Everything you said about Britain, is true of Canada as well. Every single issue. Remarkably, I also woke up one day in my late 20’s unable to walk. If it’s not too personal, do you by chance have Ankylosing Spondylitis//Spondylolisthesis? What a brutal shock that was. Two years unable to walk, out of the blue. Also , I’m autistic, but I’m not complaining about that. After COVID, virtually all primary physicians did appointments over the phone. For some strange reason, that continues to be the practice. That is if you are fortunate enough to have a doctor at all. Our health care system was once the envy of the world. It has degenerated into a fruitless and frustrating experience.
Totally agree, as a retired nurse I’m now in that space where I have conditions, ARFID no treatment in my area, CRPS right arm and hand, left with no support, Bile Acid Malabsorption and now suffering deficiently and anaemic, depressed and autism…diagnosed at 63, I’m now 65 and scared to death that one day I will collapse as mental health day I’m too complex to be offered help. I was proud of my nursing, it ran well and people got treatment by professionals not pretend DR’s filling the gaps with the knowledge of medicine on par with a GCSE. I had to explain my conditions so many times to people who should update knowledge as much as I do research on myself to self advocate for correct treatments.
I was diagnosed with aspergers at 18 and I've never had any help despite fully knowing I needed it. It just has never been available to me. I'm now 30, trying to find a job despite everything, never had one before, and been applying for 2 years without a single interview. I have really lost hope and they really have to do something to improve the situation
You need to claim disability benefit. (I suppose it will have to be that useless Universal Credit.) But go to your Citizens Advice Bureau. Also ask about your local council's Adult Social Care: they should help you. Ask for advice about applying for PIP too. That's a separate benefit, which you will get if you are employed or not - once you qualify.
I have a case of autism, i struggle in social situations to the point that in work I often am forced into resigning or being dismissed, even in unpaid volunteer positions, yet I see politicians demonising autism as a workshy excuse, no, autistic people are not workshy, we just don't do well in groups. even now, i'm applying for a course at the open university in the hopes that I can get a useful qualification from home, that I may find a high paying job without much social contact
I don't think even 'Work shy' people should be demonized. Most jobs don't pay well so it doesn't give much incentive to bother. Learning disabled people like myself are only qualified for minimum wage positions so there's no possibility of getting rich and therefore no motivation to work.
@user-iw2bn3gz1n I'm trying to eventually qualify as a pathologist, just me in a lab working on biological samples, or dissecting a corpse About as far from customer service as it gets
If looking for a job WFH, make sure to stay away from sales, especially tech sales. It might seem great initially, but by the two year mark you're done.
For the first time in my life I fear for my country. I was devestated and changed parties when Nixon betrayed my trust. I thought my country would never see that again. I am appalled as to what is going to happen in two months.
Wow! My heart goes out to you and to Great Britain. I'm happy about the election results. But now soberly hopeful. Wishing the best for you and your wife.
I wanna do something useful, but as a disabled person, I'm shamed and shoo'd out of places for not behaving like a 'normal'. Argh. The support I need doesnt exist. I need an English autistic to English neurotypical translator, because I dont understand neurotypical hidden languages. I get ignored or worse, denied acess to places where I could be useful, because someone thought I could read minds of 'normals' when they wink or shrug or bat an eye in some direction. I'm autistic, I dont read minds. I would like to not think about politics either.
Hey Quinn, really sorry to hear that your wife is suffering with ME. I was recently diagnosed with this, and am at either the top end of severe or the bottom end of moderate depending on how optimistically you choose to view it. I'm bed bound 95% of the time and it's been unbelievable to me how profoundly disabling it is, how basically nothing can be done for it, and how often it is met not with compassion but hostility. Hope there are better days ahead for your wife and yourself! (and everyone everywhere with ME!)
Sorry to hear you're in that particular boat. I feel for anyone striving against the barriers, both physical and social, that an ME diagnosis brings. I've struggled to recover from covid since 9 months past, but what I've experienced is a drop in the ocean compared to what I've seen her live through.
But he might care about the millions of votes we represent. If he hasn't got his sights set on the NEXT election already then he's a bigger fool than even the Daily Mail would have us believe😂😂
@@Autistamatic If he did then he would have tried to woo us a few days ago in the last election but he didn't. He stayed quiet whilst Liz Kendal told everybody what a burden we are.
What a brilliant video. Your channel just popped up to me, and this is the first I've seen, but you've got a new subscriber. I entirely agree with all that you said. I voted tactically to protect my rights, but I I feel tired of this. I want us to actually progress as a society, not one step forward and two steps back.
I was up until 5:30 on election night, just because I wanted to make sure the Tories didn't win. The feeling of relief I felt was immense. Starmer is far from my first choice for the job. We didn't vote _for Starmer_; we voted _against the Tories_. He was in the right place at the right time. He got lucky. That said, in my mind, he _is_ the bare minimum for what I would consider to be an _acceptable_ prime minister. We have a prime minister who _doesn't_ make me ashamed of the country I live in. I'm just saying, we haven't had one of those for a while.
Let's worry about what's good for UK , there are fifty seven Muslims nation to worry about Palestine why westerners get so riled up? What about people dying elsewhere
@@keithparker1346 You're right. He values Israeli lives more than Palestinian lives. To put it simply, he's a racist. Is racism one of the job requirements for working in government or what?
Bravo. 👏👏 The entire western world seems to have caught an obsession with numbers and the expense of people. The proverbial canary in the mine was the great NHS, whose current condition is reflected in many parts of the world. However, chanells like yours keep giving us hope.
I got diagnosed with autism when I was 7 and have hereditary mental illness this was a pleasant surprise, thank you for standing up for me and people I care about in my life
@@howareyou857 Neurodivergence was mentioned in the Greens and Lib Dem manifestos too. LD's in terms of workplace accommodations and overall discrimination for children and adults - " Providing additional support and advice to employers on neurodiversity in the workplace, and developing a cross-government strategy to tackle all aspects of discrimination faced by neurodiverse children and adults." - in their Rights and Equality section Greens - "We will ensure that neurodivergent children and those with special needs are adequately supported, including in the school system, to live rich and fulfilling lives" - in their Mental Health section Plaid Cymru - "Waiting lists for neurodiversity diagnoses are far too long, meaning that children and young people fail to get the proper support they need. Plaid Cymru would ensure that support was made available as soon as an individual presents themselves as neurodiverse, whether this be through referral or self-referral. This support will be monitored and tailored to respond to the individual’s need as the diagnosis process progresses." - in their dedicated Neurodiversity section Plaid wins though. Enjoy your four Plaid MP's, Wales!
@@howareyou857 But defo props to Plaid for having Neurodiversity in its own section.. "Neurodiversity Waiting lists for neurodiversity diagnoses are far too long, meaning that children and young people fail to get the proper support they need. Plaid Cymru would ensure that support was made available as soon as an individual presents themselves as neurodiverse, whether this be through referral or self-referral. This support will be monitored and tailored to respond to the individual’s need as the diagnosis process progresses." Definitely the best out the lot. Enjoy your four Plaid MP's, Wales!
@@dancecommando There's still a neurodivergent group within the Labour Party, but I don't believe we were represented in the manifesto other than being bundled in with disability & mental health.
@@Autistamatic You're right, we're not mentioned directly or specifically. For context there are three parties I cited that mention neurodiversity in their manifestos, it's just my comment got junked, no biggie.
Hear, hear Quinn! Agree with everything you said. I tried to email every candidate in my constituency to make them aware of autistic issues and needs - got no replies! Mind you, I'm thinking of emailing my MP as well as the new PM, if at least to "keep the pressure up"!
you're there already, and I'm approaching it fast, " The Magic 54" for autistic people, the expected lifespan So good question to ask is - what after? how to make it last longer? it's struggling and struggling, more than we can cope with through entirety of our lives, being 'The sidelines' is hard
It's tough. I have been dx with ADHD this year. I'm going on meds, getting Access to Work and thinking of going too 2 days a week. My job is tough but reasonably flexible and a reasonable wage. BUT it's the only way I think I'm going to be able to keep working until 67.
This is so important it better go viral, maybe this will help: #kierstarmer #labourparty #ukpolitics #ukgeneralelection #tories #neurodivergents #socialism #leftwing #nhs #workersrights #waitinglists #redistributionofwealth #welfare #brokenbritain
Although this video is about the UK elections, it's truly international. I might as well translate it to German and address it to our Ampel coalition too.
This is pretty optimistic. People in general will care about us in 5 years to the same meagre to non-existent amount that they care about us now. Only 5 MPs in Britain are disabled. This isn't deliberate. The barriers that exist to stop disabled people from becoming MPs are the same barriers, caused by indifference, that exist to stop us from doing most things without extreme difficulty. Why would they care if we're not on their radar? I'm pretty cynical about humanity in general.
I'm surprised you think of it as an optimistic view🤔 I thought of it as open-minded. The reason disabled folks matter so much to future elections is sheer numbers. There are more disabled folks of voting age in the UK than ever before, especially in the wake of the woeful mismanagement of the recent pandemic. It only takes one or two hundred thousand votes to make the difference in a UK election (the Conservatives themselves estimated that 130K key votes could swing the election this time) , and there are millions of us - even if you restrict it to those who actively claim disability related benefits. Those kind of numbers have a big impact when given a common focus.
Great video, Quinn! We are facing the exact same issues in Canada. I have lost all faith in government regardless of party. Unfortunately, I think that things will have to get worse before they get any better. Average middle class people are simply not feeling enough pain to motivate real change yet.
Good luck with this, Wes Streeting is just a Tory in a different cloth. I really wish you and your wife the best, I hope you get the help you need, in spite of Labour.
Whilst Streeting wouldn't be my choice for Health Secretary (I doubt social care will also remain in his remit for long, though time will tell), however the disability provisions in the Labour manifesto were better than most other parties & seemed to have some actual thought put into them. How many of those policies become reality is the question now, though their predecessors set the bar very low.
@@AutistamaticI could find very little for disabled people in the manifesto. There was mention of sorting out Access to Work waiting times, veiled threats to get disabled back to work and the need to cut disability benefits. I have absolutely zero confidence that anything will change
I don't like to be the one to disillusion anyone, but I'm afraid anyone who believes a Starmer-led Labour government will fix anything for anyone is probably in for a major disappointment 😞 For myself, I couldn't ever bring myself to vote for any party that has so strongly supported the murder, maiming, orphaning and starving of children happening every day in the Gaza Strip. So neither Labour nor Tory was ever an option for me.
Unfortunately, we all knew we would end up with one or the other. Those of us who voted for neither Labour or Conservative candidates still knew the national outcome would be a binary one. I think we may have the lesser of those 2 evils to contend with now - "the best of a bad bunch" as I said in the video.
Yeah, not going to happen. I've already run into an activist judge would ruled disabled & neurodivergent (aka vulnerable) people's will is presumptively overwhelmed by anyone who provides care or assistance for them. I'm guessing this will lead to voter qualification tests to prove "correct and appropriate" independent thought necessary for a valid vote.
Sadly the new government seem to have already laid out their stall in terms of disabled people. They are repeatedly emphasising how they are going to help 'working people'. I hope I'm wrong though
I've started to see politics like an old computer installation bar that keeps failing to install one of the packets, it goes from 60% to 80%, gets stuck at 80% and then drops back down to 60% 🤣
You need an Australian style NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) which although a bit rough around the edges, certainly helps young people with disability. I cannot understand how UK governments underfunded your health system, Medicare Australia saved my life. I believe our PM Albanese is a friend of PM Starmer, perhaps they could share some experiences. Three observations I would make is that voters should indeed vote, Australia voting is compulsory for every citizen, it needs to be in the UK and the US. As well, media needs to be controlled because the false information and scandalous lies have undermined democracy. Housing is needed across the world and funding it needs to be dealt with at the same way a broke Britain did after WW11, money was found because the Labour government of the time made a priority of it. Cheers, Quinn
Politics in the UK and most countries are so depressing right now. Keir Starmer is by far a much better option than Sunak, but he’s still super transphobic and supports genoc1de. Here’s hoping the political landscape is much better 5 years from now, and someone in the vein of Jeremy Corbin is an option for the UK prime minister then.
The real question is, how many times are we the people going to let these so called leaders, let us down? “Fool me once” well that has happened too many times, so shame on us for not doing anything about it yet, and still putting our faith in people who really only care about themselves. Sure some may come with good intentions, but the system is so skewed, that we need something new, or even older like 100 years ago, that includes all the important stuff that has had improvements in that time, to take over this broken governing system that just wants us numb and without thinking, so they can do to us what they have always done, be in control.
So you voted for Labour despite them barely mentioning disability and welfare in their manifesto. More fool you and the millions of other Brits. Remember 66% of people who voted did not vote for Labour and 80% of the people eligible to vote did not.
Good video. They just need to end austerity now to start stitching society and its safety nets back together. I'm somewhat sceptical given their repeated insistence on sticking to the same arbitrary 'fiscal rules' as the other lot but I'm hoping against hope the left still has some leverage. Maybe the metropolitan mayors who I think do have a strong power base or perhaps the unions can amplify our disabled/vulnerable voices.
A lot of very good points and fair asks throughout the video. However, after listening to not just Starmer, but quite a number of the other MPs (least the ones he didn't remove under very spurious and suspicious grounds, aka right-wing labour factionalism), and seeing all the lies, u-turns, dumped promises/pledges, rolling back, and numerous attacks on the minority groups (inc. disabled people), I hold very very little hope that starmer (cosplay) labour will be any different than Tories, even potentially worse. And I have quite a number of reasons for this, other than those already listed. I can see that all we will get is a continuation of Tory policies, with maybe the odd bit of tinkering here and there, but ultimately no real positive difference that we all so very much need. Just look.at all the donations he/labour has already taken since he became leader by lying and getting donations/support from outside lobbyists, it's a huge amount. Look at the reports (e.g. labour leaks and the Ford report, which they tried to bury). Listen to the language they have used and lies they have spewed out, including denying things they said before going back on claiming the never said them (all of which is easy enough to find). I'm afraid I don't share your optimism at all based on all this and more. My hope is, after 5 years, people will look at the independents, Greens, and other such parties that offer real change (and fully costed), and vote that way instead and cast both Tories and cosplay labour into the political void. We need real socially positive change and cosplay labour is not it, nor are Tories (obviously), lib dems or reform (obviously). Here's hoping we get at better brighter future eventually, one that treats all with the respect, dignity, and equality all deserve. For now, the fight continues.
Is it harsh to put it this way? Disagree if you wish, but here goes. The fundamental question behind the issues this video brings up is this: Who is worthy of living the fullest life possible, and ultimately, worthy of life itself? And, who claims the power to make such declarations, under what authority? (My answer: no human being has, and cannot rightly claim, such authority.) As you eloquently demonstrate, Quinn: the healthy, the 'abled,' the neurotypical -- the normal, in a nutshell, have decided, through government, that some are less worthy. But the people are the government, or so we claim. It appears the 'we' in the UK aren't happy with the government they had and demand something better, each for their own reasons. Government can't, and shouldn't try, to "do everything" -- whatever that means, but plays a vital role in protecting the rights of the people to certain things ("life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is broad enough for this discussion). Those people who face temporary or long-term difficulties in fully exercising those rights are worthy of accommodation and assistance, not exclusively from government, but government plays its part, according to the role 'we' give it. It would be ideal if our free societies collectively chose to help those who need help, to the degree and length of time they need it, and then we wouldn't kvetch about government giving and taking; it would be one of the means to achieve our freely chosen ends. How optimistic am I about that? I'll get back to you. PS - Not a fully developed argument, just a UA-cam post. I might develop it further.
Idk how someone can be a swing voter, sure on economic issues both left and right wing parties suck in most western countries, however when it comes to social issues (using UK as an example) only one side really wants to commit ethnic cleansing by forcing all immigrants back to the countries they escaped from to make sure that UK stays as white as possible, only one side wants to do what repulicans call eradicating transgenderism form public life, in other words trans genocide. Sure material conditions are important but even if right wing parties give better changes to the economy, when you have a choice between a party which does not want to commit ethnic cleansing and genocide and one that does I think the choice is pretty easy. Being a swingvoter, is like sometimes I am a normal decent person and sometimes I'm someone who votes to persecute minorities. That is and has always been the choice between progressive/centrist parties and conservative ones. If you vote conservative you are doing an immoral act it's that simple.
The UK may be dominated by the 2 "main" parties, but it's not a 2 party system. On some ballot papers there were a dozen candidates & parties to choose from and independents too. The FPP electoral system is past it's sell-by-date but still allows for some quieter voices to be heard. Few, if any, UK swing voters have to make a choice as stark as that you describe. For now at least.
Loads of people in Labour also hate transgender people. It's not like in the US where transphobia is politicised along party lines, here both mainstream parties are transphobic.
I did not vote labour. I could not, with the policies they set out regarding the trans demographic. Direct attempts to give with one hand and take with the other. A gender recognition reform that purports to make gender recognition an easier, simpler, more dignified process, that seems like it's going to make it take *longer*, and mean less, as they listen to those with extreme views against my community, and resultantly look to exclude trans people. Wes Streeting, Rosie Duffield, these are people that made voting for labour unpalatable. The latter in open alliance with those with extreme views against my community, the former at the very least agreeing with them, whilst turning his back on the trans community, wanting to implement the recommendations of a document that seems more like politically motivated weaponry than actual scientific work - which seems to be the case, when you look at the response by many worldwide organisations that actually work with my community. It's a poorly executed permission slip hiding behind the veneer of 'british professionalism', with challenging it being tantamount to attacking great british values, attacking the NHS, questioning our academic standards. Labour could get my vote in 2029 by following this video. By caring about everyone it serves, as it purports to set out to do. By treating *everyone* with dignity and respect. By not taking the word of those with extreme views, just because they are rich, against a miniscule minority. By giving us the respect and dignity he claims to want to give everyone. By getting NHS waiting lists down, by fixing the NHS as much as possible in these next 5 years. I'm not asking for a miracle, I just ask for clear sign of improvement. A sign that the work is being carried out, that the NHS is *being* fixed. They can get my vote by not continuing the privatisation eating away at the NHS, by instead if possible reversing it. They can get my vote by especially following the above guidance on neurodiversity, on disability, and by no longer using neurodiversity, ADHD, Autism, as a stick to beat the trans community with. Put an end to using these examples of neurodiversity as a reason, an excuse, to deny or draw out our care when it comes to trangender medicine. Labour can get my vote by stripping back the cass review as much as possible. There are elements of the report that, in a functional NHS, be useful, that our community would ask for. Comprehensive care. MDTs. a changed approach on detransition. But there are things the report sets up for that are abominable. It sets up an approach to youth trans healthcare centred around finding alternate explanations for a trans patient's gender dysphoria. It treats transition as a bad outcome, almost a failure of the GIC. And it continues bans on medical trans healthcare for minors that have been in place since the Tavistock v Bell case - a case that despite being thrown out of court, the ban stayed put. Labour could get my vote by acknowledging the scandal they have been voted into. The ongoing coverup of the deaths of trans minors as a result of 'culture war', of the tory attitudes towards trans people, of the attitudes some of the new cabinet ministers have already shown themselves to hold. In the 7 years before TvB, 1 recorded suicide associated with issues in the care they received. In the 4 years since that case... 16 recorded. with evidence that efforts were undertaken within the system to make sure recording of these and more did not happen. We *don't* know the real toll. But it's almost certain 16 is an underestimation. Trans minors are taking their lives as a result of the institutional attitudes towards the trans community, the erosion of care they can receive, the hopelessness and ostracisation the previous governments have instilled into them. Labour can get my vote by apologising, acknowledging, and working to mend this travesty. Labour can get my vote by accepting the international research and established best practices for trans healthcare. By ending this british elitism, and institutional conservatism that has resulted in dismissal of science from outside the UK, and almost explicit refusal to actually go forward and perform the research here that could actually allow the UK to actually repeat the external science and be at the forefront of care. Labour can get my vote by showing competence and compassion that has been sorely missed in the last 14 years. By not approaching us with preconceived notions. By recognising that we have been going through the motions of repeating the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement, when it comes to trans people. By recognising that the panic of those situations is identical to the panic against the trans community now. They can get my vote by not treating trans women as demons or monsters, by not assuming they possess some inherent risk. They can get my vote by using actual statistics, actual records, evidence, observations in their approach, rather than the scaremongering soundbites that have been used so far. We exist. We have always existed. Trans women have been using 'women's spaces' for as long as those spaces have existed. And there has never been substantiated issues. Individuals doing terrible things happens in every community, and we don't deny there are trans people who do terrible things. But it is not a demographical problem. The statistics we do have, trans women do not stand out, except in one way - we are involved in assaults in bathrooms and the like, much more than average. But as the victims. We are not a risk to women. We are at risk from men. If the government chooses to follow through with it's manifesto pledge to "implement single sex exemptions to the EA2010." it may not be able to get my vote, as even the legislature around that provides for discrimination based on existing biases - the example given states that ' can be excluded from a group counselling for female victims of sexual assualt if they judge that other clients would not attend the session if she was there' which.. you know.. whilst many women are perfectly happy to share spaces with trans women, this example provided within existing legislation, allows for trans women to be discriminated against because an individual collection of other users of a service 'get the ick'. Imagine if this kind of example was provided for exclusion on the basis of race, or sexuality. Imagine if this same service allowed for the exclusion of a gay man (assuming this scenario was a group of men instead of women.), or even let's do this again.. imagine if you could exclude a black woman from sexual assault group counselling on the basis of other members not turning up if she attended. The existing legislation is horrific enough in it's gaps for trans people to fall through, without further inclusion of 'single sex exemptions'. Yes. Even the Equalities act has cooked in ways of making sure you could still discriminate for reasons as vague as "I don't think others would turn up."
I'm not a Brit, but I'm a Conservative at heart and mourn the loss of people like Thatcher. I think that small governments and more focus on local policy would allow for better healthcare for people with autism, especially if we would manage to form a town where we only allow people with autism to live.
As an autist with many autistic friends... I wouldn't want to live there. We'd fail just as quickly as the NT "rest of the world" would without US. Segregation of any type is regressive and counterproductive, so I wouldn't vote for any politician who advocated for it, especially if they tried to pass it off as a benefit. A functioning society requires a balance of ND & NT folks to reach it's best potential.
@@Autistamatic I believe that it would give us more representation in parliament. As we speak, the percentage of autistic people in parliament is way less than 4%
The Lettuce instead of Liz Truss at 1:46 had me in stitches!!!
I'm not British but even I giggled :D
That made me laugh...a lot 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me, too! 😂 🥬
🤣🤣🤣
Me too 😂
Everything you said about Britain, is true of Canada as well. Every single issue. Remarkably, I also woke up one day in my late 20’s unable to walk. If it’s not too personal, do you by chance have Ankylosing Spondylitis//Spondylolisthesis? What a brutal shock that was. Two years unable to walk, out of the blue. Also , I’m autistic, but I’m not complaining about that. After COVID, virtually all primary physicians did appointments over the phone. For some strange reason, that continues to be the practice. That is if you are fortunate enough to have a doctor at all. Our health care system was once the envy of the world. It has degenerated into a fruitless and frustrating experience.
That's what I said too. I live in Alberta, OMG the politicians in power or tin foil hat types
100% agree! Thank you for putting this out there.
Totally agree, as a retired nurse I’m now in that space where I have conditions, ARFID no treatment in my area, CRPS right arm and hand, left with no support, Bile Acid Malabsorption and now suffering deficiently and anaemic, depressed and autism…diagnosed at 63, I’m now 65 and scared to death that one day I will collapse as mental health day I’m too complex to be offered help. I was proud of my nursing, it ran well and people got treatment by professionals not pretend DR’s filling the gaps with the knowledge of medicine on par with a GCSE. I had to explain my conditions so many times to people who should update knowledge as much as I do research on myself to self advocate for correct treatments.
I was diagnosed with aspergers at 18 and I've never had any help despite fully knowing I needed it. It just has never been available to me. I'm now 30, trying to find a job despite everything, never had one before, and been applying for 2 years without a single interview. I have really lost hope and they really have to do something to improve the situation
You need to claim disability benefit. (I suppose it will have to be that useless Universal Credit.)
But go to your Citizens Advice Bureau. Also ask about your local council's Adult Social Care: they should help you.
Ask for advice about applying for PIP too. That's a separate benefit, which you will get if you are employed or not - once you qualify.
Do you still have or get money? I haven’t had luck finding a job, it’s tough for us that suck.
I have a case of autism, i struggle in social situations to the point that in work I often am forced into resigning or being dismissed, even in unpaid volunteer positions, yet I see politicians demonising autism as a workshy excuse, no, autistic people are not workshy, we just don't do well in groups.
even now, i'm applying for a course at the open university in the hopes that I can get a useful qualification from home, that I may find a high paying job without much social contact
I don't think even 'Work shy' people should be demonized. Most jobs don't pay well so it doesn't give much incentive to bother. Learning disabled people like myself are only qualified for minimum wage positions so there's no possibility of getting rich and therefore no motivation to work.
My dream is to get a job from home or for backup a driving job
@user-iw2bn3gz1n I'm trying to eventually qualify as a pathologist, just me in a lab working on biological samples, or dissecting a corpse
About as far from customer service as it gets
If looking for a job WFH, make sure to stay away from sales, especially tech sales.
It might seem great initially, but by the two year mark you're done.
For the first time in my life I fear for my country. I was devestated and changed parties when Nixon betrayed my trust. I thought my country would never see that again. I am appalled as to what is going to happen in two months.
One very worrying thing though is that the DWP minister is Liz Kendall, and the fact that Keir hasn't done anything about her. 😢
Exactly. When are people going to realise Conservatives and Labour are virtually the same?
Exactly. We know very well how Kendall feels about disabled people.
Wow! My heart goes out to you and to Great Britain. I'm happy about the election results. But now soberly hopeful. Wishing the best for you and your wife.
...and Northern Ireland😉
Well said Quinn!
Best to you and Mrs A 💜
Perfect! Beautiful put.
Keir ist just another Tory.
Tory-Starmer and his Pseudo Labour Government 😂
Very well said! I wish that I could express myself like you can.
I wanna do something useful, but as a disabled person, I'm shamed and shoo'd out of places for not behaving like a 'normal'. Argh. The support I need doesnt exist. I need an English autistic to English neurotypical translator, because I dont understand neurotypical hidden languages. I get ignored or worse, denied acess to places where I could be useful, because someone thought I could read minds of 'normals' when they wink or shrug or bat an eye in some direction. I'm autistic, I dont read minds.
I would like to not think about politics either.
I've spent more than 50 years compiling my own internal NT/ND dictionary and I'm yet to find that "Rosetta Stone" to fill in the blanks.
Hey Quinn, really sorry to hear that your wife is suffering with ME. I was recently diagnosed with this, and am at either the top end of severe or the bottom end of moderate depending on how optimistically you choose to view it. I'm bed bound 95% of the time and it's been unbelievable to me how profoundly disabling it is, how basically nothing can be done for it, and how often it is met not with compassion but hostility. Hope there are better days ahead for your wife and yourself! (and everyone everywhere with ME!)
Sorry to hear you're in that particular boat. I feel for anyone striving against the barriers, both physical and social, that an ME diagnosis brings. I've struggled to recover from covid since 9 months past, but what I've experienced is a drop in the ocean compared to what I've seen her live through.
@@Autistamatic Thanks, it's a tough road alright. Sending sympathy and empathy!
Starmer doesn't care about us disabled.
But he might care about the millions of votes we represent. If he hasn't got his sights set on the NEXT election already then he's a bigger fool than even the Daily Mail would have us believe😂😂
@@Autistamatic If he did then he would have tried to woo us a few days ago in the last election but he didn't. He stayed quiet whilst Liz Kendal told everybody what a burden we are.
Same as in Canada.
Very well said! 😊
What a brilliant video. Your channel just popped up to me, and this is the first I've seen, but you've got a new subscriber. I entirely agree with all that you said. I voted tactically to protect my rights, but I I feel tired of this. I want us to actually progress as a society, not one step forward and two steps back.
So eloquently put, I couldn't agree more
Every word is spot on. This is exactly my experience too. X
Superb video Quinn.
You need to be on parliament.
Thank you for you clear message.
I was up until 5:30 on election night, just because I wanted to make sure the Tories didn't win. The feeling of relief I felt was immense.
Starmer is far from my first choice for the job. We didn't vote _for Starmer_; we voted _against the Tories_. He was in the right place at the right time. He got lucky.
That said, in my mind, he _is_ the bare minimum for what I would consider to be an _acceptable_ prime minister. We have a prime minister who _doesn't_ make me ashamed of the country I live in. I'm just saying, we haven't had one of those for a while.
Well put Jack, and echoing many of the sentiments expressed to me overnight.
Nobody wanted labour, that's all we had. I see many people voted reform, lib Dems etc but labour were gonna take it
Hmm he did actually think that Israel had the right to cut water and electric to Palestinians,which is a war crime...ponder that for a while
Let's worry about what's good for UK , there are fifty seven Muslims nation to worry about Palestine why westerners get so riled up? What about people dying elsewhere
@@keithparker1346 You're right. He values Israeli lives more than Palestinian lives. To put it simply, he's a racist.
Is racism one of the job requirements for working in government or what?
The lettuce! Brilliant
I just want Labour to fix the economy, the NHS and improve the rights of those use who like me are transgender
They could only do this under the only human person in Labour. Corbyn.
Bravo. 👏👏 The entire western world seems to have caught an obsession with numbers and the expense of people. The proverbial canary in the mine was the great NHS, whose current condition is reflected in many parts of the world. However, chanells like yours keep giving us hope.
I got diagnosed with autism when I was 7 and have hereditary mental illness this was a pleasant surprise, thank you for standing up for me and people I care about in my life
As far as I am aware,only Plaid Cymru had specific positive neurodivergent policies
@@howareyou857 Neurodivergence was mentioned in the Greens and Lib Dem manifestos too.
LD's in terms of workplace accommodations and overall discrimination for children and adults - " Providing additional support and advice to employers on neurodiversity in the workplace, and developing a cross-government strategy to tackle all aspects of discrimination faced by neurodiverse children and adults." - in their Rights and Equality section
Greens - "We will ensure that neurodivergent children and those with special needs are adequately supported, including in the school system, to live rich and fulfilling lives" - in their Mental Health section
Plaid Cymru - "Waiting lists for neurodiversity diagnoses are far too long, meaning that children and young people fail to get the proper support they need. Plaid Cymru would ensure that support was made available as soon as an individual presents themselves as neurodiverse, whether this be through referral or self-referral. This support will be monitored and tailored to respond to the individual’s need as the diagnosis process progresses." - in their dedicated Neurodiversity section
Plaid wins though. Enjoy your four Plaid MP's, Wales!
@@howareyou857 But defo props to Plaid for having Neurodiversity in its own section..
"Neurodiversity
Waiting lists for neurodiversity diagnoses are far too long, meaning that children and young people fail to get the proper support they need. Plaid Cymru would ensure that support was made available as soon as an individual presents themselves as neurodiverse, whether this be through referral or self-referral. This support will be monitored and tailored to respond to the individual’s need as the diagnosis process progresses."
Definitely the best out the lot. Enjoy your four Plaid MP's, Wales!
@@dancecommando There's still a neurodivergent group within the Labour Party, but I don't believe we were represented in the manifesto other than being bundled in with disability & mental health.
@@Autistamatic You're right, we're not mentioned directly or specifically.
For context there are three parties I cited that mention neurodiversity in their manifestos, it's just my comment got junked, no biggie.
@@dancecommando Your omment should be visible to everyone now. Not sure why it got quarantined, but I saw it & released it into the wild😉😉
The Tories really do have a remarkable talent for raising taxes on workers, cutting public spending and _still_ growing the deficit.
And NHS dentists
Are these people saying Starmer is Autistic?
Hear, hear Quinn! Agree with everything you said. I tried to email every candidate in my constituency to make them aware of autistic issues and needs - got no replies! Mind you, I'm thinking of emailing my MP as well as the new PM, if at least to "keep the pressure up"!
you're there already, and I'm approaching it fast, " The Magic 54" for autistic people, the expected lifespan
So good question to ask is - what after? how to make it last longer? it's struggling and struggling, more than we can cope with through entirety of our lives, being 'The sidelines' is hard
It's tough. I have been dx with ADHD this year. I'm going on meds, getting Access to Work and thinking of going too 2 days a week. My job is tough but reasonably flexible and a reasonable wage. BUT it's the only way I think I'm going to be able to keep working until 67.
15:04 Damn I had to chuckle at that. As an American I’ve got to appreciate that honesty.
This is so important it better go viral, maybe this will help:
#kierstarmer #labourparty #ukpolitics #ukgeneralelection #tories #neurodivergents #socialism #leftwing #nhs #workersrights #waitinglists #redistributionofwealth #welfare #brokenbritain
Although this video is about the UK elections, it's truly international. I might as well translate it to German and address it to our Ampel coalition too.
Thanks Manon. If you DO translate it and send me the file I can upload it to accompany the video😊
This is pretty optimistic. People in general will care about us in 5 years to the same meagre to non-existent amount that they care about us now. Only 5 MPs in Britain are disabled. This isn't deliberate. The barriers that exist to stop disabled people from becoming MPs are the same barriers, caused by indifference, that exist to stop us from doing most things without extreme difficulty. Why would they care if we're not on their radar? I'm pretty cynical about humanity in general.
I'm surprised you think of it as an optimistic view🤔 I thought of it as open-minded. The reason disabled folks matter so much to future elections is sheer numbers. There are more disabled folks of voting age in the UK than ever before, especially in the wake of the woeful mismanagement of the recent pandemic. It only takes one or two hundred thousand votes to make the difference in a UK election (the Conservatives themselves estimated that 130K key votes could swing the election this time) , and there are millions of us - even if you restrict it to those who actively claim disability related benefits. Those kind of numbers have a big impact when given a common focus.
I really don't think you should be happy considering what he thinks of people lower than his station.
Great video, Quinn! We are facing the exact same issues in Canada. I have lost all faith in government regardless of party. Unfortunately, I think that things will have to get worse before they get any better. Average middle class people are simply not feeling enough pain to motivate real change yet.
Well said
That's if he survives the term
The head of lettuce 🥬😂😂😂😂🥬🥬🥬
UPDATE: Seems like Starmer has already ditched his commitment to expand the rights of disabled people.... /watch?v=3MKSTZFIByA
How has he done that? I can't watch that video I'm afraid.
Good luck with this, Wes Streeting is just a Tory in a different cloth. I really wish you and your wife the best, I hope you get the help you need, in spite of Labour.
Whilst Streeting wouldn't be my choice for Health Secretary (I doubt social care will also remain in his remit for long, though time will tell), however the disability provisions in the Labour manifesto were better than most other parties & seemed to have some actual thought put into them. How many of those policies become reality is the question now, though their predecessors set the bar very low.
@@AutistamaticI could find very little for disabled people in the manifesto. There was mention of sorting out Access to Work waiting times, veiled threats to get disabled back to work and the need to cut disability benefits. I have absolutely zero confidence that anything will change
I don't like to be the one to disillusion anyone, but I'm afraid anyone who believes a Starmer-led Labour government will fix anything for anyone is probably in for a major disappointment 😞
For myself, I couldn't ever bring myself to vote for any party that has so strongly supported the murder, maiming, orphaning and starving of children happening every day in the Gaza Strip. So neither Labour nor Tory was ever an option for me.
Unfortunately, we all knew we would end up with one or the other. Those of us who voted for neither Labour or Conservative candidates still knew the national outcome would be a binary one. I think we may have the lesser of those 2 evils to contend with now - "the best of a bad bunch" as I said in the video.
Autistic Anne agrees with you ☝️💚
I know a couple of real-life "Neurodivergent Nicks" too😉
And now Kier isn't getting a Second Term...........
Here’s hoping we get a similar result here across the pond. I’m terrified of the possibility of a Trump rerun
Yeah, not going to happen. I've already run into an activist judge would ruled disabled & neurodivergent (aka vulnerable) people's will is presumptively overwhelmed by anyone who provides care or assistance for them. I'm guessing this will lead to voter qualification tests to prove "correct and appropriate" independent thought necessary for a valid vote.
Sadly the new government seem to have already laid out their stall in terms of disabled people. They are repeatedly emphasising how they are going to help 'working people'. I hope I'm wrong though
I've started to see politics like an old computer installation bar that keeps failing to install one of the packets, it goes from 60% to 80%, gets stuck at 80% and then drops back down to 60% 🤣
Great analogy!
We got too many people
Would you have any issues if I added a link to your video to an email for my new labour MP.
By all means send a link'👍 Thanks for commenting. May I ask what constituency you're in?
North west leicestershire
@@frightday13dragon94 Thanks👍 I have roots in that part of the world myself, which people sometimes detect in my speech😊
You need an Australian style NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) which although a bit rough around the edges, certainly helps young people with disability. I cannot understand how UK governments underfunded your health system, Medicare Australia saved my life. I believe our PM Albanese is a friend of PM Starmer, perhaps they could share some experiences. Three observations I would make is that voters should indeed vote, Australia voting is compulsory for every citizen, it needs to be in the UK and the US. As well, media needs to be controlled because the false information and scandalous lies have undermined democracy. Housing is needed across the world and funding it needs to be dealt with at the same way a broke Britain did after WW11, money was found because the Labour government of the time made a priority of it. Cheers, Quinn
Politics in the UK and most countries are so depressing right now. Keir Starmer is by far a much better option than Sunak, but he’s still super transphobic and supports genoc1de. Here’s hoping the political landscape is much better 5 years from now, and someone in the vein of Jeremy Corbin is an option for the UK prime minister then.
Allistics can’t deal with change. That’s why it takes so long.
The real question is, how many times are we the people going to let these so called leaders, let us down? “Fool me once” well that has happened too many times, so shame on us for not doing anything about it yet, and still putting our faith in people who really only care about themselves. Sure some may come with good intentions, but the system is so skewed, that we need something new, or even older like 100 years ago, that includes all the important stuff that has had improvements in that time, to take over this broken governing system that just wants us numb and without thinking, so they can do to us what they have always done, be in control.
yeah 100 years ago was much worse, height of the gilded age
@@plasmktanI’m not quite sure what you mean, are you joking? Or did you misunderstand what I was trying to say?
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So you voted for Labour despite them barely mentioning disability and welfare in their manifesto. More fool you and the millions of other Brits.
Remember 66% of people who voted did not vote for Labour and 80% of the people eligible to vote did not.
I don't get the lettuce
There was a "contest" aboout who could last longer Liz Truss as PM or a head of lettuce. Spoiler the lettuce won
Good video. They just need to end austerity now to start stitching society and its safety nets back together.
I'm somewhat sceptical given their repeated insistence on sticking to the same arbitrary 'fiscal rules' as the other lot but I'm hoping against hope the left still has some leverage. Maybe the metropolitan mayors who I think do have a strong power base or perhaps the unions can amplify our disabled/vulnerable voices.
No they wont
Come back in 5 years and we'll see who was closest.
@@Autistamatic i hope youre right.
Yeah, but Julian Assange was Keith, so no vote from me, ever! Next...
A lot of very good points and fair asks throughout the video. However, after listening to not just Starmer, but quite a number of the other MPs (least the ones he didn't remove under very spurious and suspicious grounds, aka right-wing labour factionalism), and seeing all the lies, u-turns, dumped promises/pledges, rolling back, and numerous attacks on the minority groups (inc. disabled people), I hold very very little hope that starmer (cosplay) labour will be any different than Tories, even potentially worse. And I have quite a number of reasons for this, other than those already listed.
I can see that all we will get is a continuation of Tory policies, with maybe the odd bit of tinkering here and there, but ultimately no real positive difference that we all so very much need.
Just look.at all the donations he/labour has already taken since he became leader by lying and getting donations/support from outside lobbyists, it's a huge amount. Look at the reports (e.g. labour leaks and the Ford report, which they tried to bury). Listen to the language they have used and lies they have spewed out, including denying things they said before going back on claiming the never said them (all of which is easy enough to find).
I'm afraid I don't share your optimism at all based on all this and more. My hope is, after 5 years, people will look at the independents, Greens, and other such parties that offer real change (and fully costed), and vote that way instead and cast both Tories and cosplay labour into the political void.
We need real socially positive change and cosplay labour is not it, nor are Tories (obviously), lib dems or reform (obviously).
Here's hoping we get at better brighter future eventually, one that treats all with the respect, dignity, and equality all deserve. For now, the fight continues.
Is it harsh to put it this way? Disagree if you wish, but here goes. The fundamental question behind the issues this video brings up is this: Who is worthy of living the fullest life possible, and ultimately, worthy of life itself? And, who claims the power to make such declarations, under what authority? (My answer: no human being has, and cannot rightly claim, such authority.) As you eloquently demonstrate, Quinn: the healthy, the 'abled,' the neurotypical -- the normal, in a nutshell, have decided, through government, that some are less worthy. But the people are the government, or so we claim. It appears the 'we' in the UK aren't happy with the government they had and demand something better, each for their own reasons. Government can't, and shouldn't try, to "do everything" -- whatever that means, but plays a vital role in protecting the rights of the people to certain things ("life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is broad enough for this discussion). Those people who face temporary or long-term difficulties in fully exercising those rights are worthy of accommodation and assistance, not exclusively from government, but government plays its part, according to the role 'we' give it. It would be ideal if our free societies collectively chose to help those who need help, to the degree and length of time they need it, and then we wouldn't kvetch about government giving and taking; it would be one of the means to achieve our freely chosen ends. How optimistic am I about that? I'll get back to you. PS - Not a fully developed argument, just a UA-cam post. I might develop it further.
Idk how someone can be a swing voter, sure on economic issues both left and right wing parties suck in most western countries, however when it comes to social issues (using UK as an example) only one side really wants to commit ethnic cleansing by forcing all immigrants back to the countries they escaped from to make sure that UK stays as white as possible, only one side wants to do what repulicans call eradicating transgenderism form public life, in other words trans genocide. Sure material conditions are important but even if right wing parties give better changes to the economy, when you have a choice between a party which does not want to commit ethnic cleansing and genocide and one that does I think the choice is pretty easy. Being a swingvoter, is like sometimes I am a normal decent person and sometimes I'm someone who votes to persecute minorities. That is and has always been the choice between progressive/centrist parties and conservative ones. If you vote conservative you are doing an immoral act it's that simple.
The UK may be dominated by the 2 "main" parties, but it's not a 2 party system. On some ballot papers there were a dozen candidates & parties to choose from and independents too. The FPP electoral system is past it's sell-by-date but still allows for some quieter voices to be heard. Few, if any, UK swing voters have to make a choice as stark as that you describe. For now at least.
Loads of people in Labour also hate transgender people. It's not like in the US where transphobia is politicised along party lines, here both mainstream parties are transphobic.
I did not vote labour. I could not, with the policies they set out regarding the trans demographic. Direct attempts to give with one hand and take with the other. A gender recognition reform that purports to make gender recognition an easier, simpler, more dignified process, that seems like it's going to make it take *longer*, and mean less, as they listen to those with extreme views against my community, and resultantly look to exclude trans people. Wes Streeting, Rosie Duffield, these are people that made voting for labour unpalatable. The latter in open alliance with those with extreme views against my community, the former at the very least agreeing with them, whilst turning his back on the trans community, wanting to implement the recommendations of a document that seems more like politically motivated weaponry than actual scientific work - which seems to be the case, when you look at the response by many worldwide organisations that actually work with my community. It's a poorly executed permission slip hiding behind the veneer of 'british professionalism', with challenging it being tantamount to attacking great british values, attacking the NHS, questioning our academic standards.
Labour could get my vote in 2029 by following this video. By caring about everyone it serves, as it purports to set out to do. By treating *everyone* with dignity and respect. By not taking the word of those with extreme views, just because they are rich, against a miniscule minority. By giving us the respect and dignity he claims to want to give everyone. By getting NHS waiting lists down, by fixing the NHS as much as possible in these next 5 years. I'm not asking for a miracle, I just ask for clear sign of improvement. A sign that the work is being carried out, that the NHS is *being* fixed. They can get my vote by not continuing the privatisation eating away at the NHS, by instead if possible reversing it. They can get my vote by especially following the above guidance on neurodiversity, on disability, and by no longer using neurodiversity, ADHD, Autism, as a stick to beat the trans community with. Put an end to using these examples of neurodiversity as a reason, an excuse, to deny or draw out our care when it comes to trangender medicine. Labour can get my vote by stripping back the cass review as much as possible. There are elements of the report that, in a functional NHS, be useful, that our community would ask for. Comprehensive care. MDTs. a changed approach on detransition. But there are things the report sets up for that are abominable. It sets up an approach to youth trans healthcare centred around finding alternate explanations for a trans patient's gender dysphoria. It treats transition as a bad outcome, almost a failure of the GIC. And it continues bans on medical trans healthcare for minors that have been in place since the Tavistock v Bell case - a case that despite being thrown out of court, the ban stayed put.
Labour could get my vote by acknowledging the scandal they have been voted into. The ongoing coverup of the deaths of trans minors as a result of 'culture war', of the tory attitudes towards trans people, of the attitudes some of the new cabinet ministers have already shown themselves to hold. In the 7 years before TvB, 1 recorded suicide associated with issues in the care they received. In the 4 years since that case... 16 recorded. with evidence that efforts were undertaken within the system to make sure recording of these and more did not happen. We *don't* know the real toll. But it's almost certain 16 is an underestimation. Trans minors are taking their lives as a result of the institutional attitudes towards the trans community, the erosion of care they can receive, the hopelessness and ostracisation the previous governments have instilled into them. Labour can get my vote by apologising, acknowledging, and working to mend this travesty. Labour can get my vote by accepting the international research and established best practices for trans healthcare. By ending this british elitism, and institutional conservatism that has resulted in dismissal of science from outside the UK, and almost explicit refusal to actually go forward and perform the research here that could actually allow the UK to actually repeat the external science and be at the forefront of care.
Labour can get my vote by showing competence and compassion that has been sorely missed in the last 14 years. By not approaching us with preconceived notions. By recognising that we have been going through the motions of repeating the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement, when it comes to trans people. By recognising that the panic of those situations is identical to the panic against the trans community now. They can get my vote by not treating trans women as demons or monsters, by not assuming they possess some inherent risk. They can get my vote by using actual statistics, actual records, evidence, observations in their approach, rather than the scaremongering soundbites that have been used so far. We exist. We have always existed. Trans women have been using 'women's spaces' for as long as those spaces have existed. And there has never been substantiated issues. Individuals doing terrible things happens in every community, and we don't deny there are trans people who do terrible things. But it is not a demographical problem. The statistics we do have, trans women do not stand out, except in one way - we are involved in assaults in bathrooms and the like, much more than average. But as the victims. We are not a risk to women. We are at risk from men. If the government chooses to follow through with it's manifesto pledge to "implement single sex exemptions to the EA2010." it may not be able to get my vote, as even the legislature around that provides for discrimination based on existing biases - the example given states that ' can be excluded from a group counselling for female victims of sexual assualt if they judge that other clients would not attend the session if she was there' which.. you know.. whilst many women are perfectly happy to share spaces with trans women, this example provided within existing legislation, allows for trans women to be discriminated against because an individual collection of other users of a service 'get the ick'. Imagine if this kind of example was provided for exclusion on the basis of race, or sexuality. Imagine if this same service allowed for the exclusion of a gay man (assuming this scenario was a group of men instead of women.), or even let's do this again.. imagine if you could exclude a black woman from sexual assault group counselling on the basis of other members not turning up if she attended. The existing legislation is horrific enough in it's gaps for trans people to fall through, without further inclusion of 'single sex exemptions'. Yes. Even the Equalities act has cooked in ways of making sure you could still discriminate for reasons as vague as "I don't think others would turn up."
I'm not a Brit, but I'm a Conservative at heart and mourn the loss of people like Thatcher. I think that small governments and more focus on local policy would allow for better healthcare for people with autism, especially if we would manage to form a town where we only allow people with autism to live.
As an autist with many autistic friends... I wouldn't want to live there. We'd fail just as quickly as the NT "rest of the world" would without US. Segregation of any type is regressive and counterproductive, so I wouldn't vote for any politician who advocated for it, especially if they tried to pass it off as a benefit. A functioning society requires a balance of ND & NT folks to reach it's best potential.
@@Autistamatic I believe that it would give us more representation in parliament. As we speak, the percentage of autistic people in parliament is way less than 4%
What in the actual fuck? Do you know how many people her policies killed?
@@_Chelli_ I agree with you. What a disgusting comment. NIMBY.