan Smith’s mentality.
According to Hansard, the official record of what is said in parliament, Mr Duncan Smith said: “We have made huge strides in getting more people with disabilities back into work … but the most important point is that we are looking to get that up to the level of normal, non-disabled people who are back in work.”
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He needs to think before he opens his mouth as i can quite see someone like my wife having to nurse him till his death like Mrs thatcher with dementia/stroke as he gets older
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This suggests he regards people with disabilities as “other” this of course makes it easier to marginalise, exclude, oppress. They can become pawns in an ideological game. “Them and us”. In this case Benefit claimants are deemed the drain on the state the shiftless and worthless. A few years ago it would have been impossible to demonise people with disabiities in this way. He started with the “Cheats” moved onto Benefit claimants in general and now shines the spotlight aided and abetted by the right wing media on a group of claimants who have disabilities. This has been a subtle drift taking the People who don’t have to claim with him. This distracts from all the other economic fails, and the bungs to the rich. A similar trick was tried with newly arrived groups under the now derrogatory term “immigrants”. This is unravelling in the wake of the refugee crisis, as will his persecution of the vulnerable. This kind of treachery towards our own people is not the British way. We are fundamentally decent and thoughtful. Public School or millitary School bullies never win.
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