Dad & husband & campaigner working with other disabled people, older people and others who put up with inequality in their lives.
Sheffield
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Suffering From Scottishness youtube.com/watch?v=sSS34o9W… via @youtube - I am still laughin at this and have played it 10 times in a row!
Nice idea - one of my kids likes spicy food - I’ll give it a go 😅
A staple in our Scottish Pakistani home at this time of year. Brussels sprouts pakora. Yes or no?
#averymuslimchristmas
The DWP is driving people to despair. Why is it allowed to happen?!
A disabled woman, who apparently took her own life in despair at the way her benefits claim was being dealt with, left a note that “directly implicated” the Department for Work and Pensions in her death. disabilitynewsservice.com/ph…
Good grief - why can’t he front up for once?!
Utterly disgraceful behaviour from the office of @AndyBurnhamGM. Refusing repeatedly over the last week to say clearly whether he is in favour of the government's policy on discharging people with #COVID from hospitals into 'zoned accommodation' in care homes. @GMCDP
Thanks for reminder Christine
One month left to respond to Gov's consultation on Access standards for new homes. gov.uk/government/consultati…. Seems a good day to share these pics of brand new homes in hilly South London. Shows that steep slopes need not be a barrier to step free access. Bravo! #ForAccessibleHomes
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Work and pensions secretary Therese Coffey has failed to sign up to her own much-criticised disability employment scheme, Disability Confident, her department has admitted.
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What takes this from merely incompetent to utterly #TakingTheDis is that disabled people don't have a seat on @SadiqKhan's #covid recovery board, but the RSPB does (that's Protection of Birds, not Blind People)
@SadiqKhan is facing anger over his decision to set up a board of nearly 30 senior figures to oversee London's recovery from #coronavirus without including any members representing disabled people.
@AlansTweets @touretteshero @ruth_madeley @HannahPopsy
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One for you @RedOnionGlasgow 😂
Your PUNCH colour cover. Eat out to help out... Hmmm... the chef prefers the chippie across the road. Bill Scully 1960. #illustration #graphicdesign #restaurants #hospitality #eatingout #fishandchips #chefs #cooks #food #eating #dinner #meals
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An unexpected benefit of the #ALevelsResults fiasco and subsequent U-turn is that more young people have witnessed dissent as a powerful and necessary function of democratic society.
These DEVO guys would do anything to sell on some merch 😂
Gerald Casale here. Pandemic times require devolved solutions - be quick on your feet to go forward and move ahead. The 4th annual 5KDEVO race is going virtual & expanding beyond Akron. Now you can run, walk, crawl or Shrivel Up anywhere in the world! 5kdevo.com
Aye - and rightly so
Disabled people who have been shielding from #coronavirus since March are expressing significant doubts about government advice that says that – from Saturday (1 August) – they will no longer need to do so.
#Shielding #COVID19UK
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Devo is selling Energy Dome face shields to 'whip' COVID-19 ew.com/music/devo-energy-dom…
Its time to heighten legislation and for the Government to support people to sue people for hate crime - on line racial abuse should become a hate crime and those responsible should be educated, complete community service and face imprisonment for their hate
I’ve just seen the text that @wilfriedzaha had to wake up to this morning.......... I’m ABSOLUTELY SPEECHLESS!! #Really #its2020 Racism is very much alive and active in our country!! I’m sad and disappointed!! #Racism #Rasist
Is that Big Ears with his head under the hood?
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I am quite jealous :) but brilliant decision by you - my wife Helen is starting Uni in October
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Powerful piece by disabled artist @jamierhale in which they ink the names of disabled people whose deaths have been linked to 'welfare reform' onto their body:
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Pandemic survey by Greater Manchester Disabled People's Panel leads to ‘outpouring of fear’ and reports of isolation and crisis from over 900 respondents ow.ly/vinV30qY0UK by @johnpringdns
