JELLY HEAD
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Equality & Disability Rights Campaigner •Co-Chair Avanti Accessibility Panel •Member Northern Access User Group •Member Cumbria Better Connected @LevelBoarding
Londoner in Lake District.
Joined July 2009
Wow. My first experience as a mobility scooter user of @LevelBoarding in UK. New @merseyrail trains are absolutely fantastic transformative for disabled people enabling independent travel and safer for everyone . @DavidPo22194359 has shown what’s possible
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RT @ddhitchens: A month on from the Commons vote on assisted suicide, it’s clear that quite a few MPs were confused about the bill or influ….
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RT @BigIssue: Disabled people warn of brutal ‘secret’ cuts to DWP Access to Work support: ‘It’s been horrific’
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DWP whistleblowers have reported Access to Work funding has been slashed by 60% to 70%, leaving disabled people struggling to stay in work.
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RT @natalieben: On Tuesday I have regret motion in Universal Credit Bill. Strongest action I can take since we cannot stop or amend a money….
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Members discuss the Universal Credit Bill at second reading, and all remaining stages, on Tuesday 22 July.
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RT @resfoundation: Three-fifths of working-age carers that receive Carer’s Allowance are in material deprivation. This rises to over two-….
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RT @DevonJ58: @railnigel Hi Nigel from a damp and wet Leeds station where once again Northern prefers to leave its passengers, sorry custom….
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RT @johnpringdns: Liz Kendall stops herself just in time from lying about #PIP cuts, as she argues with disabled MP.@CommonsWorkPen @SteveD….
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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall was on the verge of lying to MPs yesterday as she argued with a disabled MP about misleading comments she made in parliament on disability benefit cuts. Stev…
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RT @mettlesome_teri: Looks like DWP held back figures until after ‘welfare reform’ bill re UC was pushed through parliament. So MPs voting….
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RT @EmilyP_Smith: Thank you!. I am delighted to confirm, that with 45 CLP nominations, the backing of the FBU and Disability Labour, I lead….
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RT @historykev: Wait. Didn't @SKinnock claim again and again that the government was "neutral" on #assistedsuicide /#assisteddying? Now it….
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RT @Shrink_at_Large: LORDS REVIEW UC BILL ON TUESDAY .Lords can't stop UC Bill BUT every speech in our support builds legal case and hopefu….
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RT @timfarron: At last, the Government has listened to the Liberal Democrats. Since 2022, we have been calling for Ofwat to be scrapped. B….
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RT @danny__kruger: The Assisted Dying Bill is 'one of the Government's major priorities' according to this official answer. I hope this wil….
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RT @johnpringdns: Government’s ‘weak’ evacuation plans for disabled high-rise residents ‘fail to learn the lessons of Grenfell’.@InclusionL….
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New post-Grenfell regulations designed to ensure disabled people can safely evacuate from high-rise residential buildings will instead continue to put their lives in grave danger, the government ha…
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RT @johnpringdns: Regulator’s report on rail assistance ‘shows it is still failing to acknowledge right to turn up and go’.@Doug_Paulley @L….
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The rail regulator has been asked why it has failed to do more in an annual report to stress disabled people’s right to “turn up and go” when accessing the railway network. The Office of Rail and R…
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RT @johnpringdns: Air travel accessibility report could lead to ‘tangible’ improvements, but progress depends on industry.@LordOrk @Tanni_G….
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Recommendations for widespread improvements to the way the air travel industry treats disabled passengers could make a “tangible real-world difference” to their experiences with airports and airlin…
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RT @DanielHewittITV: NEW: Learning disabled people die 20+ years earlier than the general population. This is why. Myles was 31. He had a….
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Opportunities to save a 31-year-old autistic man with learning disabilities were missed, and his death was entirely preventable, a coroner ruled. | ITV National News
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Labour suspension doesn't mean I'm silenced, MP says. @RachaelMaskell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on that the chief whip had made it "very clear" to her that her "work on the disabled people reforms were the reason" for her suspension
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The PM argues MPs "elected on a Labour manifesto" should back the government's plans.
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Level boarding included in ScotRail’s fleet replacement plans. The new trains are anticipated to include a low-floor design to enable @LevelBoarding where platforms meet PRM-NTSN requirements
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UK: ScotRail has begun market engagement for its planned procurement of electric and battery-electric multiple-units.
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RT @PeterStefanovi2: Suspended Labour MP @RachaelMaskell tells Sky's @JonCraig why she rebelled against the government over its welfare ref….
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