Author Archives: Alexandra Singer

Disability and the Liberal Democrats

By Alexandra Singer | Mon 12th November 2018 - 10:44 am

Recently, a Party member campaigning to be elected as the local Liberal Democrat candidate invited me to attend a coffee morning to meet him. Certainly, I said. I must check first though; I assume that the premises are wheelchair accessible? They were not. This is unacceptable.

Frankly, I am completely fed up. Over and over again, I find people campaigning for justice for survivors of sexual assault, the LGBT community, immigrants, and so on, but they do not consider disabled people. Nearly half of disabled people feel excluded from society, and one of the direct causes of this is architectural barriers. …