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🎶 It's not about the money, money, money We don't need your money, money, money Just wanna have the same access Forget about the price tag Ain't about the, uh, cha-ching, cha-ching Ain't about the, yeah, ba-bling, ba-bling Wanna have the same access Forget about the price tag 🎶

@Captain_Deltic Yes I hope they still let me in.

@Christiane The Parcel Yard?

I just realised I have to book assistance for tomorrow. And then I checked when England is going to play. 😣 Where can I watch football at Kings Cross? 🫣😂

The number 96 has been tattooed on my wrist since 2015. It reminds me every day that I was one of the lucky ones who came home from Hillsborough. Today, standing in Parliament to speak as the Hillsborough Law passed was one of the proudest and most emotional moments of my life. For the 97. For their families. For every campaigner who never gave up. This is your legacy. #HillsboroughLaw #JFT97

@RosemaryFrazer Yes, totally agree.

@Christiane Love Leeds. Worked there last year a few times and had a bit of time to explore. Great place.

Leeds is underrated

I actually muttered the words “it’s a bit chilly” this morning. Felt nice to say that again.

Sorry JT, I appreciate you personally, I know you try but this doesn’t match my reality and Friday was infuriating. Again. The MAS team tries hard but they need backup by the station teams who far too often don’t feel responsible anymore since MAS exists. That is indeed a cultural issue. It also doesn’t help that everyone thinks it’s “extra” or “additional assistance”. I don’t need a red carpet or champagne. You run the wrong trains that prevent me from boarding independently.

@squirrelpot to the thousands of the team at Southeastern who work tirelessly every single day to provide the very best experience. 3/3 ^JT

So, @se_railway. What are we doing with this? I just had to wait 48 minutes to catch a train that takes me to the next station - 3 minutes away to a staffed station due to the lack of assistance. You ruined your company culture so badly that station staff don't provide assistance anymore, but let customers wait for mobile assist to arrive.

Yay!!!! 🥳

In a tax saving manoeuvre, Farage is paying himself £50,000 in rent for a studio space at one of his own properties. If the rental payment was 1p more a year, it would breach the threshold requiring a declaration to the register of members’ interests. apple.news/AmW1iakO5Q4miJ…

Maybe he'll become Prime Binister one day

Looks like bin man might just bin Farage.

@IanB_producer @Se_Railway @SteveWhiteRail They announced that 2 years ago that new trains are coming. Still not ordered but that’s on the government, I assume.

@Christiane @Se_Railway But @SteveWhiteRail said they were about to put out a contract for new trains with AC. Surely they will be level boarding...right? Or is policy that disabled people are left sweating on whether ramps turn up?

🚨 BREAKING: The Clacton by-election will take place on 13 August

@Se_Railway Don’t worry. You will get that in writing. Funny enough, I wrote this text just days ago: open.substack.com/pub/accessible…

@Christiane Hi Christiane, I'm sorry your journey has taken longer than expected - if you can give me more details about the journey you were looking to make, I'll make sure this is investigated and followed up by our accessibility team. ^JT

NHS FRAUD CAUGHT ON CAMERA, NOBODY CARED Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx gave the @NHS 30 years of clean service. Not one blemish. Then she did something apparently unforgivable. She noticed two consultant radiologists at Ealing Hospital, now part of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust @LNWH_NHS, were billing the NHS for shifts they were actually spending at a private hospital down the road. Getting paid twice for the same hours. That is fraud everywhere except, it turns out, inside the NHS complaints system. She reported it. To her line manager. To the Medical Director. To the HR Director. To Counter Fraud. To the Chief Executive. To Number 10. To the Treasury. She built a paper trail so thorough that ITV @itvnews later sent an undercover team into the hospital and filmed the same consultants years on, still taking cash from patients for private ultrasounds inside NHS premises. The Trust's response to all that diligence was to sack her, based on counter allegations later shown to be fabricated. The man behind those allegations reportedly signed off an email too crude to print here .......... ....... He picked up a Top Mentor award from the Trust that same year. You could not write comedy this good on purpose. Sharmila took it to tribunal and won. She won her appeal too. The judge told the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no. She was then quietly blacklisted across the NHS. One job offer was withdrawn the moment they worked out who she was. Legal costs hit £130,000. Somewhere in the middle of it she developed breast and lung cancer, which her doctors link to years of sustained stress. The two consultants kept their jobs. George Osborne could not get involved. Andrew Lansley could not get involved. David Cameron could not get involved. Every one of them filed it under employment matter, which is Whitehall for we would rather not know. A proven fraud case, covered by ITV @itvnews, the Guardian, Daily Mail @DailyMail, Channel 4 News @Channel4News, the Independent @Independent, BBC News @BBCNews, the Times @thetimes and the Daily Mirror @DailyMirror. The official position of Her Majesty's Government was still not our problem. This is the reward system in action. Report fraud, lose your career, lose your health, and watch the people you reported get promoted.

One of the weirdest things about the next few weeks will be seeing the international media trying to explain the British concept of #CountBinface to a bemused world.

BREAKING: Andy Burnham gets 322 nominations from Labour MPs for the party leadership. (There are approx 400 in total)

EXCLUSIVE The Metropolitan Police is conducting a criminal investigation into at least £500,000 in donations from George Cottrell's mother to Reform UK before last election. Two people interviewed under caution about "disguising" source or making false statements about funds.

Railways bill must ensure accessibility becomes a reality, disabled peers tell minister #RailwaysBill #AccessibleTransport disabilitynewsservice.com/railways-bill-…