Susan Fitzpatrick

[Vikki @TetchyBitch]

@Ferretgrove My mum died in July of colorectal cancer. Access to palliative care outside of Mon to Fri 9-5 was non existent, even within those hours it was patchy. Hospices can only take patients for their final few days due to lack of funding. It's a fucking mess out there.

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 Ctd had aircon, but its broken. Thankfully going home tomorrow, but I’m smiling imagining the comments from you in a similar situation. Knowing you makes my life better, so please never think that we don’t care xx

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 Still here Robert, I don’t comment at the time as I’m also UK time (Irish but I moved!) but please know that your pithy takes on life do cheer me up immensely. I’m currently in a sweat-box that they have the nerve to call a hotel room. We came to this one as it said it had ctd

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@Michaeljos92972 I do

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 That’s great news Robert, enjoy your space! ❤️

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@AgitatorAK @JeremyClarkson Well said sir!

[LubnanBoi🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @AgitatorAK]

Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 🤣🤣🤣

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 Robert, you’re a tonic! 🤣

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury.

He was given less than two years behind bars.

It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@RHughesPhD76721 I’m so glad to be back! I figured you must have been hacked but it took me a long time to find your new page. Now to catch up :)

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

The Guardian has released a statement after Nigel Farage posted a photo of one of their photographers' press passes, implying that a photojournalist threatened his safety:

"The Guardian is concerned by the recent publication on Nigel Farage’s social media pages of the professional credentials of a photographer working on behalf of the Guardian while he was working lawfully in a public space. Holding public figures to account is the role of a free press.

"As part of the Guardian’s journalism covering Nigel Farage’s purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself."

https://t.co/6iyeYmJAvd

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

British comedians mock President Trump's Easter message on #HIGNFY

Chris McCausland, "Has there ever been a bigger u-turn than we're going to liberate the people of Iran from an oppressive regime, to, we're going to obliterate an entire civilisation"

Ian Hislop, "On Easter day Trump compared himself to Jesus, and then let other people suggest he was the messiah"

Chris McCausland, "How did he compare himself to Jesus?"

Paul Merton, "Similar height"

Ian Hislop, "Trump said they call Jesus a king, they call me a king. Well that's a nice Easter message"

Paul Merton, "Perhaps we can keep the parallel going and crucify him"

[John Dabell @John_Dabell]

Head and neck cancer affects your speech. I struggle to speak and people sometimes assume I’ve:
1. Had a stroke
2. Had one to many drinks
3. Got a hearing impairment
No.
This is what cancer does to you. It wrecks, distorts, and strips away things most people take for granted. So before you jump to conclusions, remember:
you may be looking at someone doing their absolute best to live with the damage cancer leaves behind.

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@rhughesphd 🤣🤣🤣

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@rhughesphd ❤️❤️❤️

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@rhughesphd Thank you Robert, this really helps! I try not to live in fear of my cancer coming back but its shadow is always there in every ache and pain. I try very hard to live every day in gratitude for that day but the fear lingers, your words help ❤️

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.

But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

[Susan Fitzpatrick @susan_fitzp]

@mikejwhelan Michael, I can only tell you what helped me in the darkest hours of my life - just get to the end of today. Don’t think of next week or beyond, unless you have things to organise and then come back to today straight away. Just do today, you can do that. Tomorrow, do it again. xx