I think they would need the full resources of MI5 to follow me about sometimes, because of my frequent rail travel, you can't just follow me onto a train, you need a ticket, and I would certainly know if anyone were following me onto a bus. Anyway whoever said that being disabled was incompatible with being a student at an out of town University?
There are surveillance cameras in our street, but they were not even good enough to catch someone vandalising my Landie some time back.
If anyone were watching me, it probably would be MI5 (waves)
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Surveillance and disabled people
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> Hi,
>
> I live in the UK and am aware of the posters that Andrea mentions.
> They suggest that benefit cheats aren't cheating the government but
> are cheating you (i.e. the person reading the poster) and so it is in
> your interests to report such people. I claim disability benefits and
> this makes me very nervous as although my visual impairment and
> hearing impairment are fairly static, I have a back problem and some
> days struggle to walk to my garden gate and other days I can walk
> miles! I know at least one of my neighbours has started rumours about
> me but I don't think she's reported me yet!
>
> I've heard that people are employed to use cameras in drinks cans and
> things to secretly film people doing things they say they can't do or
> working when they are claiming benefits. I don't know if this is true
> but it is a scary idea.
>
> Details about the latest government campaign in the UK can be found
> at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/campaigns/benefit-thieves/
>
> Good luck with your research,
>
> Emma
>
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