James Taylor
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Exec Director of Campaigns, Comms & Strategy @Scope // Former @whichuk & @stonewalluk // Passionate about #disability #equality // Not the singer
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Joined May 2009
‼️Extra cost of being disabled in UK to rise by almost 12% in five years ‼️. The new @scope Disability Price Tag published today . Cuts to PIP will leave disabled people with no financial support to live independently .
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RT @DrFrancesRyan: “When the political and media class wish to leave disabled people hungry and dirty, the disabled community must explain….
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RT @Helen_Barnard: We seem to be entering a dark period. Disabled people always faced prejudice, but it's so dangerous when public figures….
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RT @scope: 🚨 Yesterday, the government pushed through the Universal Credit (UC) Bill. And disabled people will pay the price. Here's what….
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RT @PollardTom: It seems completely reasonable to me that someone who has been assessed by DWP as unable to work due to disabilities/poor h….
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RT @TrussellUK: 🚨 We’re shocked and disappointed. The UK government has pushed through HUGE cuts to Universal Credit for disabled people a….
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RT @scope: 🚨MPs will vote again today on the Universal Credit (UC) Bill, which proposes devastating cuts to UC. MPs email inboxes have bee….
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RT @ayaz_manji: Ministers have said the requirement for a descriptor to apply 'constantly' forms part of the way the severe conditions crit….
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RT @Helen_Barnard: Universal Credit and (no longer!) PIP Bill goes to a final vote today. Here's our joint briefing with 20 other organisat….
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RT @TrussellUK: ❗ Today, MPs will vote on whether to make record cuts to disabled people's social security. The scale of the remaining cut….
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RT @ayaz_manji: As well as analysis from @NEF and @jrf_uk - important to see the policy experts at the House of Commons library draw attent….
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RT @IainKPorter: Actually around 50,000 people will be pulled into poverty by remaining cuts in Bill – this now our best estimate based on….
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RT @Sumi_RabindraK: This 👇 Plus who gains? Our analysis of UC 'rebalancing' (big cuts for disabled ppl, small boost for everyone): . For d….
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RT @PollardTom: This is nonsense. The impact assessment starts from an imaginary baseline incorporating reforms planned but never implement….
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RT @ayaz_manji: For anyone campaigning on the UC & PIP Bill (or just trying to work out what's happening with it), I've pulled together a….
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RT @TrussellUK: We applaud the power of disabled people, food banks and MPs, like Dr Marie Tidball, who have tirelessly used their voices t….
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Well…this whole thing could have been avoided if Government consulted properly in the first place. Months of uncertainty and proposals that will make people poorer, only for government to pull and say they will consult. A huge cut to UC health remains so still work to do.
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Labour MP Mary Kelly Foy now speaking in the Commons on welfare bill. "I popped out for a banana earlier on, and when I came back in things had changed again, so I'm more unclear on what I'm voting on" . 🍌.
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A powerful speech from @RachaelMaskell. And thank you for raising @scope Disability Price Tag. £1,095 just to have the same standard of living. The right thing to do is to vote against this bill.
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RT @jrf_uk: Today MPs will vote on the amended welfare bill. MPs who choose to walk through the lobby and support this bill are paving the….
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