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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone saying people fake disability to rake in benefits instead of working hasn't filled in the Universal Credit Work Capability form. Not a single question about work, but 2 pages detailing how often you shit yourself. Purposefully dehumanising for an extra 217 quid a month

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is obviously a good idea but everyone's gonna lose their minds about it, aren't they?

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Care free at the point of use is obviously the way to go and kudos to Burnham for finally saying it But if we're going to reform social care properly we can't only talk about funding. We need to ask what it is we want a care service to do - and then work out how we pay for it

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't... hate the draft recommendations of the Timms review but they ignore one fundamental problem PIP is designed to 'meet the extra costs of being disabled' - but for most people it doesn't come close to doing so

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day Tomorrow sees MPs vote on a bill that would see some suicidal people helped to die instead of helped to live - because they're sick and disabled We can't create a world where some suicides are not only approved, but state sanctioned

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Of course they've released the Equality Impact Assessment for the new assisted dying bill at 9pm on the Friday before the bank holiday weekend Almost like they don't want it to get covered

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The transphobia -> ableism pipeline is alive and well, I see

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Bloody hell, have Labour started talking to disabled people?? Burnham says any move to allow assisted dying should not happen until the government funds better social and palliative care.

Burnham says any move to allow assisted dying should not happen until better palliative care in place
Q: Do you support assisted dying?

Burnham said he was not opposed to this being debated. But he went on:

Personally, I think there’s something that needs to happen first, and that’s the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care.
I think it is very challenging to introduce that wider debate in a context of people not receiving that care and having peace of mind about that care.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally a sensible approach Yes, people should have a choice but it needs to be a real one Really hope this signals a change in direction and more concern for disabled people and our lives

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Semi regular reminder that almost as much is spent on care for working age adults than for the over 65s If a plan only deals with the latter, it's not really a solution

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

£18.5bn seems like a lot of money but would ultimately save a LOT more across the NHS, benefits, lost earning potential of disabled people and carers, boost to employment etc Oh, and it would raise the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of people. Should be a no brainer

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We won't fix social care until we stop seeing needing care as shameful

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Today I had to explain Count Binface to a friend who doesn't follow politics and tbh I sounded absolutely bonkers

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Least surprising poll finding you’ll ever see: 73 per cent of people think that the investigation into Nigel Farage’s finances should continue even if he wins the Clacton by-election.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is a really good, reasoned piece on the disability benefits review by @francesryan.bsky.social There are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic but any attempt to make Pip a means-tested benefit must be forcefully resisted www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Pip review is an opportunity – and headache – for Andy Burnham

Attempts to add conditionality to Pip would be opposed by campaigners and Labour backbenchers

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I wonder if you can be legally sworn in as Count Binface

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Peak right-wing populism to run a "the people vs the establishment" contest when "the people" are represented by a man with several million pounds in undisclosed gifts. Just a regular chap like you or me

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Will Labour fight this where they should - corruption - or will they inexplicably spend the entire time trying and failing to win an argument on small boats? Why do I feel like I already know the answer?

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Would be great if more people linked Starmer's resignation yesterday with today's Brexit anniversary but I suppose that would involve a level of introspection that this country couldn't possibly handle

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As a disabled person, I was overjoyed to see a Labour government. I thought Starmer would push back on the hate the Tories had fuelled. Instead he bequeathed us the hate-filled debates around Pip and assisted dying. I'm not sorry that his emotional goodbye today didn't move me. Good riddance

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What a day to get back to the UK

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The assisted dying campaign made last year hell. I lost close friends, got more hate than ever before, and felt anxious a lot of the time. I can't believe that thanks to a *Labour* MP, that was not only all in vain but I now have to do it again. I'm not sure I can

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Regular reminder that what Britain desperately needs is “low skilled” care workers - and that these jobs are not actually low skilled at all and should be welcomed by an immigration system that appreciates their huge value. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Wes Streeting plans to increase high-skilled immigration if he becomes PM

Leadership hopeful to also say tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maybe - just maybe - the issue is that nondisabled people keep calling care jobs low skilled

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

when was the last time the government announced a policy?

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The first, very rough draft of the proposal for book 2 is done, babyyyy

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here’s what @lucywebster.bsky.social thinks of when she thinks of disability culture: spiky, dyed hair, leather jackets; and attitude.

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The Joy of Disability Culture's Punk Side

Honestly, everyone should be exposed to it.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Just a little reminder that if your Pride celebration doesn’t include/provide access for the disabled people in your community, it is as exclusionary as if you took a letter out of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Yes, and - Some people cannot work - Some people need those benefits *to* change their lives

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Does Pat McFadden know what the Labour Party is for?

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The media and politicians make out that the public is crying out for disability welfare cuts That just isn't true

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This story is horrifying in so many ways but most pertinently in how it shows that poor and disabled people are simply viewed as expendable The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state? www.the-londoner.co.uk/tracey-turne...

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The body in the wheelchair: How did a troubled family get lost by the state?

A decayed corpse was found being wheeled through the centre of Walthamstow. Who was she? And who is to blame for her death?

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm at a conference another LGBTQ equality and someone has just called anti assisted dying campaigners as religious nut jobs so I'm feeling... uncomfortable

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tomorrow i’m going to go and teach some little disabled kids disability history and hopefully give them a sense of the community they belong to so they know it's here for them. I'm doing it for them but I’d be lying if I didn't say I think it's going to heal me

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Except it isn't what he did in government! He raised spending massively, raised taxes, increased welfare spending, increased immigration and was pro-EU integration. Now he's against all those things.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

as a wheelchair user, this is a really gross framing

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm going to go out on a limb and say he isn't actually sorry.

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The Persistent @thepersistent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Favorite books from The Persistent staff + contributors: - "Those Who Save Us" by Jenna Blum (@ginannebrownell.bsky.social) - "The Summer When My Mother Had Green Eyes" by Tatiana Țîbuleac (@lubakas.bsky.social) - "Sitting Pretty" by Rebekah Taussig (@lucywebster.bsky.social)

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11 Books We Always Return To

Even with an ever-growing to-read pile of new books on our bedside tables, these favorites have a hold on us.

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