Friday, April 29, 2005
Voter tells it how it is
It is always enjoyable receiving letters from constituents. Sometimes residents have questions about policy, other times there is a request for help, many times over the last few weeks there have been letters of support and yesterday I received a letter which made all of us in the campaign team laugh. I can't paraphrase the letter and do it justice so I have set out below in verbatim the letter:
"James Bethell, in a recent Tory leaflet, says "I don't understand why the disabled can't reach the platforms at Earlsfield Station." Not very bright - anyone with arthritic knees could point to six good reasons why not - three flights of stairs in each of the two staircases. What I suppose he means is that there should be lifts or escalators - why doesn't he just say that?"
Tom Cox, along with local pensioners, has been working on Earlsfield getting a lift for some time now and I too have been campaigning on this over the last few months. I am proud that this Labour government introduced a Disability Rights Commission to protect and promote the needs of the disabled and from next year age discrimination will be outlawed. This will mean that stations like Earlsfield that fail to provide a lift or escalator could be falling foul of the law.
Sadiq
"James Bethell, in a recent Tory leaflet, says "I don't understand why the disabled can't reach the platforms at Earlsfield Station." Not very bright - anyone with arthritic knees could point to six good reasons why not - three flights of stairs in each of the two staircases. What I suppose he means is that there should be lifts or escalators - why doesn't he just say that?"
Tom Cox, along with local pensioners, has been working on Earlsfield getting a lift for some time now and I too have been campaigning on this over the last few months. I am proud that this Labour government introduced a Disability Rights Commission to protect and promote the needs of the disabled and from next year age discrimination will be outlawed. This will mean that stations like Earlsfield that fail to provide a lift or escalator could be falling foul of the law.
Sadiq
