A hallmark of Starmer’s government is its attacks on some of the most oppressed in society and the use of reactionary, divisive rhetoric to justify these. So it is with the relentless assault on disabled people. Oppose this deeply negative direction of political travel.
The priority of socialists should be on tackling inequalities by progressive measures, defending the availability of good health care, not supporting the normalisation of termination of life as a response to ill health.
Disabled people need support to live, not die: why the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide should be opposed.
When government daily announcements about coronavirus deaths stressed the proportions who had ‘underlying health conditions’ this was a ‘dog-whistle’ to disability prejudice: to a language of division and an ethics of some lives mattering less than others.
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