💌🚨MPs are clutching their pearls over a £750 million rise in disability-related travel support since the pandemic—but these are the same folks who submit expense claims for second-class stamps, gravy boat dinners, and the odd £3 memory stick. Apparently, the real problem is not systemic underfunding or the public health crisis—it’s that disabled people had the audacity to leave the house.
📮 First-Class Entitlement, Second-Class Empathy
MPs can’t lick a stamp without an expense form, yet they foam at the mouth when someone on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) gets support to attend therapy, get to the doctor, or just exist in society without being punished for it.
We’re told £750 million more is being spent to help people travel post-Covid. Sounds reasonable, right? Not if you’re a Parliamentarian living on a luxury treadmill powered by our taxes.
They treat a disabled person’s train fare like it’s a national emergency—but their own £11 gin miniatures? “Legitimate parliamentary business.”
You know what else is apparently reimbursable?
- Constituency travel by chauffeur
- Stationery
- Premium postage
- Swanky meals with “stakeholders” (read: lobbyists)
But god forbid a mentally ill person needs to take a bus to a counselling session. Suddenly, it’s “unsustainable.”
🧾 Austerity for You, Postage for Me
Here’s the wild part: MPs will complain publicly about benefit spending increases while submitting personal receipts for stamps. Literal stamps. They will hold a press conference about benefit fraud, then hand in a receipt for £1.45.
How do they sleep at night? Likely on subsidised mattresses stuffed with hypocrisy.
When disabled people need support, it’s “abuse.”
When MPs rinse public funds, it’s “just part of the job.”
These aren’t minor discrepancies. They are a systemically designed humiliation ritual for poor and disabled people—while the political class cruises on a golden expenses card with zero shame and fewer consequences.
🚧 The Real Mobility Problem Is in Parliament
They’re not mad about travel costs. They’re mad about who is travelling.
They want disabled people invisible. They want the mentally ill to stay home. They want every PIP application to feel like a trial.
But when it comes to their own needs? Open bar, first-class train, claim form in triplicate.
If you’re furious, you’re not alone. If you’re laughing bitterly, you’re officially clued in.
💥 Challenges 💥
Why are MPs allowed to claim £1.45 for a stamp, but a disabled person’s travel support triggers outrage? Why do we tolerate a system where support for survival is scrutinised more than claims for snacks? Drop your rage, sarcasm, or pure disbelief in the blog comments. This is your space to vent.
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