David Cockcroft

[David Cockcroft @davidcockcroft]

@algatrensig @ichoosemag Particularly indie disco upstairs at the Black Horse

[Thomas Penny @ThomasWPenny]

Excellent. Can we rejoin Erasmus next please?

[Dr NoShock @noshockdoc]

@RMTunion there are many people with learning disabilities who CAN use a ticket window like any other passenger, but could not use a machine without assistance.
This is a backward step in equality of access to services and slams their disability in their face.

[David Cockcroft @davidcockcroft]

@CrossCountryUK @RMTunion great work by guard on train from Cardiff to deal with a disruptive passenger calmly and professionally. We need guards on trains.

[Justin on eurostar @EurostarJustinp]

TLDR: It's adding a UK-specific surcharge onto a global problem. Don't remember seeing that on the side of a bus.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

In 13 years as Green MP, I've called out incompetent Ministers, challenged Government cowardice over #Brexit, demanded more affordable housing, helped secure  ban on fracking, stood up for refugees – and always put #BrightonPavilion first. Some of my highlights in Parliament 👇📽️

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

The distance between commentary and history.

[Black Country Ste @CCSteV]

@ErdingtonWMP These autonomous cars have a lot to answer for. That's three serious collisions involving vulnerable road users in Erdington this week. Two fatal, two hit-and-runs and two where the victim was a child. What's being done about it?

[David Cockcroft @davidcockcroft]

@allpartycycling Absolutely takes the piss. How is that sentence and, even worse, woefully inadequate ban justifiable?

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long https://t.co/1FMgU6dl2l IT PLEASE

[David Cockcroft @davidcockcroft]

@danny__kruger How many people could vote in the 1784 election, and is that where we are heading now?

[David Miliband @DMiliband]

This is madness.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Because the people that Farage & co were so desperate to 'keep out' didn't really exist, the Home Office flails around like a dropped shower head spraying 'control' all over the shop. 'Small boats' lies are the most obvious consequence, here's a smaller, utterly ridiculous, one.

[Dimensions @DimensionsUK]

‘Dismayed’ does not begin to describe our reaction to the £250m cut to the social care workforce.
Support workers are skilled professionals, yet they can walk into better-paid roles in the NHS, retail, and hospitality tomorrow. And in the face of a cost-of-living crisis, many are doing just that.

📈With an average vacancy rate of 21% and significant limitations to the home office sponsorship scheme, the priority must be recruitment and retention.

Here at Dimensions, we are determined to pay our staff at the level they deserve and have implemented three pay awards in the last year, but we’re restricted in going further by tough limits on local authority budgets.

We won’t be deterred.

We will continue to call for support worker pay to be aligned to NHS Band 3, a benchmark that reflects the skills required and will stop our dedicated workforce from being treated as second-class citizens.

See our Workforce funding announcement here ⬇️
https://t.co/vHKhvLOXSs

#SocialCare #SocialCareCuts #SocialCareWorkforce #SocialCareWorkforceCuts #AlignSupportWorkerPayToNHSBand3 #FundingAnnouncement #SocialCareCuts

[David Cockcroft @davidcockcroft]

@transportgovuk Appalling. Short-sighted and weak.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“They’re doing that to create a theatre, a crisis…so that they can then say at the next election they can offer the solution”

Zoe Gardner, migration policy expert, reveals why the Government is pursuing its migrant policy

https://t.co/P0zxS1DNGF | #Newsnight

[Mark Downie @markmdownie]

When we worked together at Ch4, Paul O’Grady insisted that new roles on his show were advertised in the local Job Centre. He wanted anyone and everyone to be able to apply so they could get a break like he had. And it made the show better. A kind and generous man.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

What’s most remarkable about this is the way that, after Cooper completely eviscerates the government, Jenrick gets up and proves her points for her.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

The honour has been completely devalued, of course: Goldsmith, Hannan, Lebedev, Moylan etc. But it seems especially hilarious to reward a chap from a ridiculous outfit credited with inspiring the most catastrophic economic policies in living memory.

[Ali Mowbray 💙 @ali_mowbray]

So powerful.