tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post3463505807217385983..comments2023-03-29T15:38:42.218+01:00Comments on Ruinpunk: Phillip Davies is a despicable coward, and not just for the obvious reasonsScurve Kanohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11031466708650733175noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post-22367616716784168222011-06-18T14:02:00.346+01:002011-06-18T14:02:00.346+01:00Lee, you have my utmost sympathies- I'm curren...Lee, you have my utmost sympathies- I'm currently unemployed myself, and Lord knows I sometimes wish there were something I could do to make myself more attractive to employers. Compared to the challenges you undoubtedly face, my own travails must be pretty minor. Nonetheless, I don't want to live in a world were anyone is treated is cheap labour for things they can't help. The solution lies in challenging the perception that some people are less valuable as employees simply because of the challenges they face, especially in an age when more and more people face mental health problems yet discrimination remains widespread.<br /><br />More to the point: even if you disagree with me about the minimum wage- and you have understandable reasons for doing so- I don't think people like Phillip Davies should be seen as champions of the vulnerable. The man doesn't give a toss you, me or anyone else who is struggling to find employment, he cares about upholding ridiculous outmoded dogma. The man is clearly ignorant about the status of disabled workers if he doesn't realise 1) that they can be as productive as anyone and 2) that a significant proportion of his own constituents will face some form of mental health problems in their lifetime. I simply do not believe that his statement came from any kind of genuine concern about disability. Even if you agree with his agenda, I think you can agree that and it is cowardly and cynical to use vulnerable people as a smokescreen.<br /><br />Good luck finding a job- if there's anything I can do to help, just yell. :)Scurve Kanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031466708650733175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post-39740659610172242402011-06-18T08:21:46.302+01:002011-06-18T08:21:46.302+01:00I'm 49 years old, have Asperger's syndrome...I'm 49 years old, have Asperger's syndrome and have never had a job.<br /><br />I need to be able to offer an employer something so that he will at least just consider giving me a job; and I reckon that his being able to pay me less than statutory minimum wage might just do it.<br /><br />I doubt I would be any worse off than actually being paid a proper wage because of the complex interactions between the various benefits I receive and the amount of money I have to pay to social services for my care. In effect a wages subsidy would be in operation.<br /><br />I desperately want to work, and need to work, so that I can fully contribute to, and participate in, society; and strive to become the best person I'm capable of becoming -and the minimum wage legislation is hindering me in my quest.Leehttp://peakwalking.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post-67776016598063634042011-06-18T00:06:25.780+01:002011-06-18T00:06:25.780+01:00Drat. Thanks for pointing that out. *fixes*Drat. Thanks for pointing that out. *fixes*Scurve Kanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031466708650733175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post-26537406912382753142011-06-17T23:44:02.144+01:002011-06-17T23:44:02.144+01:00ps - you've got a rogue apostrophe in "wa...ps - you've got a rogue apostrophe in "want's" in your second to last paragraph.Frankie Taggarthttp://www.twitter.com/frankietaggartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1126968413676773768.post-27569377443838085582011-06-17T23:42:26.900+01:002011-06-17T23:42:26.900+01:00Hi - thanks for this very readable/interesting blo...Hi - thanks for this very readable/interesting blogpost. I just went onto his website to see if he had anything to say about the furore on his website but appears not to have added any press releases since 2009. A look at his depressingly predictable voting record nudges the debate towards 'Tory dickhole', I'd wager. (strongly against more EU integration, for a stricter asylum system, against equal gay rights, against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords, against laws to stop climate change). Cheers.Frankie Taggarthttp://www.twitter.com/frankietaggartnoreply@blogger.com