Another Bad Ass Mutha trying to halt the 0.1% determination to find oblivion. The 99.9% are stronger togetherโ๏ธ Fiercely Anti Tory & anti global Democide๐คฌ
This is what they've been doing to us, all this time.
If you agree with my fury, please #FollowBackFriday
We are #StrongerTogether
https://t.co/DO44npr8qg
Thank you to every person who stood in solidarity with me today. Our strength comes from standing together, and we refuse to be held down or diminished by anyone. โโ
In July 2025, the UN wrote to the UK government to highlight how disabled people are treated in this country.
One of the issues highlighted was MPs and government departments portraying disabled people as โโmaking profitโ from benefits, committing benefit fraud, and โbeing a burden to societyโโ.
This is exactly what is going on in the UK media:
Disabled people negatively portrayed as scamming the system, living in luxury while everyone else suffers, demanding benefits and support are cut.
Thereโs no balance.
It needs to stop.
https://t.co/gEiwaNiE3N
Omg @Nigel_Farage when did you become a qualified Dr???
When that many people are struggling is signifies a MASSIVE societal issue. You incredulously cruel, stupid & evil scumbag.
Former telly producer last week:
Disabled people should ring into telly and radio shows to explain the reality of their situations to enhance debate.
This week: a disabled woman rings into a radio show to explain that she needs a workplace where her needs arising from her condition are taken into account.
The response from the British public: how dare she? She should be grateful for anything whether she can actually do it or not!
And that, lovely people is why most of us don't ring into radio programs and television studios.
There's just no point.
Says man who has
- South African parents
- A Cambodian adopted sister
- a Leader who married an Irish woman, then a German who now has a French girlfriend
- was in a Party led by a Hindu whose parents were immigrants from East Africa of Indian heritage
- then a Party led by a Nigerian
- is colleagues with a woman whose parents were immigrants from Mauritius and Kenya
- and a man whose parents were immigrants from Sri Lanka
I know @andyburnham loves his football, but volleying decisions with 16yrs of incredible human suffering at the root is contuniuity cruelty & sociopathic. Beware the neoliberals decrying neoliberalism.
The Times's weekend read:
* When parliament returns next week, Andy Burnham will do everything in his power to project change - a new leader, a new direction and a blizzard of announcements to go with it
* On Tuesday he has first Cabinet, a two-hour statement to the Commons before Alex Norris unveils his plans to keep PC Andrew Harper's killers behind bars despite early release scheme
* On Wednesday he hosts Emmanuel Macron and has his first PMQs
* He hopes to demonstrate change in style and substance. The 'big moment' in No 10 is seen as his first PMQs - he will take a deliberately non-combative approach rather than going for the jugular'
* The substance will come over next few weeks. First, there will be trade sanctions on Gaza settlers, a move backed by a third of Labour MPs and supported by Lib Dem and Green voters
* Second, he will approve drilling for Gas at Jackdaw off the coast of Aberdeen in the North Sea. A visit to Aberdeen has been pencilled in to make announcement alongside a pledge for more investment in renewables. Rosebank decision deferred again
* Then we head to conference at the end of September, which will be themed around - you've guessed it - hope and change
* The Budget on October 28 is a deliberately slimmed down, steady as she goes affair. Economists still think tax rises are inevitable
* Much of the focus in No 10 is on the 10-year plan - the vision moment. I'm told this is seen as more important than the Budget and conference. Pencilled in for November
* But how much change is there really? Is this a genuinely radical government ushering in the biggest changes for 40 years, as Burnham said? Or is it as John Healey told @SamCoatesSky - 'a continuity of a Labour government with a change of leader'
* Many of the big decisions have been postponed. The ยฃ10bn question of when Britain will hit 3% defence spending has been delayed until the spending review next year
* We get two pivotal reviews on welfare after the Budget - Milburn and Timms - but we won't get a meaningful response until next year
* Social care reform is also for next year, after Dame Louise Casey's review concludes. The national conversation is coming sooner
* A decision Thames Water has been shelved until after the Budget
* Starmerite: 'Apart from playing the guitar, where's the change of direction'
* But there is one huge difference - Andy Burnham is not Keir Starmer. He is popular and so far that popularity appears to be holding
* A YouGov poll for The Times found that more than a quarter of voters expected him to do well and believe he has so far. Another 17% said they expected him to do poorly but he exceeded their expectations
* Again, behind the figures is that progressive alliance with significant support from Green and Lib Dem voters
* Can Burnhamโs popularity survive contact with No 10? With the autumn upon us we are about to find out
https://t.co/8m0Lxu9vq8
We're calling time on the culture war.
Starting with the biggest superspreader of misinformation & #ablism#blockedbyvine
The right wing exists because people like Vine pump toxic bilge through TV screens daily.
Get Vine gone.
Please sign & share!!
https://t.co/nqxSn2JdNx