I had the opportunity to give a presentation to the Fairness Commission on Tuesday 27th October on the challenges that people with physical disabilities face in every day living. I have no doubt that everything we face, people with mental or unseen disabilities face these challenges with knobs on.
But first I had a word or two to say about the task of the Fairness Commission as I see it.
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said, "There is no greater injustice than to treat unequal cases equally."
The Fairness Commission is looking at a city which has huge divisions. Many citizens, including most of us on the Commission are doing quite well, whilst many of our fellow citizens are struggling just to keep their heads above water; still others are utterly dependent on meagre benefits and foodbanks. Side by side in this city walk the secure and the insecure, the expectant and the depressed, the honoured and the dismissed. Ours is a city of unequal cases and we have been appointed to try to make things at least a little bit different. That is our task and we cannot be even-handed! we are called to champion the cases of those whose urgencies are treated as of no account.
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