I have RA and have had a blue badge for about twenty years .
This has to be renewed every three years . No two days are the same with RA - sometimes I’m reasonably mobile at others I can hardly move .
I have had ankle , knee and elbow replacements so when I complete the form I include all operations with dates and names of surgeons plus my own doctor so if it’s necessary they can be contacted . I have never been refused .
Next year I shall be eighty so I’m pretty sure that I won’t improve . I wish that once you have been granted a blue badge then at a certain age it should become mandatory , without all the form filling . I’m more than happy to pay the £10
When we travel on the continent ‘handicapé” spaces are excellent and no one without a blue badge would dare use them .
Here I inevitably find them occupied by delivery vans or people without badges who are “just popping to the post”.
Army horses loose on London streets
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.