Hi all, glad to be a member, hope I can contribute as well as learn.

FoxyDevauxy

Severely disabled and a senior I am, but am more than able to speak up about and publish my concerns about the disabled and seniors. I was and still am an author about Bermuda in particular, classical music history and as a former expat British investigative economic journalist and news editor. My time in USA made me realize how hugely beneficial the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is to all who are registered as disabled there, including myself when there, here now too, and how in sad comparison here in the U.K. so much is lacking in so many ways. This is a specialty of mine now, back in the U.K.

It totally appalls me when I noted in the USA how under the ADA police went after and prosecuted those who took but were not entitled to disability parking or disability seating in public transport or disability rooms in hotels or disability spaces in cinemas, theatres and more. I was one of the many who got US disability laws as good as they are now. Sadly, here in the U.K., police don’t do anything similar. They are not law enforcers. They will not act to support the disabled public in the same way that police in the USA, Canada, EU, Australia etc. do. The disabled here get almost nothing in comparison. Disabled parking is ignored, disabled parking outside British hospitals is abused, public buses and trains disabled seating is rubbished by the non-disabled and not enforced, disabled booking of rooms at British hotels can be taken instead by the non-registered-disabled without any penalty. In American courts of justice today 97 percent of all tourists to the USA who abuse disabled facilities are British, who think wrongly they can get away with abuses they routinely practice when home in the U.K.

Anyway, sorry about my length, just know I will be glad to help when and where I can. I live in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Holly_Scope

Welcome @FoxyDevauxy! Wow what an exceptional background you have, really great to have you join the community. I found this an incredibly interesting read, so thank you so much for sharing. I look forward to learning more from you.