[forceten]

I've read this topic with interest.

I have a blue badge for my son, and my mother also has one (she doesn't drive so my sister and myself take her everywhere).

Now where we park is different at to who we have in the car with us, my mum can't walk very far so the closer we are to where we are the better, plus we have to have the car door wide open for her to get out of the car.

With my son, we also need to park close by, but don't need the car door to be open as wide, so could also park in a normal spot so to speak.

It all depends on the disability, and the sensibility of the people involved.

Some disabilitys are easy to see, others are mental and are not so easy to see.

There is a rigent critereas for the blue badges and they are not dealt out like dolly mixtures!

Yes some people do "work" the system, but the vast majority that do need them and use them use them legally. It's only the ones that abuse the system that you hear about.