Disability now comes with a weight limit.

Richard Littlejob of the mail (DONT READ IT) has written a lovely piece on how people are being given blue badges for simply being obese.

Aside from the obvious concern that this will increase attacks on disabled people who are bigger than whatever average is nowadays I didn't think there was a weight limit on disability.

Disabled people, surprise surprise come in all shapes, sizes, ages, colours and religions etc etc. It doesn't discriminate on any grounds (unfortunately).

I am wondering if Richard littlejob and presumably all the people agreeing with him think that all disabled people should be slender young blondes in their wheelchairs? Because I was under the impression that they also thought that disabled people had to be over a certain age, as well as having certain things different about them.

It's tough enough being a disabled person, do we all now need to enroll in a slimming programme (presumably this will be paid by the government?) and perhaps they could chuck in a few beauty treatments every so often? How about letting us in on the secret of how people who are physically restricted can possibly exercise every day?

I'm not saying we are all fat, ugly slobs. But I am also not saying that we should all be body perfect (thats a novel concept, disabled people being body perfect :).

Disability doesn't equal a certain body weight. full stop.

(o go on, have a read, and a laugh too.. copied here for your amusement and for the benefit of the dms stats.. NOT)
Richard Littlejohn.
Two stories stood out for me this week. Both are damning indictments of modern Britain and proof positive of the idiocy of the soft-headed, socialist imbeciles who run so much of what passes for our ‘world class public services’.
The first comes from Walsall, where obese motorists are being issued with disabled parking badges so they don’t have to waddle too far from their cars to the nearest kebab shop.
The second hails from York, where people arrested for being drunk and disorderly are being sent on courses to boost their ‘self-esteem’.
  
Let’s start in the West Midlands. What possessed Walsall Council to hand out ‘blue badges’ to gutbuckets? OK, so there is a minuscule number of people suffering from rare medical and genetic conditions which make it difficult to control their weight. Some of them belong in mental hospitals.
But most of those categorised as ‘obese’ are not genuinely disabled. Nor are they ‘victims’ by any stretch of the imagination. They are just fat and greedy and won’t stop stuffing their faces.
Already, the NHS spends a fortune treating patients suffering from a variety of ailments caused by self-inflicted gluttony. Diabetes and heart trouble brought on by pigging out on fast-food is said to have reached epidemic proportions.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Stop eating so much and start taking exercise every day, you hideous hippos. Obesity isn’t like a flu epidemic. You can’t catch obesity. It isn’t inflicted on people by dark forces beyond their control.
These selfish individuals are grotesquely overweight because they lack willpower and moral fibre.
They have the option to diet or die, but they do not deserve special  treatment funded by taxpayers.
No one should have an automatic right to an expensive gastric band provided by a hard-pressed public health service, already struggling to provide life-saving drugs to patients  suffering from real illnesses.
It is estimated that up to two million people could qualify for bariatric surgery and that by 2050 half of us will be officially ‘obese’.

By then, Britain’s population will be over 70 million. At this rate there won’t be enough gastric bands to go round and the whole country will be one giant disabled car park.
You can bet, however, that where Walsall leads, other councils will follow in the name of ‘compassion’ and being ‘non-judgmental’. They’ll be handing out blue badges by the tens of thousands to anyone who can prove they have ‘mobility issues’.
The reason these XXXXL monsters have ‘mobility issues’, though, is not because they were born with chronic disabilities, or have lost limbs in an accident or while serving their country on the battlefield.

No, their ‘mobility issues’ are caused by a revolting, self-inflicted excess of flab which their podgy little legs will no longer support over a distance of more than a few yards.
In Nottingham, they are already reinforcing the pavements to cope with the increasing bulk of the legions of Teletubby lookalikes squelching their way to the chippie, via the pub or off-licence.