finding it difficult to be optomistic here

I would love to be optimistic here but successful as the Paralympics was it will fade into the annals of history very quickly. We have a government hell bent of making life much harder for disabled people in all areas of their lives. They together with the press are using negative and often misleading information to portay disabled people as benefit scrounging scum incapable of making any positive contribution to society. It seems to be going down very well in the non-disabled world and to me and the condems see it as a no brainer vote winner. Protests against ATOS continue to go unreported in the press and on TV. Figures for hate crimes perpetrated against disabled people are on the up and thats just the ones that are actually reported. For every 1 reported I would suggest 3 are not. This is a best guess figure based on my experience working with disabled students as an inclusion specialist teachet 13 years ago. Sorry its so pessimestic and believe me I hate being so but thats how I see it I am afraid. Frankly I feel nothing but distain for this despicible government and shocked at how quickly the tollerence of the non disabled british public evaporated.