The Welfare Reform Song - M'Luds won't you help me on welfare reform?

With the current bipartisan approach on welfare reform (witness Ed Milliband's recent pitch to the Daily Mail readers that benefit claimants and those unemployed should pull themselves up by the bootstraps) many disabled people are living in a real climate of fear. Thousands are being forced through compulsory interviews at present with private companies such as ATOS Medical Services, whom even Norman Lamb MP (Clegg's adviser on health and social care) admitted recently at a book launch I attended on social care organised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, were feared and loathed by disabled people all  over the country.

In 2013 thousands more will be forced through the grinder as those on Disability Living Allowance are forced through the same process. I have seen the blueprint for the new benefit to replace DLA, it is called 'Personal Independence Payments' and without doubt they will ensure that many disabled people are stripped of all benefits and exhorted in true Victorian Samuel Smiles manner to find themselves work or find the nearest workhouse. Truly it is disgusting that the stream of hate and intolerance against disabled people and those on benefits such as DLA, fanned by the rabid right wing press, is increasing hate crime and ensuring that for many disabled people their lives will  not be worth living.

Here is a excellent rendition of a song by a disabled activist entitled 'M'Luds won't you help me on welfare reform?' which  is an appeal to the House of Lords, where the Welfare Reform Act now sits, to come to the aid of some of the most vulnerable people in this society.




The lyrics are

M'luds won't you help me, with Welfare Reform?

The sick need protection, their facing a storm,
Worked Hard all our lifetimes,
Paid tax since we're born
M'luds won't you help me with Welfare Reform?

M'luds won't you help me, to make people see?
The wall built around us by distant MPs?
We're tryin to help them, but will they help me
M'luds won't you help me to make people see?

M'luds won't you help me to keep people safe?
To live home and free with means to escape
The four walls that bind them
May keep them in chains.
M'luds won't you help me to keep people safe?

M'luds would you see them pushed onto the streets?
No hope of redemption, No way to compete?
No more hope of working
With nothing to eat.
M'luds would you see them pushed onto the streets?

M'luds are we worthy of all you hold dear?
Free speech, human rights and a voice you can hear?
The sick and the poor Lords,
Are living in fear.
M'luds are we worthy, of all you hold dear?

Written, sung and produced by Sue Marsh, diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com