Aphra Tulip-Briggs

Very excited to be involved in this. Mental Health Research is an area with such potential

All children have the right to thrive, no matter their start in life. Governments cuts to a lifeline fund have had a devastating impact on some of the most vulnerable children and young adults in England. Join us and Anna Maxwell Martin in calling for the government to reverse all cuts made to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund. We are still waiting for a date to meet with The Minister for Children and Families, @JoshMacAlister We have a date to meet with the @educationgovuk (DfE) team managing the ASGSF. In the meantime we have written this open letter, link below: asgsfprotest.com/add-your-signa… Please sign our open letter to Josh MacAlister, share this post and encourage others to sign and share. Parliament is back in session tomorrow, 13th October, let’s remind the government we aren’t going anywhere. We are stronger together. The government must listen. #fundnoworpaylater #ACutTooFar #asgsf #adoptionsupport #carenotcuts

@RachelCDailey I had to correct social workers on this recently. Its shocking how wide spread this misconception is and how much further it will spread.

Thank you for all the suggestions for attracting more hot men to the National Trust. My favourite so far was getting Hot Priest to come and hide out in some of our priest holes. If anyone knows Andrew Scott please can you raise the idea with him - just casually.

@aliciaandrz I've been on it for years. It keeps me in check. Since I have been on it, I got married and returned to work after 10 years of being too ill. Hope it works as well for you.

I’m starting Prozac tomorrow & surely this will be the SSRI that allows me to enjoy my beautiful life. if you have nice things to say about Prozac, please comment or DM! if you don’t, please refrain. thank you.

@KARMAENVY @thomas069134 @uncle_deluge Not saying im special. Just trying to learn how you think and how others think.

@ATulip @thomas069134 @uncle_deluge No. Stop. You're not special. It's NOT like a sentence, because that would require prompting. Describing the image.

I don't think the vast majority of people who claim to have aphantasia actually have it. It's a failure to understand visualization. "You guys can actually see an apple??" makes me think someone is expecting to literally hallucinate a physical apple in their field of vision

@KARMAENVY @thomas069134 @uncle_deluge Yes I know what things are there but I dont pull any of it in a virtual sense. Its more like a sentence in my head. This is next to this. The point is its not a picture. Its not even close to a picture

@ATulip @thomas069134 @uncle_deluge No. You know which things are next to each other without prompting. You have a complete memory of the park. You know A B and C relative to each other at the same time.

@KARMAENVY @thomas069134 @uncle_deluge I genuinely can't remember the visual details in picture form. If I think of my favourite park. I remember what things are next to each other but I can't conjure up a picture of the band stand even though I've been there many times before.

@thomas069134 @uncle_deluge Do you have no object permeance on the concept of sight? When you close your eyes can you no longer imagine the sensation of seeing? Can you not remember any visual details of any memory?

Anybody who says "genuinely disabled people have nothing to worry about" has clearly never interacted with the DWP or been through an "assessment"

If anyone is horrified by this weather and wants to give nature a hand then its not too late to join Ecologi ecologi.com/aphratulipbrig…

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… This is a powerful read and clearly sets out why women will be put at risk should these changes to social security go ahead. It is chilling.

The Guardian has now confirmed that if an existing claimaint loses their PIP on reassessment, which happens regularly due to assessor error, they will then become a 'new claimant' and therefore subject to the 4-point rule. So, no one is so-called protected. Kill the bill.

Labour MP Rachel Maskell is asking MPs to sign a new *reasoned amendment* to block the welfare reform bill Maskell's new amendment rejects the bill because: — No consultation with disabled groups — OBR will not analyse impact of reforms until late 2025 — Employment funding will not be ready until end of decade — No government impact assessment

🚨 Joint statement: Unacceptable “concessions” on the disability cuts MUST be rejected. It is not a concession for future generations to receive even less support than Disabled people today. Read it in full on our website👇 disabilityrightsuk.org/news/unaccepta…

Can we stop talking about £5bn a year spending cut. People on benefits spend their money straight away and very locally. It’s £5bn a year being taken off local shops and businesses. It’s £5bn a year less supporting local jobs. It will close shops and businesses and cut jobs.

The Government say that 150,000 unpaid carers will lose Carers Allowance as a result of the proposed cuts in their Welfare Bill. What the heck are we doing here? In what world is this the right thing to do? Liberal Democrats will be voting against these appalling cuts.

Politics is not a game. It's people's lives. The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.

PIP makes it possible for disabled people to come closer to enjoying a normal life: eating, dressing, meeting with friends, going to work. Every PIP pound is spent locally, those pounds are spent, lots of taxes are paid. The PIP cuts are inhuman. They are also economic stupidity.