Bringing Us Together

A world of equal rights, voices & opportunities. Bringing awesome families together to share our stories and make a difference

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Imagine being disabled and unable to claim PIP because your partner earns “too much”, even though you cannot access or control that money.

Means-testing PIP could leave disabled women financially dependent on partners and make it even harder to escape coercive control, financial abuse or a relationship that has broken down. Household income does not guarantee personal financial security.

PIP recognises the extra costs and barriers caused by disability. It belongs to the disabled person and must remain individual and non-means-tested.

#PIP #DisabilityBenefits #DomesticAbuse #FinancialAbuse #CoerciveControl

[Inclusion London @InclusionLondon]

Renu Arora's story is another case of a Disabled person being pushed out of a career they love by cuts to Access to Work. The Government say they want Disabled people in work, then take away the support we need to do our jobs. #SaveAccessToWork https://t.co/iRehhybkuD

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Andy Burnham, this is a conversation we need you to lead.

The debate around disability benefits is becoming increasingly toxic, and once again the hidden voices are being forgotten, young people with profound disabilities, those who have transitioned from DLA to PIP, and those who cannot speak for themselves.

If we're serious about prevention, let's invest in healthcare, education, employment support and accessibility, not divide disabled people from the rest of society.

Removing benefits doesn't remove disability. It just removes support.

#AndyBurnham #PIP #DLA #Disability #DisabilityRights #HiddenVoices #MS

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

In the discussion on the review of benefit support for disabled people the Conservative shadow minister used the usual tactics of trying to divide people & stigmatise those claiming social security benefits. I called for this language to be put behind us once and for all.

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

It's easy to talk about the cost of support. It's much harder to talk about why so many people need that support in the first place.

Disabled people are not a budget line. We're people trying to live our lives in a system that often seems determined to blame us for needing help.

**Whinging Whatley #1. Context added.**

#WhingingWhatley #DisabilityRights #PIP #UniversalCredit #DisabledPeople

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#Motability

People shouldn't be forced to give up being part of the Motability scheme

Whether you use the scheme yourself or not please sign and share this to try to get to 100,000 signatures so disabled people continue to have choice & live life

[https://t.co/p8ErfgWJIG)

[Inclusion London @InclusionLondon]

The Government say they want Disabled people in work, but at the same time their cuts to Access to Work support are pushing people like Michelle out of jobs that they love. Does that make sense to you?

https://t.co/dd6yN3cYkt

[Nula Suchet @nulasuchet]

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

[Bringing Us Together @bustogether]

@ccwild79 @BigIssue Well deserved Chris

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

Let’s be brutally honest, for decades, people in positions of power have abused vulnerable children in our care system and walked away without a single criminal investigation. Paedophiles shielded by their status and connections. Children and young people silenced, disbelieved, and abandoned by the very state that was supposed to protect them.
This isn’t history. It’s still happening — across the country. Power to the people. #changeiscoming

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

I am calling on @Calderdale Council to issue a full and public apology to the survivors of Skircoat Lodge Children's Home in Halifax. Too many survivors have already died without receiving the recognition, justice, and apology they deserved. It must never happen again.

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

What a journey this has been.

For the last three years, I’ve campaigned relentlessly alongside my friend and colleague Terry Galloway to make care experience a protected characteristic. Not because it’s easy — but because it’s right.

The movement is growing. The momentum is real. And we are not stopping.

We’ll keep going until every young person in the care system has the protection, dignity, and respect they deserve.

2026 will be bigger. Louder. Better.
#ChangeIsComing

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

Justice has finally been served — but it came far too late for the hundreds of children who suffered at the hands of predators working at Skircoat Lodge Children's Home in Halifax.

Let this be a warning to anyone, past or present, who thinks children in our care system are disposable — who treat them like wild animals, like second-class citizens. We were children. We deserved protection.

To my friends I lost to suicide because of what was done to them — this is for you. Your voices were silenced, but your truth will never be buried.

Damaged isn’t just a memoir of my life. It’s survival. It’s truth. It’s a promise that change is coming. And it’s time to fix this broken system once and for all.

To those at Calderdale Council who turned a blind eye — survivors deserve more than silence. They deserve a public apology.
Know this.
#changeiscoming

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

One in five staff employed by contractors who carry out disability benefit assessments on the government’s behalf have not had vital safeguarding training, MPs have been told, despite years of deaths and serious harm linked to the tests.
https://t.co/6ylZlIpwdx

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Cuts to disability benefits for those who cannot work ‘is recipe for greater hardship’ and ‘will put lives at risk’
#BenefitCuts #UniversalCredit
@Dis_PPL_Protest @DisRightsUK @BenClaimant @golightlyb
https://t.co/vo0HR2pUkX

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared that about 100 Israeli doctors told him they were willing to administer lethal injections to Palestinian prisoners if executions were approved. The World Medical Association condemned the statement as “disgusting,” while major human rights groups and the head of doctors’ union rejected the proposed bill.

Ben-Gvir added: “We all came with this pin, one of the options to implement the death penalty law. There’s the possibility of hanging, the electric chair, and also anaesthesia. Since doctors said they won’t assist, I’ve received 100 messages from doctors saying, ‘Itamar, just tell us when.’”

[Bringing Us Together @bustogether]

@PaulaMc007 Absolutely tragic and another avoidable death of a beautiful young person causing terrible suffering for the whole family. Unacceptable.

[Dan White : Disability Campaigner / Author / ♿️ @Danwhite1972]

Labour are lost.
Happy to punch down.

Labour have never read or understood the social model of disability. If they read it they would understand why schemes like this are required.. but deliberate ignorance means convenient ableist policy.

Wealth tax? No, crush the disabled.