Living with Kennedy's Disease. Supported by a hard working, unpaid carer. Unpaid carers must be visible and valued.
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“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”
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham, @YvetteCooperMP, @patmcfaddenmp before this year’s Budget, can unpaid carers please not disappear from the conversation again?
Andy, you’ve said social care is broken and you intend to fix it. Unpaid carers have become the solution to social care🪡
Mark Styles retweeted
Katy, who cares for a two people living with dementia, joined us to say; ‘People with dementia deserve an accurate and timely diagnosis.’
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I simply cannot believe that, in 2026, wheelchair user still have to compete with luggage for space on a train - and on today’s reckoning, the suitcase’s win out. En route to #Sunderland from #LondonKingsCross @GC_Rail so this could be a long morning!
Mark Styles retweeted
Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail.
TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜
So what's the reality behind this headline?
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ALT Daily Mail headline: Revealed: Drivers can take to the road aged 16 - if they are on benefits
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Farage: disabled people must work.
Disabled people: can we do it from home and have flexible arrangements to ensure that employment is possible for more of us (although many of us still won't manage it)?
Farage: you must be joking! When I am in charge, working from home will be dramatically reduced and your protections under the Equality Act will be gone as well, because I'm going to scrap it. (evil laugh)
Honestly, it is possible to put together a legitimate case as to why the current government is against the interests of disabled people, but in my view, Farage and his gang would be far, far worse.
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Calling Welsh speakers “foreign” tells you everything about Reform.
They don’t understand Wales. They don’t respect Wales.
And they don’t share our priorities.
We’re focused on jobs, the NHS and lowering bills.
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Reform UK Kent Council have just approved a 3.8% pay rise for councillors above the 3.6% recommended.
Despite the chaos, the lack of DOGE savings, the increased council tax, the lies - @LeaderofKCC and her team think it’s time to give themselves a raise.
That’s Reform UK’s flagship.
Mark Styles retweeted
Nigel Farage and Reform UK are desperately trying to distance themselves from Donald Trump’s Iran War.
Don’t let them pretend they didn’t support it.
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Welsh politicians including First Minister Eluned Morgan have responded to growing outrage after Nigel Farage called Welsh people ‘foreign speakers' ✍️Amelia Jones nation.cymru/news/nigel-fara…
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Farage hates this video of him revealing his plans to sell off the NHS.
It would be a shame if it went viral again... 🫢
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Nigel Farage has called Welsh people “Foreign speakers” in a Cameo video.
I hate to break it to you Mr Farage, but if you read a history book you would realise English is more foreign in the UK than Welsh.
He said: “Gutted I couldn’t attend the wedding. I wanted to come, but I heard that half the guests were Welsh, and I don’t know. Who knows what would have happened with all those foreign speakers there. I don’t know.”
This is at a time that his party are trying to convince people in Wales that they should elect them to the Welsh Parliament.
Big credit to the Guardian for breaking this story: theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
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@DWPgovuk's Permanent Secretary apologised for mistakes over carer's allowance overpayments. 90,000 carers built up debts to DWP, many unknowingly. Debts could have been avoided had DWP previously checked all HMRC alerts on income changes. It now checks all alerts.
