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More informal, more personal, Phil and Simon discuss a potential divisive split in impairments, more trouble with trains, Lost Voice Guy winning a talent show and do you need a personality type if you become disabled?Two people with a disability were the finalists in Britain’s Got Talent. Lost Voice Guy won it. Is this a watershed moment for disability and comedy or a stepping stone?A friend of Simon’s, who was looking at needing a wheelchair, told him she didn’t have the ‘personality’ to become a wheelchair user. Phil and Simon discuss this, and talk about how our personalities have been shaped, and stayed the same, through having a disability.Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK) have responded to the governments consultation on changes to the blue badge disabled parking scheme. This consultation concerns including people with non-visible disabilities on the scheme. DMUK’s response to the consultation suggests this isn’t a good idea and we discuss the implications and if needs of differently disabled people are being ranked. Finally, more trouble on the trains as a a rail operator (at the time of recording) was bringing new train stock in to use which wasn’t accessible, what does that say? Is this a slippery ramp?[Link to the transcript](https://www.dropbox.com/s/z100pv60ac4j34b/Phil%20%26%20Simon%20Show%20No%2022%20transcript%20-%20I%20don%27t%20have%20the%20personality%20to%20use%20a%20wheelchair.rtf?dl=0) if you'd rather read than listen.
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More informal, more personal, Phil and Simon discuss a potential divisive split in impairments, more trouble with trains, Lost Voice Guy winning a talent show and do you need a personality type if you become disabled?Two people with a disability were the finalists in Britain’s Got Talent. Lost Voice Guy won it. Is this a watershed moment for disability and comedy or a stepping stone?A friend of Simon’s, who was looking at needing a wheelchair, told him she didn’t have the ‘personality’ to become a wheelchair user. Phil and Simon discuss this, and talk about how our personalities have been shaped, and stayed the same, through having a disability.Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK) have responded to the governments consultation on changes to the blue badge disabled parking scheme. This consultation concerns including people with non-visible disabilities on the scheme. DMUK’s response to the consultation suggests this isn’t a good idea and we discuss the implications and if needs of differently disabled people are being ranked. Finally, more trouble on the trains as a a rail operator (at the time of recording) was bringing new train stock in to use which wasn’t accessible, what does that say? Is this a slippery ramp?[Link to the transcript](https://www.dropbox.com/s/z100pv60ac4j34b/Phil%20%26%20Simon%20Show%20No%2022%20transcript%20-%20I%20don%27t%20have%20the%20personality%20to%20use%20a%20wheelchair.rtf?dl=0) if you'd rather read than listen.
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