Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Proud to be British 🇬🇧, disillusioned conservative strongly pro Union and Brexit; Dislike SNP, FBPE & Nationalists. #StandWithUkriane 🇺🇦

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

“The 1922 Committee and @SirGrahamBrady have far too much power and this idea that MPs should only decide the leader is nonsense. It can’t happen again." If @Conservatives members are given a ballot to decide it’s future how would you vote? 🗳. Please Retweet

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

🍽️ Looking to speak to a former school dinner lady who worked in the 70s, 80s or 90s for a feature in Metro. I don’t want the official version; I want the real story. What kids actually ate, what they hated, what got thrown away, what you couldn’t stand cooking and what really went on in the kitchen. If this is you or your mum or nan, please reply or email me at [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you as soon as possible. #journorequest

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

The Disability Confident scheme is meaningless.

In 2025, 19,000 employers were signed up.

74% held the Level 1 badge. No requirement to employ a single disabled person.

At Level 2, employers are asked whether they hire disabled people. The question is optional. In 2025, 41% declined to answer or said they didn’t know.

Just 748 organisations reached Level 3, the only tier that requires employers to show they employ disabled people.

Yet the government does not track impairment type. There is no measurement of workplace adjustments. No requirement to publish outcomes. No proof of impact.

A company could employ one disabled person who requires no real adjustments and still secure the top badge.

That badge can strengthen bids for public contracts.

Let’s be honest.

This isn’t inclusion. It’s branding.

#Disability #Inclusion #Employment #Accessibility #PublicSpending

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

The National Cancer Plan rightly focuses on early diagnosis and improving cancer survival.

But NHS England admits it doesn’t monitor whether hospitals or services are physically accessible.

Disabled patients are telling me they’re being locked out of care.

How can early diagnosis work if people can’t physically access services?

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

@AndyFitchet Practitioner views matter.

But what about blind and deaf children? They rely on highly specialist teachers, and those posts are declining nationally. There is no clear workforce protection plan for them in the White Paper.

Inclusion has to mean everyone.

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

Agreed. Ministers must also explain how support for blind and deaf children will be protected.

Qualified Teachers of Vision Impairment are being cut. Teachers of the Deaf are down nationally. Yet the White Paper offers no clear workforce plan.

As reform leans into broad neurodiversity language, children with sensory disabilities risk being quietly pushed aside.

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

Redcar and Cleveland Council spent £3m in one year on just four SEN children educated outside school. Around £750k each.

Thousands of children with SEND are now being educated outside school after placements collapse, according to nationwide FOIs.

The White Paper promises more training and educational psychologists.

Training does not create specialist places.

Without real capacity, more children will fall out of school and costs will keep rising.

#SEND #SchoolsWhitePaper

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

If a child cannot access the lesson, they are not included.

The Schools White Paper talks about more psychologists and more mainstream SEND training.

But a short training module is not the same as a Qualified Teacher of the Visually Impaired.
It is not the same as a Teacher of the Deaf.

Teachers of the Deaf are down 17 percent.
61 percent of councils cut or froze Qualified Teachers of the Visually Impaired in a single year.

You cannot claim inclusion while cutting the very specialists who make learning accessible.

Mainstream rhetoric is not access.
Access requires sensory loss expertise.

#SchoolsWhitePaper #SEND #SensoryImpairment @bphillipsonMP @LauraTrottMP @RNIB @NDCS_UK

[Gary Foxtrot Vet @SenseVet]

Please sign and share if not done so already. 👇🏻

Petition: Stop the Chagos Deal https://t.co/AzDn5FhiNo

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

@NickFerrariLBC following your interview with Wes Streeting this morning, this tweet must be the one he told you didn’t delete!

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

@NickFerrariLBC this is disgraceful

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

Disabled people please read and share.

Today NHS England has told me they hold no data on whether hospitals are step free and do not monitor compliance with equality law. That means no one nationally is checking if hospital buildings are physically accessible.

I am a blind journalist investigating this.

Have you been unable to use a main hospital entrance? Sent round the back? Forced to rely on staff? Missed appointments because of access barriers? Treated as an afterthought?

If this has happened to you your experience matters.

Please reply or email [email protected] with what happened and where.

[Charlotte Bateman @cgb_journo]

Disabled people please read and share.

Today NHS England has told me they hold no data on whether hospitals are step free and do not monitor compliance with equality law. That means no one nationally is checking if hospital buildings are physically accessible.

I am a blind journalist investigating this.

Have you been unable to use a main hospital entrance? Sent round the back? Forced to rely on staff? Missed appointments because of access barriers? Treated as an afterthought?

If this has happened to you your experience matters.

Please reply or email [email protected] with what happened and where.

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

🤬They want to cancel 🎅@NickFerrariLBC
For many children, the story of Santa Claus is as much a part of Christmas as gifts and Christmas dinner. But the tale of a white, Western Santa who judges all children’s behaviour has problems.

https://t.co/uoqZ1TYuZn

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

This uniparty @UKLabour government are colluding with the @Conservatives to prevent democracy from being enacted and are considering cancelling ANOTHER 63 local elections. We must be heard;

- Sign this petition
- Write to your MP

https://t.co/eUNnGBMRQ2

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

You really couldn’t make this up @NickFerrariLBC

[Rachel Reeves for Leeds West and Pudsey @RachelforLWP]

I welcome Leeds City Council's decision to expand their selective landlord licencing policy to include the Armley area.

While many private landlords operate in the right way, we know that lots of private tenants in Armley face problems with poorly maintained housing. (1/3)

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

@Mofoman360 Thug

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

@JeremyClarkson

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Did Keir Starmer give land to his parents via a trust, guaranteeing their estate, of which he was beneficiary, would never pay inheritance tax on its eventual value?

Legal experts say yes. 

Curiously No10 will not answer - despite having a list of straightforward questions for weeks and Starmer retaining a leading tax KC following our original approach.

@DanNeidle, @manumidolo, @venetiamenzies and I have done our detective work regardless. Read the Sunday Times and Tax Policy Associates tomorrow to find out more!

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000.
Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

😂😂😂😂😂

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Can we finally bin off the idea that there will ever be a Trump state visit?

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

This aged well 😂

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

Petition: Prevent Donald Trump from making a State Visit to the United Kingdom. Please sign and share. https://t.co/AL2y4HHvLb

[Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @colinb_67]

@NickFerrariLBC

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 🎥 WATCH: Saboteurs from Palestine Action spray aircraft at RAF Brize Norton

[@UKDefJournal]