Paula Peters
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Disability Rights Activist, Chair, Bromley and Croydon Branch 🧵& instagram @paulapeters9743
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Will be about, but using 🧵& Insta for campaigning & nature & protest photos
My account on these platforms is
paulapeters9743
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#FollowBackFriday
I’m Paula, disability rights activist. I care about services, choice, having the support so I & all disabled people can be fully included in society living our lives. Having fully staffed stations & ticket offices open. Please give me a follow solidarity
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#CostOfLivingCrisis
In my local area, 73 year old lady sat in the dark for 3 days no electric. No one had seen her. Neighbour checked on her to find lady had no electric, no money to eat or make cup of tea. No family to support. There are loads of stories like this.
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#SupportRailWorkers
Betty, 86, retired health visitor has visited every
@RMTunion
picket for 7 months & either gives sandwiches or cakes & biscuits for the striking rail workers.
This was on bromley South Picket line today
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#Dispatches
to the 35% of society who think disabled people are a burden on society. You can have an accident. You can become too unwell to work and need to access the benefits system & need support to live. You’re not immune. No one is.
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#rmtstrike
As a disabled person
@RMTunion
are on strike for safety against cuts to maintenance workers, reduction of services, cuts to staff that make the rail network unsafe. Am with them 100%. Will be on the picket lines Tuesday. Solidarity is important.
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The UK needs to wake up. The Tories will shaft you over Pensions, workers rights, human rights, the NHS, social care. They don’t give a damn about any of it. Only money & profit. Stop supporting them. They don’t support you.
#ButcherBoris
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Add your name to the petition to stop
@Keir_Starmer
giving the DWP powers to scrutinise disabled people's bank accounts:
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#PIP
It’s soul destroying that you have to tell the DWP you have to wear incontinence pads because of bowel and bladder accidents. That meds need to be supervised to stop you harming yourself due to suicide ideation. Your medical history trawled through and judged
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#SaveTicketOffices
Consultation is not available in paper format, easy read, large print, BSL (British Sign Language. Audio version. Millions of disabled people & older people denied access to consultation on ticket office Closures as its on line & inaccessible
@RMTunion
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#Dispatches
no one knows the terror of the brown envelopes, now the white ones from the DWP until it happens. The dread.But to all those out there who think it’s not bad, let me tell you it’s continuous torture. This government are torturing disabled people with assessments
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#FollowBackFriday
Hi, I’m Paula. As a disabled woman ticket offices are a vital lifeline, not only for accessible journeys, knowing there are staff at the stations at night so feel safe travelling. Want to turn up & go without booking 2 hours ahead.
#SaveTicketOffices
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#InternationalWomensDay
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
#FollowBackFriday
I’m
@paulapeters2
disability rights activist & trade unionist
With my placard I am a disabled extremist because I dare campaign against this abusive government
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You always spoke out. You always supported disabled people and took the Tories on. Big love and solidarity to
@LauraPidcock
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#PIP
It pays for so much - cleaners at home, dog walkers, special dietary supplements and food, medication you can’t get on prescription, social care costs, energy costs, cost of living costs, jobs needing doing around the house & have to pay someone to do them, therapy
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#FollowBackFriday
I’m Paula, as a disabled woman the thought of ticket offices closing feels me with dread & impacts not just on me but all disabled people able to access the rail network & travel independently
It’s about safety please give me a follow. Support the campaign
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Please refrain from using the words moron, retard, spastic, stupid - this is ableist language & slurs that are used towards disabled people today - especially with a learning disability in a harmful & hateful way. Don’t use them. Language is important
#ableist
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#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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Breaking disabled people are now having a sit in outside portcullis house as we are not allowed in with post for MPs
We are now sitting in outside portcullis house doors
Please Share
@Dis_PPL_Protest
@RachelCDailey
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Covid hoax mum who took fake videos of 'empty' Bromley hospital fined £200
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@EstherMcVey1
Now we can put you in the dock for benefit deaths, human rights abuses towards disabled people under UNCRPD. Take the rest of the Tories with you. We will hold you all to account for 8 years of austerity
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#PIP
I saw GP yesterday she said why are you not using your walker? You know you are suspectible to falls. I said because of the hostile attitude in my community & on public transport I have been punched before and spat at and threatened with rape. I’m scared out there
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#DisabilityTwitter
We need every disabled person and ally to unite and fight and hit these Tory bastards back. We know you’re scared. But we need mass mobilisation. On the street online however you can. We need you to support us now as we support you. Stronger together
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#AutumnStatement
I can honestly see me ending up a statistic. I can’t cope with pressure. I will end up with the DWP either pushing me in hospital or a hole in the ground and there are hundreds of thousands like me
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#WinterFuelPayment
Disabled people are impacted by cuts to winter fuel payment. In receipt of PIP or attendance allowance and not pension credit won’t receive it
Disabled people are high energy users, use peg feeding, ventilators, charge equipment, use washing machines
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@Depheruk
@RishiSunak
The tories are deliberately underfunding the NHS to sell off to private providers. My friend who is 52 can’t get an appointment. Her surgery was rated the best in Bromley she was diagnosed with cancer 3 weeks ago, kings told her to chase an appointment she can’t get
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#Labour
I know there are tens of thousands of disabled people terrified of what will come out of the budget and the impact of it on their lives
Only this to say - activists intend to keep resisting Labour and take the fight to them.
Don’t give up. We will fight on.
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#PIP
The pip consultation was a massive trigger, as it has been for many. The uncertainty around what will happen next really anxiety ridden & causing a lot of mental distress
It’s cruelty
It’s wrong
Labour need to be held to account for the continual silence
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#PIP
PIP consultation is causing a lot of distress & extreme difficulty in answering confusing questions disabled people are struggling to answer. Labour saying they will study responses. It needs to be binned & disabled people & organisations met with
@Debbie_abrahams
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#AssistedDying
If we are to talk about assisted dying what about assisted living? What about the right to independent living & having that enshrined in UK Law.
That we should have a publicly funded social care system paid for by progressive taxation free at the point of need
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#FollowBackFriday
Hi, I’m Paula, disability rights activist, I care about local services, accessible transport, the NHS, want to be able to turn up & go, access the rail network and live our lives
Please give me a follow
#SaveTicketOffices
Solidarity x
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#PIP
Over 40% of claims for PIP are refused DWP spends millions fighting appeals. The entire process is stressful, traumatic, degrading. To the wider public PIP is to support with Mobility & care needs a disabled person has. It’s important to challenge Mel Stride’s narrative
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To all disabled people in the UK tonight. I send solidarity. You will always, always be amazing human beings to me. No matter what the media say or government do - I’m with you x
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#labour
Stop with the terms handouts.
We pay into the welfare state with progressive taxation
Stop with the rhetoric language of scroungers & workshy
Take this away no one is immune from a serious health condition & unable to work
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#DisabilityTwitter
#SocialistSunday
There are many terrified disabled people out there worried about the government proposals. Activists & groups are organising and working on campaigns to fight this government back. For 13 years we’ve fought. We won’t give in, we fight on
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#DisabilityTwitter
It’s disgusting that there are people out there celebrating the fact disabled people lose their support and end up with nothing.
A message to you. Think you’re immune from a disability. You’re not.
Don’t be so bloody cruel
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#TrashTheTories
the sign says it all. One death is one too many. Disabled people do not want anyone else to die and ask you to vote the Tories out on Dec 12
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#AutumnStatement
Disabled people are tax payers. Disabled people have higher costs because of the additional costs of being disabled. 1 in 6 families are in poverty because of high financial costs. Further, no one is immune from disability. Not any one
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#SaveTicketOffices
Today is my 52nd birthday & as a disabled passenger supporting the
@RMTunion
to stop ticket office closures
Station Manager at
@Se_Railway
Orpington didn’t like one of us standing on the pavement handing out cards. Called
@BTP
& 3 of them told member 2 leave
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All the MPs who voted against giving nurses a pay rise in 2017
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#PIP
The PIP consultation ends tonight at 23.59pm
The consultation so poorly and ambiguously worded that feedback so far is, not sure what was being asked. It’s an unfair, discriminatory consultation. It’s caused distress & triggered many.
This is about cuts. End of
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#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
Cuts Kill
In 2010 when austerity began, we were accused of scaremongering when we said the cuts would Kill. Sadly & tragically that’s become grim reality
Banner says
Cuts Kill
Disabled People Against Cuts
Today we yet again take to the streets
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People in mental distress will see the NHS as a place of coercion and pressure and disengage with services altogether. That’s what the government wants
“Job advisers in hospitals to get mental health patients back to work”.
“It comes after the NHS started offering job coaching to some patients with depression, although only about 6 per cent of those referred attended.” Apparently it’s doctors fault for not being keen enough!
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#Budget2024
Where was the outcry when disabled people bore the brunt of austerity for 15 years?
Lost their warm home discount in 2022
Died in large numbers due to benefit cuts many in tragic circumstances
Silence
Now government comes for you
Horrible feeling isn’t it?
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#WinterFuelPayment
Disabled people in receipt of PIP or attendance allowance not in receipt of Pension Credit lose winter fuel allowance
Disabled people in receipt of PIP lost warm home discount
Disabled people unable to work are not to blame for cuts to WFA
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#CRDP24
Having to jump through hoops to prove your disability, asked traumatic questions that cause further trauma. You only just get over that assessment and it all begins again and again until you can’t take anymore. That’s what PIP and WCA assessments are like. Traumatic
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#Dispatches
my friend Carol took her own life two weeks after being found fit to work. I was the last person to speak to her. I fight too get justice for her for Alex for Jodey for Philippa for Roy for Christian. For the countless many more. Each name is in our hearts always
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#DisabilityTwitter
For 14 years we’ve fought the government tooth and nail on cuts to benefits, social care and support. After today’s announcements it feels as though we’ve failed. These bastards won’t care how many people they kill. Inhaumane bastards the tories
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Starmer’s Labour Party is now just as dangerous for disabled people as the Tories were
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#FollowBackFriday
I’m Paula, disability rights activist, disabled person.
“This placard was from 2013
It reads I am not a scrounger
I am a disabled extremist because I dare campaign against this abusive government”
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#DisabilityTwitter
There are a lot of anxious & terrified disabled people wanting to know what Labour are planning for disabled people. Kendall made announcements about a white paper, we don’t know what’s in it. It will be studied once it’s published & campaign strategy planned
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#GE2024
#DisabledPeopleDemand
#PIP
Personal independence payment(pip) is for disabled person’s care & mobility needs. You can get PIP if in work or not. Many disabled people claim PIP are working! Take PIP away & many disabled people working won’t be able to continue to work
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#KeepTicketOfficesOpen
#StaffOurStations
Please support
@RMTunion
in the fight to keep ticket offices open. I find ticket machines inaccessible, screen small, rarely work. Feel safe knowing ticket office staff in office.
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#CRDP24
Banner outside royal courts of justice
It says
Jodey Whiting
Missed a Work Capability Assessment while very ill
Disability Benefits stopped
She took her own life
Campaigners demand
An independent enquiry into deaths linked to DWP
Join Justice For Jodey
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#anxiety
Today, for the first time in 4 years I took my partner for a coffee. To see him out with me doing an every day thing was awesome. It took us 2 hours to leave the house but he sat where he could see the room and no one could go behind him. The room had one person in it
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#DisabilityTwitter
I’m feeling despondent, as a disability rights activist I am starting to feel like I have let a lot of people down and haven’t achieved anything. It’s an absolute dire time we are facing
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#NoToAS
Where is disabled people’s assistance to live?
Cuts to social care
Healthcare
Benefits system
Access to Work
Lack of accessible social housing
Decent jobs with decent pay & terms and conditions
Assist us to Live!
We are not disposable or expendable
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#DWP
Employers often refuse to put reasonable adjustments in workplaces. Huge backlogs to access to work claims
Forcing disabled people into work will cause further harm, distress, poverty and death.
This is all about cut the benefits
Bill
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#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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Disabled people are outside Portcullis House waiting to go in
Security are closely questioning
@Dis_PPL_Protest
activists many of whom and allies are under the canopy whilst it’s raining outside
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Thank you to all for the outpouring of love & solidarity I have received its humbled me & made me quite emotional. I want to thank the awesome NHS staff at 3 SE London hospitals who treated me they never left my side, thank you NHS ❤️ thank you all
#NHS
#Solidarity
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#SaveTicketOffices
#FollowBackFriday
Hi, I’m Paula, disability rights activist, as a disabled person closure of ticket offices means disabled people right to turn up & go is under threat, that undermines article 19 of UNCRPD the right to independent living.
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#Dispatches
the ministers those present and past at the DWP should be facing prosecution for every disabled claimant death. It’s genocide. Crimes against humanity. There is only one place for Iain Duncan Smith & Therese Coffey. It’s called prison
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#CRDP24
Disabled people distressed by DWP Brown Envelopes. So the DWP changed them to white. With big black letters. This is not a circular please open and read. They don’t get it. We have a fear of all the post. Everyday waiting for the letter to arrive. It’s torture
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#DisabilityTwitter
Motorbility cars are not free. They are leased. Disabled person pays for the car with the mobility component of PIP
Social security payments are not hand outs. Everyone pays into the welfare state with NI contributions & progressive taxation
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While everyone is concentrating on Brexit, spare some thought for disabled ppl losing PIP, social care, ESA, claimants sanctioned, facing eviction, going hungry. Many are dying & having human rights violated. Christmas isn’t happening for many. Rise up!
#GTTO
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#GE2024
Disabled people want to be treated with dignity & respect. Disabled people are human beings. Disabled people want support to live independently, just live life.
To all political parties stop with the underserving scrounger rhetoric. We won’t take more of the same
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#Labour
Employers attitudes are a huge barrier to work for disabled people
Have a history of mental distress many sectors will not touch you, especially if vetting process involved
I was a civil servant. When I had a breakdown at my desk that was job gone
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#Budget2024
There are millions of disabled people across the UK really anxious about what Rachel Reeves will announce in her budget. It’s important that we reach out to each other share our fears and support each other going forwards.
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#Strikes
The government are holding the country to ransom. Not the posties, nurses or rail workers. The government wasted billions during the pandemic while frontline staff got no increase in pay. To the Tory government give the staff above inflation pay rises.
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#DisabilityTwitter
We’ve got to keep challenging the right wing media narrative on disability and the welfare state. No one is immune from becoming too unwell to work; or life changing disability ending up needing to use a wheelchair. Mental distress, ADHD, autism are real
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#Labour
You say difficult decisions lay ahead.
It shouldn’t be difficult to tax the rich and make them pay
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#DisabledPeopleDemand
On way to
@Dis_PPL_Protest
action/event in london
Please use the above hashtag
Let’s get it trending today
First day of new parliament disabled people demand to be heard. It’s nothing about us without us
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#PIP
To those who say our disability is curable or you can get over it. When a dr says not curable. It’s not curable. You live with it. We have mobility & care needs. That’s what pip looks at not if able to work or not. Also to add no one is immune from disability
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#PIP
The government keep yapping about value to the taxpayer
Disabled people pay tax too. We have high financial costs to meet because of our disability
When talking about value for the taxpayer the Tories WASTED £155bn in 5 years
Announced £75bn on defence spending
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#AccessDenied
This is Jack; who has arthritis and PoTS. Jack is a wheelchair user
His shirt says
The DWP almost Killed me and all I got was this shirt, food insecurity, PTSD, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Trauma, Housing Insecurity and debt
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#WowDebate
Stephen Kinnock didn’t vote against the Tories on the Work and Welfare Bill. He abstained. His constituents need to challenge him on that. Better still find a MP who supports disabled people not abstain on a bill that’s harming disabled people now
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Thérèse Coffey claimed £200,000 on expenses while cutting your benefits
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#EndFuelPoverty
2024 71% of older disabled people lost their winter fuel allowance
2023 3.6 million disabled people are in fuel poverty
2022 200,000 disabled people lost warm home discount support
Government do not keep winter fuel death figures anymore
Cold homes kill
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#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
In response to Sunak speech:
Placard says I Am A Disabled Extremist
Because I Dare Campaign Against This Abusive Government
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I Daniel Blake.
BBC 2
Sat 5 Jan 2019
21:45
Watch this and make your family and friends watch it too.
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#Budget2024
When
@RachelReevesMP
stands at the dispatch box on 30th October for the budget & hammer disabled people with further cuts will there be a national outcry on that or a wall of silence? No one is immune from disability. Disabled people need support & allies
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#FollowBackFriday
#SaveTicketOffices
I’m Paula, disability rights activist. As a disabled person, please support
#SaveTicketOffices
campaign. We need the ticket offices open. For access, safety & security. Without ticket offices & staff on stations many of us can’t travel
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#PIP
Disabled people won’t be able to buy services or equipment with no money
DWP PIP claimants may have to 'prove' their purchases in new crackdown
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#NotMyBill
I’m on my way to
#NotMyBill
protest in Parliament square in London. Please RT pics using
#NotMyBill
as we protest anti protest & anti strike laws the public order bill
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#FollowBackFriday
#SaveTicketOffices
Hi, I’m Paula, I’m a disability rights activist. As a disabled person, I’m asking you to please support the campaign to save ticket offices. With closure of ticket offices & destaffing of stations, this will severely impact on turn up a go
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List of shame: the 312 MPs who voted to take free school meals from 1m poor children
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#IDanielBake
remember UK first state to be formally investigated for human rights violations towards disabled people under UNCRPD. With overwhelming evidence the UK was found guilty of grave and systematic human rights violations towards disabled people. Tory cuts kill
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#DisabilityTwitter
I’ve been physically unwell the past several weeks & I got serious news over Christmas. I’m physically & emotionally struggling. I’ve got to now seriously decide if I can continue campaigning. The last few months have been bloody tough disability wise
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#CRDP24
This is David Clapson. David was sanctioned by the Job Centre. David died with no food in the fridge; unable to keep his insulin cold a pile of DWP letters found next to him
This is David Sister Gill
@Gillthompsona4u
Gill continues to fight for justice today
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#Dispatches
the entire assessment process is stressful. It’s traumatising. It’s designed to break the claimant. It’s designed to harm.
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#DisabilityTwitter
Now the election is over, we need to push Labour back on voucher proposals on pip, the work is a health outcome mantra and assisted suicide. We’ve got to mobilse, campaign & tell the new government that we are prepared to take them on.
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#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
Outside the DWP.
A picture banner of David Clapson who died after his benefits were stopped due to samction. David died of diabetic ketadosis with under £3 in his bank account.
Rest in Power David. We won’t ever forget you
@Gillthompsona4u
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#PIP
Depression & anxiety are very serious conditions. Very disabling & debilitating. It’s not about being “a bit bluesy” these are real conditions. The government cuts to support leaving nhs with no funding won’t decrease mental health issues. It will increase massively
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#AutumnStatement
It’s the duty of disabled people to resist the Tory government, fight all of their proposals, campaign, online, in the streets and in the courts
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#SaveTicketOffices
#FollowBackFriday
Hi, I’m Paula, disability rights activist as a disabled person ticket offices are vital. Support with accessible journeys, journey planning, feeling safe on the station when harassed by passenger
Keep ticket offices open
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Nurses gather outside Downing Street on International Nurses Day calling for a pay rise via
@NursingNotesUK
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