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Marcus retweeted
Disabled people’s organisations have asked the prime minister to meet them at the new No 10 North in Manchester when they protest about the government’s disability rights track record next month.
#AndyBurnham #UNCRPD #DPAC
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Marcus retweeted
If you're ranting in the @HouseofCommons constantly about disabled people, then you are no better than Farage ranting about migrants all day and all night. It makes you look like a bunch of rabid hooligans in suits. #HateCrime @uklabour @Conservatives
Marcus retweeted
Minister tells energy suppliers to do more to help households tackle unpaid bills.
12m+ households in fuel poverty. £7bn debt, caused by profiteering.
Companies pass cost of bad debts to other customers.
Govt can help by price controls, nationalisation.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Elon Musk claims that if society gets rid of the rich, everyone will eventually go hungry. He’s got it completely backwards. Wealthy people aren’t the ones keeping society running. Workers are.
Farmers produce our food. Drivers transport it. Nurses care for the sick. Teachers educate the next generation. Builders construct our homes, and countless other workers keep essential systems functioning.
Most billionaires don’t create the things society depends on. They own the systems, collect the profits and benefit from other people’s labour.
If the billionaires disappeared tomorrow, people would still know how to work, produce and build. But take away the workers, and the wealthy would have nothing left to profit from.
Marcus retweeted
The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?si=LMYt…
Marcus retweeted
Hey Kemi pay cuts for ordinary workers while offering free stuff to the wealthiest in society. Really isn't a good look. Tories are known as the welfare for Mayfair party
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@KemiBadenoch you just lost 6million votes, not only are you a despicable liar, you’re a political idiot.
I don't know of anyone who uses Autism or ADHD as something to be used to their advantage negatively. I know people who get pissed off with having those issues, but not people who go "I don't see why I should do something because I have ADHD/Autism".
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This is typical of British lack of academic and scientific rigour when it comes to ADHD. Or autism. Unscientific, unable to understand what exactly is ADHD. Or what it means to be autistic. Trauma is a common response to life by the time you are an adult.
On the other hand, I also have seen that individuals with childhood trauma are more likely to misperceive themselves as having neurodiversity because of social deficits, sense of otherness, and repetitive and dissociative coping strategies. Lack of appropriate parental modelling, shame, anxiety and generalised mistrust can hold individuals back from engaging and acquiring developmentally appropriate social skills.
Reference:
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Marcus retweeted
Painful' years ahead, as living standards set to fall.
Household disposable income to fall by £1,050 or 3% by 2029.
That is a political choice.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Redistribution is off the political agenda.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6z7…
