Dan White : Disability Campaigner & Author ♿️
@Danwhite1972
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Disability & care campaigns / children’s author / writer / DAD ❤️/ CARER / Ambassador / neurodivergent / Agent: thebuckmanagency / VIEWS OWN
Fareham, England
Joined October 2017
My NEW books for Children. Look, Brook! Brook and the History Book Brook Meets Farook Off to Hospital Also @Waterstones !. DISABILITY ROCKS!!. Plus:. *NEW BOOK @PuffinBooks 2023!*
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A gentle reminder. Goodnight.
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Lords were paid £162 ‘attendance allowance’ for making video call tributes to Prince Philip. I earned £0.39p an hour today caring for my disabled daughter. Great Britain indeed eh.
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Please STOP sending royals & politicians to food banks. Having millionaires arrive empty handed, well fed, pampered, posing for photographs, surrounded by security, & seemingly unable to either understand or open their own car doors is embarrassing & offensive. Put up or shut up
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Greta Thunberg attacks world leaders: ‘When the protests get too loud, you make the protests illegal’. Absolutely nailed it, absolutely.
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Refugees aren't the reason you can’t get a Hospital appointment. Refugees aren't the reason you could not eat this week. Refugees aren't the reason the country has food banks & high energy prices . Refugees aren't the reason you can’t get a home. #RefugeesWelcome
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Love Banksy. Thank you Banksy. Be more Banksy. ❤️
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Gentle pre-budget reminder.
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I was already carer to my Disabled daughter when my wife fell from her bike & broke her leg. I’m now caring for two, 24 hrs, unpaid from work & in a house with the heating turned off. Please, stop these shallow & offensive headlines where we know this is an absolute fantasy.
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HMRC prosecuted just 11 wealthy individuals last year for tax evasion . There is currently £120 BN lost every year due to tax avoidance by the wealthy . Disabled people on benefits aren’t the reason the NHS is failing, why the roads & sewers fall apart. It’s parasites at the top.
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Isabel Oakeshott on benefits claimants:. “These people are, frankly, parasites.". This growing vile & obscene language aimed at Disabled & long term sick people remains disturbingly unchallenged by media & government. I’m disgusted by this country. It is a stain on the world.
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Last time I checked it wasn’t any refugee on a small boat that allowed my energy firm to grotesquely bloat my energy bill so I had to make difficult decisions on what essential life-affirming equipment my disabled daughter could do without. #refugeeeswelcome
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But you might find your benefits removed when you get back.
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Sweden tax billionaires at 55.5%. Netherlands tax billionaires at 49.5%. Germany tax billionaires at 47.475%. U.K. welfare cuts.
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He could if he wanted to, fund the NHS properly. He could if he wanted to, pay the NHS staff the decent liveable wage they deserve. But instead he hands out worthless chocolates. An appalling & offensive image, an offensive and insulting staged photo opp.
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According to the producers of @bbcquestiontime Isabel is better placed to talk about the lives of Disabled people & carers claiming benefits than me, a disabled man, carer & broadcaster whose policy work includes benefits & poverty. Well done @MentornMedia well researched.
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Just when you think you've heard it all. Disabled people and those with mental health problems will be asked to work from home or lose benefits as part of what a government minister described today as doing:. “Their duty”. I am literally shaking with rage. PEAK ableism.
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Turned off all my central heating finally as latest fuel bill is unpayable. I now have to use a hair dryer on cool just to warm my disabled daughters feet as they were purple before I put 5 pairs of thick socks on her (she cannot regulate body temperature). UK 2022. Pls RT
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Starmer said people dealing with long-term sickness “need to be back in the workplace where they can”. Come on Disabled, long-term sick, out of your wheelchairs! remove those drips! out of bed & smile MH sufferers! You are needed to save the wealthy from paying taxes!. onwards!.
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10 people helped my wife today after her road accident. Strangers rushed from cars, houses, bikes, all with blankets, tea, hot water bottles, love ❤️ . One dropped her bike home to me whilst I was caring for my daughter. Britain isn’t the place the RW media tell you it is.
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Have I really just seen @NadineDorries shake her head in #PMQs at @KeeleyMP's question about protecting disabled people & their carers who need household energy to survive? Did I really see that?.
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“Your enemy is NOT the refugee. Your enemy is the one who MADE him a refugee”.#armsales #AfghanLivesMatter
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If after viewing this graph you still think vulnerable & Disabled people, single mothers & the long term sick on benefits are the cause of your woes, I suggest you will forever be the bewildered & easily-led herd of the telegraph, the Mail & GBNews. Look & learn👇
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People aren’t just born with a disability , people can acquire a disability at any point in their life. It can be temporary or permanent. No one is born a carer but you can easily become one. Then what financially?. Think before you cheer on benefit cuts, think carefully indeed
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The DWP released statistics showing that fraud in the disability benefits system is a 'non-issue', so why the plans to spy on Disabled people’s bank accounts? . Because the wealthy tax avoiders have political influence, while we do not.
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So… channel 4 have found Prince William is receiving public money through leasing properties to public services like the NHS. So I assume he will do the right thing and put all this money into his ending homelessness project. Yes? . Yes???.
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Matt Hancock wants £1,500 an hour. Kwasi Kwarteng wants £1,250 an hour. Carers, like me, who look after a sick or Disabled relative 24/7 with little or no sleep, who haven’t bankrupt the economy or mishandled a global pandemic, would like more than £0.39p an hour.
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LOVE @glastonbury been many times before my Disabled daughter was born. Seeing the "celeb" pics AGAIN this year & I thought, wouldn't it be refreshing if instead of handing out free tickets to rich "celebs" they gave them out to unpaid carers & their Disabled families instead?😊
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My daughter has various disabilities. Her chances of full time employment in this ableist society are nil. The language used here is terrifying. It belongs to a dark past. Please don’t come for our sick, please don’t come for our Disabled children. Be better than this bigot.
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He’ll sleep better knowing that £200 million is being spent on a boat to say : ooh buy our things because our ship has flags all over it.
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“Handouts”.“Mentally ill”.I pray the telegraph goes bankrupt with immediate effect.
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Sorry to break this, but I've just heard that the Government says NO increases in benefit levels until April 2023. Benefits are currently set at 3.1% while inflation stands at 9%. Today, like millions of Disabled adults & children, I feel so utterly abandoned.
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The worst people on earth are bullying a 17-year-old boy with autism for being proud of his father. Trump & his supporters are showing their true vile, bigoted selves with their comments. Support trump? Then you support disability discrimination.
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The public are hypnotised by the politicians to believe benefit fraud is a huge problem (politicians & their media chums frequently talk as if it is). This is a lie. Benefit fraud is minuscule; statistical terms. insignificant. Tax fraud & tax avoidance are the real problems.
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Refugees aren't the reason you can’t get a Hospital/Drs appointment. Refugees aren't the reason you could not eat this week. Refugees aren't the reason the country has food banks & high energy prices . Refugees aren't the reason you can’t buy or rent a home. #RefugeesWelcome
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My girl is beautiful, so beautiful x
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The UK Government is facing the United Nations for their violation of the rights of Disabled people TODAY. That’s right. The Violation of basic human rights for adults & children HERE in the U.K. And not one mainstream media outlet is running the story. Not one.
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We lost our carers allowance this year because we were earning £20 over the earning limit of £139 a week. That means cutting back on food & other essentials, for us & our Disabled daughter. We are not alone in this as a family. Meanwhile those who perpetuated this misery . 👇
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Obesity is not holding back the economy. Billionaires hoarding wealth that could build better services, businesses paying staff a pittance, inept government “economic” experts terrified of re-entering the single market are holding back the economy. Wes, you’re welcome.
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Old lady to Emily: “how long have you been in your wheelchair?”.Emily to old lady: “since 11o clock this morning.” . Legend
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This is Emily recovering in an #NHS hospital this week after surgery. She’s smiling because she received the BEST care from the greatest people. the Nurses, surgeons, porters, play leaders. She has a disability, under #nhsprivatisation we would never afford her care. SAVE THE NHS
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Andrew Neil. imprisoned in a 700k contract and possibly having to sell his New York apartment then escaping on a plane to drink champagne. As a father to a disabled child balancing a financial tightrope wondering if our weekly £67 pw will stretch to milk, my sympathy is nil.
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I am apoplectic with rage right now. Labour going after the weak & Disabled is disgusting & I feel physically ill, I won’t sleep. The UN have already said disability rights are broken here. they will return to see NOTHING has changed. Pure evil Labour.
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Just a quick question twitter. Who was really “busy saving lives?”. The chap paid £81,932, with no healthcare experience who finds time to jog & appear on every TV? or the shattered, underpaid, front line nurse or Dr who works unimaginable hours while trying not to die or break?
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This is the most emotional image I have. This was Emily 5 mins before scoliosis surgery. It was in the height of Covid. After surgery she was in intensive care, she caught a spinal infection. I broke my heart. But the NHS repaired it. Saved her. Support the NHS. They care. Please
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Alexa, show me the maturity & class gulf between nations
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Congratulations @bbcquestiontime and @MentornMedia you have probably increased negative attitudes towards Disabled people on benefits tonight. Unsubstantiated comments from a person here who has never spoken to a disabled person are proof of TV ableism.
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I can’t stop laughing. Thank you @Hackneycyclist . Brexit benefits & ex-pats. Just so perfect #BrexitDisaster .@RespectIsVital @HindleRay @davidschneider @JimMFelton .
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“Next week AGAIN on @bbcquestiontime there will no representative of the #disabled community, even though they are hit hardest by cost of living crisis”. 9th week I’ve offered to sit on the panel as a Disabled poverty expert, 9th! 🙄. Pls RT if you’d like to see representation
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Mel Stride today said the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is "thousands of pounds a month". This is the sort of bare faced lie continually peddled by fabricating politicians in order to whip up hatred towards Disabled people. Call it out journalists!! It’s your job!!!.
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The U.K. is officially broken. The U.K. is a bloody sick parody. The U.K. is over.
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To all the the attention seeking, poisonous critics. Don’t you DARE criticise the NHS. We were there in first wave, 6 weeks. We were in ICU. Our daughter recovering. The staff, stretched, never stopped, but NEVER failed us. You attack them? You come through me first you cowards
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Last month Rishi Sunak tweeted: 'As we remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, let us reflect on the values of compassion, charity and selflessness he embodied.' . Yesterday he basically threatened Disabled and vulnerable people that he would remove their benefits.
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Immigrants surrounded my wife today . They saved her foot after an accident, they are checking in on her, making her comfy, planning her surgery, keeping her safe, making her smile, watching over her. Immigration is the NHS .Immigration is saving lives 🙏. Immigration always ❤️.
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Tomorrow is operation no.16 for my daughter. 16 years, 16 ops. Such a bloody trooper. Love her. LOVE THE NHS. ❤️ they have our complete and utter support. always ❤️
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If today could not get any bleaker for disabled adults and CHILDREN struggling to keep warm. The Government have announced they will cut support through the Warm Home Discount from almost 300,000 disabled people. I literally am stunned & yet not surprised
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I’m so angry at the world. I’m so sick & tired of all the innocents paying the highest costs in war. Innocents of ANY side, ANY faith, ANY gender. I’m so utterly heartbroken that children are always the innocent victims of adults hate. The world is sick.
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The Tory Government wrote off almost £10bn worth of unused PPE during covid but still managed to pursue unpaid carers for accidental overpayments. The debts are STILL being pursued.@UKLabourIN do the right thing please. Again, I ask, cancel the care debt.
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. & again. “Next week AGAIN on @bbcquestiontime there will no representative of the #disabled community, even though they are hit hardest by cost of living crisis”. 8th week I’ve offered to sit on the panel as a Disabled poverty expert. Pls RT if you’d like to see representation
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Disability prejudice is alive & well it seems in the cold & poisonous world of the RW media. Julia you are the “half-educated” here & you are you have just shown your contempt for Disabled children everywhere. What a tragic, cold & cruel example of toxic media you are.
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Be nice today to do anything today without bursting into tears at the sheer cruel, vindictive & sadistic unfairness of it all. What do I say to my disabled daughter about her future? What do I say? How do I tell her the future under this government is one they don’t want her in?
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Dear keir starmer,. disability benefit fraud is 0%. Thank you.
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Fireworks. I hate them. Has taken all evening to settle scooby. How many wild & domestic animals have to die tonight because some people around the country are literally gawping at their own money going up in flames?. Gods sake.
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Fiona Bruce:”people in lower-skilled jobs like care workers, bus drivers & security guards”. I am a carer. The skills every care worker has from physio, to counselling, to pharmaceuticals is worthy of an MBE. Bus drivers,security guards,all of us more skilled than autocue readers.
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There are 14 million Disabled people in the UK. and about 4.8 million of them are claiming PIP. Dear chancellor, please tell me how all these people will fill the 700 home-working jobs you demand which are on the DWP site. Maths was never my strong point, or yours apparantly.
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I think all us carers should stand up & applaud the brilliant @doctor_oxford .Speaking for ME, you, hundreds of undervalued, unpaid & ignored carers. Taking to pieces the governments failure on care.
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Under the new benefits shake-up, claimants could have bank accounts checked every month by the DWP to make sure they’re not “lying” about saving. Disabled people & carers ARE the hardest hit by the #CostOfLivingCrisis Not heating homes, skipping meals etc. What bloody savings?.
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The DWP Xmas "bonus" of £10 has not changed since 1972. If the "bonus" had kept pace with inflation over the past 52 years, it would now be approximately £114.75. We are being taken for fools.
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Off to prom ❤️😘❤️. Suit made by mum, it looks incredible . My little girl is blossoming into an amazing young lady & she looks glorious ❤️. #Prom
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This piece of … I can’t even express how much I despise her…is continuing the client-journalism process of trying to push hate onto benefit claimants. The woman has no clue to what it’s like to be destitute, only between her ears.
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“Next week AGAIN on @bbcquestiontime there will no one representative of the #disabled community, even though they are being hit the hardest by cost of living crisis.”. Fifth week I’ve tweeted this. Fifth week I’ve emailed to offer to sit on the panel as a poverty expert. #bbcqt
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Liz Kendall, has refused to rule out replacing PIP payments with vouchers. They are revelling in making Disabled people live in absolute terror aren’t they by their stalling & deliberate evasion of answering questions. Disabled people are treated with disdain by every government.
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I just hoisted my daughter out of bed, gave her her meds. I then wheeled my wife in her wheelchair to the bathroom. I then reflected on my 24hr dual care life, my possible job loss, the 1 pound increase to £67pw carers allowance. I cried. Then I read this.
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Well it certainly bloody didn’t go to carers & the disabled community.
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Dear @bbcquestiontime In the week that Disabled people are again CRUSHED, you STILL refuse to allow a Disabled policy spokesperson to appear. If the question on benefits arises tonight, no one with a disability will be there to answer it. Why so discriminatory? why so ableist?
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Emily has her first English exam at college today. Pass it like she did in her mocks & she sails into year 3 of art. College, sadly, are quietly hoping she won’t as they don’t want to provide care. Pls send her support today, she wants to pass to show them how awesome she is!
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Nigel Havers states he is thinking of selling his classic cars due to potholes. In the UN yesterday there showed a pattern of disabled people in the UK turning to suicide after “being denied an adequate standard of living and social protection.”. Guess which one made the news.
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More than 600,000 disabled people are estimated to have £10 or less per week to pay for food and other costs. Around a quarter surveyed in 2022 had missed meals or not heated their homes. Benefits are frozen until 2023. This is a humanitarian catastrophe. Where’s the empathy?
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My name is Dan white. I’m a carer with a hidden disability campaigning to END disability poverty, prejudice & to make inequality a thing of the past. It’s exhausting, but rewarding, but I need help, I need to be louder. Can you please help me out with a follow and a RT?🤞❤️
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looking at the SNP manifesto and I think I might possibly move the family north of the border.
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Christ sakes @thetimes how are you comfortable with such an ignorant, ableist fool writing this?. You did know Disability hate crime is rising?. Thank you @thetimes for fanning the flames of it. Ghouls. #matthewparis
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Right now in Geneva,there is a UN inquiry session into the UK government’s appalling treatment of Disabled people. The United Nations are hearing evidence of damning failures. And there is no U.K. Government representation!. British media. why are you not reporting? . DISGRACEFUL
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Boris Johnson to sanction construction of a £190 million successor to Royal Yacht as a memorial to the Duke of Edinburgh. My carers allowance is £67 a week. That’s to provide for everything my disabled daughter needs. British priorities 2021.@LouiseRawAuthor @Rachael_Swindon
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£8 million spent on King Charles photograph.
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A VICTORY for Disabled train travellers!. Plans to close rail ticket offices in England scrapped!. Now to make ALL stations and trains accessible!.
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Dear @ruth_madeley @bbcdoctorwho . My daughter, Emily, a devout #DoctorWho fan literally just cried in my arms as the Tardis was discovered to have a ramp. The programme I’ve loved for 48 yrs, always progressive, always beautiful, always everyone’s. ❤️💙♿️🙏🥲
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To target a section of society who cannot work due to long term illness or a Disability, to threaten the withdrawal of healthcare & support, is, in my book…. A hate crime. In this case, state sanctioned. #bbclaurak
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Just in case the client-press and the Government were not aware, if you take away medicine from Disabled people, those with MH issues and the vulnerable they won't suddenly get them a job, they will probably die. #Conservative #JeremyHunt #benefits.
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The Prime Minister will not replace the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work. Sources claim "work will be led by one of the existing ministers in the department.". Please understand 🇬🇧 14 million adults & children are now deemed undeserving of support & representation.
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Dear @sainsburys re’ your continuing advertising on @GBNEWS . I assume because you still are you are in agreement with their attacks on the @RNLI ?.Can you clarify?
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“We’ve children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs”. The cost of living crisis hitting KIDS. This should be ALL OVER the media shaming the government. This is their doing.
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