Comment on [UK] Disabled people could be moved to care homes to save council money

• DessertStorms@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fair point, though either way I think a fine for the government is about as effective as a fine for a corporation, that is - not at all..

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  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True enough. But there another angle to this: when UK citizens were able to sue their local authorities in European courts, they could also get redress on an individual basis, even if the UK government didn’t give a shit about their constituents, because the courts were supranational and had authority in the UK in certain matters - human rights being one.

    When the UK pulled out of the European Union, one of the controls they took back was the ability to shaft their citizenry with total impunity. And let me tell you: I lived in the UK in the mid 90s, and what it’s become now is best described as a shithole. Sorry to be blunt, but I wouldn’t want to be poor or sick in the UK. What a terrible, terrible place to live in today.

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    • DessertStorms@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm with you that the EU provided us some protection, and was very much a remainer almost exclusively because they served as an authority above our government that could at least try to keep the inhumanity at bay, but those in charge here (not only Tories, but New Labour Tory Light, too) have and will continue to be dead set on abusing as many vulnerable people as they can.

      As for the blunt part, you're not wrong - am poor and disabled, and yeah, it's pretty fucking grim here, and this shit is genuinely scary.

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