Siobhanny Weaver

PR and Press Officer. Hater of injustice. All Ireland talking champion 2008.
#TooManyWordsNotEnoughTime

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@TinyDecisions you're charging me £8.99 every month, which i didn't sign up for. I don't want your app and I can't cancel!

[Gilly 🖤 @Gillian275Gm]

So. Fella, on here, posts a pic of an audi with a Motability sticker on and next to it an Audi purchase finance agreement. 10k likes. Most fewmin. Motability is a lease, not a purchase. You never own the car. If you can be arsed with the facts of a family with a Motability car, read on.

I have 2 adult sons with disabilities. Both are non-verbal. The eldest of those also has cerebral palsy and uses a wheel chair. My personal story is that both guys are adopted (out of the care system) as babies and are birth brothers. I live alone with both sons. The standard rate mobility component of PIP is £29.20 a week, which needs 8 to 12 points. From the uproar over the 4 point rule, I'm sure most will realise this is not insignificant. For the enhanced rate £77.05 a week, you need 12 points plus. This is the qualification for the Motability lease. LEASE. My sons £77.05 a week is paid directly from DWP to Motability. If we didn't choose Motability, that money would still be paid to my son. So why choose Motability, that money could actually finance a car purchase couldn't it?

Adaptations: Motability will adapt the vehicle to the needs/equipment.

Reliability: lease renews every 3 years, cars never get to old or costly. It's there day in day out, garage visits unlikely. My son cannot leave the house alone. A contract with Kwik Fit for tyre problems/replacement eases worry also. Breakdown, and you go to the top of the list. Can you imagine me breaking down on the motorway with 2 adult men, non-verbal, severe learning difficulties, and one in a wheelchair?

Insurance: included, and you can add a carer on.

In addition: I drop to and from day centre. If I did not or people with suitable transport like us. Transport is provided by local authority at their cost, although you would normally be expected to contribute to this (as well as the day centre) from PIP... and UC. A financial assessment is conducted when you are in receipt of an adult care package, whether residential or non residential.

A transparent post. One situation. If you're still fewmin, that's on you. Maybe go try to get 12 plus points on a PIP assessment.

Lastly.... seeing lots of posts about the high percentage of cars being sold in the UK are to the Motability Scheme. Sounds like we're holding up the post Brexit car industry, too. You're so welcome.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

It is easy…tempting indeed…to be distracted by the sound & fury of the battle between two powerful men – the billionaire who owns X and has turned it into a megaphone and the British Prime Minister. However, this story is much more important than a clash between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer. It is about how to protect girls and young women from terrible sexual abuse. For more than 10 years official reports and police investigations have revealed that some have covered up and others have played down the fact that gangs of men - mainly but not exclusively of Pakistani origin - have targeted, groomed, raped and tortured mainly white girls. Musk has attacked and abused the PM and his safeguarding minister Jess Philips for refusing to agree to a new inquiry into what really happened. The Conservatives and Reform UK have echoed his call if not his language (which, the former head of counter terrorism, has warned risks inciting violence). Now the one woman who had not commented when so many others had has broken our silence. Professor Alexis Jay - who chaired the Independent Inquiry into child sexual abuse which reported more than two years ago and who led the investigation into the cover-up of masss rape in Rotherham more than a decade ago - has told me on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme there is no need for a new inquiry. What’s more she argues that it would get in the way of what needs to be done – implementing the findings of her report which was published more than two years ago. Professor Jay refuses to comment on the words used by Musk or, indeed, Farage or the shadow Justice secretary – the Conservative Robert Jenrick who has argued that what is to blame is mass migration of millions of people with what he calls "alien cultures". However, she had a clear message for them all. Those who "politicise child sexual abuse" are ignoring the needs of the victims she says. In another interview on the Today Programme I asked Robert Jenrick whether he accepted the Conservatives in government for 14 years had failed to do enough to tackle a problem that was first highlighted more than a decade ago. Why, I asked him, had Tory ministers failed to implement the recommendations of the inquiry? Why had they refused calls for a second wider national inquiry when they had the power to set one up. I asked him whether he’d ever raise these issues as a minister in the Home Office and pointed out that there was no mention in the parliamentary record Hansard of him ever raising the subject before Elon Musk did. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, I asked Jenrisk whether he now wanted to stop immigration from those "alien cultures" he condemns despite the fact that immigration from, say, Pakistan has recorded since Brexit and that many of Pakistani heritage have and are serving this country proudly - not least the former Home Secretary Sajid Javid and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. You can hear his answers by listening back to the Today programme on @bbcsounds at 8.10 (that's 2 hours & 10 minutes into the programme) and Professor Jay's at 7.30ish (one hour & 30 minutes into the programme)Jenrick, like Messrs Farage and Musk insists that much more is now known about what happened in the past and much more needs to be known about what might be happening now right across the country. So they argue that there is a case for that second enquiry. Jay argues that that would distract from implementing the protections that are needed now and which the Home Secretary hastily announced last night - making it an offence to know about but not report or to actively cover up child sex abuse and improving the collection of the data on who the offenders really are.Having spent years investigating these crimes - unlike some who read a few tweets before firing off their own ill informed opinions - she is clear about two things. Firstly, the scandals exposed in Rotherham and Oldham - the covering up of mass child abuse - has undoubtedly happened elsewhere any may still be happening now. Secondly, child sexual abuse is not limited to any one group in society as repeated scandals have revealed.
I've written this long post to put into context the clips of the interviews I'm also posting which I know will be taken out of context by some who want to abuse their political opponents more than they want to stop the abuse of young girls

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 @domjoly.. but you knew this already, didn't you?

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@backpainandwine I call it pseudocream

[Paul @LeftySeparatist]

If we could all just take a moment to appreciate the stunning cinematic beauty of this scene.

The bravado, the little shake of the hips, the half brick to the back of the head and, of course, the coup de grâce…..the agonizing strike to the knackers.

10/10😍
#Southport

[Welsh Bollocks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshbollocks]

Growing up in an age before the internet the only place we got to see this kind of thing was on Roy Castle's Record Breakers.... https://t.co/5a9Qnrm5xV

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Can we once and for all dispense with this tedious "But he always took the bins out and said hello" commentary, as if there was a contradiction here that needed explaining.

Violent men ARE "nice guys".

They're nice to everyone but the women they abuse. That's the whole point.

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

26-year-old Kyle Clifford is being hunted by police.
It’s a fast moving situation and there’s a lot we don’t know.
But there is one thing that we DO know. And it’s depressingly, devastatingly familiar.
Three woman are dead.
They were killed in their home.
A mum, she was 61, and her two girls, 25 and 28, both in their twenties - that decade when you’re working out who you want to be and where you want to go with your life.
But for them, that’s now over.
A woman is killed by a man every three days in the United Kingdom.
That number has been remarkably consistent for the last twenty years.
Women are also much more likely to be killed by someone they know - two thirds of them are killed by a current or former partner.
“Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home.
Remember the three women killed at home in Bushey were still alive when the emergency services got there.
Yvette Cooper – the new Home Secretary – has said the killings are “truly shocking” – and she’s being kept fully updated on the case.
During the campaign, she said that violence against women and girls will be treated as a national emergency under Labour.
And less than a week into the job… three women killed at home. It certainly feels like an emergency.

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@lewis_goodall In a small corner of North Somerset, held by Liam Fox since 1992, I've spotted a LOT of Labour posters and placards. A noticeable reduction in blue posters, and some have been covered in red paint, sparking debate as to whether this is a genuine red protest or something else

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Caring isn’t just my family's story, it is the story of millions, caring for each other, dealing with tough times, and keeping going with love.

Sharing our story hasn't been easy, but it's important. It's time to bring carers' experiences into the light.

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

Omg I can't believe I didn't spot this in the Kate Middleton photo: https://t.co/ZR8VerCTvv 😲😲😲

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Fianna Fáil
Candidate for European Parliament campaign video

#EE24 💃

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@timoncheese I stupidly attempted singeing the paper after spending a long time on a map, with fancy writing, colours, intricate drawings...and then set the whole thing on fire.

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@rachelburden I'm a very chatty Irishwoman and i talk a lot, so on St Patrick's Day in 2022, I did a very challenging 24 hour silence for the Ukraine and Syria DEC Appeal and raised over £3000 in less than a week.

[Michael Moore @MMFlint]

Clare Daly, a Member of the European Parliament from Ireland, gave this speech in Parliament. It’s powerful & short. Please watch. As the Irish PM told Joe Biden in March: When it comes to the suffering in Gaza, we Irish know about Starvation and being told we don’t exist.

[Jo Caulfield @Jo_Caulfield]

No need for that language!!

[konors @konorsmind]

rest in piss oj simpson you were a crazy motherfucker

[Siobhanny Weaver @hallmarkscard]

@ladbible York Fruits 🤮