DPAC v Theresa Might in Maidenhead: In June 2017 we had been additionally in a Common Election marketing campaign after Theresa Might referred to as a snap election. Labour would have received again then, however for the deliberate interference by the occasion proper who sabotaged their efforts in some key seats to cease a Corbyn victory. As an alternative we acquired one other 7 years of Tory blunders and incompetence. Might, Johnson, Truss, Sunak…
Even now I’m wondering when Labour appears to be in a commanding place within the opinion polls whether or not Labour will in some way handle to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory. They’re definitely doing their greatest for the time being to alienate occasion employees in lots of constituencies by barring their selection of candidates and imposing typically fairly unsuitable (and typically unspeakable) folks of their place.
Theresa Might was standing within the secure Tory seat of Maidenhead and was re-elected with a majority of over 26,000 over Labour and in 2019 once more with nearly 19,000 extra votes than the then second place Lib-Dem. This time Might has retired however it might be a detailed run factor with each Reform UK and the Lib-Dems taking votes from the Tories.
DPAC weren’t fielding a candidate or supporting one of many different twelve within the 2017 race however had been there to protest in opposition to the Tory authorities, the primary on this planet to be discovered responsible of the grave and systematic violations of disabled folks’s human rights by the UN.
They acknowledged that Tory cuts since 2010 had 9 occasions the influence on disabled folks as on another group, 19 occasions extra for these with the best help wants. Tory polices are heartless, ravenous, isolating and eventually killing the disabled who they view as unproductive members of society – and by ending the Impartial Residing Fund they’ve has really stopped many from making a constructive contribution.
The Tory Authorities rejected the UN Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities findings in 2016, which had discovered failures in the proper to stay independently and be included locally, to work and employment, and to an satisfactory lifestyle and social safety throughout all elements of the UK. A additional report by the committee in 2024 discovered that there had been “no vital progress” since 2016 in enhancing disabled folks’s rights and that there have been indicators that issues had been getting worse in some areas.
The 2024 report concluded that the UK has “did not take all applicable measures to handle grave and systematic violations of the human rights of individuals with disabilities and has did not remove the basis causes of inequality and discrimination.” Labour has but to announce something doubtless to enhance the state of affairs.
A few buses took me slowly to Maidenhead the place I met the group from DPAC who had come from Paddington in 1 / 4 of the time. They marched to the Excessive Road with a straw effigy of ‘Theresa Might – Weak and Wobbly’ and the message ‘Cuts Kill’. After a hour of protest with speeches, chanting and handing out fliers calling on Maidenhead voters to vote for anybody however Theresa Might they returned to the station.
Though it appeared to the police who had adopted them carefully in addition to to a few of the photographers who had travelled down from London that the protest had come to an finish I knew that DPAC wouldn’t depart with out some additional motion.
They waited on the pavement near the station till many of the police had left – and most photographers had caught a prepare – after which moved to occupy one of many busiest roads into the city. The police got here working again and started to argue with the protesters to get them to return to the pavement.
Police discover it arduous to take care of disabled protesters, particularly these in wheelchairs and mobility scooters, they usually had been quite confused (as I used to be) by the arguments of ‘Common William Taggart of the NCA‘ who claimed a army proper to dam roads. DPAC instructed the police that they would depart the street after having made their level for just a few extra minutes, however the police needed them to maneuver without delay.
Finally having blocked the street for round quarter-hour the protesters had been instructed they might be arrested except they moved and slowly started to take action. I left quite extra rapidly as my bus to Windsor was coming and if I missed it I must wait two hours for the following one. I arrived on the cease because it was coming in.
My journey residence was not a wholly completely happy one. There was the standard stroll between stops and wait for an additional bus to take me near residence. I acquired off, walked a brief distance down the street, felt in my pocket for my telephone and located nothing – I had left it on the bus, which was by then disappearing across the nook. Happily the bus driver later discovered it and handed it in on the depot and two days later I used to be in a position to cycle to Slough and retrieve it.
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