I'm sure sick and disabled people around the country were whooping with joy as the Lords destroyed the Welfare Reform Bill with three consecutive overwhelmingly passed amendments to the bill. What you may not be aware of is as soon as the Lords went home, Lord Freud attempted to undemocratically derail the amendments with some of his own ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/12/welfare-benefits
Have you honestly ever heard anything like it? Honestly, what is the point of the Lords, and the democratic process as a whole, if one sleaze-bag POS with govt backing can simply gallop all over it after the debate has finished? Is 'bringing the chamber into disrepute' really something that will bother Lord Freud too much, when he has the full weight of an unelected coalition behind him to run roughshod over the entire democratic process, and bulldoze through reform that would see sick and disabled people impoverished and destitute? It frankly flies in the face of common decency, and shows the coalition in the shit brown coloured light they deserve to be enshrouded in. There is nothing democratic about Britain in 2012, the people need to be standing up to be counted. That's ALL people, not just those people who can only only stand with the aid of a support device. Otherwise, it will be YOUR rights this democratically unelected coalition come after next.
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