I was not around BBC Ouch much and only happened to be around when the BBC announced it was closing the message board. I was there because I had written a Overwhelmed and Devastated, after the Welfare Reform Bill was announced. I was in the Work Related Activity Group and it felt like everything was falling apart, building Ouch Too on Aimoo and then creating this website allowed me to do something to make a difference. A lot of people fought harder than I did and I don't think the lack of BBC support made much difference. For a time the Spartacus Campaigners made sure people were heard.
It is weird though because the more the government changes went through the harder it has been for the disability rights campaigners to get any traction with the general public. My sense if that there are people from that campaign and others who are still using there ability to analyse and write, to push the people in power to listen. There are charities like Mind and Scope who continue to work for disabled people
Between 2016 to summer 2018 I had personal things and failing health so did not visit Ouch Too as much. It was like it has been a clock slowly winding down, the less people post the less they participate the less they visit. The site has been redesigned and rebooted to see if we can start something new
click hereI feel like I am rambling here so before I go I want to say, Yes the past does matter and what the BBC does matters too (we will continue to talk about it), but we can't be stuck in it. There are some big topics that have not been looked at by the mainstream media, so big I need help getting my head around them and so I am hoping that more people come home to Ouch Too
