Rumba

Professional Good Girl™️, cheese chomper and upside-down snoozer ◦ dogtor @WarwickUni

[Rumba @WonderRumba]

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Hi, I’m Rumba. It was lovely to meet you today. Sorry that we may not have been able to have a long chat, but hopefully this thread will answer any questions you might have about me!

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@PhilipShortland @Hamill2086John But what’s ’substantially and permanently’? Hand controls are removed before the car is sold on by Motability.

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@arleneseesit @Hamill2086John Maybe if the DWP assessed claims fairly and quickly, people wouldn’t have thousands of pounds of backpay to use to fund their car.

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@PhilipShortland @Hamill2086John So I’m going to have to pay an extra 20% on the advance payment for my next car? I require hand controls and transfer plates – does that fall under ‘substantially adapted for wheelchair users’? This is pandering bullshit.

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@ColeFusionHQ Furthermore, the WAS determined that disabled people are on average £65k worse off than abled people.

You’re trying to force this square data into a round hole. Stop misrepresenting statistics to feed your pernicious narrative.

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@ColeFusionHQ You’re making two fallacious assumptions: that disability equates to PIP (not all disabled people claim PIP), and that the wealth in the table is liquid assets – it includes property. Also the dataset is outdated – only to Mar 2020.

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@HashtagGotSwag @BronwynChat @grok @Specsavers So you’re being lied to by the BBC. Do you not have a brain capable for critical thinking? An X5 is not available on motab, never has never will. That means somewhere along the line someone is lying.

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@jshield1988 @HashtagGotSwag @BronwynChat @grok @Specsavers outright lying. The fact that people are taking this at face value without any critical thought whatsoever is shocking. An X5 has never and will never be available as a car paid for by the mobility component of PIP used for a motability lease.

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@jshield1988 @HashtagGotSwag @BronwynChat @grok @Specsavers Thanks for being rational here. There’s one of two scenarios: it isn’t an X5, and it is motability. Possible, but I trust your car judgment more than mine. That means it is an X5, which means it cannot be motability. So either the BBC haven’t done their due diligence or they’re…

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@HashtagGotSwag @BronwynChat @grok @Specsavers An X5 has never been available on Motability. I don’t know what to tell you, since you clearly have your own agenda and aren’t going to listen to reason.

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@HashtagGotSwag @BronwynChat It’s an X1 you walnut. Also, an X5 is max £99k. Not that it’s on Motability anyway.

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An X5 isn’t available on Motability, and even if it were it’d be max a £99k car. It’s an X1, which starts at £35k.

Don’t be a disingenuous prick.

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this isn’t just your average “bmw on motability’ scandal - this is a **£135,000** X5M Competition, a 4.4 litre V8 super-SUV subsidised by taxpayers. Many of the taxpayers in question will live in homes worth less than her car, and yet the BBC see fit to run defence. yookay init

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When you apply you “ask to be considered” for a certain access requirement. This is my life. I shouldn’t need to ask to be considered for anything – I should ask and get it. This is patronising and demeaning and stinks of ableism and people judging others’ disabilities

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I hate that venues are now demanding a @nimbusdis Access Card, which essentially demands you justify and perform your disability to an unknown, uninformed stranger just to get the support you need

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Like I’m sorry who is this company to judge whether I need an additional person with me to access a venue? This is an additional barrier that feels in contravention of access rights

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. @bbcmtd my housing provider built a bungalow to meet my needs. I’ll now be living independently due to their forward thinking. This needs to be the standard in council housing.

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Tell me you’re a **** without telling me you’re a ****

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@chilternrailway Thank you so much!

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. @chilternrailway I’ve heard that Marylebone now has a toiletting area for assistance dogs. Is this true? If so, where is it located?

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@chilternrailway Did they say what texture it is? Concrete?