For anyone who has spent the last few months wondering what on earth I'm doing... 😆
After five years of talking about standing for council, I've decided not to.
It wasn't the plan.
https://t.co/6tUhDol4L1
I am very concerned by the government's mass rollout of facial recognition technology.
This is a grave threat to privacy, and turns the presumption of innocence on its head.
We are hurtling toward a mass surveillance state. It must be opposed!
We are appalled at the Government's threats to PIP and the Motability Scheme we are hearing surrounding their upcoming budget.
Balancing their books on the backs of the most marginalised is a political choice, an unconscionable one.
Read Fazilet's blog👇
https://t.co/2MqCq8oPHX
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle?
For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?
For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.
Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.
How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?
You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.
Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.
📝Yesterday I submitted my petition demanding the removal of the 9:30am start time for disabled bus passes.
❌Disabilities don’t start at 9:30am & neither should disabled bus passes.
🤝Thanks to organisations supporting this campaign. Together, we’ll break down these barriers!
Liz Kendall just confirmed in the HoC that existing claimants requesting a reassessment due to worsening conditions after Nov 2026 will be subject to the 4 point minimum criteria.
So much for all existing claimants being protected.
#TakingThePip
🤦♂️ Labour couldn't even remember to submit any motions to Glasgow's Full Council today.
And they have the brass neck to expect glaswegians to trust them with our cities future?
🔁 Correction: Pam Duncan-Glancy did vote on Labour’s disability cuts — but she voted against scrapping them.
As Labour’s disability spokesperson, backing cuts that’ll push 250,000 into poverty is a disgrace.
#LabourLetDown#DisabilityRights
Imagine a Scotland with full powers 🏴 The SNP's been smashing it, even with one hand tied behind its back 💪 But just imagine how much more we could do with full control over taxes, social services, & foreign policy. Full powers = full potential. Independence now! 🦄🏴
“I try not to fall into the #mindset of my #MS is worse than everyone else’s #struggles—people have their own challenges, we all muddle along and I am always happy to hear about other peoples #problems": https://t.co/HXRxXYFtvz by @gossamermsvsme#ChronicPain
Last October, Pam Duncan-Glancy pledged to support disabled people. As Labour plans cruel disability benefit cuts, she’s gone silent. 🤫 Disabled people deserve answers. Does she back Starmer’s cuts or stand with those she promised to fight for?