Thanks to the folks at Conteur for putting this together, a little insight into just some of the work at Midland Mencap in the words of the people who know best #Birmingham #WestMidlands #LearningDisability vimeo.com/1091233941/a15…

Most disabled people (8 out of 10) weren’t born disabled; they became disabled through accident, illness and injury. That means any system that marginalises us is marginalising the future you, too. This is not the solution. The government has not listened. #TakingThePip

It is significant that Disability Labour - the Labour Party’s official disabled person’s affiliate organisation - has issued a statement that the government’s concessions are insufficient and is calling on all MPs to vote against the benefits Bill on Tuesday.

She can’t, because there are none #WelfareReform #WelfareBenefitCuts #BenefitCuts #PIPCuts

Disappointing when your local MP Antonia Bance MP ducks out at the eleventh hour and misses an opportunity to stand with disabled constituents to the end. Yes, PIP is ditched but still great harm in the UC ‘reforms’ in this butchered Bill

No, they’re really not

To all #VasculitisUK #trustees #volunteers & #fundraisers on #ThankYouDay who have put themselves out each day & to all those who have also worked tirelessly behind the scenes to support all those diagnosed with #vasculitis.

And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Labour.

Hugely disappointing from The Labour Party and a devastating blow to disabled citizens into the future. The opportunity to thrive, live a life and feel safe and secure stripped away by a Govt not brave enough to tax where the wealth really is. This is a cruel and ill judged decision

If you deny or cancel scrutiny are you not in effect denying the democratic process? This will be an interesting case to follow #Birmingham birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Don’t look away, don’t scroll by, don’t think it’s not that many.Take the time to stop and read about the human tragedy of incarceration of fellow human beings. This is avoidable, solutions exist, it’s the political that is failing #LearningDisability #Learningdisabilities

Dishonest doesn’t cover it. Another classic case of if you believe your own lies long enough they become your truths

Starmer demonstrating true democratic values by suspending MP’s who stood on the right side of history and voted to protect the most vulnerable. If you didn’t laugh you’d cry

Listening to this speech again it beggars belief what Starmer has done. I’m old enough to remember when this would have been a core The Labour Party value. Values that are now in tatters. Where next for a shamed leadership?

There can be no other reason for effectively an eight month wall of silence. Whatever the report hides people are still dying in their 50’s from predominantly preventable deaths. Does that shock you?

Government launch a new Civil Society Covenant and then, in the reports own words, acknowledge our issues but offer no sincere pledges to address the crisis. Call me a cynic but during a forty year career I’ve heard this rhetoric before

Not just me then 😂

The genuinely sad thing about the exploitation of one of the best core supports in English football….it will have minimum impact on overall club finances. There will be a day when the club realises the importance of those fans but they won’t be there, priced out forever #avfc

After the debacle of the 2021 plan and the recent spiteful assault on disability benefits I wonder how many disabled citizens will trust this process or how long it will be before the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is again criticising the UK Government

Live in Walsall or the surrounding area or know someone who does? Why not try out WalsallDisabilityHub, loads of great activities to get involved in, fun, friendship and wellbeing #Walsall