But if,on a particular day, you are feeing that you need help and that you are vulnerable to falls because of your condition you might feel think that it could be a useful thing to utilise? Some people on this thread are reacting as if this is something that Transport for London are making compulsory for everybody with a disability to wear at all times like a Yellow Star in 1930s Germany!
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Its well DIRE. I agree with Geoff a child could design better. What does it ask. PLEASE OFFER ME A seat. What to sit down or buy. [/quote] Well bring that to the attention of the National "English Language idiom and usage " Police force then! Last time I travelled on the Tube, all of the signs on the escalators said “Dogs Must be Carried”: and do you know what? - not a single member of staff would give me a puppy so I couldn’t travel 
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Yes he is 13 with anxiety issues. One boy accused him of a SEXUAL assualt it was awful. I found out exactly where this was supposed to take place and what time. Luckily he was stood by a lace with CCTV and we had evidence this never took place. What is more disturbing is the lack of support by the school to these things. Bullying is rife at schools.
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Ah shame so you never got a puppy.
Boblatina, that was my first thought, but dare not write it.
The trouble with these metro elite PR/nudge/identity politics types is they lack self-awareness.
An awareness of how they manufacture a sense of otherness in order to appear morally superior by using forced empathy.
It’s very Victorian.
Of course the whole NGO charity industry is based upon it.
I expect the MS Society is planning an “I have MS. Help me!” sticker.
PJ.
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Not compulsory - yet.
How may people have falls on public transport and put in a personal injury claim?
“Data released by the Department for Transport revealed that in 2013, there were 5,896 buses or coaches involved in reported accidents.”
This awareness campaign could be about insurance.
Now we have PIP identifying our levels of disability we could find it illegal to venture out on public transport without being strapped into a wheelchair.
PJ
Presumably the badge is part of a wider campaign to raise awareness and will be backed up at stations with information posters, so really can’t see a problem. It is a trial after all and if it proves to help some people, then surely that’s a good thing?
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Excellent positive response, Whammel. lt is obviously in its trial period and will need tweaking - but at least someone is trying to find a way of helping those who need it.
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it may work in the South, but up here in the North we prefer a direct response. I think people more likely to respond to a direct request rather than an impersonal badge.
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Oliver, I’ve thought of a better badge:## “Mrs May stole my motability car. Give me your seat.”
Come on we know this is about pushing up the insurance bill for Transport for London.
Mrs May has taken thousands of cars - with seat belts - a safe form of transport from MSers.
The government is worried - how can these policy changes - pushing sick people back to work and grabbing motability cars, be done without pushing up personal injury claims.
PJ