Patricia Dore

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@WheelieFUMS @Helen_Whately Those with brain fog use AI & specialized tools to help fill in benefit forms as they drastically reduce cognitive fatigue. They help structure rambling thoughts, overcome concentration barriers, & translate difficult day-to-day realities into clear descriptions for assessors.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

My take on the prosecution of two solicitors involved in the Post Office scandal by the Solicitors Regulation Authority:

https://t.co/BGONpjM2n8

[Karl Flinders @Karlfl]

I wonder how many Fujitsu stff got the voluntary redundancy they applied for? #PostOfficeScandal https://t.co/tb3ZglZk0W Any updates?

[Karl Flinders @Karlfl]

In 2015 Jane MacLeod, then Post Office general counsel, threatened Computer Weekly. When will she face the music? #PostOfficeScandal https://t.co/5HACoYmWM3

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@cleckylad I am so sorry to hear this sad news. He will be missed.

[Full Fact @FullFact]

.@UKStatsAuth has written to @KemiBadenoch today, following our fact check of her inaccurate claim that the total welfare bill is now higher than income tax receipts “for the first time ever”.

We hope she will correct the record soon.
https://t.co/rDJ1Gex5IA

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@BladeoftheS For older pensioners the full basic State Pension is £184.90 per week. This equals £9,614.80 per year and applies to those who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. Women needed 39 qualifying years to get full amount.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Here's the reported U-turn of James Purnell's endorsement of a policy that said: "We propose to set [interest repayments on emergency welfare loans] at the maximum charged by credit unions of 2 per cent per month – 26.8 APR.'"

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@BlokeOnWheels At a time of deep political division and anxiety, I think your words will have helped many people through some dark moments. Thank you.

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

Here's Burnham's recent (Sept 2025) assertion that too many people are on "sickness" benefits (see clip)

And as a commissioner for the CSJ; a right wing think tank who want to remove benefits from 1.1m ill & disabled claimants & cut £80 pwk from those who remain eligible

[Tim Boxall ♿🇪🇺 Et Daemonium In Rotae @timboxall]

So, it appears we're heading for an undisputed #AndyBurnham coronation. Surely, as a #disabled person, I shoukd feel relief, that a new, nominally soft-left PM is incoming?

I don't. The perception that we disabled are a burden, are milking the system, are to be punished and persecuted has become so ingrained in society that no PM will dare challenge that. To do so would be political suicide. Like others who sole lifeline is #PIP and #UniversalCredit I long ago learned to live in fear.

So when someone asks if I'll feel safer, more protected under an @AndyBurnhamGM government, the answer will be a resounding no.

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@BlokeOnWheels Yet he can put up with Sue Ellen.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Keir lost his authority and control of Labour with his disastrous ‘Universal Credit & PIP Bill’ which our relentless activity hugely and publically weakened. Let this be a message to the new leadership. #HumanityNotHarm

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

@Helen_Whately /society/2026/jun/21/undiagnosed-hypermobility-ehlers-danlos-syndrome-britain

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeScandal
A victim of the Post Office Scandal who narrowly escaped prison after
being acquitted of theft has called David Lammy’s plans to curb jury trials “diabolical” and said the Justice Secretary should abandon them.

Nicki Arch was charged with theft and fraud by the Post Office after £24,000 appeared to go missing because of a glitch in the Horizon computer system at the branch she managed near Stroud in Gloucestershire.

A Jury at Bristol crown court acquitted Arch by a majority of eleven to one in 2002.
@ArchNichola @DavidLammy @JohnHyde1982
https://t.co/5HueYqnod0

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Proportion of claimants who succeed with PIP claim plunges by nearly a quarter since Labour’s election win
#PIP #Labour #DWP
@Hossylass
https://t.co/EOb0RnfyZp

[Patricia Dore @dorepa]

PIP wasn't designed for the best intentions at all but to cut welfare spending by reassessing DLA claimants.
Something new & better.
Instead, many claimants were found to be entitled to the same or higher levels of support. They weren't faking it after all.

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

PIP was designed with the best intentions, but the world has changed.

That’s why I’ve announced a root and branch review of sickness benefits – ripping up the system to build something new and better in its place.

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

You can't really be this stupid @Helen_Whately.
You KNOW that PIP is not an out-of-work benefit and that many people who claim it also go to work, and indeed use it to enable them to do so.
So why do you keep lying about it?

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

@Hossylass And, let's not forget that the legacy benefit transfers were another Tory idea.Every single benefit related issue the Tories are complaining about stems from a system that they invented.

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

PIP representing 7.4 % of the welfare bill overall. Of this those aged 55 and over account for approximately 41% to 45% of claimants of PIP. There is a direct and statistically proven correlation between the rise in the State Pension Age (SPA) and the surge in PIP. 🤔