Disabled Greens

The @TheGreenParty official disability group. Co-Chairs @xkailajayx

[Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union @BenClaimant]

Disabled people do not deserve choice or any form of luxury, even when it is paid for by the individual. That's the message govt is sending to people who can access the motabilty scheme. It's dystopian and discriminatory.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

To put these Motability cuts into perspective...

It will save around £300 million.

Latest figures show the DWP has spent over £400 million fighting people on PIP appeals.

Scrap policies that punish Disabled people & stop pretending it's about economic efficiency! #Budget

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

I've just seen a post on Facebook questioning why a motability vehicle needs to be large enough to transport a family. The answer is perfectly simple, because disabled people have families and need to go places.

[Disabled Greens @disabledgreens]

We want to thank every single person who has spoken up, gone out to protest, and made a difference for us all. It's a brutal fight, but it's one we have to win.

[Disabled Greens @disabledgreens]

It's been 30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act was passed, and 15 since it was rolled into the Equality Act 2010.

#disabilitydiscimination #EA2010

[Disabled Greens @disabledgreens]

We struggled through decades of austerity only to find Labour didn't care about us anymore - more interested in cutting the welfare budget and 'getting [us] back into work', while making it even harder to actually work as a disabled person.

Reform will be worse.

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

As people on a pittance are demonised, the rich are allowed to rob the “taxpayer” left, right and centre.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Could folk with physical disabilities and not mental illness PLEASE not collude with the idea that mental illness is not a disability.

[Steve B @75ThunderRoad]

I remember the old days:

When we used to instruct children and staff with contagious illness to stay off school, to avoid spreading it.

When we encouraged poorly children to rest and recover at home.

When we sympathised with people who were unwell.

We called it "care".

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[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

You should care about disabled people, not because you’ll be one someday, but because we’re human beings.

[Atlanta Rey ✨ @areyoflight]

If you are disabled, you are disabled. It doesn’t matter what disability you have. There is no hierarchy, no such thing as “genuinely disabled vs not genuinely disabled”, we don’t grade disabilities on who has it worse. It’s not a competition.

[Flick Williams @flickhwilliams]

A wheelchair using friend tells me they were denied access to no less than 4 rail replacement coaches trying to travel North from York. 2 said ♿️lifts were not working & 2 wouldn’t try. But do tell me again how disabled people have the same access to travel as everyone else 🤬

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Good.

This isn't instead of a proper wealth tax though, right, Rachel?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're just getting started.

Time to lower bills. And tax billionaires.

If you want to see the Green Party take on Reform - this is the moment.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

I've said this before, but it's worth driving home: the incredibly tight eligibility criteria for free Covid-19 vaccination in the UK is the very definition of a false economy, especially in the context of a health system at breaking point. This is appalling public health policy.

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

717,000 job vacancies
1.74 million people deemed fit and healthy for work.
Explain how disabled people (who employers don't want) will get non-existent jobs.
Access to Work takes months and is being cut.