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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Anna Morell

Dis Life: 'Disabled people are not a lump to be pitied under the disempowering 'V word''

I just had a quick google of headlines about ‘The Vulnerable’.

Better suited to being the name of a crap indie band, or part of the next very long title of an album by The 1975, it’s the unfortunate name the media and Government like to give to a lovely big lump of us, including older people, disabled people, and anyone else living in poverty.

We are not ‘The Vulnerable ’. We are people – fully rounded people. Not a lump to be pitied under such an ugly, disempowering word.

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