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Stella Creasy: *Talks over everyone*
[Someone tries to answer]
Stella Creasy: pLeAsE wOuLd yOu lEt mE fInIsH mY pOiNt!!!
#PoliticsLive
To borrow the apocryphal quote attributed to Bette Davis upon learning of the death of Joan Crawford:
"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good...
Esther Rantzen is dead. Good."
Sick and Tired retweeted
Josh Widdicombe is giving vibes of the little brother that your mum says you have to involve in all your activities #strictly
Sick and Tired retweeted
EXC: More than half of Labour MPs have a greater number of disability benefit claimants in their constituency than the size of their electoral majority, highlighting the political peril facing ministers trying to cut Britain’s spiralling welfare bill
Of Labour’s 366 seats in England and Wales, 212 — or 58 per cent — have a higher number of constituents claiming personal independence payments (Pip), an analysis by The Times has revealed
More than 100 Labour MPs also have more claimants for mental health conditions such as anxiety, ADHD and autism than their majorities
Even Labour MPs with relatively safe seats often have more Pip claimants than their majorities. Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary in charge of delivering the reforms, has a majority of 9,188 votes but 11,646 Pip claimants — a difference of 2,458
Senior Labour MPs privately expressed scepticism about Burnham’s appetite to address an issue that significantly divides opinion within the parliamentary party
One of those on the moderate wing of the party said: “There are some MPs who will oppose any kind of restraint on welfare. The debate requires careful coalition building. The problem is some of the architects of the last rebellion are not capable of negotiating or listening.”
Another said: “Burnham’s biggest cheerleaders were the same people who torpedoed the last planned changes to welfare. We’re trying to tell Downing Street: if you achieve cuts in the welfare bill, that will give confidence to the markets that you’re ready to look at other areas.”
Full read in @thetimes 👇
thetimes.com/article/3da8572…
Sick and Tired retweeted
Me after 12 weeks of listening to Josh Widdicombe laughing on #StrictlyComeDancing #Strictly:
Am I going crazy, or is the microphone volume really low... apart from Josh Widdicombe? It feels like they're hushed talking, especially Johannes #strictly
Oh god... Josh Widdicombe's laugh. That is going to get tiring very quickly #strictly
Josh Widdicombe is giving vibes of the little brother that your mum says you have to involve in all your activities #strictly
Sick and Tired retweeted
New government research has exposed misleading calls by leading Conservative and Reform UK figures who have repeatedly claimed that assessments carried out remotely are more likely to lead to a successful claim for disability benefits.
disabilitynewsservice.com/go…
Sick and Tired retweeted
Jeremy Vine is clearly against the disabled community, he’s blocked half of Twitter for challenging him. He’s not fit for TV
Constantly spouting negativity towards people who’ve already got enough shit going on!
#AxeVine already FFS sign the petition 👇
change.org/p/axe-the-jeremy-…
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Interesting how Sainsbury’s @sainsburys get 10,000 cheap workers to fill their low paid, shelf stacking jobs, within months of “Lord Sainsbury” making a massive personal donation to @andyburnham
Is this “doing politics differently”?
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The @theJeremyVine controversy isn't just about one tweet or one argument about welfare.
It's about the way disabled people have repeatedly been presented on his show: as a cost, a burden on taxpayers, potential fraudsters or people who need to be pushed back into work.
In 2023, the Jeremy Vine on 5 account asked whether it was time to “crack down” on people deemed too sick to work — a framing disability organisations criticised as demonising sick and disabled people.
30 January 2025: it aired “Should govt cut sickness benefits?”, explicitly discussing government plans to tackle the cost of health and disability benefits.
What's particularly significant is the framing. This isn't simply a show occasionally reporting on welfare policy. The examples include phrases such as “crack down,” “jobless benefits,” “sick-note generation” and “is the benefits system unfair?”
The facts matter. DWP figures show 4.5 million working-age people in England and Wales received an incapacity or disability benefit in August 2025. But the DWP says the increase from 2.9 million in 2019 is partly because Universal Credit replaced older benefits, changing what gets counted.
And 4 million people were entitled to PIP in April 2026. PIP helps with the additional costs of disability; it isn't simply an unemployment payment.
So yes, debate welfare. Scrutinise spending. Challenge government policy.
But when a programme repeatedly invites audiences to view disabled people through the lens of cost, suspicion and whether they're “really” deserving, that isn't a neutral debate.
Disabled people aren't a welfare problem. They're people. And the way television talks about them has consequences.
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #CarersUK #Ableism #CareNotCuts
