Following the news today that Wales will definitely be setting up a replacement ILF after it’s closure in June 2015 and given that both Scotland and Northern Ireland are also keeping a fund starting today March 14th – March 21st we’re asking as many of you as possible to email, and/or tweet to Ed Miliband and Kate Green asking why they are betraying disabled people with high support needs in England and refusing to commit to keeping a ring-fenced fund open in England as well. This has to be the biggest post-code lottery in social care ever with your changes of receiving the care you need depending on whether you are fortunate enough to live in a devolved nation.
Contact details
kate.green.mp@parliament.uk
ed.miliband.mp@parliament.uk
@kategreenSU
@ed_miliband
gov.wales/newsroom/
Hi Ed and/or Kate,
I don’t know whether you have seen the news today (see link below) but the Welsh Government has now formerly announced it is setting up a new fund to support ILF recipients. As you are aware, Scotland had already announced a similar scheme there and Northern Ireland is also committed itself to support current recipients.
Surely its time that Labour looked at this situation again and consider the implications of what this means? Whoever is in Government after the election is facing the prospects of having to explain/defend/apologise for the fact that whilst politicians in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland have listened to and taken action on this matter, in England, ILF recipients have effectively been abandoned and face having their care packages slashed.
It’s not too late for Ed Miliband and his front bench to take a firm stance on this issue and show that you stand shoulder to shoulder with disabled people and demonstrate to the electorate that there is a real difference between Labour and the Tories.
At the very least I urge you to raise this matter (and the recent developments) with other members of the Labour front bench team.
Yours
https://gov.wales/newsroom/
Perhaps the reason Wales is keeping the ILF is due to the fact that Plaid Cymru exists.
Plaid Cymru is a natural ally to Labour in UK’s Westminster parliament.
Voting Plaid Cymru does not deny Labour its naturally ally in the UK government.
But brings a more left wing partner to Labour to form a majority government and
deny the Tory and Lib Dem MPs in Wales,
because there are many marginals with slim majorities for those parties.
Labour would be better in supporting Plaid Cymru in Wales in Tory and Lib Dem marginals.
Because there is one fact.
Most able bodied people in work will be away from home on the Bank holiday week of the general election on Thursday 7 May. Most charter flights are Sunday to Sunday.
So fewest voters and a lot of those not in the country anyway, or at least far from home so not going to designated polling stations.
The disabled voter iis more likely to be poor, as all poor, of all ages, in or out of work.
There are 11 million disabled voters, with about 2 million not registered to vote and a lot of others not bothering to come out to vote.
As the poor disabled vote, along with the poor of all ages, now outnumber all other voters in
marginal Tory and Lib Dem sitting MPs voting areas, even in Wales,
then voting Plaid Cymru in Wales does not detract from Labour.
But makes Labour more likely to get a secure and stable government with sufficient to form a majority government. Labour now cannot get sufficient to rule on its own this year.
By Plaid Cymru reducing Tory MPs and reducing Lib Dem MPs even further in Wales, yet still having a natural ally to Labour in the UK Westminster parliament.
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