Abled folk believe the disability benefits system is too lenient and too easy, based on nothing but ignorance and rhetoric. Disabled people are telling you that it’s the exact opposite, based on their own experiences. I know which one I believe.

The owner of my car isn’t me. It’s the Motability charity. I just lease it from them, spending my higher-rate Mobility PIP, which I’d get into my bank account if it didn’t go to leasing the car. At the end of the lease, the car goes back to Motability. I own nothing.

It's important to note #Motability doesn't give us #disabled extra money or free cars, nor is it available to all disabled. It's only supplied to those with higher rate #PIP, & we sacrifice that monthly to lease, not buy, a car. No extra money, no free car. Facts matter.

The government will limit the tax breaks available to Motability, and other qualifying schemes. Apparently wheelchair accessible vehicles will be exempt.

Frances Ryan It was set up as a way to balance out the inaccessibility of transport in a society that was so inaccessible. Cheaper to give people a tiny amount than make everything accessible. Now we find a place where things are still inaccessible but we're being scapegoated too.

Positive feedback today on the first Translink buses with two wheelchair user spaces. With a few tweaks this should be the standard going forward. Thanks to all involved in making this happen Liz Kimmins John O' Dowd Department for Infrastructure

39 days... still no report...

There are lots of nasty front pages blaming welfare claimants for the budget and stoking division. Social media will be especially toxic, so do consider either blocking and muting with joyful abandon, or giving yourself a full digital sabbatical. You have done nothing wrong. JayX

These spaces have no formal definition meaning they have no minimum standards... that meant that my disabled kid was locked alone in an empty storeroom. The use of these spaces is undocumented therefore unregulated. Some are supervised, some are not. #RemoveTheRoom

MLAs know or should know that people with visual impairments rely on #ALTtext to make twitter images accessible to them but many still do not provide it. More consideration and action needed!

"The genocide in Gaza is far from over" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

When cancer patients had their red flag cancer ops cancelled during covid I said that we were crossing a moral red line that would be difficult to step back over again. We've somehow normalised failing time-critical cancer patients who will suffer terrible consequences.

The “suspects” which Israel “eliminated to remove the threat” are 8 & 11 years old:

We need 24/7 LD nurses who are trained, confident and effective. We need dedicated LD wards. We need an end to scattering people with complex LD across hospitals with staff who don’t understand them. It’s exhausting, traumatising and unsafe. The system has to change 🪡

Day 1598 DUP Day 1499 Ulster Unionist Party Day 1400 Alliance Party Day 1301 Sinn Féin Day 1202 The SDLP Day 1103 Mark Browne Day 1004 Hilary Benn Day 905 UN SR Disability Rights - G. Quinn Day 806 Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland Day 707 Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Day 608 NI Commissioner for Children and Young People Day 509 Secondary Students’ Union NI

High levels of economic inactivity, I expect, are an indicator of high levels of political inactivity, inability and failure.

Believe…not just at Christmas but always. Believe they matter and give them a future. #CalebsCauseNI #Hope #Help #CalebsLaw NI Executive Mike Nesbitt

Comment: The hidden cost of getting around: Disabled people need free travel now, says VIEWdigital community journalist Julieanne Crothers – viewdigital.org/comment-the-hi… - Christine McClements Una Murphy The National Lottery Community Fund NI

Once again, The National puts the rest of the UK press to shame. This is what journalism with moral clarity looks like.

Who could possibly have predicted that Flu+Covid in a warm, wet winter, when vaccinations didn’t start until 2weeks later than usual, and when vaccination eligibility is reduced is going to cause havoc…