Opinion:

Please bear with, this may get long. I tend to post then tidy when I have had a few option to reread. It’s just how my mind works best. I am also visually impaired so miss errors. Please feel free to point any out.

The DWP currently estimates there are 16.1 million people in the UK considered disabled in some way. 24% of the population.

However accurate that number may be. When you add friends. family and supporters. It is more than enough people to be an electoral force.

So the big question I feel the need to ask. Why the hell do the 2 main parties suddenly feel so free to attack this community. Because to be clear here, the last 14 years have definitely been an attack on the disabled community. While despite a number of Labour MPs complaining. Labours leadership seems happy to blame all the economic woes of the UK on our community.

I am not going to get too politically biased here. But for info I am more left wing then current labour leadership, Likely a little less so the Corbyn was.

But this is really no longer a left vs right issue. As in the current UK FPTP system, no left off-centre party has any ability to stand up for us.

The issue is very like any other single issue political problem. Any voters will be divided across other issues. So as long as no one side stands up for the issue above all else. No party has much to lose by ignoring our issues.

But single issue parties have managed to influence the main parties. Simple, by threatening their votes rather than actually winning seats. The most prime examples are UKIP and the Green Party. Neither party managed to get a huge % of voters to support them. Less so in any dense enough area to create enough MPS to have any power. But however much you may like their politics or not. They were able to move enough votes from the main parties to worry them into support for the cause.

So here is a proposal I’d like to hear people’s views on.

Is it time for the “Disability Rights UK” Party to form.

Honestly, this is just the start of an idea. And the name is no more than a suggestion.

I in no way expect this party to ever win 325+ MPs, and if it somehow did. I’d suggest we have a declared plan to join the 2nd party to implement the manifesto we come up with. And then call a new election. I personally do not think any single issue party can truly run a nation alone.

I think the more likely event is we can use our approx 16m potential supporters and convince them voting for us across the nation will slowly force the main parties to take our issues, needs, support and input to society seriously. Force them to realise we have an option to come together and force them to pay attention. Rather, than use us as some invisible enemy they can use to satisfy their own needs.