Louise Nichols

Married to a fab man, Daughter to great parents, Sis to a Brilliant Bro, Mummy to four fantastic girls and one wonderful boy hopefully the best friend I can be!

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

Where is the funding to set up training for autistic/ adhd / disabled people for a work place ?
Has anyone seen any?

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

69m people in the UK
16m have a disability - of which 4m 'working age', claim sickness/disability benefits, so 25% are not signed off.
And the welfare bill has not ballooned:
https://t.co/OAAwYAk0EH

[David Lindsay @david_lindsay77]

#bbcpm: According to #HelenWhately, "1 in 4 people now report as #disabled. But we can't afford to sign off 25% off the population. Bold action is needed. Not piecemeal tweaks." Reporting as disabled and being signed off are two entirely different things. #Whately is unfit for office. The only question is whether she is morally unfit, intellectually unfit, or both. https://t.co/TdqYl0GfhU

[Richard Phillips @Richard00691257]

“You may cast me as a frightened little girl but when disabled people die as a direct result of this Bill—and they will—their blood will be on your hands. How do I know people will die? Because you will have made it impossible for them to live.”https://t.co/MhUiopbtlc

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Scope found disabled households face average extra costs of £1,067 a month. That is not a lifestyle. It is wheelchairs, heating, transport, care, equipment, therapies, prescriptions, repairs and basic survival. Demonising disabled people does not make those costs disappear.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Soaring bills. Burst pipes. Sewage in our rivers and seas.

How many more times do we need to say it: the privatisation of water has been a total and utter failure. Bring it back into public ownership, now.

[Sally Lewis @RslewisSally]

The idea that hospices would be defunded if they refused to carry out assisted suicide is, frankly, revolting. It will cause more suffering.
Successive governments have already chosen to underfund palliative care, leaving it mostly at the door of the charitable sector.

[BuDS Disability Service @BuDs_UK]

Most disabled people could work. The problem is not disabled people. The problem is employers excluding disabled people from the workforce. Make the world of work inclusive. But that's harder than polemic and cuts, isn't it?

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Why is the DWP subjecting people with lifelong disabilities to inhumane reassessments for PIP? Charity Z2K reveals how bad the problem is...

By @RachelCDailey_
https://t.co/EpXHs0j3s9

[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. 🤔

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

It's so frustrating. How many of us would LOVE to challenge the likes of @Helen_Whately, and all the other MPs, on their lies about benefits?
I'm sure we could do a better job than the pathetic journos on MSM, who simply don't bother to even research a topic prior to interview.

[Candice Holmes @hol40900]

Reform: "We're for working people."

Same party that voted against workers' rights, wants to scrap the ECHR, and thinks the minimum wage is too high.

Now promising "protection for mums" with no details. Turkeys voting for Christmas. 🦃

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

@JeremyVineOn5 @IsabelWebster_ @alysdenby @darrylmorris ‘These people’ the language of othering

Currently MPs are being investigated by the standards commission for giving out misleading information re disability benefits

Aktion T4 next?

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

Academic, legislative, and charity evidence indicates a strong correlation between political rhetoric surrounding welfare reform and a rise in hostility and hate crimes against disabled people.

Disability hate crimes are on the rise.

Helen et al. need holding to account.

[Snowleopardess 💚 @snowleopardess]

No mention yet again that part of the increase is due to the fact that people have been transitioning from DLA to PIP as part of DWP reforms, so not new claimants at all.
And yet again lying about PIP, which is NOT an out-of-work benefit and actually enables many to work.

[Rachel Charlton-Dailey @RachelCDailey_]

I'm sorry THATS the language we're using??

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

You say you will rip up the current system and start again. The one we have now is the one your government developed and implemented over its 14 years in power. Iain Duncan Smith and Cameron literally invented PIP.

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

The UK's economic problems were not caused by wheelchair users, cancer patients or people with progressive neurological conditions.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Disabled children don't stop being disabled at 16, however, nearly a quarter of young people on child DLA failed the assessment for PIP

By @RachelCDailey_
https://t.co/ud6AbDtxfD

[Dr_Rebecca @Dr_Bekka_UK]

Just a reminder that Helen and the Conservative Party is currently being investigated by the UK statistics watchdog for making misleading claims about welfare and social security spending. 🙂 https://t.co/DpbO7Oz3so