Taking The Biscuit

Social & action grp 4 professional & former professional women with mental health conditions & SMI- accompaniment to mixed gender group: ‘My Cup Of Tea’ @MCOT20

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For anyone with a mental health illness who did not understand how the disabled benefits slash particularly discriminates against them, even severe mental illness, this is why and how: #DisabilityBenefits #MentalHealth #LabourAreDangerous

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@MarieTidball Genuinely extremely important and so is this…

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@RichardBurgon @TheCanaryUK

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@The_TUC @MarieTidball Are you going to tax the SUPER Rich that 2%? @olivercoppard @_OliviaBlake @RichardBurgon @labourlewis @KimJohnsonMP @johnmcdonnellMP @natalieben @garyseconomics @Phil_White_99 @TaxJusticeUK @PatMillsUK @faizashaheen @JoshHalliday @andyksheffield @RITB_ @Shrink_at_Large


[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

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@Shrink_at_Large Correct. ♥️We hv some gr8 journos who cover the facts & social injustice 4 MH & Health Claimants. Many don’t. Many hv left X making it even harder 2 disseminate truth. Here’s the good ♥️s: @JoshHalliday @patrickjbutler @patrick_barkham @andyksheffield @DrFrancesRyan @pollytoynbee

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@MarieTidball Whilst hopefully remembering that not all women including disabled ones are mothers

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@Dis_PPL_Protest @The_TUC @nowak_paul I’m surprised some of these things don’t receive legal challenge

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@DisRightsUK I think so many people hv been involved in so many similar consultations that they felt have been a sham that this one is going to be hard work to persuade people to take part - which IMHO suits. Didn’t a similar one end up in court linked to the Conservatives? @EllenClifford1

[My Cup Of Tea - MCOT @MCOT20]

‼️antidepressant recall - 26 April 2026‼️

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& be aware of this:

https://t.co/lMWFWbXSWz

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A quick reminder of a recent precedent in law that protects vulnerable people including women: https://t.co/T7qB2qAxmW

[BBC Riot Women @bbcriotwomen]

Wow. What a cliffhanger… what will Kitty do next?🤨

What did you all think?

#RiotWomen #RosalieCraig #KittyEckersley

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This is important. Will leave it here for you: https://t.co/Cjpp3ij1TB

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@Shrink_at_Large & that there is £… @PatrioticMills @TaxJusticeUK @garyseconomics @RichardBurgon #TaxWealthNotWork #CareNotCuts

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@bbcriotwomen 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[BBC Riot Women @bbcriotwomen]

All smiles on set of #RiotWomen 🎸

#JoannaScanlan #RosalieCraig #AmeliaBullmore #LorraineAshbourne

[Taking The Biscuit @BiscuitTaking]

I am not menopausal. I am not a mother. I am justiciably annoyed at poor behaviours I receive just because I am a woman. I make no apology for that frustration.

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@MCOT20 @PaulTurnips @felly500 @ProfLAppleby One also for the incredible @msalilla even though she’s left X (formerly Twitter) - pls do come back, you’re missing a lot of good hearted action! ♥️🩵

[My Cup Of Tea - MCOT @MCOT20]

I can’t believe this is happening when the suicide rate of women especially age 45 to 54 exponential incl in #Sheffield @PaulTurnips ⁦@felly500⁩ ⁦@ProfLAppleby⁩ Sheffield councillor protests at cut to women’s therapy support https://t.co/znOupdwwOP