'I personally find it quite ironic because I am actually allergic to alcohol. It’s a trigger for my epilepsy.'
A Lancashire MP with cerebral palsy has said he regularly receives messages accusing him of being drunk when he speaks in Parliament.
The MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys said: “Those of us with cerebral palsy, as we leave full-time education, encounter a much less structured world, where preconceptions about our ability tend to be so much greater and invariably utterly misguided. There will be people watching today on their TVs assuming I am drunk, because that always happens, every time I stand up in this place I get an email saying ‘why were you drunk before you appeared in the chamber’ when I appear on TV.
Mr Maynard said he has been “consistently struck and indeed depressed by how policy and practice, as well as day-to-day experience, has not moved on since my own passage through education and early adult life”. He cited a report which heard that there is ignorance about the disease and incorrect assumptions of mental incapacity.
The MP said: “People often ask me how I feel about what I must be missing out on in life. And that really angers me, that question, I get it so often because how could I have any conception of what I’m missing out on, this is my lived reality day in, day out, I don’t know any different, I don’t feel I’m missing out, I don’t feel that there’s any detriment to my life experience, but people always make that assumption.
She referenced his remarks about abuse relating to alcohol and his inability to drink it, saying: “As I think he suggested, maybe the whips might wish that more of us were also in that boat and always clear-minded when voting. Although maybe not.”
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