Every time I hear people talk about how we will remember that the NHS workers and delivery drivers and teaching staff that were previously vilified will now be remembered as heroes, I think back to our Paralympics in 2012.

"We will always see that disabled people have value and worth now! We have seen that disabled people are valued members of society, it will never be the same again!" Before it went right back to being the same again.

We will revert right back to seeing the bin men and the nurses and the teaching staff who want better pay and better conditions as being people who don't deserve better conditions. And The Sun and The Daily Fail will go back to vilifying them in their papers.

And we all clap now but the people who clap will not change their voting habits, or their media consumption habits, or realise that in order to make a change they need to do more than clap. And some people will get that, but lots won't.

So until we make it clear that there needs to be concrete, real change and that we're the ones who actually need to do something active rather than passive, this will be the Paralympics all over again. We can't wait for someone else to initiate change.

It has to be us. And it has to be real and concrete. And we cannot forget, because we will forget. And we have to use our voice and our vote to do that.