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Caitsith675 retweeted
Can we try and get this pushed please Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK
Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awareness of visible and hidden disabilities.
@TheMeldrew
@YorkDisability @hewitson10 @relish_hendy @SueJonesSays @RITB_ @ChirpyChet @Mikeo56977865 @ContorSien1527 @DpacLeeds @BuDs_UK @Dis_PPL_Protest
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Caitsith675 retweeted
Carer's Allowance needs to change. Thank you @annalouisedixon for raising the need for reform to this benefit, ensuring it properly supports and values unpaid carers, and highlighting the urgency of reassessment of overpayments.
Watch more here: bit.pulse.ly/st4vda5kvi
Caitsith675 retweeted
Dolly Parton’s story is a powerful reminder of the sacrifices unpaid carers make.
So many put their own health, careers and needs aside to care for someone they love. That devotion deserves more than praise ,it deserves recognition, practical support and proper financial security.
No carer should have to sacrifice their own wellbeing to prove their love.
#DollyParton #UnpaidCarers #CarersMatter #CarerSupport #DisabilityAdvocacy
Caitsith675 retweeted
In light of recent claims made about me in private messages from Jeremy Vine, and given the public nature of the issues involved, I am releasing the relevant correspondence for transparency.
I challenged the decision to appoint Mr Vine as host of the Carers UK Awards because of longstanding concerns about how disabled people, chronically ill people, and unpaid carers are portrayed on his programme. The petition that followed was not created or organised by me; it was initiated independently by another X user.
I do not condone abuse, harassment, or threats directed at anyone, and I reject any attempt to hold me responsible for the behaviour of others online.
The messages I received raise matters of public interest relating to charity governance, media influence, and accountability. Publishing them ensures the record is accurate and allows the public to understand the context in which these claims were made.
My intention is not to cause distress, but to correct the record and uphold the right of our communities to challenge narratives that affect us.
Caitsith675 retweeted
I am now being harassed by @theJeremyVine, who is accusing me of starting the petition calling for his removal as host of the Carers UK Awards ceremony. He is also attempting to hold me personally responsible for the hate he received, and for Tiggy Walker’s decision to delete her X account.
As I have already made clear to Jeremy, I will not be held accountable for the actions of other X users, nor will I apologise for behaviour that was not mine. I also will not apologise for the statement I made challenging his appointment by Carers UK. That statement was legitimate, principled, and grounded in concerns shared widely across the caring and disabled communities.
I am making this public because Jeremy needs to understand that he cannot single out one individual in private, and that disabled people, chronically ill people, and unpaid carers stand together as a community. We do not allow any one of us to be targeted or blamed in isolation.
Caitsith675 retweeted
That’s a pretty extraordinary insight,and it speaks directly to the question many of us have been asking: are these programmes primarily designed to illuminate difficult issues, or to generate conflict around them? “We don’t want a debate, we want a WAR” is quite the philosophy.
Caitsith675 retweeted
Here it is folks!
Axe the Jeremy Vine Show for pushing negative narratives against disabled people.
I need 5 signatures to get this started. Please help!
Sign the Petition! c.org/BmTKsSSM6Y via @UKChange
Caitsith675 retweeted
I really need to address what has happened here, because it demonstrates exactly what disabled people are up against.
A highly paid presenter, fronting a programme that carries his own name, was challenged by a community over rhetoric we believed was dangerous and harmful. Disabled people, sick people and carers held his feet to the fire and asked for accountability.
And somehow, that has now been turned back on the very community that challenged it.
That imbalance of power matters.
This is what disabled people are dealing with every single day: rhetoric about benefits, sickness and disability being repeated by people with enormous platforms, while the people directly affected are expected to absorb the consequences, and then face criticism when we challenge it.
And this is exactly why I started my petition.
Before launching it, I went back and looked at how often benefits and sickness had been discussed on the programme since the beginning of the year. What I found shocked me: it was being raised virtually every day, and on some days more than once.
That is not an occasional discussion about welfare policy. It creates a narrative. And when that narrative repeatedly focuses attention on sick and disabled people, we have every right to question the impact it has.
This was never about attacking one presenter. It was about challenging a much bigger problem: the way disabled people are talked about in public life, the language that is normalised, and the consequences that can follow.
When a community without anything like the same media power speaks up and holds powerful people accountable, the answer cannot be to make that community the problem.
That is precisely why this petition matters.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Caitsith675 retweeted
If they send you a link DO NOT click it! It's how they hack your account, then they use your account to keep this going and the chain continues.
Caitsith675 retweeted
Taking away financial support doesn’t make disability, illness or need disappear.
So where do people think it goes?
Social care is collapsing, the NHS is overwhelmed, councils are struggling and families are already stretched beyond breaking point.
If there is no alternative support waiting to catch us, how exactly are disabled and seriously ill people expected to survive?
“Take their benefits away” isn’t a solution.
It is choosing to leave people without the means to live.
#DisabilityRights #WelfareCuts #DisabledPeople #BenefitsAreAlifeline #DisabilityAdvocacy
Caitsith675 retweeted
If you are a disabled person or carer for a disabled person, I want to follow you . We need to build a community and support each other through these hostile times. X
Caitsith675 retweeted
It's fascinating how the people closest to Jeremy Vine are all coming out in his defence. That tells us two things:
1) He is apparently a *completely* different person in private than the one disabled people see on his show.
2) People are remarkably comfortable talking over disabled people and dismissing our experiences.
The uproar from the disabled community didn't come from nowhere. His show's account asked, in his name, whether it was "time to crack down" on benefits for sick and disabled people, and whether young disabled people should be called the "sick-note generation". He told his own panel there is something "fishy" behind the rise in people too ill to work, and recounted replying to someone who had just been diagnosed with ADHD with "we haven't got any money". Telling us you know a kinder man in private doesn't undo any of that. We don't watch him in private; we watch the show, and see it's posts.
Yes, we know he hosts a talk show, and debate is the format. A host can still correct disinformation and push back on ableist rhetoric. Good hosting includes both.
This situation could still end well, and the power to make that happen sits entirely with him. If the private Jeremy is real, here is what he could do with one of the biggest daytime platforms in Britain:
Apologise properly: Do it in his own voice, on his own show, for the specific things said in his name. A deleted tweet is a shrug, but an on-air apology is a statement.
Challenge the rhetoric: Bring the same energy he brings to everything else. When a guest claims welfare is "out of control," push back with the actual figures. He does it on other topics, so he should do it on ours.
Include us: Put disabled people on the panel when the topic is us. Nothing about us without us.
Cover unheard stories: Highlight carers in poverty and people losing the support they depend on. Show the human cost behind the statistics his show debates so casually.
That is the whole ask. Nobody wants him hounded, and nobody is demanding he disappear. The ask is to be heard instead of talked over, and he is in a better position than almost anyone in British broadcasting to show what listening looks like.
RT @BlokeOnWheels: Right, so he has being supportive of the charity, just not the people it's supposed to represent or the people we care f…
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Glad this has been sorted but carers have not been happy with how this has been handled by an organisation that suppose to represent them
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Caitsith675 retweeted
Demand @CarersUK remove Jeremy Vine as host of their 2026 Carers Awards
c.org/ksPsyXQVcH
Caitsith675 retweeted
This doesn’t show any understanding of the anger your announcement has caused. The only acceptable outcome here is to stand down at @theJeremyVine and find a more acceptable host.
The anger of carers regarding Jeremy Vine being announced as host has not been addressed at all in this response. You have turned off replies so carers can’t show their opinion on your answer. But carers can comment like this & their unhappiness with this response is clear to see
Please consider signing and sharing such an important petition
End Disability Hate Petition
I’ve done it.
I’ve launched a petition calling for a **National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK**.
And I want to explain why.
Because I am sick and tired of disabled people being treated as acceptable targets.
Over the last few years, I have watched the language around disability get uglier and uglier.
Scrounger.
Fraudster.
Fake.
Workshy.
A burden on the taxpayer.
We see people being questioned because they can stand up from a wheelchair.
Challenged because they use a Blue Badge but don't "look disabled".
Judged because they have a Motability car.
Accused of faking because their disability fluctuates.
And disabled people are increasingly expected to prove themselves to complete strangers.
I've experienced disability abuse myself.
But through this platform, I've also heard from so many of you who have experienced it.
And then there's the way disability is discussed publicly.
We've seen headlines portraying disabled people and benefit claimants as a problem to be solved.
We've seen endless conversations about who's *really* disabled, who's *disabled enough*, and who deserves support.
We've even reached the point where politicians are publicly talking about distinguishing between people with "severe" disabilities and everybody else.
Words matter.
Because disability hate doesn't suddenly begin when somebody commits a hate crime.
It starts with stigma.
It starts with suspicion.
It starts with misinformation.
It starts when society is repeatedly told that disabled people are costing too much, claiming too much or somehow getting something everybody else is paying for.
And eventually somebody thinks it's acceptable to challenge that wheelchair user.
To abuse that Blue Badge holder.
To film somebody getting out of their Motability car.
To call somebody a benefit scrounger.
Or to send abuse to a disabled person online.
So I'm asking the Government to develop and fund a **National Disability Hate Strategy**, co-produced with Disabled People's Organisations.
Not another conversation *about* us.
Something created **with us**.
Something that looks at prevention, education, policing, online abuse and support for people who experience disability hate.
Because disabled people should not have to prove their disability to strangers.
We shouldn't be frightened of using the support we're entitled to.
And we shouldn't have to accept abuse as simply part of being disabled.
The petition is now live.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Please sign it.
Please share it.
And if you've experienced disability hate yourself, tell people why you're signing.
Because the more of us who speak up, the harder we are to ignore.
**Disabled people are not targets.
And disability hate should never be normal.** @paulapeters2 @relish_hendy @1kilroywashere @TheMeldrew @hewitson10 @RachelCDailey_ @TheCanaryUK @mssocietyuk @GMCDP @InclusionLondon
Caitsith675 retweeted
End Disability Hate Petition
I’ve done it.
I’ve launched a petition calling for a **National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK**.
And I want to explain why.
Because I am sick and tired of disabled people being treated as acceptable targets.
Over the last few years, I have watched the language around disability get uglier and uglier.
Scrounger.
Fraudster.
Fake.
Workshy.
A burden on the taxpayer.
We see people being questioned because they can stand up from a wheelchair.
Challenged because they use a Blue Badge but don't "look disabled".
Judged because they have a Motability car.
Accused of faking because their disability fluctuates.
And disabled people are increasingly expected to prove themselves to complete strangers.
I've experienced disability abuse myself.
But through this platform, I've also heard from so many of you who have experienced it.
And then there's the way disability is discussed publicly.
We've seen headlines portraying disabled people and benefit claimants as a problem to be solved.
We've seen endless conversations about who's *really* disabled, who's *disabled enough*, and who deserves support.
We've even reached the point where politicians are publicly talking about distinguishing between people with "severe" disabilities and everybody else.
Words matter.
Because disability hate doesn't suddenly begin when somebody commits a hate crime.
It starts with stigma.
It starts with suspicion.
It starts with misinformation.
It starts when society is repeatedly told that disabled people are costing too much, claiming too much or somehow getting something everybody else is paying for.
And eventually somebody thinks it's acceptable to challenge that wheelchair user.
To abuse that Blue Badge holder.
To film somebody getting out of their Motability car.
To call somebody a benefit scrounger.
Or to send abuse to a disabled person online.
So I'm asking the Government to develop and fund a **National Disability Hate Strategy**, co-produced with Disabled People's Organisations.
Not another conversation *about* us.
Something created **with us**.
Something that looks at prevention, education, policing, online abuse and support for people who experience disability hate.
Because disabled people should not have to prove their disability to strangers.
We shouldn't be frightened of using the support we're entitled to.
And we shouldn't have to accept abuse as simply part of being disabled.
The petition is now live.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Please sign it.
Please share it.
And if you've experienced disability hate yourself, tell people why you're signing.
Because the more of us who speak up, the harder we are to ignore.
**Disabled people are not targets.
And disability hate should never be normal.** @paulapeters2 @relish_hendy @1kilroywashere @TheMeldrew @hewitson10 @RachelCDailey_ @TheCanaryUK @mssocietyuk @GMCDP @InclusionLondon