Benefits claimants have been treated as a political punching bag this general election

“Neither of the major parties is willing to acknowledge that until we have a welfare system that recognises the inherent value of human life – beyond reductive ideas of ‘productivity’ – disabled people will remain trapped in a system that ultimately wants to force them into work at the expense of their physical and mental health.” Kieran Lewis, rights and migration policy officer at National Survivor User Network, tells me.