Laura
@laurajerramp.bsky.social
Equality, Disability Rights, Early Years Education, Long Covid, Social Care, Art and Humour. Views my own.
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🚨Our statement on #Budget2026
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🚨Our statement on #Budget2026
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
Yet more Government actions that place the burden on Disabled people instead of taking responsibility for an unequal and inaccessible society that the Government has the power to change.
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-...
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty? | CNN
Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. Why do a third of children live in poverty?
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
It is a political choice - years of austerity, real wage cuts, regressive taxation, unchecked profiteering, disappearance of social housing, hijacking of govts by corporations/rich.
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20 November to 20 December is UK Disability History Month, which platforms the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
LibGuides: Special Collections: Disability History Resources: Introduction
LibGuides: Special Collections: Disability History Resources: Introduction
libguides.exeter.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
20 November to 20 December is UK Disability History Month, which platforms the history of disabled people's struggle for equality and human rights.
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
You can find out more about our Disability History research resources in this online guide ⬇️
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM #Archives #RareBooks
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As UK Disability History Month begins, we take this moment to reflect on the long fight for equality and human rights led by disabled people. UKDHM has marked this vital history every year since 2010 and continues to highlight the ongoing struggle for justice.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As UK Disability History Month begins, we take this moment to reflect on the long fight for equality and human rights led by disabled people. UKDHM has marked this vital history every year since 2010 and continues to highlight the ongoing struggle for justice.
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Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Aida Overton Walker (1880 -1914), US vaudeville performer, known as 'Queen of the Cake Walk', after a 1900s dance craze. The Cake Walk, originally performed by enslaved people, mocked slave owners & high society #womensart
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Against the backdrop of water privatisation, 20,000 residents were initially lied to (and then gaslit for years) about the toxic effects of our worst ever water poisoning
Poison Water review – a damning tale of greed, incompetence and Britain’s biggest mass poisoning
Poison Water review – a damning tale of greed, incompetence and Britain’s biggest mass poisoning
When north Cornwall residents’ water turned black and gelatinous in 1988, they were urged to mix it with orange squash when drinking. This powerful film lays out the effects of the toxic H2O – and their long struggle for justice
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Against the backdrop of water privatisation, 20,000 residents were initially lied to (and then gaslit for years) about the toxic effects of our worst ever water poisoning
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This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Also, benefit fraud on PIP, by the governments own figures, is less than 0.1%, whilst underpayments by government to claimants have been between 1 and 3%.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Also, benefit fraud on PIP, by the governments own figures, is less than 0.1%, whilst underpayments by government to claimants have been between 1 and 3%.
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I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
Storm Claudia puts Wales under water – why did these record-breaking floods barely make the news?
On the frontline of a deluge on the Welsh borders, Jude Rogers heard local stories of devastation and heroism – but incredibly the disaster was hardly referred to in Westminster and the national press
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...
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And if you're a disabled CEO who needs a modified vehicle for your disability, you're going to be forced to drive eg a Kia.
It's designed purely to humiliate & inconvenience disabled people, particularly WORKING disabled people.
It saves the taxpayer not one penny. #reeves #disability #budget
It's designed purely to humiliate & inconvenience disabled people, particularly WORKING disabled people.
It saves the taxpayer not one penny. #reeves #disability #budget
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
And if you're a disabled CEO who needs a modified vehicle for your disability, you're going to be forced to drive eg a Kia.
It's designed purely to humiliate & inconvenience disabled people, particularly WORKING disabled people.
It saves the taxpayer not one penny. #reeves #disability #budget
It's designed purely to humiliate & inconvenience disabled people, particularly WORKING disabled people.
It saves the taxpayer not one penny. #reeves #disability #budget
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A reminder
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A reminder
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
⚠️Government change the benefit system & so move claimants from the old system across to the new one - but the transfer process is inaccessible or too difficult for a percentage of vulnerable people.. so what happens?
Does the Government just cut their benefit & let them die??!! What the hell?
Does the Government just cut their benefit & let them die??!! What the hell?
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
⚠️Government change the benefit system & so move claimants from the old system across to the new one - but the transfer process is inaccessible or too difficult for a percentage of vulnerable people.. so what happens?
Does the Government just cut their benefit & let them die??!! What the hell?
Does the Government just cut their benefit & let them die??!! What the hell?
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#Budget2025
Tax breaks for UK company cars cost the exchequer £3.27 billion a year
Motability costs £1 billion
Both are valuable to the folk who get them, and yet we save our pitchforks and torches for disabled people
Tax breaks for UK company cars cost the exchequer £3.27 billion a year
Motability costs £1 billion
Both are valuable to the folk who get them, and yet we save our pitchforks and torches for disabled people
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Budget2025
Tax breaks for UK company cars cost the exchequer £3.27 billion a year
Motability costs £1 billion
Both are valuable to the folk who get them, and yet we save our pitchforks and torches for disabled people
Tax breaks for UK company cars cost the exchequer £3.27 billion a year
Motability costs £1 billion
Both are valuable to the folk who get them, and yet we save our pitchforks and torches for disabled people
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Tapestry created by women of the Otomi people of central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #womensart
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Tapestry created by women of the Otomi people of central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #womensart
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Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
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The reduction in the move on period has been shown to cause homelessness among refugees. It just is not possible for many to find a new place to live in 28 days, or for most people for that matter. It's a harmful, and cynical, manoeuvre by the government, and shifts support needs onto councils.
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The reduction in the move on period has been shown to cause homelessness among refugees. It just is not possible for many to find a new place to live in 28 days, or for most people for that matter. It's a harmful, and cynical, manoeuvre by the government, and shifts support needs onto councils.
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UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
UK's Online Gambling Industry: The £3.8 Billion Tax Question Nobody's Answering
UK's online gambling industry generates £15.6bn annually but pays minimal tax. With £3.8bn in receipts, experts say it's time for reform Here's why.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
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I remember standing on our back doorstep at dawn on the morning after the 1992 election, and Paul saying, "I'm never going to see another Labour government in my lifetime, am I?"
Were we despondent? You bet.
Were we despondent? You bet.
Labour are putting in place all of the tools and eliminating fundamental protections that will enable Reform to come in 2029 and govern in an overtly fascist and totalitarian way. No jury trials, digital ID, elimination of the ECHR etc. It feels intentional.
This will only end badly.
This will only end badly.
EXCLUSIVE: Jury trials to be scrapped in most cases to tackle court backlog - in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I remember standing on our back doorstep at dawn on the morning after the 1992 election, and Paul saying, "I'm never going to see another Labour government in my lifetime, am I?"
Were we despondent? You bet.
Were we despondent? You bet.
Why not ensure that Motability is improved for disabled people; that profits are funnelled back into the scheme,that money isn’t creamed off by the banks?
There’s lots that could be fixed.
But no this Government just wants to make it worse apparently
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-o...
There’s lots that could be fixed.
But no this Government just wants to make it worse apparently
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-o...
Motability Operations stays silent over how much high street banks benefit from disabled people’s car scheme
The company that runs Motability has repeatedly refused to say how much money the four high street banks that own the business are making from the £7 billion-a-year disabled people’s vehicle leasin…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why not ensure that Motability is improved for disabled people; that profits are funnelled back into the scheme,that money isn’t creamed off by the banks?
There’s lots that could be fixed.
But no this Government just wants to make it worse apparently
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-o...
There’s lots that could be fixed.
But no this Government just wants to make it worse apparently
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-o...
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There are actually many, very valid, reasons that someone may choose what's classed as a "luxury" car as their Motability vehicle.
Maybe it's the only dealership close.
Maybe the layout works.
Maybe it's what they're used to.
Maybe it's the only thing they can get in/out of...
Maybe it's the only dealership close.
Maybe the layout works.
Maybe it's what they're used to.
Maybe it's the only thing they can get in/out of...
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
There are actually many, very valid, reasons that someone may choose what's classed as a "luxury" car as their Motability vehicle.
Maybe it's the only dealership close.
Maybe the layout works.
Maybe it's what they're used to.
Maybe it's the only thing they can get in/out of...
Maybe it's the only dealership close.
Maybe the layout works.
Maybe it's what they're used to.
Maybe it's the only thing they can get in/out of...
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I'm absolutely raging.
Motability is the one thing that has actually worked since my wife's disability and made us both feel helped and supported.
Now it's demonised because of some right-wing rags lying and 'Labour' have just gone along with it.
Motability is the one thing that has actually worked since my wife's disability and made us both feel helped and supported.
Now it's demonised because of some right-wing rags lying and 'Labour' have just gone along with it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm absolutely raging.
Motability is the one thing that has actually worked since my wife's disability and made us both feel helped and supported.
Now it's demonised because of some right-wing rags lying and 'Labour' have just gone along with it.
Motability is the one thing that has actually worked since my wife's disability and made us both feel helped and supported.
Now it's demonised because of some right-wing rags lying and 'Labour' have just gone along with it.
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“We created the Refugee Convention because we were ashamed of turning away Jews fleeing the Nazis. To turn our backs on those protections is abhorrent — and only the Green Party is calling it out.”
Lloyd Russell-Moyle telling @PoliticsJOE.bsky.social one of the reasons why he’s joined the Greens.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle telling @PoliticsJOE.bsky.social one of the reasons why he’s joined the Greens.
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“We created the Refugee Convention because we were ashamed of turning away Jews fleeing the Nazis. To turn our backs on those protections is abhorrent — and only the Green Party is calling it out.”
Lloyd Russell-Moyle telling @PoliticsJOE.bsky.social one of the reasons why he’s joined the Greens.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle telling @PoliticsJOE.bsky.social one of the reasons why he’s joined the Greens.
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Hugely relatable. "How long can I sit upright" is probably the single most activity-restricting element of my life, because almost every social thing humans do involves hours of sitting upright. Theatre? Cinema? Opera? Ballet? Coffee? Being in a train or bus? A meal? Drinks? A car ride? #mecfs
My mum shared this earlier. 'How long can I sit upright?' has been a daily question for me, especially since 2022 and 'How much pain is 'worth it'?' has been with me most of the time since I fell ill over 20 years ago.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hugely relatable. "How long can I sit upright" is probably the single most activity-restricting element of my life, because almost every social thing humans do involves hours of sitting upright. Theatre? Cinema? Opera? Ballet? Coffee? Being in a train or bus? A meal? Drinks? A car ride? #mecfs