Carrie Leyland 💙 PoTS ME

*I very much appreciate your very kind invitation () & much regret my inability to accept. I'm in a bad way physically & am compelled to forfeit many pleasures*

[Carrie Leyland 💙 PoTS ME @MyrtleBMC]

@EastMidRailway when is peak travel time on Liverpool to Norwich journey.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Those religious people and lobbyists in full:

[Scope @scope]

Disabled people are being let down by our benefits system.

Life costs more if you're disabled. Disability benefits are a lifeline meant to help address this.

The government must get its administration right. Because disabled people are paying the price.
https://t.co/H7tEYyB7e9

[Carrie Leyland 💙 PoTS ME @MyrtleBMC]

@peaklass1 The village where I grew up!

[Tim Boxall ♿🇪🇺 Et Daemonium In Rotae @timboxall]

1) "It should only be for people registered disabled"

How often we #disabled hear this refrain from people wanting to withdraw or limit our access to help.

Well get this: there is no national disabled register. There is no government or compulsory list.

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

How to deal with the poor as the elite:

🍰Marie Antoinette, 1700s: "Let them eat cake!"

💉Lord Falconer, 2025: "Let them die!"

According to Lord Falconer, the assisted suicide Bill sponsor, being poor would be a good enough reason for the state to give you an assisted suicide!

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Many terminally-ill people would feel “duress” and “pressure” to choose an assisted suicide if it is legalised, because of the lack of funding for the NHS, palliative care and social care services, a disabled activist has told MPs and peers.
https://t.co/ROgQfdPUTp

[Carrie Leyland 💙 PoTS ME @MyrtleBMC]

@Pott_Shrigley_ Will never not be bitter about this closing 😭

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let's get this news story about Reform UK and political corruption retweeted thousands of times 👇

[Carrie Leyland 💙 PoTS ME @MyrtleBMC]

@DrFrancesRyan Voted and campaigned for Labour all my life and will now never vote for them again at either local or national level. Devastated

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

MPs will this week vote on a £2 BILLION cut to disability benefits.

750,000 people will lose £3,000 a year.

This includes people who can’t use their hands, need help to eat or drink and have debilitating incontinence.

My Amendment would stop this cut.

Ask your MP to back it.

[Kate Osborne @KateOsborneMP]

I have put my name to this reasoned amendment that declines to pass the government’s welfare reforms.

Even if the promised changes are made, over 400,000 disabled people will be denied PIP from next year, even though they would currently qualify.
The bill should be withdrawn.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

No “concessions” on disability benefit cuts will make them more “palatable” to those who will still suffer as a result.

Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is always inhumane and unjust. It costs lives.

MPs can't be expected to sit by and allow this to happen.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

The Secretary of State whose disability benefit reforms will stop 150,000 carers getting any carers allowance at all.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

This is in no way an ‘olive branch’ - it still strips disabled people on PIP of the vital support they currently get.

Delaying poverty by a few weeks will still see so many disabled people thrown into poverty.

This is nowhere near the scale of change that MPs are looking for.

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

It's very simple maths: if you take away disability benefits under the claim of trying to get disabled people into work, but at the same time you're removing support and funding to support disabled people in work, then what you actually want is for disabled people to die.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

This was a shameful day in British politics and a shameful day for the Labour party.
It will not end well for either.

https://t.co/eJzxDq4Kou

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

Now is the perfect time to make a ton of noise about welfare cuts. After the local elections MP's are starting to worry it will cost them. And word is Liz Kendall doesn't like it and wants to try pretend the public really wants the cuts to go ahead. Keep banging them drums. ✊

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Wes Streeting is asked about scrapping the universal winter fuel allowance & cutting disability benefits & he says politics is about choices.

Yes Wes it is, and you've chosen to target pensioners & disabled people rather than the super rich #trevorphillips

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Labour ministers forcing through cuts to disabled people’s benefits just don’t get it. It’s a disastrous policy that will harm hundreds of thousands of vulnerable poor people. It’s morally, socially, politically and electorally a disaster. Just drop it. https://t.co/A3msVz7ZOS