Ruth Hackleton 💙💜

The size of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. Don't overestimate your problems, and underestimate yourself.

[TWLOHA @TWLOHA]

“Depression lies to people. It convinces them they are alone even when they are deeply loved. It convinces them their pain will never end. It distorts reality until hope becomes difficult to hold onto. And unless someone has experienced it personally, it is hard to fully understand how exhausting it is to fight your own mind every single day.” https://t.co/5OtW7e5oOu

[Ruth Hackleton 💙💜 @RuthHackleton]

That was a mean one, NYT!

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[Nik @niktharrison]

@johnpringdns @Hossylass 'claims are going up! awards are going up!! disableds are draining the welfare budget!!!'

lowest success rate since 2024
4mil get pip, there's 10.5mil pensioners, yet the public act like it's the other way round bc of the hate train

we're screwed

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

So when they say 'there are a thousand people joining PIP every day" what they really mean is, there are a thousand applications, but we quickly knock loads of those back. But it suits the narrative to make people who don't know how the system works, to think that every application results in an award.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's trillionaires who don't pay any tax.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

I would much rather live in a society where everyone has healthcare, housing, and food than a society where one trillionaire now owns more wealth than half the country.

[Ruth Hackleton 💙💜 @RuthHackleton]

@bbcdoctorwho The only way it stands a chance...

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[VOICES ADFOCAD @VoicesWales]

Unpaid #carers who provide high levels of care for sick, or disabled relatives and friends, are more than twice as likely to suffer from poor health. We're calling for adequate funding for #carers breaks this #election https://t.co/MChRD9cW75

[Han 🖤 CHECK PINNED! @spoonfulofhan]

The way that society treats disabled people has always proven that productivity for capitalism is valued more than human life

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Imagine if we kicked politicians out of parliament for lying rather than kicking them out for calling other politicians liars.

[VOICES ADFOCAD @VoicesWales]

100% this. A quick and easy change that the UK government could easily make

[Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell]

Over 47% of unpaid carers provide 90+ hours a week, more than double a full-time job, with no capacity to earn.

For under £12 a day

This is not domestic help. It’s complex, skilled, round-the-clock care, while navigating failing systems in health & social care.

[Rachel A-S @Chuffin_ell]

Carer’s Allowance is just £86.45 a week - around £12 a day.
47% of unpaid carers care over 90 hrs a week. That’s not simply cleaning, it’s highly skilled, relentless nursing level care, 12 plus hours a day, with no breaks as there’s no one else to take over 🧵

[VOICES ADFOCAD @VoicesWales]

Carer’s Allowance was introduced in 1976.
The world has changed. Caring has changed.
But the benefit meant to support carers? Barely has.
Today, unpaid carers provide the backbone of the UK’s care system, often 24/7, often at the cost of their own health, income, and future security.
Yet Carer’s Allowance:
• Remains the lowest benefit in the UK
• Has failed to keep pace with inflation or the real cost of caring
• Forces carers to live below the poverty line
• Treats caring as an afterthought, not a profession
• Leaves carers absorbing the gaps in a collapsing social care system
After 50 years, carers deserve more than symbolic recognition.
They deserve a benefit that reflects the value, skill, and sacrifice of what they do every day.
Carers aren’t asking for luxury.
They’re asking for fairness, and after half a century, that’s long overdue.

[Nula Suchet @nulasuchet]

Carers are the most underpaid, under supported, under appreciated members of our society - it’s beyond shameful 🥲

[VOICES ADFOCAD @VoicesWales]

Only a small proportion of carers receive the support they’re entitled to.

Too many carers are invisible to the system.

If carers aren’t identified early, support comes too late.

That has to change.

🪧#RightsToReality

[Kazz 🍉✊ @KazzJenkins]

... unless you're disabled, then we're going to halve your benefits to force into a job you can't do that doesn't exist.

Fixed it for you.

[Homo-Wan Kenobi @Sense8Saviour]

@JAMortram Paying every unpaid carer in the UK the minimum wage would still cost less than we save the state annually.