Life costs MORE if you’re disabled:
- Extra energy costs for medical equipment
- Accessible transport or car adaptations
- Specialist services and therapies
- Paying more to get the weekly shop delivered
- Having to pay for a carer
- Higher heating bills
The government has announced the most devastating cuts to disability benefits on record.
These plans should shame the government to its core.
Here's our initial response to the new Welfare Green Paper 🧵👇
The richest Prime Minister in history – worth an estimated £529,000,000 – is demonising sick and disabled people.
He wants us to blame our problems on anyone but the real culprits:
The Tory government, their super-rich donors, and a system that puts greed before human need.
Gaza is under intense bombing.
Telecommunications have been cut.
We can't get through to our family who have been trapped in this war zone for almost 3 weeks.
We can only pray they survive the night.
How many more children have to die before the world says enough?
A maths question for Rishi Sunak:
If you promised to hire 50,000 additional nurses but 40,000 nurses quit last year, how many nurses are you short of your target thanks to your refusal to improve pay and conditions?
Scotland needs the recovery it was promised, but the SNP's attention is elsewhere.
Read more about the SNP's betrayal of Long Covid patients:
https://t.co/8i3x1nComM
I have heard directly from #LongCovid patients that money from @scotgov is not enough and although their GPs are sympathetic, the clinics and specialist help is not there. @HumzaYousaf needs to get a grip before this becomes a full blown health crisis @LongCovidScot @LCKScotland
BREAKING: The first deportation flight due to take asylum seekers to Rwanda will not be taking off tonight following a series of last-minute legal appeals, the Home Office has confirmed.
https://t.co/OAwEY1Yo0C
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@ohkatyttv That’s what I’ve been dealing with for 2 years now 🥺 best advice is to slow everything down and build up slowly, I really hope you recover soon 💜