You quoted David Cameron above however, and I truly hope that you do not feature anything that he says on the subject in your film.

Though rich, he viewed it as fine to claim for his disabled son, and he was within his rights to do so of course, now nevertheless, he thinks it is acceptable that many severely disabled people are going to lose money, or are about to lose it, throwing them into abject poverty. The fear of this happening is causing much anxiety and distress, not knowing if you’ll have enough to live in dignity let alone a roof above your head.

A friend of mine has just lost her DLA. She’s on morphine, heart medication, arthritis medication, medication for severe asthma. She can hardly walk from her front door to the car without being so badly out of breath and in pain that she can hardly speak. She now has £12 a week left for food, personal items everyone needs, cleaning products etc. The other day she said that she had enough left for the week to allow her to either buy a loaf of bread, or some butter, but not both. Her friends help out, and are paying to keep her car on the road or she would not be able to even visit the doctors, though she goes without food regularly, and is afraid to ask anyone for help. She can’t stop crying; I fear for her sanity.

This is absolutely disgraceful and it’s happening all over the country: people are committing suicide every week due to it, and as a result we do not want to hear what Cameron has to say on the matter please.

Money isn’t everything, you’re right. But if you’ve only got enough money to buy a loaf of bread a week in a western country that is relatively rich, then something is seriously wrong. Equality starts with people at least having enough to eat, to pay their utility bills, and to pay their rent. Where communities are unable to have such stability crime soars and family relationships break down. We all have a responsibility to one another, but the rich and powerful think that it doesn’t apply to them: THEY are the ones that you need to get the message through to, but as laudable as this documentary is, and I’m sorry to be so negative, but it will have no effect on the very people who have the ability to do something about it.

Obama is on the clip you linked to talking about equality, yet his policies concerning the unemployed have meant that people lose any support after 2 years. Whole families, and in some instances, whole towns have been made homeless, their homes, street after street of them boarded up. Their children are removed because they now have to live in ‘tent cities’ where children are not allowed to live. And, recently, many of those very tent cities have been cleared. The authorities have confiscated all of their camping equipment and been told to ‘move on’: move on to where exactly? They wander the streets, and if they are caught sitting down to rest anywhere, they are told to ‘move on’ again or they are arrested. One pregnant woman was told to do that; the police hounded her every time they saw her, and eventually, heavily pregnant, she lost her baby. So please do not put any governmental leaders in your film, because they just don’t care about those who have nothing, the vulnerable, and those who are ill.

The ability for people to pay their way will be impossible soon, even for people who earn minimum wage. I live in a cheap area to rent, but minimum wage is now not enough for a single person to afford a bedsit, utilities, food and transport to work. People should have a lot more left at the end of the week after working hard. And, 2 billion has just been removed from the economy due to tax credit cuts and the removal of ESA for any couple where one partner earns more than £7500 a year. That is going to have a devastating affect on local economies.

A living wage, and adequate benefit provision, is the only way forward, but at a time when every government seems to think the opposite, so frozen wages equate to pay cuts and benefits are cut altogether, the gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ will continue to widen, and society will pay the price for that.