{"id":10037,"date":"2016-09-27T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2016-09-27T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:49:56","slug":"my-life-in-austerity-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10037","title":{"rendered":"My life in austerity Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking from her own personal experience disability rights activist and actor Liz Carr (pictured left) told Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (September 25) Real Britain fringe about what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real like to have disabilities in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s austerity Britain. She said:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For many people in austerity Britain being disabled means being hated. It means being stigmatised, it means being demonised as a drain on the state. It means being labelled as fraudsters and work shy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about being segregated and excluded and oppressed and discriminated against. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about being forgotten and derided and abused and sanctioned and attacked and killed. And cut and rationed. And starved and homeless and hungry and fearful and terrified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And alone and isolated and abandoned. And denied resources. And silenced and rendered invisible. And having to jump through hoops to prove your worth. Devalued and subject to vicious attacks by both individuals and the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about being inhuman, about being seen as useless and as the undeserving poor. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the reality of disabled people in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just disabled people, it happens to every other oppressed group struggling to survive in austerity Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking from her own personal experience disability rights activist and actor Liz Carr (pictured left) told Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (September 25) Real Britain fringe about what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real like to have disabilities in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s austerity Britain. She said: &nbsp; For many people in austerity Britain being disabled means being hated. It means being stigmatised, it means being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[172,198,464],"wps_subtitle":"Silent Witness star, Liz Carr speaks out","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}