Disabled Co-operator, playing with ideas. Some thoughts mine, some just thrown on the cosmic lottery to dance with the law of return.......

Joined March 2014
Cheryl Barrott retweeted
This #PoTSAwarenessMonth, buildings are lighting up purple to raise awareness of PoTS, and the @NorthwichNews would love to share the personal stories behind the campaign! Could you help us raise awareness? We’re looking for people living with #PoTS in Northwich, Winsford or Middlewich who would be comfortable speaking to the press and sharing a little about their experiences. The newspaper would also need a photo of you to accompany your story. By sharing your experience, you could help more people understand PoTS and the impact it can have on everyday life, while highlighting why raising awareness matters. Interested in getting involved? Please complete our short survey to let us know you may be happy to help. surveymonkey.com/r/9XFQBW2 Every story helps shine a light on PoTS. Thank you for helping us make this often invisible condition more visible! #SharingYourPoTSStory #LivingWithPoTS
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" #Midazolam weaponises end of life care and turns it i to something alien... alien to medicine. it's alien to our spirituality, and alien to family links too." youtu.be/RJ8_t0DTYcg?si=Utok…
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🚂 Introducing our member Severn Valley Railway (SVR) – one of the UK’s leading heritage lines, running for 16.5 miles from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth in the counties of #Worcestershire and #Shropshire through some of England’s most beautiful countryside. 🧵👇️ (1/4)
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There is a difference between co-operation and co-operative ownership. One is about working together. The other is about who owns the food economy, and whether the wealth it creates stays in the community that built it. @JoeJFagan put that to the Scottish Government.
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Pro-assisted suicide MPs can't win on the merits of their Bill - the irreparable flaws have been too clearly exposed by neutral bodies. So they've concocted a dishonest fiction about the scrutiny that occurred in the Lords, to try to shift the goalposts. The Lords did their job.
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We're extremely disappointed that Marie Tidball has chosen to co-sponsor a Bill opposed by every single disabled-led organisation in the UK. It appears her ideological commitment to suicide on the NHS is more important than her commitment to disability rights.
I’m co-sponsoring the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill brought by Lauren Edwards. Read my full statement here 👇
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It's back. Incredible how giving the state powers to assist people to die, is a now considered a higher priority for some politicians than fixing an NHS that struggles to keep people alive. Grrr.
NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week. Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot. “The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.
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Here we go again... rather than working to ensure a 'good death' for all by funding end of life care, yet another misguided MP is pushing for assisted suicide Thankfully my @BBCOne documentary explaining mine & others opposition is still on @BBCiPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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DISTURBING: An Ontario man repeatedly cried out “Help me” during a government-approved euthanasia procedure after the drugs failed to work as intended, exposing a dark reality many people never expected to witness. What was marketed as a peaceful, dignified death became a nightmare, leaving a family to watch their father’s final moments descend into chaos. The man remained conscious and visibly distressed after sedation failed, repeatedly calling for help until additional drugs finally rendered him unconscious. His final moments, witnesses say, were marked not by peace, but by repeated pleas for help. The case is fueling outrage because it wasn’t an isolated incident. Another Canadian patient resumed breathing after being declared dead, while a Belgian euthanasia case ended with allegations that a woman was suffocated after the lethal injection failed. Opponents argue these cases expose a side of MAiD hidden from the public, one where procedures don’t go according to plan and families are left with traumatic final memories. If a man can spend his final moments crying “Help me” in front of witnesses, what happens in the cases the public never hears about? @zeeemedia's explosive report reveals why so many people believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Its because 'Sophie' is a working class girl child that politicians & journalists were quick to publish & opinine about 'racist, feral, neds' living on council estates - its very clear & its deeply held class prejudice & bigotry. Iain might have written something eloquent here but never does he & all the others that did this reflect on their bigotry towards working class people.
Dundee Girl, I’m sorry. We rushed to judge you thetimes.com/article/cf50c04…
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Co-op Congress is never just a conference. Across two powerful days in Birmingham, our movement came together to share ideas, challenge each other and explore what co-operation can make possible. ⬇️ Watch our wrap-up video and relive the energy of Co-op Congress.
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Quote.. Cumbria care home boss left vulnerable resident 'destitute' after taking thousands..💷💷💷💷 Claire Ann Fitzpatrick left the victim "reliant on good will of others for every day basics" apple.news/AJpK3BRqgSFe47PUz…
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You can be housebound or bedbound with dysautonomia without meeting POTS criteria.
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Many MPs are loudly demanding cuts to the benefits budget to fund defence. Have any of these advocates suggested cutting MPs’ own generous expenses, subsidies, pensions, perks & benefits first? Or is austerity only for everyone else?
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Cheryl Barrott retweeted
There is very little rate of increase, given 3/4s of the increase are people #migrated' from #legacybenefits like ESA, IS. They had to make a claim for universal Credit, and that was counted as a 'new claim, even though it wasn't. There has been no 'massive rise'.
Replying to @SueJonesSays
It doesn't change the fact that we have far too many people claiming sickness benefits. They were 'hidden' when spread across the different benefits, but now people are shocked at how many there are and the rate of increase.
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