Cathy Ashley (she/her)

DFA Creative Writing UofG -Universal Credit & Self-Employed -Scottish village hall -Permaculture -Self-build campervans -Festival trader -Land law/planning/huts

[Cathy Ashley (she/her) @PermaHeretic]

An informal self-help and support group for self-employed claimants of Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit, observing, scrutinising and challenging the impact of Universal Credit to the low-income and socially motivated self-employed.
https://t.co/gc5wCbotRo

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@BBCWomansHour
“crying in public is rarely helpful”

WHAT?

Do you think we are doing it as a strategy?

Do you think we can choose not to do it?

Do you think we can stop?

Women who’s tears fall involuntarily in public desperately want it NOT to happen

There is no choice

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Please sign this petition in support of the self-employed with low, seasonal, or fluctuating income #selfemployed #universalcredit #MIF #MinimumIncomeFloor

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@BBCfileon4 In her care home, my 93 year old mother with dementia was called ‘Room 6’

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@Protect_TBabies @TransLegalProj No, every one needs to move to Bluesky, rather than support the musky trumpy partnership

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Bluesky is the new Twitter!
Looks like Twitter, feels like Twitter, just doesn’t smell of Musk. #twitterexodus #leavethemtoit #bluesky https://t.co/JdDhzbmAhx

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@JaneyGodley Such sad news. A stalwart. An inspiration. Funny. Damn, I’m making it sound like you are already dead - but one of death’s many sadnesses is that people would have so loved to have heard what people say afterwards. Lots of love to a stranger from a stranger xxx

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@carla_denyer @AdrianRamsay I wish my mum Cynthia Warth could have lived to see this! She was SW Area Coordinator for many years, and worked at Party Office in the 1980s. She would have been over the moon!

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@jeremycorbyn Well done @jeremycorbyn. You were a bright light in a stodgy world, and I’m sorry Starmer betrayed you. You might have defected to Green, and support Scottish independence, but you’re am inspiration and I’m glad you won

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@MartinSLewis I don’t think it really matters. It is a notional figure used as a reference point. It doesn’t ‘mean’ anything. If the same calculation were applied to new market values all normal people would be bankrupt

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@TimMeek8 @LakesStiles Is it an old Nissan hut? I think I might have met him at the Tain carboot a year or so ago… a friend of a friend

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Not knowing what rivets are is like not knowing what buttons are @BBCr4today

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@KirstieMAllsopp In traditional buildings, they need LIME

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‘Changed the Labour Party forever’, eh @Keir_Starmer? And you think that is a good thing? Some of us actually saw @jeremycorbyn as a beacon of hope in a hateful political milieu. Shame on you for deserting him #NoRedTories

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@GeorgeMonbiot @Larrick023 The messenger is using inaccessible language. Why not say “Don’t vote Labour, they are as bad as the Tories. Vote @TheGreenParty or @scottishgreens

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@MartinSLewis None of the above. It means we lose @CarolineLucas and @MhairiBlack

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Horribly sad to be losing @CarolineLucas and @MhairiBlack Will you not change your minds? We need you… but thank you, thank you, thank you x

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@HMRCcustomers I was told on the Tax Credits Helpline yesterday that I could submit my final Tax Credits figures via a Change of Circumstances online. I have spent all day hurrying to do it by today's deadline, now I cannot upload it because it says 'You cannot use this service'

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@ionafyfe I don't know if you happened to hear one of those Westminster guys in the Covid Inquiry, scoffing, and basically saying 'if you can't hack the nastiness', why are you even in politics? THIS is the reason so few women stand

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@DropboxSupport I’m in the middle of Restart. I dragged it down to a corner, and I’m hoping it won’t come back. If it does I’ll send you the screenshot

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@Dropbox How do I get rid of your wretched Dropbox Backup pop-up? x & - are greyed out, Esc won’t work, and I can’t read the ‘Learn more’ info because it’s covered up by the pop-up. I’m trying to work but I can’t read any web pages!

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And I can’t log in to my uni account because the sign in box and Authenticator numbers are obscured, so I can’t save my work and restart

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In fact, I can’t read anything, as Word and Scrivener open behind it too! I need it gone NOW