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Damian Haywood

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Ex County Councillor Active Traveller Disability Advocate Public Health Carer of Matias Uses "I think it is a bit more complicated than that" a lot. Was once called a "sweetie" by Emma Thompson. 🥰

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Mar 28

We often talk about our "hill".

This is my hill. You come for him and you come for hundreds and thousands of us. We will absolutely die on this hill...

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 21

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Again and again, we are shocked by the treatment of learning-disabled people. Yet we never learn from the past | John Harris

A landmark book exposes the history of loathing that underpins scandals like Winterbourne View. It has received next to no attention, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 14

As usual @johnharris1969.bsky.social is on the money here...

At Glastonbury, I saw what England’s silent majority really looks like. Why aren’t politicians listening? | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At Glastonbury, I saw what England’s silent majority really looks like. Why aren’t politicians listening? | John Harris

Orthodox politics no longer represents how people feel about the world. Sooner or later, something will have to give, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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CoHSAT - Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (Oxon) @cohsat.bsky.social · Jul 11

If you, like Oxford Labour would like:
* Cheaper and more accessible Public Transport
* Action on private school traffic
* More frequent P&R buses and shuttles
Then support the Temporary Congestion Charge and in Q9 select the relevant options.
🗳️Consultation link: shorturl.at/FuVxo

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 11

Astonishing the number of #Labour #MPs marking 30years of the Srebrenica #Genocide without a hint of irony. #Gaza

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 3

It cannot be a preventative health service without addressing the social determinants of health, which this plan does not mention. Disappointing silo thinking.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Starmer outlines 10-year plan to change NHS ‘from sickness service to health service’

PM says work in England will focus on prevention, with early diagnosis, community hubs and lifestyle measures

www.theguardian.com

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 3

@coldwarsteve.bsky.social

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's a fucked up world when Rachel Reeves crying affects our cost of living.

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 2

I wonder how many Palestinians were murdered overnight?

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 1

This!

Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Jul 1

The welfare bill has passed but it’s barely the same bill. It is government by cut and paste and with such chaotic speed, many ministers will barely know what’s in it. An utter shambles for Labour - and horrific unnecessary stress and suffering for disabled and sick people watching on.

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 1

102 killed today. But words are more hurtful apparently!

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 1

Attacks come as Israeli forces continue to demolish homes as fears of another ground incursion grow.

Israel kills 102 in Gaza as Trump says he will be ‘firm’ with Netanyahu

Attacks come as Israeli forces continue to demolish homes as fears of another ground incursion grow.

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 1

How inept, shambolic and embarassing this is for any Labour government. Let alone one with such a majority!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

Government's key welfare reform bill passes after last-minute concessions

The government's plan to reform the welfare system passed after an amendment to reject the bill was defeated.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Scott Urban @urbanturbo.bsky.social · Jul 1

Bus-stop bypasses. Here's the @livingstreets.bsky.social 2024 report: "If levels of cycling are to be significantly increased, and this is to become an ordinary, inclusive means of transport, then entirely ruling out the use of bus stop bypasses is not a viable option. "

www.livingstreets.org.uk

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jul 1

"After that carers should stop enabling newly disabled people by refusing to look after them."

Ouch!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Liz Kendall is a listening kind of woman but can’t seem to hear Labour discontent on welfare bill | John Crace

Not one member of the work and pensions secretary’s party came to her rescue as she laid out the government’s concessions – sorry, measures

www.theguardian.com

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

God damn it I'm glad that Ireland exists.

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

Multinational tech, tax doging bastards they may be... But this is lovely...

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

Occasionally my brain comes to stop and thinks...

"I can't believe a #Labour government is hitting the most vulnerable in society and actively putting more children into poverty 🤯"

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

Some excellent news for once...

#NHS #BreastScreening

www.nhs.uk/tests-and-tr...

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · Jun 28

“Worse than anything under the Tories.”

For today’s Guardian, I spoke to leading disability campaigners about the government’s concessions and why they will urge MPs not to support the bill. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners

Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely astonishing that they think this will win people over. So completely out of touch and depressing.

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · Jun 28

"Reactions.. have been positive from Oxford’s bus companies, Cyclox, the Green Party, Oxford West's Lib Dem MP, and the Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel.

Opponents include the Labour administration on the City Council, the Labour MP for Oxford East, and Labour’s county councillors."

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Jun 28

The Oxford congestion charge: a short saga
A proposed congestion charge has exposed political divisions in Oxford
@westenglandbylines.co.uk

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...

The Oxford congestion charge: a short saga

A proposed congestion charge has exposed political divisions in Oxford

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 28

For all his "Socialist" credentials, you do realise that the multi millionaire Michael Eavis has actively avoided paying tax.

#Glastonbury #Hypocrite

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Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is a depressing read, unfortunately...

Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Our estimates of current vaccine coverage and forecasts to 2030 suggest that achieving IA2030 targets, such as halving zero-dose children compared with 2019 levels and reaching 90% global coverage for...

www.thelancet.com

Damian Haywood @damohaywood.bsky.social · Jun 25

Health inequalities ≠ care inequalities. Remember that.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 25

Poorest parts of England to get £2.2bn more for NHS to cut care inequalities

Deprived and coastal areas to get extra cash this year for staff and resources in effort to improve health outcomes England’s poorest areas will get billions in extra health funding under new government plans to tackle stark inequalities in access to care and health outcomes. NHS services in deprived and coastal places will receive a £2.2bn boost this year to pay for more staff and equipment to help them close the wide gap in resources between them and well-off areas. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social · Jun 25

📍The geography of disability benefit cuts & jobs

Some of the places with the highest rates of claims have fewest vacancies to go round.

Cuts will make sick and disabled people poorer.

From @data.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/51d2...

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