Dave Murphy ●

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[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@Gracie_Blue89 Your assertions aren't supported by the video. Others have said the guy asking the question was from Sheffield, not Makerfield and clearly Andy answered the question put to him but the questioner argued about it. Andy was then dragged away by his campaign manager.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨NEWS 🚨

"One in four of us is Disabled. It’s time the UK government heard us"

Labour needs a new direction. Its first step must be to stop treating Disabled people as a problem to be managed - DR UK Head of Policy, Fazilet Hadi for @openDemocracy 👇https://t.co/8Mff6yQBe3

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@RealismHelps @BlokeOnWheels Qualifying for disability benefits is a dehumanising and debilitating process which harms the people forced to justify their existence to the DWP. The efforts to discredit disabled people harms society as a whole.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@RealismHelps @BlokeOnWheels Anxiety/ASD/ADHD are real and debilitating conditions which make it incredibly difficult to function in a world that refuses to recognise invisible and fluctuating impairments. The inability to see these conditions is used to pretend they're not real.

[Left of Centre @LeftofCentre66]

@darrengrimes Yes, you do and so does Nige

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@hunstonlady @andrewdaw36 @BiBetty3 Have a think about what you're saying here. One person "taking the piss" on benefits has almost zero impact on millions of people who need help.

What impacts more on those people is the continuous claims that they're taking the piss and the government should crack down on them.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Men must not look at their phones while inside unisex changing rooms, apparently.

Is there any actual evidence this man did anything wrong? And were the police called? Voyeurism is a criminal offence.

On the subject of criminal offences: whoever filmed this man is a voyeur, not a "victim".

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@Edwina_Currie 3. Someone whose only income is the full state pension would in fact be entitled to council tax support and, if they're still renting, housing benefit too.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@Edwina_Currie 1. Someone on the full state pension isn't entitled to pension credit. It's a top-up for those who aren't entitled to the full amount.
2. A full time worker (at 37.5 hours a week) on the National "Living" Wage would take home £24,784.50

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@pupbrainedworm @OGseahorsemafia It's a recommendation, not a law though. They don't have to ID people and they don't have to refuse to serve people they think are under 16.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@durianrocks @RITB_ Much more money is taken from the UK economy by abuse of the tax system than by abuse of the benefit system.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@RobertP71352395 @RITB_ @durianrocks Pensions aren't means tested and pretending you're of pension age when you're not is difficult, if not outright impossible. Fraud is an irrelevance.

The logic here leads to UBI instead of stringent conditions in order to obtain enough money for a basic standard of living.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@Jackiew80333500 @PPC4Liberty I think it was sarcasm tbh

[CrémantCommunarde #NION💙🤍🩷 @0Calamity]

I am really, really upset.
Just went to my local M&S and asked where the GC-free fitting room was, and they don't have one! Just cubicles!
How do I know when I am trying on an outfit that there won't be a GC waiting outside, demanding to look down my bra to make sure I have real boobs?
I am going to write a complaint...

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Hate it when people think a piece of research is somehow better evidence than decades of collective lived experience. I find it so erasing and condescending.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Austerity doesn’t work.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@youvebeenoinked @BlokeOnWheels Assuming that Dave can clean windows or has the skills to run a successful business. Let's be honest here, if Dave could do that then Dave already would instead of scraping by on the pittance provided by Universal Credit.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@RachelB81861032 @BlokeOnWheels Except of course that there aren't sufficient jobs to provide one to everyone and wages are so low that over 40% of benefit claimants are actually in work.

Benefits are spent mostly in the local economy and in fact support many jobs that otherwise would not be viable.

[Dave Murphy ● @davejmurphy]

@reverendfickle @andystephenson4 @DanNeidle @JuliaHB1 I suggest asking @meadwaj how easy it is to get treasury officials on board with left wing policies.