Humanitarian. Socialist. Equality & Diversity. I have Cervical Spine Dystonia, an incurable neurological condition.
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined February 2023
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1/1 I'm sick of the abuse by 'healthy' people on #X driven by #politicians & #media
For clarity, not that I feel I owe anyone an explanation, I have an INCURABLE neurological condition called cervical spine dystonia.
The photos are a report of the constant active muscle spasms
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Hours before being found guilty of harassing two Daily Mail journalists, Tommy Robinson posted footage to social media of himself storming a Welsh newspaper’s offices and intimidating the journalists working there ✍️Emily Price wp.me/p8Mk4U-1wc0
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It has now been a month since Dan Thomas resigned as Reform leader in Wales after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour.
We have checked with Gwent Police and he remains on bail and the police investigation is ongoing.
Mr Thomas has not had the whip withdrawn and denies any wrongdoing.
Full details and more in pinned tweet.
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Rachael Field has been denied PIP despite having tongue cancer and being given around 3 years left to live. This is the 4th time she’s faced cancer within 6 years.
She cannot eat, talk, dress herself or use the bathroom independently. This is diabolical!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckqx…
How do these people end up in government?
It doesn't take much research to know that Poundland has been asset stripped by its American parent company.
Nothing highlights the fiscal failure of this government more starkly than the plight of Poundland. The chain's 600 stores and 12,000 workers sit on the verge of collapse, not because its customers have walked away - Poundland's sales grew by 6.7% in September - but because of this government's unaffordable tax rises, which makes it impossible to run a business that works on slim profit margins to keep its prices down for its customers. How ironic that a government preaching about helping the least well-off is forcing a company out of business that does just that.
Customers have NO other choice than to move online! By closing branches #banks have manipulated the situation to online banking.
How many staff have found themselves unemployed?
Every high street bank closing in November | The Independent share.google/6PI5XnGBGkYgvxK…
Why are some men of the opinion that women are just alive to service their needs?
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Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at @CarersUK, welcomes the Government’s plan to end the Carer’s Allowance earnings cliff edge. It’s a long-overdue change that could make a real difference to carers and the families who depend on them.
Under the current rules, earning even 1p over the £204 weekly limit can mean losing the entire £86.45 weekly allowance.
The Government plans to replace that cliff edge with a gradual taper, deducting £1 of allowance for every £1 earned above the limit. The reform is welcome, though it is not expected to be fully implemented until towards the end of the decade.
Around 180,000 carers reportedly built up £300 million in debts between 2019 and 2025 under the existing rules.
But, as Emily says, this is only the start.
The 2021 Census counted 5.8 million unpaid carers in the UK, including 1.7 million providing at least 50 hours of care every week.
Research by Carers UK and the Centre for Care estimates the value of that unpaid support at £184.3 billion a year.
That is an enormous contribution to families, communities and the economy.
Yet Carer’s Allowance is just £86.45 a week for someone providing at least 35 hours of care—about £2.47 for each minimum hour.
For comparison, the National Living Wage for workers aged 21 and over is £12.71 an hour - over 5x as much.
Carer's Allowance remains the lowest benefit of its kind.
Carers UK’s 2025 survey found that nearly half of carers had cut back on essentials such as food, heating or transport. - This is shameful for one of the richest countries in the world.
A full review of the allowance and wider support is essential.
And the need for change reaches beyond financial support for carers.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has set out plans for a National Care Service, including free personal care for older people based on need rather than ability to pay. Better, reliable social care could help people live with greater dignity and give families the support they need.
It could also ease pressure on the NHS, where gaps in care can contribute to avoidable A&E attendances and delays in patients leaving hospital.
For too long, families have been left to fill the gaps themselves.
Recognising carers, properly supporting them and building a care service people can rely on would be a major step towards a fairer and more compassionate society.
This, surely, is what it should mean to be British.
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If you're a chief executive on a telephone number salary, at least have the grace not to complain about the taxes that fund the benefits your workers have to claim because you refuse to pay them enough to live on
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What an embarrassing afternoon for Reform UK.
Farage and Jenrick unveiled their economic plans to a half-empty hall in central London. Asked about the empty seats, Farage first blamed “staff incompetence”, then suggested the businessmen invited were simply too busy to attend.
How disgraceful to publicly humiliate your own staff rather than take responsibility.
An event meant to showcase Reform’s readiness for government instead showed how quickly Farage blames others when things go wrong.
You just know what sort of man he is to work with. If he’s this willing to blame his staff publicly, who knows what kind of behaviour is going on behind closed doors.
There was obviously a shortage of class available when this one was born!
Shocking moment Asda cashier imitates a monkey and hurls vile racist abuse at a black nightclub bouncer
Daisy Johnson, 21, from Rochdale was filmed outside Ko Ko Lounge shouting racist abuse including the N word, calling a black bouncer sewer trash and imitating a monkey.
She tried to snatch his phone and abused others. Asda sacked her for the conduct.
Greater Manchester Police are investigating and no arrests have been made.
Her mother said she is mortified.
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@andyburnham @stephenctimms @patmcfaddenmp @UKLabour @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @Helen_Whately @EdwardJDavey @LibDems @RhunapIorwerth @Plaid_Cymru @JohnSwinney @theSNP
The demonisation of us disabled people needs to end… IMMEDIATELY!!!
#DisabilityJustice
Just how will bringing back imperial measurements create jobs?!
#Reform have lost the plot.
Reform plan to 'bring back imperial measurements' as party announces list of pledges it says will create jobs
lbc.co.uk/article/reform-imp…
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This clip alone from @Channel4’s #TheExperiment means, if you hate disabled people, exclusively for claiming PIP… you are automatically a Nazi.
Disability is defined as a protected characteristic under Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010.
Respect the law!
#DisabilityJustice
Do watch 'The Experiment'
Watch it here on Channel 4: channel4.com/programmes/the-…
It offers some history on Aktion T4, the nazi Germany systematic killing of sick, disabled, mentally ill, learning disabled, children & adults from 1939 - 1945 where up to 300,000 were murdered. The forced sterilisation programme ran from 1933.
Children & adults were murdered by lethal injection, starvation, and gassing (chamber & mobile van gassing), before it was implemented larger scale in the concentration camps.
Mass murder didn't start there, it started with words, propaganda campaigns, to convince the population that disabled people were a burden not deserving of life.
This programme was a social experiment to demonstrate how people could be convinced that it's a good idea. Participants were disabled actors with members of the public filmed on a fake tour of a fake residential home using nazi era ideas. The public were unaware of the experiment.
The "workshop" showed disabled people doing what we know to be 'industrial therapy', which was still seen in the late 80s in the UK in the old style sprawling asylums like Napsbury and Friern and medium secure units.
The public tour participants didn't appear to appreciate the demeaning nature of this.
Residents wore uniform clothing, which reminded me of my experience of seeing shared clothing & no underwear in "cheaper" private care homes for older people in the 80s.
It was only in the dormitory style barren bedroom with lockers did some tour participants start to question it, though others considered it acceptable.
The Experiment held up a mirror to the current demonisation of disabled people, to the rhetoric from politicians, rightwing journalists, MSM, broadcasters, Think Tanks.
The nazis wanted genetic supremacy, and used economic burden to achieve their aims.
Currently, politicians, MSM, broadcasters and journalists, peddle a not dissimilar rhetoric using economic productivity with economic blame and burden as their method of propaganda and persuasion.
Mass killing never starts with injections, starvation, gas, guns, bombs, it starts with words, with a constant drip-feed of othering and propaganda until people are persuaded.
What this programme demonstrated is that yes, people can be persuaded. But it also showed us that people can recognise dehumanisation and voice it, those are the voices we must encourage.
Susan Sontag, on being asked about what she had learnt reflecting on the Holocaust said that 10% of any population is cruel, 10% is merciful, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction.
IDS, Jeremy Vine, Helen Whately, Fraser Nelson, Tice, Lee, so many MPs, Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, profs who don't stand up to the daily onslaught, everyone who looks the other way, need to think about which 10% are they? We need to get the 80% to join the merciful 10%.
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Shameful & cowardly from a leading national newspaper..clearly challenges the push from #TheTimes to smash up the welfare system.
The Times blocks DNS from raising concerns with its readers about DWP deaths, in response to Burnham ‘welfare inquiry’ article disabilitynewsservice.com/th… – at Plympton, England
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I have just noticed that the late Jason Arday is cleared of plagiarism.
Meaning… he died for nothing.
@nathancofnas and the British media must be held accountable over this.
This was a racist and ableist attack on an innocent vulnerable person who was driven to his suicide!
They're all at it, fleecing the country, especially those like @SuellaBraverman & @Helen_Whately
Stop #benefits for these greedy monsters.
Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day
Claims to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at £1.2m four-bedroom pad.
Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/s…
So, she may have been a victim of a paedophile father and somehow it's her fault?
