Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

The reduction in the blind pension was an act of sheer thuggery, no better than that of a schoolyard bully. Supposing we swallow to rubbish about correcting the public finances, the minister for Social Welfare could have annou8nced that while the Blind Pension was being cut, the draconian means test was to be relaxed or raised. As it is those who might try to make good the money that has been docked might find themselves being docked still more.

 Such a move by the government woulod have been nothing more than an empty gesture, but a gesture nonetheless. It would have cost them nothing. But oh no. They are so obsessed with appearing macho and “tough” and pandering to the types of Mary Ellen Synon, that anything except such an act of base cowardice might not have been interpreted as being sufficiently crass to cripples. There is nothing tough about attacking the disabled.