Understanding the rightwing backlash over the government scheme helping people with serious disabilities get carsThis article is an extract from our First Edition newsletter. Sign up hereMotability really ought to be a boring subject: a government scheme helping people with serious disabilities get a car by using a portion of their benefits to pay for the lease. But over the past week, anyone who had never heard of Motability would have got a more lurid impression.First reported in the Daily Mail, and then in a string of follow-up stories, Motability was portrayed not as a useful mechanism for helping people with disabilities but an outrageous example of con artists milking the taxpayer. Continue reading...