chronically.michelle 👋🏼

Chronic Illness & Disability Advocate 💪🏼 • Full Time Health Warrior ♿ • Aspiring Blogger ✏ • She/her 🌻 •
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💷 Imagine life being £12,000 more expensive per year, simply because you’re disabled.

For many people, it’s a reality.

🔌 From powering vital equipment to more expensive insurance rates, our research shows that disabled households face average extra costs of £975 every month.

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Life costs more if you're disabled.

Today, we're joining more than 68 other charities to urge the UK government to put disabled people at the heart of its response to the cost of living crisis.

Because #SupportCantWait 🧵

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🏠 Energy bills are through the roof. Disabled and older people are among the worst affected.

But thousands of you have joined us to demand change.

✍️ Yesterday, with @Age_UK, we handed in our open letter to the government, signed by 58,234 of you.

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We understand a lot of people found this quite concerning.
We've heard more on this story today, with the Minister for Disabled People seeming to finally confirm that PIP will not be means-tested in future. 👇
https://t.co/db1tuRAM11

[Vikki (she/they)👩🏻‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🧚🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🐲🦄 ♿️ @vix_the_star]

Repeat with me:

Disabled is not a slur
Disabled is not dirty
Disabled is the word to use.

Please listen to what #DisabledPeople are telling you. The term to describe us is disabled. I am disabled. We are disabled people. All of us disabled by society.

[Rachael Mole @RachaelMole]

It costs £581 a month more to be disabled in the U.K. (@scope) and it can sometimes be difficult for non disableds to wrap their head around that… so here are some examples last month of the #DisabilityTax I’ve had. #NEISvoid #DisabilityTwitter

[Vikki (she/they)👩🏻‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🧚🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🐲🦄 ♿️ @vix_the_star]

Just here distracting myself until we hear the news that marks many peoples fates on 17th November. The budget has the ability to set the path of more people to poverty and death or save them from that. I think my fears are founded. #DisabilityTwitter #GTTO #GeneralElectionsNow

[chronically.michelle 👋🏼 @chronicallymich]

After seeing an account on here petitioning to change the terms 'disabled' and 'disability' to person/people of determination I just have one thing to say ... #disabledisnotabadword

[Matthew Taylor 🔶 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @mat8iou]

Next time you hear a UK home secretary or the right wing media claiming that we take on more than our fair share of asylum seekers, remember this graph.

[chronically.michelle 👋🏼 @chronicallymich]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that has been noticing this! I absolutely hate it 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Vikki (she/they)👩🏻‍🦼🏳️‍🌈🧚🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🐲🦄 ♿️ @vix_the_star]

I keep seeing (dis)ability written, where is this coming from. Looks like it’s rooted in ableism and not in line with social model. Can anyone give clarification? #DisabilityTwitter @MikScarlet you’re my go to lol

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As Chancellor, @RishiSunak acknowledged that life costs more if you're disabled.

But since then, this crisis has deepened.

Our incoming Prime Minister must seize control of this situation and act immediately.

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Disabled people have been failed by successive Governments.

Our new Prime Minister must now do the right thing and support disabled people through the #CostOfLiving crisis.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

To anyone not paying attention to the NHS, or seeing what’s happening in the corner of your eye, but ignoring it.

I can’t make you care about these politicians destroying the NHS. But you and your loved ones will suffer when their privatisation project is complete.

[ReviveTheNHS @ReviveTheNHS]

🚨 A shocking thread from one of our doctor members; a consultant obstetrician in South West England
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"A major incident was declared last Thursday. We had 12 ambulances stacked outside A&E with >12 hours waits for most to be offloaded. Waits for beds are only being...

[Howard Beckett @mayamuskl]

Rishi Sunak, with a reported wealth of over £730ml, told us it was the “right plan” to cut universal credit & raise workers taxes; and “silly” to help with energy costs. At the same time he gave £7.3bl of tax cuts to his banker mates.

We have the wrong people in charge.

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

Rishi Sunak’s estimated wealth is £730 million.

A worker earning the median wage (£31,772) would need to have been working since the Stone Age 22,976 years ago to amass the same.

And that’s without tax.

Remember it when he tells you to tighten your belt.

#EnoughIsEnough

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Rishi Sunak and his wife sit on a fortune of £730,000,000.

That’s around twice the estimated wealth of King Charles III.

Remember this whenever he talks about making “tough decisions” that working class people will pay for.

[chronically.michelle 👋🏼 @chronicallymich]

#RishiOut #GeneralElectionN0W #EnoughIsEnough

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

So Rishi Sunak – the richest MP in history – is going to become Prime Minister, with plans to cut funding for public services and slash workers' wages.

This Tory class war will be waged with no mandate, without a single vote being cast.

General election now! #EnoughIsEnough

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

General election now.

[Nia | The Chronic Notebook @chronicnotebook]

The new marvel superhero Sun Spider has the disability Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and people are annoyed, saying it's "woke" or "tick box". Disabled superheroes like Charles Xavier and Daredevil have always been around. Disability is a spectrum and it's representation should be too.