Just before midday yesterday, a Bristol mother called Riven Vincent announced to the internet:"Have asked social services to take dear daughter into care … They have refused extra respite. I can't cope."
The public revelation of her desperate situation became an instant internet cause celebre, and swiftly attracted a flood of over a thousand messages of sympathy and dismay. The online outrage quickly mounted when it emerged that David Cameron had visited Vincent at her home during pre-election campaigning and assured her that if he became prime minister he would not do anything that would harm disabled children. (As reported in todays Guardian.)
Respite care is being decimated acrioss the country... but meanwhile Call Me Dave says we cannot do anything about the banks or their bonuses, but clearly expects us to believe that we are all in this together.
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