Here's my 1st take on Liz Kendall's statement today on proposals for disability benefits, following weeks of govt scaremongering & demonising sick & disabled people, placing their mental health under intolerable strain at the prospect of losing support they need to survive 🧵

Over 100 people have joined The Green Party since a few hours ago when we announced that we now have 60,000 members. If like Anne, you want to join the party that is ready to take on the far right with actual solutions to tackle inequality: join.greenparty.org.uk

The question remains The Labour Party - why strip vital support away from millions of people when a 2% wealth tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise many, many times more? theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Why ARE so many people claiming disability since 2020? No one could have predicted this.....! Apart from Professor Danny Altmann who warned this would happen back in 2022 in the The Guardian They have known, for A LONG TIME, that this was going to happen. theguardian.com/society/2022/m…

We can create a society that is more fair and just if those with the broadest shoulders - who also emit the most - chip in. I’ve joined Greenpeace UK in demanding a one-off National Renewal Tax on the super-rich 0.1% in the UK with wealth over £10 million. act.gp/3TRMxfA

Cutting PIP (an ‘in work’ benefit) will not suddenly make sick and disabled people able to work more. These changes are back to front! Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

Two of the strongest predictors of suicide? Financial precarity—and being made to feel like a failure. Labour’s #DisabilityBenefits cuts risk both. This isn’t reform. It’s reckless harm. #WelfareNotWorkfare

I know I now sound like a stuck record, but I WILL NOT stop shouting about this until every single child is protected. Covid is NOT a “nothing-burger” in kids. Even if acute symptoms in kids are mild it’s doing long term damage. We need everyone to WAKE UP to this & #CleanTheAir

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“Experts warn virus that almost all of us have caught may dramatically raise risk of young dementia” - ⁦Danielle Beckman⁩ ⁦Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne⁩ - Dani - as we were discussing on Spaces15/3/25 - seems others also studying Covid share our concerns #CleanTheAir dailymail.co.uk/health/article…

TW Suicide x DWP A coroner has found that DWP failings contributed to the mental distress that led to 31-year-old Krissi Hunt’s suicide. She had £2.89 in her account, no food, and rising debts. She was underweight, unsupported, and trying to survive.

What does it say about us— that we are willing to sacrifice children for the illusion of normal? A 🧵

Benefit cuts rebellion grows towards enough to defeat the plans bit.ly/4msbw5R PM justifies cuts for disabled people saying ‘if you can work, you should work’ but the big change is to exclude hundreds of thousands from PIP which has nothing to do with work at all

It is outrageous and morally reprehensible that it took the world nearly 80 days of broadcast starvation and cruelty amidst genocide to exert enough pressure on Israel to even slightly ease its total siege that has blocked the entry of all food, medicine, fuel and other vital

Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, both from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, are at imminent risk of execution in Iran. In 2023 alone, Iran executed at least 853 people. We must act now. Sign the petition amnesty.org.uk/actions/stop-e…

An interesting read on why it pays to follow the science (both medical and social) #PTSD motherjones.com/media/2024/12/…

📢 Stephen Timms MP's dual role as Minister for Social Security & Disability creates a HUGE conflict of interest. We demand a DEDICATED Minister for Disabled People is appointed! 16M disabled people in the #UK deserve a focused voice. Sign now! #pwME chng.it/pKrHbcjcwB

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”. My exclusive: theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

This is brilliant work from TeamClots colleagues Resia Pretorius & Mark Faghy.Again yet another paper clearly demonstrating pathobiological changes in PEM. The fact that some few individuals still believe PEM in LC &ME can be treated by reframing illness beliefs beggars belief

I’m joining celebs like Jamie Oliver and David Tennant to back a proper plan against poverty in the UK. Think every child should have a fair start? Add your name to the open letter today ✍️ 38d.gs/yfhf