- https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-post-mortem-disabled-activists-will-regroup-and-fight-on/
- https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-post-mortem-activists-pledge-to-continue-austerity-fight/
- https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-post-mortem-number-of-disabled-mps-may-have-fallen-to-just-five/
- https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-post-mortem-frustration-over-campaign-failure-to-focus-on-disability/
Sue Bott, head of policy and research at Disability Rights UK, said:As Green Party Spokesperson on Disability some time between 2007 and 2010, I received an invitation via Green Party Press Office to speak on behalf of Green Party of England & Wales to a British Deaf Association [British Sign Language users] alongside other parties' spokespersons. I accepted that invitation only to be told that the event had been cancelled because of non-engagement by the other parties.
“The level of debate about disability rights was minimal during the election campaign and even when hustings were organised to give disabled people an opportunity to question the political parties, they were cancelled because of the failure of most them to engage."
And in 2010 as Green Party Spokesperson on Social Care, I received an invite via Prof. Peter Beresford to join him and spokesperson for other political parties on a panel hosted by Sir William Beveridge Foundation regarding social care and the welfare state. I attended alongside Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrats Health Spokesperson) while Labour Party's Andy Burnham had perhaps been too embarrassed by his attempt to tackle potential 'cost savings' related to Disability Living Allowance.
The Conservative or Tory Party failed to send a spokesperson either.
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