内容摘要：A councillor has criticised "heinous slobs" who have dumped more than half a tonne of rubbish next to a busy road.

A councillor has criticised "heinous slobs" who have dumped more than half a tonne of rubbish next to a busy road.

"I represent disabled people, all of us do, and we all hear their stories every day and just how scared they are about this and what a difference these payments make to their lives."I can't look my constituents in the eye, I can't look my mum in the eye, and support this."

Many Labour MPs who spoke to the BBC have said they agreed many people currently on disability benefits could work and should.But they worried the government's rumoured plans, such as freezing Personal Independence Payments, would punish all those on disability benefits, including those with severe disabilities who could never work.That would be "unforgivable", one MP told the BBC.

Another said making it more difficult to access disability payments was "not what the Labour party ought to be about"."It's our very DNA that Labour was created to lift people out of difficult circumstances," they said.

"The government needs to stop talking about everyone who is on disability benefits as if they are all the same because they are not," said another.

In the UK 1.3m people now claim disability benefits primarily for mental health or behavioural conditions – 44% of all claimants, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found.A councillor has criticised "heinous slobs" who have dumped more than half a tonne of rubbish next to a busy road.

Martin Goss spoke out after a 10-hour overnight litter-pick along the A12 between Colchester and Marks Tey in Essex.Colchester City Council said six members of staff collected the rubbish in April.

Mr Goss, the council's head of waste, said the major road was in "a real mess".The A12 was closed by National Highways so the litter pickers could clear slip roads between junctions 25 and 27 without being at risk.