Time to put Daily Mail readers in cages.

Righty animals.

Questions your survey doesn’t answer.
How many non-disabled people are abused on trains?
How often was the abuse by the staff?

There is a new documentary – One Punch Homicide – that will reduce violence against everyone – the disabled, elderly, lgbt, children, women, and men

Whats happening, the increasing abuse, against disabled people (and indeed anyone who ‘looks like’ they are on benefits) is classic Lynton Crosby, divide and conquer, in order to help the Tories win an election. Lyton is a vile excuse for a human being.

Action for Rail says the findings show why the government should rethink its plans for the railways, which give train companies until 2019 to reduce staffing costs by £200million and close ticket offices at 650 stations.

So it is just a little emotional blackmail then? If Cameron goes ahead with cuts, he will be responsible for beating up wheelchair users? Well it works well for the Gay lobby so it might work here.

I don’t see it myself. Telling people to think if they have been abused so they can get more money is not going to produce accurate recollections of abuse. Even assuming they have a half-way sane definition of abuse.

But I think the real answer is deeper – the Left hated the very concept of the British gentleman. They worked hard to make sure that men no longer thought that way. Now they don’t and they are finding they need guards in railway stations plus lots of new laws to make up for that. Perhaps they should just say that abusing the disabled is not the sort of thing a gentleman does?

@2 – quite. I simply don’t believe that it’s a disability issue but rather that if anyone communtes at rush hour they’re gonna get abused. It’s a dog eat dog environment and equal opportunities dictate that if you’re in the way – you’re gonna get shunted. Another blethering feeble minded nonsense.

@DtP

You’re a d1ck. But being a liberal minded fellow I hope you don’t become disabled and experience the degrading daily abuse that disabled folk get. Try and have some humanity, there’s a good chap.

This is part of the media narrative on disability and ‘scroungers’, making disabled people acceptable targets. This abuse is a byproduct of this. It’s been documented that this has been on the rise for a while now, and it shows a very real impact that politicians repeating this garbage has on disabled people.

I’m not entirely sure what a lot a lot of commenters here are wittering on about. Targeting disabled people with this narrative is both vile and pathetic, and excuses made for it somehow being acceptable are shameful.

7. ludicrous pseudonym

But being a liberal minded fellow I hope you don’t become disabled and experience the degrading daily abuse that disabled folk get.

Except there is no evidence of this degrading daily abuse whatsoever. But it is a nice way to bully other people and get lots of money out of the government.

Try and have some humanity, there’s a good chap.

You first old bean.

8. Albert Spangler

This is part of the media narrative on disability and ‘scroungers’, making disabled people acceptable targets. This abuse is a byproduct of this.

That would be interesting if it was not all a figment of your imagination. There is no media narrative and no one has made the disabled targets. Britain remains one of the most civilised countries in the world to be disabled.

I’m not entirely sure what a lot a lot of commenters here are wittering on about. Targeting disabled people with this narrative is both vile and pathetic, and excuses made for it somehow being acceptable are shameful.

Do you think you will be able to succeed in bullying people into silence with nonsense claims like this?

From OP: “These plans are deeply unpopular with disabled rail users, the poll reveals. Four-fifths (81%) say reducing staff numbers will make train travel more difficult for them, with one in three (34%) warning the cuts will deter them from making journeys, and in some cases make rail travel impossible.”

If a disabled rail user is reliant on assistance, then reduction in station staff will have an impact either on service to the disabled traveller or on station efficiency. A disabled traveller can book a ticket with advisement to stations en route to look after the individual when necessary. Effectively, this means that a station employee is on standby at journey’s end to assist for 15 minutes and does not perform other significant duties.

Within government, there appears to be some confusion about production line efficiency and customer service; in the former, work is delivered and processed at constant rate; in the latter, workers hang around awaiting a customer and then run around like idiots.

Current provision can be delivered because somebody can find the time to look after the traveller. If nobody can find the time, customers do not get served. When that happens in a service company, the company itself becomes redundant because it no longer delivers the goods.

Was it verbal or physical abuse? Physical abuse is serious, verbal is not. Sticks and stones and all that.

@11

“Was it verbal or physical abuse? Physical abuse is serious, verbal is not. Sticks and stones and all that”.

Nice hairsplitting there. Abuse of disabled people has risen sharply in this country over the last few years. Perhaps you think that shouting abuse at disabled people is better than physical abuse?

Your comment conceals a rather unpleasant discourse. You can deny it all you like, but you’d look like a tool if you did.

“This is part of the media narrative on disability and ‘scroungers’, making disabled people acceptable targets. This abuse is a byproduct of this.”

That’s a big assumption. Is there any evidence that the abuse of wheelchair users or blind people on trains is mainly or even often couched in terms of “Why aren’t you at work, You lazy scrounger” or something of that ilk?

Or was it mainly, perhaps, groups of thuggish youngsters picking on the vulnerable, as is so often the case?

I can hardly believe how many obnoxious and uncivil curmudgeons this blog attracts, viz 2, 5, 6, 9, 11 above.

@4

There’s been some audacious claims on here, but the idea Lynton Crosby is spending his days going up and down the country on the trains, abusing any disabled people he finds, takes the biscuit!