Today I am angry. Angry because someone had the cheek to tell my mother that she was lazy for not supporting me so that I didnt need carers allowance.
This is the sort of attitude Labour needs to be addressing- because this is the attitude of a Labour supporter who has bought into right wing rhetortic,
I did EVERYTHING i thought i was supposed to do. I went to uni even though I was a single mum. when I couldnt get a job because of sixth form and open uni at the same time took up too many hours I started a business. I tried to go into teacher training but the workload so much i had a breakdown. i retrained, I volunteered to get the experience i needed for a career and started working my way up the ladder rather than complain how do i get 5 years experience without any experience.
I havent had a single bit of help from my son's dad because he walked out and never looked back even thou he lives (as it turns out) round the corner from my parents now. I moved back home to my parents sofa with a small baby so as not to be a huge drain in a bed and breakfast claiming housing benefit.
The incumbent government has not only stabbed me in the back-just like my uni- they twisted the knife in taking away the funding for his art therapy and making sure that because of bedroom tax I sleep on the sofa. And now it wants my carers allowance too.
Ive got worse with my own aspergers, dyspraxia, dyslexia, and bipolar (ive had three significant "breaks" and one bout of psychosis and a seizure and yet i darent claim because if i have to go through 1 10th of what mum went through just to KEEP DLA I will end up either on a psyche ward or a in morgue.
My parents do EVERYTHING they can for me and my kids, my sisters and my nephews and neice, and they are the main reason I am not yet using a food bank. They are not supposed to be financially responsible for me at 31 years old or my children. I try to be as a self employed person but I can only work certain hours- I HAVE to take care of my son and I do not deserve to be punished for that and he DOES NOT deserve to grow up feeling like a burden because of it. That is why there is carers allowance in the first place.
And to then hear that Labour would have been worse for welfare cuts, from a Labour MP?
That makes me want to cut my membership card in half and send it back to you.
But I have hope; hope that this is the tide turning, that Jeremy Corbyn will become the Labour Party leader and that the small light at the end of our 5 year long darkened tunnel will grow to illuminate the way out for us all.
Labour need to be that light. Labour needs to start addressing the right wing rhetoric and stop with the crypto fascist agenda. BE the opposition. Speak up against the cuts, dont tell us that your way would have been worse. THAT right there is the main reason you are still in opposition. DO something about it, for all our sakes!
Constituent, Labour Party member, Union member, sleep deprived carer, concerned citizen, self employed mother, mother of a teenager with ASD, socialist, environmentalist, Disabled Rights supporter, Jeremy Corbyn supporter, mother feeding her children with nectar points, defender of the vulnerable, advocate, logistics savant, concerned niece, grassroots activist, anti austerity campaigner, RNLI supporter, unashamed welfare state service user & social housing tenant, protester, fire brigade supporter, carers allowance claimant
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