Mittlerweile besitzt jeder 15. Erwachsene in England eine Blue Badge-Genehmigung
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/06/blue-badge-permits-record-1-20-people-in-england
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Mittlerweile besitzt jeder 15. Erwachsene in England eine Blue Badge-Genehmigung
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/06/blue-badge-permits-record-1-20-people-in-england
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Instead of being „shocked“ that that many have them (6.66 people out of 100), why not look into the causes of how they’ve been able to be awarded one, which will be lack of healthcare from the NHS, poverty, and an increasing elderly population, this will be a big one as most of the time when you see people at blue bays it’s older people.
Hmmm… can anyone make sense of the maths?
>Blue badge permits now held by 1 in 15 adults in England
>The DfT data showed the English regions with the highest and lowest percentages of badge holders were the north-east (6.1%) and London (3.5%) respectively.
Bloody disabled people, wanting to park close to stuff because they can’t walk. I bet half of them are pensioners.
What people forget about disability is that being fully able is almost always a temporary state of affairs. Everyone gets old.
Is just „being old“ considered a disability? Or „infirm“ due to age? Because if that’s acceptable criteria for a blue-badge, I suppose it would explain the numbers.
I feel like this is a thinly veiled continuation of the war against disability benefits, but I might be wrong of course.
Why do I always hear these crazy high numbers and I don’t know a single person with a blue badge? I know at least 15 people
If only it even mattered. People don’t respect it and it’s not enforced.
7%—-ok, do we think that’s an unacceptably high number of disabled people or something?
I thought it’d be higher- I was watching a show the other day and it seems every other person has a disability…fair enough it was the Last Leg I was watching but still
There’s not enough disabled parking spaces in a lot of places I go more and more lately.
I get there and it can take longer to find an available disabled parking space than it would to park normally and struggle out of the car and to where I’m going.
Here is the raw statistical source FYI: [https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025)
I’m bumping that average up by having 2 badges in the same household!
…so are you saying they should just die/ not exist/ not drive? What is the point being made here?
This is one of the bugbears of my wife – quadriplegic, unable to take even a single step and reliant on a power wheelchair – when we’re forced to block a car park and get her out so I can park in a regular space whilst we see someone with an “invisible” disability with no impact on mobility; or a neurological condition – take up the spaces with room around them for a wheelchair.
Oh another guardian article poorly worded and designed to make people angry at minorities.
1 in 15 is 6.7% of the UK population.
Considering there are up to 25% of Brits with disabilities, which is over 16.8 million people, once you account for just those with physical disabilities (approx 42%) that gives you just a touch over 7 million people.
That is 10% of the UK population round about.
The fact that only 6.7 are claiming blue badge is actually less than you would think and yeah, some of them will be counterfit or misused, but honestly, they cant even put a figure on if its actually costing us anything.
Its parking ffs, not the end of the world, so what id the occasional one is misused. Make the system harder to counterfit or misuse you melts!
This is such a non story dog whistle to target disabled people and perpetuate the myth that people are using ‚mental illness‘ to claim more benefits than they deserve and ooooh argh shouldn’t we be so angry?
Okay? Why is the headline phrased like it’s a problem? Oh no! Disabled people can park closer to places they need to – whatever will we do??
And STILL the majority of disabled parking spots at the local supermarkets are filled by cars that don’t have one !!!
Given the general demographic trends in the UK, this is not unexpected.
Pretty certain we were predicting this shift back in the ’90s and before. I am sure I am not the only person with vivid memories of this from geography GCSEs…
My father-in-law was dying of cancer. He had severe difficulty getting around (especially walking) using a stick and getting breathless. He had to go to the hospital most days, often twice a day, for blood tests, chemo, blood transfusions etc. They wouldn’t give him a blue badge, so please don’t come in here saying they’re easy to get.
He eventually did get one because his consultant (one of the top ones in the country) and MP got involved. They actually said to his consultant that “he doesn’t need it as it’s not a permanent condition and he’d be better in 3 years”. The consultant replied “you’re obviously a better doctor than me then because I thought it was terminal … and you’re right he won’t have it in 3 years because he’ll be dead in 1”.
I know someone who got one for ADHD.
She crossfits. Spin cycles. She works full time for the NHS.
Why.
£300 in black market and pretty easy to get. System is broken!
Typical British mentality, have something good but just abuse the crap out of it and ruin it for people that need it!
Isn’t that preety accurate to the rate of disability in society? Like, good on UK.
Newsflash: When you underfund the NHS for 14 years and the population gets older, more people get sick and disabled.
Who’d have thought?
Agin population means a higher percentage of older people who will have blue badge permits.
I don’t know how. It was such a hassle to get one for my 80 YEAR OLD NAN that she died before we actually got one.
That’s surprisingly high
Either eligibility has expanded a lot or it says something about how many people are dealing with long-term health issues now
Curious how much of that is visible vs non-visible conditions