John Harrison
@speyside1955.bsky.social
North East based West Ham supporter . Disabled activist
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The 2nd part of today’s Hall of Shame double bill: Richard Tice who has yet again been on social media today spreading harmful rhetoric against people on benefits. This drives up hatred against disabled people + other people who claim benefits
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The 2nd part of today’s Hall of Shame double bill: Richard Tice who has yet again been on social media today spreading harmful rhetoric against people on benefits. This drives up hatred against disabled people + other people who claim benefits
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
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On today's Hall of Fame, we have MP Jess Brown-Fuller, Lib Dem MP for Chichester who voted against the UC Bill.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP
#WelfareNotWarfare
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP
#WelfareNotWarfare
August 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
On today's Hall of Fame, we have MP Jess Brown-Fuller, Lib Dem MP for Chichester who voted against the UC Bill.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP
#WelfareNotWarfare
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP
#WelfareNotWarfare
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A new series that places people who make life more difficult for disabled people in the hall of shame.
Today: Fraser Nelson, for making a documentary that attacked disabled people on benefits, playing up to harmful stereotypes.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
Today: Fraser Nelson, for making a documentary that attacked disabled people on benefits, playing up to harmful stereotypes.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
July 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A new series that places people who make life more difficult for disabled people in the hall of shame.
Today: Fraser Nelson, for making a documentary that attacked disabled people on benefits, playing up to harmful stereotypes.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
Today: Fraser Nelson, for making a documentary that attacked disabled people on benefits, playing up to harmful stereotypes.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
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Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
June 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
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Would be a shame if…
May 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Would be a shame if…
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Supported by disabled ppl already attending, disabled gatecrashers persuaded civil servants to let them ask questions ministers didn't want to be asked at sham govt consultation. Brilliant activism @mdpac.bsky.social, reporting by @johnpring.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act...
Disabled activists gate-crash DWP event and send message to ministers: ‘Your consultation is a sham’
Disabled activists gate-crashed one of the government’s “sham” consultation events on its disability benefits green paper, and persuaded civil servants to let them put questions that ministers had …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Supported by disabled ppl already attending, disabled gatecrashers persuaded civil servants to let them ask questions ministers didn't want to be asked at sham govt consultation. Brilliant activism @mdpac.bsky.social, reporting by @johnpring.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act...
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cn: sui, dwp
She did everything "right" here. Informed the DWP of doing permitted work, as they ask. But it was wrongly recorded, she was sanctioned, and it began a spiral where she died malnourished and desperate, with no food in the house.
This is what dealing with the DWP does to people.
She did everything "right" here. Informed the DWP of doing permitted work, as they ask. But it was wrongly recorded, she was sanctioned, and it began a spiral where she died malnourished and desperate, with no food in the house.
This is what dealing with the DWP does to people.
Department for Work and Pensions failings contributed to the mental distress of a disabled woman who took her own life after being left with less than three pounds in her bank accounts, a coroner has concluded.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-helped-c...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-helped-c...
DWP helped cause mental distress of poverty-stricken benefit claimant who took her own life, says coroner
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failings contributed to the mental distress of a disabled woman who took her own life after being left with less than three pounds in her bank accounts, a cor…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
cn: sui, dwp
She did everything "right" here. Informed the DWP of doing permitted work, as they ask. But it was wrongly recorded, she was sanctioned, and it began a spiral where she died malnourished and desperate, with no food in the house.
This is what dealing with the DWP does to people.
She did everything "right" here. Informed the DWP of doing permitted work, as they ask. But it was wrongly recorded, she was sanctioned, and it began a spiral where she died malnourished and desperate, with no food in the house.
This is what dealing with the DWP does to people.
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#DPAC protest against the shameless cuts on disability and welfare, #PIP, #DWP. People are not numbers or pounds to be cut from budgets. They are real lives, many cut short by being disabled, ill health or suicidality without the government helping! #WelfareNotWarfare #Norwich
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#DPAC protest against the shameless cuts on disability and welfare, #PIP, #DWP. People are not numbers or pounds to be cut from budgets. They are real lives, many cut short by being disabled, ill health or suicidality without the government helping! #WelfareNotWarfare #Norwich
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The government's own analysis shows that planned cuts to disability benefits would force 50,000 children into poverty.
I will be voting against this.
No Labour MP should be voting to push children into poverty.
I will be voting against this.
No Labour MP should be voting to push children into poverty.
March 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The government's own analysis shows that planned cuts to disability benefits would force 50,000 children into poverty.
I will be voting against this.
No Labour MP should be voting to push children into poverty.
I will be voting against this.
No Labour MP should be voting to push children into poverty.
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This headline is misleading. Reeves has not been "forced" to find an additional £1.6 billion in cuts to benefits. She has CHOSEN to impose more cuts on benefits because she refuses to raise taxes on the wealthiest.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn
Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This headline is misleading. Reeves has not been "forced" to find an additional £1.6 billion in cuts to benefits. She has CHOSEN to impose more cuts on benefits because she refuses to raise taxes on the wealthiest.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Labours cuts aren’t just unachievable (Osbourne delivered less than half of his) but contributing to a hostile uneducated perception of mental health and neurodivergence. It’s as contemptible as it is stupid. It’s weak, panic driven and indefensible. They won’t just fail, they will never be forgiven
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Labours cuts aren’t just unachievable (Osbourne delivered less than half of his) but contributing to a hostile uneducated perception of mental health and neurodivergence. It’s as contemptible as it is stupid. It’s weak, panic driven and indefensible. They won’t just fail, they will never be forgiven
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Thank you so much DPAC for your support and solidarity✊ CAC are dedicated to uplifting your upcoming action on Wednesday 26th March! We are stronger together❤️
#CripsAgainstCuts
DPAC wants to say well done to every activist who took part in #CripsAgainstCuts National Day of Action across the UK
Also great organising by @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social solidarity to all of you ✊🏼
DPAC wants to say well done to every activist who took part in #CripsAgainstCuts National Day of Action across the UK
Also great organising by @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social solidarity to all of you ✊🏼
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thank you so much DPAC for your support and solidarity✊ CAC are dedicated to uplifting your upcoming action on Wednesday 26th March! We are stronger together❤️
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'I've never seen anything that makes me think there's a conspiracy going on in the department.'
#DWP minister @StephenCTimms arguing that ministers, not civil servants, were responsible for cover-ups... and that any deaths were due to 'mistakes' . Not true, as I'll prove this week.
#DWP minister @StephenCTimms arguing that ministers, not civil servants, were responsible for cover-ups... and that any deaths were due to 'mistakes' . Not true, as I'll prove this week.
Minister hijacks Commons inquiry to defend DWP, as he attacks book that exposed its violence
The minister for social security and disability has publicly attacked a book that exposed decades of “bureaucratic violence” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Department: How a Vio…
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February 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
'I've never seen anything that makes me think there's a conspiracy going on in the department.'
#DWP minister @StephenCTimms arguing that ministers, not civil servants, were responsible for cover-ups... and that any deaths were due to 'mistakes' . Not true, as I'll prove this week.
#DWP minister @StephenCTimms arguing that ministers, not civil servants, were responsible for cover-ups... and that any deaths were due to 'mistakes' . Not true, as I'll prove this week.
Newcastle Safer Space. A quiet area for crafts and a relaxing break for all in the midst of a protest. Today, Support the healthcare workers in Palestine
January 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Newcastle Safer Space. A quiet area for crafts and a relaxing break for all in the midst of a protest. Today, Support the healthcare workers in Palestine
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Doesn’t get more conclusive than this.
January 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Doesn’t get more conclusive than this.
As part of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPACne) Safer Space we will be running a safe area for all at the Newcastle Palestinian protest on Saturday 25th January . Crafts, seats, water and games. Visit us at the Monument from 12.45
January 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
As part of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPACne) Safer Space we will be running a safe area for all at the Newcastle Palestinian protest on Saturday 25th January . Crafts, seats, water and games. Visit us at the Monument from 12.45
Edinburgh for Christmas
December 27, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Edinburgh for Christmas
In Edinburgh for Christmas. Any ideas on “fun things” for group that includes a 16 and 69 year old. Thanks
December 24, 2024 at 8:10 AM
In Edinburgh for Christmas. Any ideas on “fun things” for group that includes a 16 and 69 year old. Thanks
Shut down Rafael. Violent action by police break up peaceful demo at Rafael arms factory. Who is on the side of history?
December 21, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Shut down Rafael. Violent action by police break up peaceful demo at Rafael arms factory. Who is on the side of history?
Who do you tell … if anyone?
It is my birthday and i am lying in a warm bed, looking at my presents in the half light of a new day waiting for my partner to wake.
Happy boy
It is my birthday and i am lying in a warm bed, looking at my presents in the half light of a new day waiting for my partner to wake.
Happy boy
December 21, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Who do you tell … if anyone?
It is my birthday and i am lying in a warm bed, looking at my presents in the half light of a new day waiting for my partner to wake.
Happy boy
It is my birthday and i am lying in a warm bed, looking at my presents in the half light of a new day waiting for my partner to wake.
Happy boy
After the storm at Cullercoats. Our new birder group see little auks, manx shearwater and a velvet scoter
December 10, 2024 at 10:25 AM
After the storm at Cullercoats. Our new birder group see little auks, manx shearwater and a velvet scoter
Northumberland today 2 surf scoters, 8 velvet scoter, merganser, eiders, sanderling , twite, marsh harrier . Joy of warmer air
November 24, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Northumberland today 2 surf scoters, 8 velvet scoter, merganser, eiders, sanderling , twite, marsh harrier . Joy of warmer air