Ellen Morrison-Smith

[Touretteshero @touretteshero]

I’ve just submitted my evidence for the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into #AccessToWork. It’s becoming increasingly clear that huge, devastating changes are planned & the future of many working disabled people & those they employ, hangs in the balance https://t.co/Is4T9FREoT

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

A day of ordinary ceasefire in Gaza: Israel killing 28 Palestinians amidst the silence of the states that just voted a ‘peace’ plan.
The neverending suffering of the Palestinians and the sinister politicking around it, are the shame of our times.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

📢What if we told you the radical alternative to our broken social security system already exists? And that thousands of Disabled people were involved in its creation?

Our campaigner Mikey spoke to @CommSocSec about their plan.

Read more 👇
https://t.co/doDtyyyGzr

[Steve Howell @FromSteveHowell]

Today, in Liverpool...

"We CAN tackle poverty & inequality."

Speakers include: @IanByrneMP @sarahwoolley01 @ellenlmorrison @GawainLittle
Details here: https://t.co/ptim0qOplP

[Labour Outlook @LabourOutlook]

No to Labour’s attacks on disabled people – @ellenlmorrison 📣

“We need a party that recognises our worth, listens to our solutions, and commits to a future where social security really means security.”

https://t.co/QSpglIPUBJ

[Ellen Morrison-Smith @ellenlmorrison]

No to Labour's attacks on disabled people - me for @LabourOutlook https://t.co/cEdzqRYrqT

[Labour Muslim Network @LabourMuslims]

Congratulations to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's family and the activists that campaigned tirelessly for his freedom.

Alaa is a British-Egyptian activist who has spent years in prison for protesting during the Arab spring in Cairo.

He has now been pardoned.
https://t.co/L3iOSeOJ0T

[Disability Labour @DisabilityLab]

Disability Labour members have nominated Lucy Powell for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
@LucyMPowell

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

History will not look kindly on those who denied this genocide and obstructed any attempts to bring it to an end.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Reinstate the Four Suspended Labour MPs https://t.co/6nf13Nwbt3

[Aubrey Allegretti @breeallegretti]

Rachael Maskell says she lost the whip for “standing up for my constituents over welfare”.

She tells me “there are lines that I can’t cross” and “I’m upset that we’re in this place”.

Adds: “I believe we're better than that as a party. I believe our strength comes from the back benches. I think it comes from people who are plugged into their constituents.”

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.”

Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ https://t.co/qjW5ACXfoR

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Government's Universal Credit Bill has passed, rushing it through in one day, without a committee stage where Disabled people's voices could have been heard.

It's clear: the government views Disabled lives as nothing more than a cost-cutting exercise

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Labour.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

Disabled people in poverty should not be footing the bill of successive Governments' failure to tax big corporations.

The decision to target Disabled people already marginalised by state policies is a political choice, not an imperative.

Our response👇
https://t.co/ypLSVsyE26

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

We know a lot of people will be feeling very distressed today.

The fight never stops, but take a break, do whatever you need to comfort yourself, and reach out to others.

We stand with you in fury, love & solidarity

[Flick Williams @flickhwilliams]

This is pure Individual /Medical Model. It hands you, person with impairment, entire ownership of ‘the problem’ & the responsibility to fix things by ‘overcoming’. Nothing at all to do with systemic, structural, societal barriers to your participating #SocialModel

[Ayaz Manji @ayaz_manji]

Very much struggling to understand some of the claims made in parliament today about the effect of the 'constantly applies' requirement in the severe conditions criteria as part of the UC & PIP Bill.

Quick blog below on what happened and why it matters: https://t.co/SYwKZN5wOu

[Public Law Project @publiclawprojct]

Today, the Government's welfare changes return to Parliament. After that, they are ‘expected to be certified as a Money Bill’.

But what does that mean?

In short: Money Bills face considerably less scrutiny. Today may be the last chance for amendments.

https://t.co/AWDt2X2edc

[Andy McDonald MP for Middlesbrough & Thornaby East @AndyMcDonaldMP]

Why the rush to strip support from those too unwell to work, without understanding the consequences?

Let’s stop these Universal Credit cuts and build a system with - rather than dictated to - disabled people.

I'm supporting this amendment to stop the £2bn cuts.

#WelfareBill