"Lady Grey-Thompson, who was born with spina bifida, revealed she was recently left stranded at King's Cross station in London at midnight after travelling from her home in north east England. She said she had to shuffle onto the floor and push her wheelchair towards the door of the train. But the baroness told BBC Wales she was shocked by some of the abuse she attracted from people posting their views on a newspaper website which carried the story. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote I've got quite a thick skin but when you hear people talking like that in a very derogatory way about disabled people I find that quite worrying” Baroness Grey-Thompson "A couple of hundred people said some fairly unpleasant things about me along the lines of 'what gives her the right to speak, she should be at home, she shouldn't be out at midnight, she should be better organised', and what right did I think I had to travel on public transport." - M F

:( - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

I know it's getting nasty out there - M F

That's terrible. I thought only the US was full of such boneheads... - Spidra Webster

Definitely not and thanks to some papers which are relentlessly campaigning against the disabled (as their sense of entitlement has apparently caused the current economic situation) their numbers are increasing. We always need a scapegoat and of course it has to be the easiest target we can find. - M F

What right did she have to use PUBLIC transport? OMG I fear society has passed some sort of critical mass for which the shear # of us can no longer support general compassion, common sense and a reasonable pursuit of enlightenment beyond that of poop flingin' apes. - SAM

Apart from the fact that with what train tickets cost in this country they should go and pick her up with a limousine at the end of the journey. It is hardly public and it ain't cheap. - M F

So much anger nurtured in people - by the government, the opposition and general media - eventually it seeks a target :( Sad that nobody spoke up - Iphigenie