Andrew Crooks

Dad & husband & campaigner working with other disabled people, older people and others who put up with inequality in their lives.

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Suffering From Scottishness http://t.co/7HwKmwAjof via @youtube - I am still laughin at this and have played it 10 times in a row!

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Nice idea - one of my kids likes spicy food - I’ll give it a go 😅

[Zara Janjua - Broadcast Multi-Hyphenate @TVZaraJ]

A staple in our Scottish Pakistani home at this time of year. Brussels sprouts pakora. Yes or no?
#averymuslimchristmas

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

The DWP is driving people to despair. Why is it allowed to happen?!

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

A disabled woman, who apparently took her own life in despair at the way her benefits claim was being dealt with, left a note that “directly implicated” the Department for Work and Pensions in her death. https://t.co/GoeVOkVenI

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Good grief - why can’t he front up for once?!

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Utterly disgraceful behaviour from the office of @AndyBurnhamGM. Refusing repeatedly over the last week to say clearly whether he is in favour of the government's policy on discharging people with #COVID from hospitals into 'zoned accommodation' in care homes. @GMCDP

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Thanks for reminder Christine

[HabintegMcGill @HabintegMcGill]

One month left to respond to Gov's consultation on Access standards for new homes. https://t.co/nsJGGl3wpr. Seems a good day to share these pics of brand new homes in hilly South London. Shows that steep slopes need not be a barrier to step free access. Bravo! #ForAccessibleHomes

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has failed to sign up to her own much-criticised disability employment scheme, Disability Confident, her department has admitted.

https://t.co/mPNnseXf8G

[David Gillon @WTBDavidG]

What takes this from merely incompetent to utterly #TakingTheDis is that disabled people don't have a seat on @SadiqKhan's #covid recovery board, but the RSPB does (that's Protection of Birds, not Blind People)

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

One for you @RedOnionGlasgow 😂

[Punch Cartoons ... and more @PunchBooks]

Your PUNCH colour cover. Eat out to help out... Hmmm... the chef prefers the chippie across the road. Bill Scully 1960. #illustration #graphicdesign #restaurants #hospitality #eatingout #fishandchips #chefs #cooks #food #eating #dinner #meals

[Ellie @Ellie_Mac_]

5 years ago I received the worst GCSE’s results and was absolutely heartbroken. Now, I’ve gained a 1st overall for my 2nd year of uni and 1 year away of becoming a qualified social worker. Never give up or let results define your future!👩🏼‍🎓💭🙌🏻.

[Christian Kerr @SWConcern]

An unexpected benefit of the #ALevelsResults fiasco and subsequent U-turn is that more young people have witnessed dissent as a powerful and necessary function of democratic society.

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

These DEVO guys would do anything to sell on some merch 😂

[DEVO @DEVO]

Gerald Casale here. Pandemic times require devolved solutions - be quick on your feet to go forward and move ahead. The 4th annual 5KDEVO race is going virtual & expanding beyond Akron. Now you can run, walk, crawl or Shrivel Up anywhere in the world! https://t.co/Z7gATOwWbu

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Aye - and rightly so

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Disabled people who have been shielding from #coronavirus since March are expressing significant doubts about government advice that says that – from Saturday (1 August) – they will no longer need to do so.
#Shielding #COVID19UK
https://t.co/XXzJCBrurO

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Very brilliant

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Oops!

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Devo is selling Energy Dome face shields to 'whip' COVID-19 https://t.co/GzEk20fL2m

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

@hallamfmnews Oops - better late than never - DM me anytime - can’t promise I’ll always respond as I have full of beans 5 year old to look after

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

@ScotsPostPunk was it really 37 years ago ? The Crossing - this footage is a year after the albums release but shows Big Country at their best https://t.co/BXQyNVQFNd @BuDs_UK @BigCountryUK

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Its time to heighten legislation and for the Government to support people to sue people for hate crime - on line racial abuse should become a hate crime and those responsible should be educated, complete community service and face imprisonment for their hate

[Dion Dublin @DionDublinsDube]

I’ve just seen the text that @wilfriedzaha had to wake up to this morning.......... I’m ABSOLUTELY SPEECHLESS!! #Really #its2020 Racism is very much alive and active in our country!! I’m sad and disappointed!! #Racism #Rasist

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

Is that Big Ears with his head under the hood?

[Andrew Crooks @CrooksAndrew]

I am quite jealous :) but brilliant decision by you - my wife Helen is starting Uni in October