Stephen Campbell

Advice researcher & writer • Former welfare rights adviser and @gcu_spiru • MSc alumni @strathpolir • Member @UnitetheUnion • Research community @mmhpi • 🏳️‍🌈

[Gerry Hassan @GerryHassan]

This is the multicultural, multinational United Kingdom which such ethno-nationalists as Nigel Farage & Robert Jenrick detest. Great to see the inspiring Benjamin Zephaniah being quoted against the politics of hate.

[!¢Øπ𓃵 @livingicon_]

Her speech:-

Dear friends, sisters, brothers—thank you for this incredible welcome. I stand here free, but my heart is with Gaza. Five days. Five days of torture in Israeli custody. They hit me, they kicked me, they dragged me across the floor like an animal. They stomped on my hat, called me 'Hora Greta'—whore Greta—in my own language. They wrapped me in their flag and made me kiss it while they laughed. Bedbugs in my cell, no water, threats of gas. This is what they do to children of the sea who bring flour to starving babies. But I am one of the lucky ones. Gaza has endured 720 days of this hell—bombs, blockades, babies dying of hunger. Our flotilla carried medicine, rice, hope. Israel calls it a 'selfie yacht.' I call it genocide by starvation. They stole our aid, sank our boats, and now they lie about us. To the world: Wake up! Sweden abandoned me—my own government. Europe, where is your humanity? We sailed for Sumud—for steadfastness. They broke my body, but not my spirit. Every bruise on my skin is a medal for Palestine. I warn you: Join us. Sail with us. The next flotilla leaves in weeks. Israel fears our voices more than their tanks. From Athens, we rise! Free Palestine! End the blockade! [Crowd chants: 'Free, free Palestine!'] Thank you."

[Wendy Davis @wendyndavis]

.@Meta says most time on FB and Insta is spent watching videos, and only 7% of time on Insta & 17% on FB involves consuming content from friends.
Company argues @FTC hasn't proven it monopolizes 'personal social networking services market' b/c such market doesn't exist

[Gordon 🇵🇸 / rent controls fan account @istreasatuatha]

I will also never forget the SNP's cowardice and impotence throughout all of this. Secret friendly meetings with Israel's murderous ambassador, joining in on the attacks on Kneecap, abstaining on the vote to proscribe PA.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

.@Pal_action isn’t being proscribed because they are terrorists, but because they have been astonishingly effective at disrupting the work of Israel’s largest weapons company.

An inexhaustive, chronological thread of the group’s achievements to date 🧵

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

UN experts urge UK govt not to ‘misuse’ terrorism laws to proscribe @Pal_action as a terrorist group when it has not threatened or endangered life https://t.co/a3nft7rVDB and create a string of crimes in its wake

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

Wall to wall mockery in the replies and QTs but plain language is good actually

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Modernisation Committee is planning to change Parliament's outdated and "confusing" language over fears it alienates the public

Terms such as Bill (proposed law), Division (vote), and Early Day Motions (used by MPs to raise issues) could all change

[@thetimes]

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"I'd say to the Israeli embassy, get your own house in order"

Health Secretary Wes Streeting responds to Israel's claims on Glastonbury's "glorification of violence", saying "Israeli settler terrorists" carried out "unwanton acts of violence"

#BBCLauraK https://t.co/v2HwddQuYE

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

@MaxBancroft2 The people who get PIP now will be scored on the old rules when they go for their reassessments. I can't really explain it any further, there are articles explaining these changes.

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

Taking bets "massive concessions" means current PIP claimants can keep their payments even if they score fewer than 4 points, but new claimants won't.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Keir Starmer has offered Labour MPs “massive concessions” on controversial welfare bill in a move which looks to have won over key rebels and may have saved the PM from a deeply damaging Commons defeat.

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

@MaxBancroft2 Yes, but the reassessment will be based on the old rules for people already on PIP now – not the new minimum 4 points rule for new claims.

[Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti]

Protecting existing claimants is not nothing, given the severity of what was proposed.

But this is still a grubby deal to save face next week by shafting the disabled people of the future.

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

Taking bets "massive concessions" means current PIP claimants can keep their payments even if they score fewer than 4 points, but new claimants won't.

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

@MaxBancroft2 I don't think so – the change will be to make sure exactly this doesn't happen to current claimants, but will hit new ones or anyone with a 'break' in their claim.

[All Things Universal Credit @allthings_UC]

Exactly this 👇
If you get PIP and move into work, you'll be much better off.
If you get UC and move into work you will be better off.
Its not a matter of opinion, it's basic maths.

[Shane Brown @shanebrown74]

Let's be clear: PIP doesn't trap anyone on benefits. You can earn as much as you want on PIP and it doesn't stop you claiming. If the govt suggests otherwise, they are lying.

Let's be clear: disabled people on universal credit are not trapped on benefits. We can earn up to £400 a month without the benefit being affected. After that, a taper system applies. Work pays on UC. It's one thing that @MPIainDS got right. If the govt suggests otherwise, they are lying.

Let's be clear: ESA DOES trap people on benefits. You have to ask to be allowed to work, and going over a certain amount of earnings or hours requires you to sign off. ESA is being phased out.

#disabledbenefits #disability #disabled #benefits #PIP #takingthepip #labourlies #Killthebill

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

@THemingford It's also the cost of living. There are many, many people who've always been eligible for PIP but never claimed until their living costs went through the roof, which made it worth jumping through all the degrading hoops. That would still be true if these reforms went through

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

It's also the cost of living. There are many, many people who've always been eligible for PIP but never claimed until their living costs went through the roof, which made it worth jumping through all the degrading hoops. That would still be true if these reforms went through

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Why are there more PIP claims? Because chronic illness has exploded. Long NHS waits. No social care. No early help. That’s not fraud. That’s failure. #TakingThePIP

[Stephen Campbell @adviser_stephen]

Please spare a thought for welfare rights advisers who've been forced to see PIP written as 'Pips' for months now. No one should suffer like this