Maybe our County and District Councillors on this website, could tell us what measures are being taken at Mendip & County Hall, to ensure the most vulnerable who need social care are still cared for, when the next round of cuts come in, in April??

A recent article in the Guardian said:
"even Labour authorities have struggled to expose the depth of the cuts, perhaps fearing that, however unreasonably, they will still get the blame. Central
government's success in shifting responsibility for the cuts to local government
is mirrored by the Learning Disability Coalition's Protect the Frontline Campaign, which seemed to imply that local government really could cut something else, instead of social care. Many charities and advocacy organisations do not seem to realise how severe the problem is, and how much worse it is going to get. Partly this is because they are also having to do battle with the government's £22bn cut to benefits (a cut of about 20%). There are so many different cuts hidden within the so called "welfare reforms" that it is a constant effort to keep up with the next attack."

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What hope do the people of Somerset have, that either Conservative or Lib/Dem Councillors will come clean, as to the scale of the disaster that is about to be unleashed on the most vulnerable people of this Country by their 'coalition' Government?

Attacking the poorest and most vulnerable - as this government has - is being seen by some organisations, as an act of collective punishment.

Indeed Martin. Sadly the 'revolution' could also lead to disaster for all the vulnerable people in question. A revolution in thinking and voting patterns is what is needed. A revolution in 'compassion'. A revolution in what sort of 'vision' we have for our grandchildren's futures and for this planet.
Since this minority government seized power with the collusion of the Fib/Dems, the number of people using Food Banks has doubled every year and is expected to top a quarter of a million this year. Since the first spending review and the subsequent cuts that followed, 10,000 more disabled people have died each year... many of those driven to suicide by the relentless hate-speech in the gutter press and on television, and the degrading & inhuman treatment at the hands of Iain Duncan Smith's Department and the much hated Atos coputer-says-no exercise.
For example... the government's own figures show that fraud amongst Disability Living Allowance claimants is 0.3%. That is less than half of one percent and it means 99.7% of claimants are perfectly entitled to it. And yet the rhetoric coming from this government & in the media would suggest every claimant is a scrounger. If we had balanced discussions about this subject, then for every 'scrounger' story in the Press, one would see 199 'striver' stories... and yet we are exposed to propaganda-style reporting in the press that totally misrepresents the government's own statistics. I wonder how people would look on disabled folk if they were exposed to 199 'striver' stories after every 'scrounger' story they saw?
In my opinion what this government has done to disabled people, amounts to a hate crime at the very least and with the death toll already in the thousands, it could even be viewed as 'Corporate Manslaughter' by some.