kerry fox

Artist, Art Activism, Parent Carer, #UnpaidCarer, PhD Student- Mother Carers @klfox.bsky.social

[Rae :-) @Chuffin_ell]

@Helen_Whately Who provides the care NOW, Helen? Millions of unpaid carers, some doing 100+ hours a week for £86.45. Others get nothing.

You call funded care “monumentally expensive”, yet families pay with their health, careers and independence.

Then you label them “economically inactive”.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Glad to see this story on the first page of the Google news section when searching for 'Times Welfare Inquiry'. It's vital that @thetimes and @frasernelson stop ignoring this crucial aspect of social security reform:
https://t.co/AhxX98dZEq

[iggy @iggy_makhno]

@Helen_Whately
Minister of State for Care during COVID
Complicit in the deaths of 43,000 people in care homes.
Now wanting to cut welfare which will result in even more deaths of the most vulnerable in society.

"Now is the time of monsters"

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Can we try and get this pushed please Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK

Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awareness of visible and hidden disabilities.

@TheMeldrew
@YorkDisability @hewitson10 @relish_hendy @SueJonesSays @RITB_ @ChirpyChet @Mikeo56977865 @ContorSien1527 @DpacLeeds @BuDs_UK @Dis_PPL_Protest

https://t.co/M2lqjmgmdp

[Paul Ridley @PaulRidley5]

'There have been too many deaths at the hands of the welfare system. It's time to end the violence' https://t.co/9b2z6V4o7w

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@Dmdav1 🙏

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

Well, I've finally grasped the nettle and submitted my application for examination. I'm currently editing my thesis (I never want to write again ever!)
It's been a tough year; it's still a rocky road, juggling curveballs thrown at you by life n shit, but I got this far

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@chrissietee 🙏

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@TheGNPE Oestrogen blockers used to treat oestrogen positive breast cancer can cause high cholesterol

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The Times has joined a long list of organisations and individuals that are ignoring the risks posed by cuts and reforms to the social security system for disabled people who rely on benefits to survive.
https://t.co/AhxX98dZEq

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#SocialSecurity

https://t.co/DAjt8b9kUE

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

Can’t wait to resume art making in the new year .. it’s been too long .. oh to paint again ( last artworks for the PhD were completed in August 2025.. that’s how long it’s been 😫 feeling like a fish out of water)

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

Well, I've finally grasped the nettle and submitted my application for examination. I'm currently editing my thesis (I never want to write again ever!)
It's been a tough year; it's still a rocky road, juggling curveballs thrown at you by life n shit, but I got this far

[Sally Bourliakas 💙 @SallyBourliakas]

👀 at the welfare figures

WA Incapacity benefits stable at 1% GDP (& stable till 2030)

Total Welfare spend
Stable 11% GDP (& till 2030)

Why do Labour Conservatives Greens Lib Dem's Reform Restore
all want to reduce the Welfare Bill?

It's a lie that it's spiralling out of control or ballooning
An Urban myth put out by IFS:

WELFARE SPEND IS NOT BALLOONING
STABLE

Total Welfare spend
Stable 11% GDP (& till 2030)

Working Age (WA)
Economic Inactivity
Stable 10M
for 30 years 1995-2024

& down in last decade
2011 23.6%
2024 21.2%

PIP is not an out of work benefit, 1/5 those on PIP work

PIP Fraud rate before 2020:
Low slow rising
2016/17 1.4%
2017/18 1.5%
2018/19 1.6%

Rather than increasing as Media/ MPs would have you believe when online/phone assessments began in 2020
Lower Now!

2024 0.1%
2025 0.4%
2026 1.4%

https://t.co/bKztHTkkPI…

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@Conservatives You talking about the failed generation of #SEND? Those failed by your government.. the cliff edge that they fell off when education ended? The abyss of nothing .. come to North Yorkshire to places with no public transport no services no future for young people with disabilities

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@Conservatives And you did nothing when in government the education for our children #SEND was kicked down the drain you cut funding to the bone. Support cut, our children’s futures cut .. Remember #SENDCrisis #SENDAction ?

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

2021 Helen Whately said,
"It's truly, truly sad that 23,000 residents have died and 400 social care staff, I won't shy away from that."
ONS said it was more than 30,000 residents, and over 400 workers
It was under her, that elderly were returned to care home's, without testing
#HelenWhately #Welfare #BBClaurak
https://t.co/apruEuzEHC
https://t.co/rxMQPxPOYH

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@Dmdav1 Hopefully they all disappear when mid terms end

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

Sacrificing disabled children and adults for their tanks and their bombs and their guns and a fucking iron dome …

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

We are going to have to make sacrifices to defend our country.

We are going to have to get welfare spending under control👇

[kerry fox @lumpybird]

@Ginger234842730 @PaulRidley5 You can ask until blue in the face doesn’t mean you get any some of us have given up on the myth of respite it’s called shouting into a void

[Rae :-) @Chuffin_ell]

“One of the saddest things about unpaid caring. You can spend your entire adult life making sure somebody else isn’t isolated, only to find that you’ve become isolated yourself”

https://t.co/9XYZ3HVn8y