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Disabled. Wheelchair User.Passionate about social justice, open government and disability rights. Trollope, Georgian style and Cloudwatching. Tranquillement autiste.
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Woman at the window of a bare, clean house. Who is outside? Child, ghost, spirit? Friendly, frightening? You say. By Jacob Vrel, whose day is today.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

So small, so fluffy, so perfect. 📸 tcgnaturephotography

submitted 46 days ago • 15 comments

Wishing a very happy St Patrick’s Day to all of my friends celebrating in Ireland and around the world, especially O’Larry who’s the guard cat at Jameson:

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PCS has vowed to campaign with allies to oppose the cruel welfare cuts announced by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall today, a blatant attack on the most vulnerable in our society. www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

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Question: Why is the NHS sacred to politicians when the welfare system is openly denigrated. It's the same humans using these systems?

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We are working through the Green Paper, but the change to eligibility for PIP Daily Living alone will have a huge huge impact. We think millions of disabled people will not get or lose help with the extra costs of their disability. Detailed analysis to follow soon. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Kendall hints she can see argument for Pip claimants whose condition will never improve not facing reassessment - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Last night on the Moral Maze, our Miro Griffiths contested the claim there is a moral case to cut welfare, arguing the focus should be on addressing strutural inequalities and disabling barriers. The programme is available on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3XStUKj

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

maybe people on PIP should have a whip round to buy Keir Starmer a nice hat or something

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“One part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it”. John Wesley quoted in this post speaking out against disability welfare cuts by Joint Public Issues Team (churches’ social justice org)

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Behind the headlines and the stigmatising language about disability benefits are real people - millions of them. People who are scared about what this news might mean for their day-to-day lives. 1/2

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Tanni Grey-Thompson has summed up the horror of the Labour government's attitude to disabled people If you are disabled and your DWP benefits are cut, making life intolerable, then these people may feel forced down the assisted dying route said Grey-Thompson www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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There is no reason to cut benefits for those with disabilities. There are many alternatives, even if balancing the books is necessary - which it isn't. But Starmer is choosing to hit the weakest, hardest. It takes a very warped mind to make that choice. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

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Making it clear, this time from someone who knows what they are talking about. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

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