It takes a real lack of integrity to try and equate the left and the far right, like when much of the establishment used to try and equate Corbyn and Bernie Sanders with Johnson and Trump.

can’t afford basic necessities.

Thanks for this, it’s the sadness over this that forced me to take a break from social media the last couple months.
It’s impossible not to internalise a lot of it, I’ve even found myself feeling guilty for being sad about being unable to afford a PA so I can go out more, when there’s others who

I had to do a double take and make sure I was reading about the uk, absolute disgrace!
Meanwhile the online radicalisation of boys/men into extreme misogyny continues to accelerate with very little/no effort to stop it, we’re just going to end up like the USA aren’t we?

100%, being caught in an abusive relationship with someone who I’m dependent on is a real fear of mine.
I don’t even like going out in my local area alone, being blind, being able to hear footsteps near me puts me on edge.

Exactly, I really do worry about what the combined effects of cutting disability benefits and ending social care visas will mean for disabled people, it will surely make disabled people, especially disabled women more vulnerable to abuse.

Making us dependent on an unpaid carer, usually a relative or partner just to get by.

I suppose if the government were to acknowledge the above, it’d risk them having to acknowledge that the current disability benefits system traps disabled women, and disabled people as a whole in abusive relationships and take action on it.
Many of us are unable to afford a personal assistant,…

100%, I feel that as a disabled woman that we’re treated as 3rd class citizens.
Disability benefits are often not enough to pay for a carer/assistant, making us completely dependent on family or partners and cutting disability benefits will make things much worse.