Claire

She/Her • Queer Femme 🏳️‍🌈 • Disabled (Cerebral Palsy) • Devoted Dog-Mumma 🐾 • Full-time Wheelist since 1998 ♿️ • 🇪🇺🇬🇧

[Richard Banks @2e0rtb]

@PolitlcsUK "Can't prepare a meal, but can use a microwave, doesn't qualify" - but that's the point of PIP. Making food from scratch is cheaper, but if you're forced to rely on microwave meals, PIP is supposed to cover the difference in price, that's one of the extra costs of disability 🤦‍♂️

[Claire @_claire]

THIS ⤵️

[Hev @issahev]

every person i know who gets PIP is working lmao, they use the money to help access the shit people without disabilities have access to. my friend in a wheelchair isn’t getting the underground to her job, she’s getting a cab cos half the stations don’t have step free access.

[Scope @scope]

PSA: PIP is not an out-of-work benefit.

Here’s why this is important 🧵

[Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonLD]

Cutting PIP & disability benefits isn’t just cruel, it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what they’re for.

They aren’t means-tested or linked to employment; they exist to cover the extra daily costs of disability.

Cutting them would be an outright attack on disabled people.

[Claire @_claire]

@Lucy_Webster_ Belly dancer

[Silky The Body - RT PINNED @AmazonYvie]

“what vitamins are y’all taking because I’m sick aga-“

MASK. I WEAR A MASK BRO. I WEAR A MASK. I WEAR A FUCKING MASK

[Adam Gabsi ♿️ @AdamGabsiLDN]

The government has abandoned its promise to implement mandatory #PEEPs for Disabled people in high-rise buildings, a key recommendation of the Grenfell Phase 1 Inquiry. This is a betrayal of trust and puts Disabled lives at risk. @InclusionLondon @BBCLondonNews (1/5) 🧵

[Vivian @suchnerve]

i am also keenly aware that my continued masking is directly related to the personality trait where i value my own needs more than i value social approval, and that that personality trait is very much not universal, which is why masking feels like such a big ask to so many people

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Wait time for a disabled person to access medically assisted death in Canada? Three months.

A specialist for many TREATABLE conditions? 12-18 months.

Affordable housing? Multiple years.

Palliative care, psychiatric care & pain management? Good luck.

This is why we’re angry

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

I'm getting sick of anecdotes. Something can be the right thing for your terribly affecting and emotional heartfelt situation but simultaneously be very dangerous for vulnerable people. You have to think bigger than just your story on this. Sorry if that's blunt.

[Paula Peters @paulapeters2]

#AssistUsToLive

Rensa with her placard at the Parliament vigil Canadian assisted dying was for terminal illness now unmet social needs eg homelessness
UK wait for wheelchair accessible social housing is 47 years

[Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr]

I appreciate that I'm prolific today re assisted suicide. (By the weekend, I'll be asleep and / or watching Christmas movies. Or horror films...)

But here's something I wrote for @guardian that might help some disabled people's fears for changing the law

https://t.co/lrWbvXbrUK

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

The 275 MPs who voted 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 assisted dying.

Thank you all.

Jack Abbott (Labour)
Diane Abbott (Labour)
Shockat Adam (Independent)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour)
Bayo Alaba (Labour)
Rushanara Ali (Labour)
Tahir Ali (Labour)
Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Jim Allister (Traditional Unionist Voice)
Mike Amesbury (Independent)
Gideon Amos (Liberal Democrat)
Fleur Anderson (Labour)
Stuart Anderson (Conservative)
Stuart Andrew (Conservative)
Edward Argar (Conservative)
Scott Arthur (Labour)
Jess Asato (Labour)
James Asser (Labour)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour)
Gareth Bacon (Conservative)
Kemi Badenoch (Conservative)
Olivia Bailey (Labour)
David Baines (Labour)
Alex Baker (Labour)
Richard Baker (Labour)
Antonia Bance (Labour)
Steve Barclay (Conservative)
Johanna Baxter (Labour)
Apsana Begum (Independent)
Saqib Bhatti (Conservative)
Polly Billington (Labour)
Bob Blackman (Conservative)
Elsie Blundell (Labour)
Sarah Bool (Conservative)
Andrew Bowie (Conservative)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour)
Karen Bradley (Conservative)
Suella Braverman (Conservative)
Alex Burghart (Conservative)
Richard Burgon (Independent)
Dawn Butler (Labour)
Ian Byrne (Independent)
Liam Byrne (Labour)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour)
Juliet Campbell (Labour)
Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party)
Christopher Chope (Conservative)
Feryal Clark (Labour)
James Cleverly (Conservative)
Lewis Cocking (Conservative)
Ben Coleman (Labour)
Tom Collins (Labour)
Liam Conlon (Labour)
John Cooper (Conservative)
Jeremy Corbyn (Independent)
Alberto Costa (Conservative)
Claire Coutinho (Conservative)
Geoffrey Cox (Conservative)
Neil Coyle (Labour)
Jen Craft (Labour)
Mary Creagh (Labour)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour)
Harriet Cross (Conservative)
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)
Ann Davies (Plaid Cymru)
Gareth Davies (Conservative)
Jonathan Davies (Labour)
Mims Davies (Conservative)
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
Anna Dixon (Labour)
Anneliese Dodds (Labour)
Stephen Doughty (Labour)
Rosie Duffield (Independent)
Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative)
Alex Easton (Independent)
Sorcha Eastwood (Alliance)
Maya Ellis (Labour)
Chris Evans (Labour)
Nigel Farage (Reform UK)
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)
Patricia Ferguson (Labour)
Peter Fortune (Conservative)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour)
Mary Kelly Foy (Labour)
Daniel Francis (Labour)
Mark Francois (Conservative)
Louie French (Conservative)
James Frith (Labour)
Richard Fuller (Conservative)
Gill Furniss (Labour)
Roger Gale (Conservative)
Barry Gardiner (Labour)
Allison Gardner (Labour)
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour)
John Glen (Conservative)
Mary Glindon (Labour)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)
John Grady (Labour)
Helen Grant (Conservative)
Andrew Griffith (Conservative)
Nia Griffith (Labour)
Alison Griffiths (Conservative)
Paulette Hamilton (Labour)
Monica Harding (Liberal Democrat)
Emma Hardy (Labour)
Rebecca Harris (Conservative)
Helen Hayes (Labour)
John Hayes (Conservative)
Mark Hendrick (Labour)
Meg Hillier (Labour)
Damian Hinds (Conservative)
Simon Hoare (Conservative)
Richard Holden (Conservative)
Paul Holmes (Conservative)
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
Neil Hudson (Conservative)
Rupa Huq (Labour)
Patrick Hurley (Labour)
Imran Hussain (Independent)
Adnan Hussain (Independent)
Sally Jameson (Labour)
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)
Robert Jenrick (Conservative)
Adam Jogee (Labour)
Caroline Johnson (Conservative)
Darren Jones (Labour)
Lillian Jones (Labour)
Ruth Jones (Labour)
Lincoln Jopp (Conservative)
Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour)
Sojan Joseph (Labour)
Mike Kane (Labour)
Satvir Kaur (Labour)
Ayoub Khan (Independent)
Naushabah Khan (Labour)
Paul Kohler (Liberal Democrat)
Danny Kruger (Conservative)
Uma Kumaran (Labour)
Katie Lam (Conservative)

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

It’s the same with ableism. The signs have been there for years - escalating eugenics has been impossible for disabled people to ignore.

Who hasn’t heard “just stay home forever” or “how many comorbids did they have?” /15

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

The warning signs have been there for years . I’ve said before that you can’t have a pandemic policy that encourages tossing all kinds of people away and NOT have that cruelty bleed into other parts of society.

We don’t compartmentalize that way. /13

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

“Researchers at the University of Miami reported on Thursday what they believe are the first two confirmed cases in which the SARS-CoV-2 virus crossed a mother's placenta & caused brain damage in the infants they were carrying.” https://t.co/mMl9Ce3rAS