kristinna retweeted
Finland the happiest country on the planet, bans for profit schools, taxes billionaires, houses the homeless.
Take note.
kristinna retweeted
Semi-regular reminder of how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK on the DWP site
Total jobs: 106,741
Of which are
remote: 509
+ Disability confident: 31
+ Part-time: 8
+ Not actually working in someone else's home: 5
FIVE WHOLE JOBS
kristinna retweeted
If we cut Kemi's and Helen Whately's expenses, that will bring the bill down a bit. These politicians bleed us dry.
"We need to cut welfare to fund defence."
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch say's Britain's national security in under threat in a speech ahead of the October budget.
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📺 Sky 501
kristinna retweeted
Isn’t it shocking that serious criminals who are detained in psychiatric hospitals have been receiving up to £800 a month universal credit.
This apparently is due to be stopped next year but how has this been allowed to go on in the first place.
No wonder this country is called “Benefits Britain”
Taxpayers money wasted once again.
kristinna retweeted
Why have you been claiming £25k-39k a year for a London flat?
The commute from your owned property is easy.
You could stay at a Premier Inn on odd nights when you can't get back. You don't need a fecking 3k a month London flat.
Parasite.
kristinna retweeted
I'm a double amputee.
I recieve 3,600 a year in PIP
@Helen_Whately receives *39,000* a year in housing.
If our Hels wants to cut down the welfare bill I've an idea where she should start...
How about making wages a living wage?
The percentage of those refusing to work is so small.
Instead of berating the weak why not berate those who have for being greedy?
kristinna retweeted
It doesn't matter how many times you cut disability benefits. Severely disabled people still won't be able to work.
kristinna retweeted
The reason universal credit claim rates are so high compared to every other benefit is quite simple, it was designed that way. The point of it was to be the single thing that everybody claims, with elements added on dependent on circumstances, which would have previously been their own independent benefits. Duncan Smith keeps going on about how things would be better if other people haven't screwed up the implementation, but it seems to me to be working exactly as it was designed, if that's not what he wanted, that's not anybody else's fault.
kristinna retweeted
It’s literally meant to help with the additional costs linked to life as a disabled person.
How do you plan to change this? Have you a magical cure for people born with disabilities?
kristinna retweeted
Helen, Helen, Helen
Let me explain this to you in plain and exceedingly simple English.
Disabled kids are most likely to have been born with their disabilities or conditions (as I was). I know this might be shocking to you Helen, but we don't just stop being disabled at 18. Being born with a disability is usually a lifetime deal.
I tell you what, care to swap? You can have my cerebral palsy (and the benefits that you say come with it) and I'll take your fully functioning extremities and become an MP. Not a Tory one though, because I'm not a horrible bastard.
By the way, if you accept my offer, good luck trying to wipe your backside, put your own clothes on, wash any part of your body or doing any sort of cookery (since you won't be able to hold a knife properly) are, and one more thing, forget about rolling yourself over in bed at night, you'll have to get somebody to help you with that as well. But yeah, apart from that, a lifetime on benefits is really fucking easy isn't it?
kristinna retweeted
11 out of 12 of the surfaces in the loos in the Parliamentary estate tested positive for cocaine.
I really dont think people who are wandering the streets IN THEIR OWN TIME, who dont run the country, are the problem.
MPs powdering their fucking noses AT WORK are the problem.
kristinna retweeted
Even if all the kids diagnosed with autism and ADHD theoretically could work in later life with the right support, the problem is twofold. Firstly, there are no jobs anyway, not even for every nondisabled neurotypical person who needs one, and secondly a significant proportion society don't seem to want to fund the required in-work help. In other words, they can't win.
kristinna retweeted
“No one wants to work anymore.”
NO, no one wants to work a full time job and still need THREE ROOMMATES to afford rent.
We’re talking bottom-of-the-barrel, basic shit here. The richest country on the planet, and half the population can barely afford to live.
Quite interestingly half are students or sick/disabled
The other half is a mix of carers, retired early or people who are out of work (surprisingly only about 16% of that 1in4)
So I bet most are doing their best to survive, studying or looking for job or looking after someone
