classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
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There is NO debate whatsoever to be had about welfare claims, awards and spending until MPs such as @Helen_Whately stop lying and misrepresenting the truth, apologise for their lies publicly, and correct the record publicly. Anyone saying anything else is a partisan fool.
Presume they'll also avoid any artists writing music which uses that foreigner Jean-Philippe Rameau's TraitΓ© de l'harmonie rΓ©duite Γ ses principes naturels?
GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-β¦
Here for the comments in response to this absurd anti-environmentalist.
Usual nonsense being posted about "return to office". It's impossible to make generalised statements of this form which are relevant to all types of employment, unless one is a bad faith actor uninterested in the detail or with ulterior motive.
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When you consider the chain of events that must take place to get Hazarika and Cooper on Sunday morning Sky TV presenting a graphic that directly compares Pip to military personnel, it does not bode well for the state of this nation.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
PIP isn't an unemployment benefit. It's support for the extra costs of disability, including for people in work. Cutting it won't cure illness or create jobs. UBI+ offers a better approach: universal income security alongside disability support.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
It doesn't matter how many times you cut disability benefits. Severely disabled people still won't be able to work.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Again - the PIP headlines pushed by the right wing media and their dodgy dark money thinktanks are inherently dishonest and manipulative misuses of the data.
PIP recipients report a huge variety of conditions, and most have multiple conditions.
While three-in-ten (31 per cent) report having depression, just 2 per cent of all PIP recipients report depression as their only condition.
Only one per cent (or less) report having only anxiety or ADHD.
ALT chart showing Proportion of PIP recipients aged 16-64 who report the top ten most common conditions: England and Wales, May-June 2026
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Would you believe this is misleading nonsense. Morriston has 17k residents across 11 statistical neighbourhoods (LSOAs) each with 1400 to 1700 people. That bubble is basically a bunch of council flats whose residents are mostly OAPs.
Britain is now living with levels of worklessness that would once have been treated as a national emergency. Yet because so much of it is now recorded as incapacity rather than unemployment, we have gradually come to accept it as a fact of life. dailymail.com/news/article-1β¦
That cannot continue. We need a new generation of welfare reform that restores opportunity, breaks the cycle of dependency and helps people back into work.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Tough shit.
You have no choice.
Stoned people aren't even in the top fifty of things destroying the country.
This is just more outrage farming.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
I stress again that the PIP criteria is online for everybody to see. People are being manipulated by headlines and dodgy data.
You do not get it for just having anxiety, you need to credibly prove whatever your condition tangibly impacts your ability to look after yourself.
Young people close to a third of anxiety disorder PIP claimants, data suggests trib.al/t2nktKd
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
What is this thing right wingers do now where they just compare two completely unrelated numbers
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
The most aggressively dumb thing I've seen in a long time
The scandal that keeps people in the UK with dandruff when they should be defending the country. @SkyNews @YvetteCooperMP @ayeshahazarika @Helen_Whately
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Why is needing PIP treated as a moral failure whilst enormous executive rewards are defended as success?
Why are we disabled people expected to justify every penny of support whilst the financial privileges of the powerful receive far less scrutiny?
#DisabilityJustice
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
PIP exists to help with the extra costs of disability.
So why do people keep treating it as a reward for doing nothing?
A disabled person can work and still face additional disability costs.
Why is that so difficult for society to understand?
#DisabilityJustice
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
More lie's today from Nelson. Children don't get DLA for just being anxious, or having ADHD it's a lie
It's a 40 page application.
You require letters from consultants, psychiatrists, social worker's, and pediatricians
He never mentions the Β£170 bn being handed to banks on QE
A staggering 1 in 9 UK kids is now categorised as disabled, releasing benefits for parents.
Julie Marriott runs a community centre where young people tell her they fear being βlabelledβ as anxious, ADHD etc
Latest from Times welfare inquiry
thetimes.com/article/f212df9β¦
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
This past week, multiple writers for the Times have all committed to the narrative of disabled people losing vital services. Iβd for one would like to know whoβs directing this campaign of abuse towards disabled people. Motability is a lifeline. We LEASE the cars, Alex.
Andrew Mitchell π³οΈβππΊπ³ retweeted
Helen Whately has spent the past few days promoting a fictional divide between disabled people and βhardworking taxpayersβ.
First, she shared a carefully constructed Β£27,400 benefit figure that combines Universal Credit, housing support and enhanced PIP, as though rent and disability-related costs were disposable income.
Then she suggested Labour MPs only resisted PIP cuts because claimants outnumbered their majorities. What she didnβt mention was that this applies to a higher proportion of Conservative and Reform MPs, and her own majority is just 1,469.
Disabled people are workers, taxpayers, carers and voters. We are not βBenefits Streetβ, and we will not be reduced to figures on a political spreadsheet.
#HelenWhately #PIP #UniversalCredit #DisabilityBenefits #DisabilityRights