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It has long been a stereotype that the British consider themselves polite and considerate, in contrast to the French – who are characterised as the opposite.
But a Parisian bus driver has put both his own people and many Brits to shame with his response to passengers’ indifference when a wheelchair user tried to board his bus.
Scandalised by their attitude, he cleared the vehicle. Rather than allowing one disabled person to be left behind while the able-bodied rode in comfort, he made sure the wheelchair-user had the entire bus to himself.
If only British service-providers displayed the same sentiment!
It seems to This Writer that attitudes towards those with long-term illnesses and disabilities might buck up sharpish if the general public knew they would be penalised for any lack of consideration.
Even though that would be an improvement, the situation is still a source of sadness.
Care for those who are less able to manage should be a part of our nature.
Perhaps we have been brainwashed by the example of our leaders, who seem to believe that they are somehow better than the rest of us because they have the privileges of wealth and inheritance.
But a society that believes such simple courtesy undesirable – like the selfish creed of the Conservatives – is utterly worthless.
A French driver has been praised for kicking every single passenger off his bus after they failed to make room for a man in a wheelchair.
Francois Le Berre, who has multiple sclerosis, was waiting to get on a bus in a Paris suburb, but none of the passengers would move to allow him space.
The bus driver, who has not been named, noticed the problem and took the unprecedented step of asking every single passenger to leave the bus.
He then allowed Mr Le Berre to come on board and drove off with him as the sole passenger.
A tweet describing the incident was shared by a group called “Accessible Pour Tous” – which translates as ‘accessible for all’ on behalf of Mr Le Berre.
It has been shared more than 5,000 times and ‘liked’ by more than 10,000 people, with many congratulating the bus driver and criticising the passengers who failed to move.
mike silver
Posted by jeffrey davies on 04 November 2018
May and her grouse
Why were we funding these estates in the first place, let alone increasing that funding now?
Public money is for services to which all the public may have need or should have access.
Grouse shooting estates do not qualify.
Mrs May needs to explain why she is depriving us all of the services I mentioned above, and using the money to make a very small number of people exceedingly rich.
Posted by jeffrey davies] on 04 November 2018
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Mhairi Black MP has accused Chancellor Philip Hammond of hiding behind political soundbites whilst continuing to push his ideologically-driven austerity agenda, after fresh statistics were revealed on the cost of Tory cuts in the Budget.
The UK government Budget will cut more money from the benefit freeze in one single year than will be spent on the Work Allowance over three years, figures reveal.
Official statistics from the House of Commons Library, outlined by SNP Social Justice Spokesperson Neil Gray MP in the Commons chamber today, estimate the benefits freeze will cut £4.7 billion from the welfare budget in the year 2019/20, whilst the Chancellor’s investment in the Work Allowance totals only £3.38 billion until 2022.
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Commenting, Mhairi Black MP said: “The Chancellor is trying to hide behind soundbites but just scratching beneath the surface of his budget shows there is no end to the brutal austerity regime the Tories are hell-bent on implementing.
“In this Tory Budget, only half of the cuts to Universal Credit are being reversed, the UK government has failed to deliver a National Living Wage that you can actually live on and they continue with their two-child cap on tax credits - a policy as barbaric as it is stupid.
“Those of us on the SNP benches are not fooled by the Tory fallacy that austerity is over; it is, in fact, just a distraction from the savage cuts that the Tories continue to pile on the poorest and most vulnerable in our society. If this is what Better Together looks like, then Scotland can do so much better than this
Posted by jeffrey davies on 03 November 2018
