Disability Hate Crime, Indeed

Hate crimes against disabled children have risen by 150 per cent in the last two years. One such has been, and remains, the attempt by Durham County Council to cut the pay of its Teaching Assistants by 23 per cent. Indeed, that authority has also devastated its bus services, on which the disabled, including children, rely.

And, despite the prosecution's now being on to its second barrister in its desperate attempt to make any of this stick, the people who run that authority are still engaged in what has become a downright farcical campaign to secure the criminal conviction of a disabled journalist and activist. In the course of that campaign, there has also been a hilariously unsuccessful, and yet a chilling, attempt to abuse the mental health system.

I could only be convicted by a corrupted jury, and since there is not going to be a corrupted jury, then it is absolutely impossible for me to be convicted. Therefore, this whole business is, as much as anything else, a scandalous waste of public money.