Disability Champion .STOCKPORT MBC Former Mayor. Amputee. Director Stroke Information. Trustee Just Breathe. Rotary Club.
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GB News says it has nothing to apologise for, after guest suggests starving disabled benefit claimants
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Gary Lineker has been fired from the BBC because he spoke out about Palestine.
#iSupportGary
Lets get it trending
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Victoria Derbyshire replaced Laura Kuenssberg on her own show and she was 1000x... infinitely better.
RT if it is time to replace the Laura Kuenssberg show with the Victoria Derbyshire show.
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Great choice! And no, I wasn’t involved in the decision. But at a time when the right is weaponising women’s rights (by trying to undermine and reverse them) Mme Pelicot has shown the difference that the courage of one person can make. Check out TNE website for £1 a week subscription with free copy my 2024 diaries thrown in
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Keir Starmer says there will be a “painful Budget”
Rachel Reeves says there will be “tough decisions”
Painful for who? Tough on who?
Tough on the owners of private jets? Great.
If you want to exert some pain on profiteering banks. We’re with you. - Fran Heathcote
#Lab24
ALT Photo of Fran speaking on the stage
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📢 There is no equality without equality for all.
And in the face of these senseless riots, we stand together against racism, Islamophobia, and all forms of discrimination and hatred.
We stand in solidarity with Muslim communities and people of colour.
Hate will not win.
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This is the moment ex-SNP MP Mhairi Black accused the government of “sleepwalking closer to fascism” in a viral speech from 2022.
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Here’s just a few examples of Daily Mail headlines that have fanned the flames of hate and normalised Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric #GMB
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Let me be absolutely crystal fucking clear Farage @Nigel_Farage, you do not, nor have you, or will you, ever speak for, or represent me, on account of me not being a bigot, racist or xenophobe. You and your divisive, shit stirring rhetoric fucking disgust me.
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New disability minister pledges to put disabled people’s voices at heart of government’s work
@StephenCTimms
#Disability #DWP #PIP #UniversalCredit
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Suella Braverman seems to forget we have a beautiful thing called the internet & video proof
She claimed to Laura Kuenssberg today that she’d never heard of 12 refugees being shot to death by Rwandan police In 2018
Here’s Yvette cooper telling her in June 2022 🎤
#bbclaurak
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Is this the leaders debate or the Beth rigby show?
Would love to go 30 seconds without Beth fucking interrupting
The rude cow
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Sunak framing getting people off disability benefits as a “moral mission” is a Victorian dog whistle. It frames being able to work as a virtue and being too sick to as a moral failing. It suggests the solution is, not structural change, but disabled people trying harder.
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Today, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched an investigation into the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions over concerns about the treatment of some disabled benefits claimants.
For years Mind has been calling for assessment reform, so we are pleased to see this being investigated. 1/4
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For the SIXTEEN MILLION disabled people in the UK, this general election has been a very long wait.
Through austerity, demonisation of us, dangerous NHS cuts, the pandemic (“let the bodies pile high), cuts to carers benefits, the DWP in general…
16 million of us failed.
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Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,…
Then we got the Tories
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The government is rejecting more than 40% of applications for disability benefit from people with multiple sclerosis (MS), cerebral palsy and arthritis – & one in four applications from amputee
Message here?
“Can’t work? Don’t live.”
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