David Cameron launched his own twitter account this weekend (@David_Cameron). I have of course spent large parts of today sending him (ahem...OK, the junior assistant that tweets for him...OOER!) 140 character diatribes ( trust me I can diatribe in 140 characters) about his disgusting attacks on the disabled that have increased the anxiety and lack of self-worth felt by them (us) and led to increased suicides amongst us and more attacks on us by the non disabled. But after all he is only trying to "help" us back into work....of course he defines help as completely removing your income in order to "motivate" us. 16 years ago I was making a substantial income, I was a bread winner, a husband and father. I was two weeks away from a promotion I'd spent two years working on. I was physically active, walked my dog, rode my horse. Life (after a lot of struggling years) was pretty fucking good. And then I fell. The only thing left of that life now is fatherhood and I have to Iive with the knowledge that my physical, mental and financial shortcomings have meant I have not been the father I wanted to be. Oh yes and, just in passing, I also am in constant pain and permanently saturated in levels of opiates that far outstrip the combined morphine doses of both my parents when they were dying of cancer. All of which means I am a lazy, shiftless member of a "Society of Entitlement"....and Cameron hates "entitlement"....tell you what, hold me up beside HIM, take a long hard look at both our life stories, our backgrounds, our choices in life etc and then tell me which one of us feels ENTITLED.
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