Rather unsurprisingly a new media hate campaign against disabled people has begun and it’s one of the worst that I’ve seen for a while.

It comes as no coincidence that this started alongside government plans  to abolish the WCA (Work Capability Assessment).

These plans will allow unqualified jobcentre work coaches to decide whether claimants are capable of work.

The government’s answer to this sadly is text book for them, demonizing vulnerable disabled people portraying them as the enemy and the usual scrounger rhetoric.

The Telegraph however was the first to start this campaign of hatred stating in an article

“Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden to hit its highest point since the Second World War . . . It raises the question, just how much of our hard-won salaries are spent on the benefits of those who do not work? With the calculator below, Telegraph Money can now reveal how much of your salary goes towards bankrolling the welfare state.”

However this hasn’t gone unnoticed though with many commentators on Twitter comparing the language of this campaign with a  poster issued in 1938 supporting Nazi eugenics.

This read  “This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60.000 Reichsmarks to the National Community. Comrade, that is your money too.”

Next to join the hate campaign was The Spectator magazine writing  “When will the Tories face up to Britain’s benefits scandal?” They were quick to spout their venom against disabled people claiming that whilst UC (Universal Credit) is an improvement “the problem now is people, often citing mental health issues, claiming sickness and disability benefit.”

It went on to say:  “The UK system seems to have been thrown into crisis by such claims and has no idea how to properly process a mental health claim. So we end up with 5,000 claims a day – a day! – for sickness benefit . . . The waste of lives is one thing, but then there’s the waste of money.”

This strongly implies that all disabled people with depression are making it up and they should be working.

Last to the hate campaign was Jeremy Vine asking in a tweet viewed by thousands asking;

“Is it time to crack down on jobless benefits?

“Nearly four million people in the UK are being supported by the state without ever having to look for a job.

“That’s because they’ve been deemed too sick to work.

“Is it wrong for taxpayers to fund them indefinitely?”

However Vines team wasn’t prepared for the outrage that it caused on Twitter which resulted in them deleting their tweet but their scheduled programme still going ahead.

None of this is a coincidence it’s the typical Tory tactic to demonize vulnerable people before they commence with their plans, this time being to abolish the WCA.

They know that this won’t be popular and they will be of considerable resistance to their nefarious plans.

They counteract this by feeding lies to the public which will continue the scrounger rhetoric which we have seen many times previously.

Disabled people already face enough judgement from the public. People with mental health issues should never be judged in this manner.

Pitching disabled people as being scroungers is not only awful it’s also dangerous. Making a claim for a disability is far from easy, it causes great distress and judgement from others.

No one should be judged for their disability, people can’t just ‘get over it’ and being forced to find work will be extremely distressing to say the least

Let’s make it clear, no one chooses to be disabled like Vine and The Telegraph suggests and we need to campaign hard against the government’s proposed plans.

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