Yesterday a group of around 140 protestors against the Government using French company to asses physically and mentally ill people’s ability to return to work managed to block rush hour traffic in Cardiff city centre for 30 minutes during the the evening rush hour.
Many of the protestors where disable with some using walking sticks, wheel chairs and mobility scooters. Many had come from all over Wales with one wheel-chair bound man traveling from Aberystwyth.
They had gathered earlier that afternoon under the statue of Nye Bevan in Queen Street, appropriately as Nye was the man who is hailed as the founder of the National health service.
Jonathon Williams (pictured) from Pontypool told us:
“I have friends who have died on active service and I don’t want to be part of a society where their live have been wasted in support of a system that has taken away the safety net from injured ex-soldiers and civilians alike.”
In what was a good-natured protest people came from all over Wales to voice their concern about the changes in benefit assessment testing system has led to 32 suicides/deaths per week or at least 13,284 deaths and suicides according to some sources and even on man in a coma deemed fit to return to work. During the lie-in protesters even halted the demonstration to allow an ambulance on an emergency call pass without hindrance. There was a light police presence an no arrests were made.
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