Any comments, Deri? This is one of your Countrymen talking.
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Subject: Tory Deputy Mayor: The Best Thing For Disabled Children Is The
Guillotine
Tory Deputy Mayor: The Best Thing For Disabled Children Is The Guillotine
By Geoffrey Lakeman
24 September 2005
A TORY deputy mayor has sparked outrage by calling for disabled kids to be
guillotined to avoid wasting cash on their care.
Retired GP Owen Lister made his sick suggestion to fellow councillors as
they discussed sending the youngsters to a #3,000-a-week care home.
Mr Lister, 79, told them: "I would guillotine them."
He has now quit as deputy mayor but yesterday stood by his outburst.
He said: "I indicated at that point that perhaps the guillotine might be
better.
"These are children you can't educate. It's merely a matter of caring for
them until they die.
"The only difference between a terminally ill patient and a severely
handicapped child is time." The councillor, of Swindon, Wilts, argued the
funds should instead be used to cut NHS waiting lists.
He added: "It shows how peculiar we are as a society on this matter that we
spend this vast amount of money caring for disabled youngsters to very
little purpose at all.
"It would be better spent on those who might actually benefit, such as
cancer sufferers. We have 5,800 people waiting to go into hospital in
Swindon. A percentage of those will die as a result of waiting too long."
His remarks came as the borough council's children's committee debated
putting youngsters in a Cornwall home. Labour councillor Fay Howard said:
"There was a slight pause and looks of disbelief. Everyone was totally
shocked."
Labour colleague Barrie Thompson, the committee's vice-chairman, likened
Lister to one of Hitler's henchmen. He said: "The last time I heard remarks
like that were from Heinrich Himmler."
And the Disability Rights Commission added: "It's chilling that an elected
representative with responsibilities for deciding on support to disabled
children should view the slaughter of innocents as legitimate public
comment."
Mr Lister also quit the children's committee and now faces a council probe.
A council spokeswoman said: "He recognised he'd said something deeply
inappropriate that could cause offence and resigned straight away."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news
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