On Friday, the disability charity Scope published an open letter to the media - demanding that the way disabled people are written and spoken about changes.
For a long time, a good portion of the media has pushed the narrative that people on out-of-work benefits are scroungers, which slowed for a while - but they’ve been buoyed on again recently by the DWP “benefit fraud crackdown”, which I debunked last week.
After a lull in horrid headlines about people on disabled out-of-work benefits such as Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance, I naively assumed that the media was learning and growing. But instead, it seems that they were just waiting for something else to latch onto to blame us for.
