Don McQuixote- Scotland 4 Ever

I win! #PIP #Welfare #Disability

A quick message to all drivers: please, please, please, be aware of where you park. Dropped kerbs are essential for us #wheelchair users, both attended and unattended. Yesterday, I tried to cross the road at 3 dropped kerbs, all were blocked by cars. I had to manually wheel a quarter of a mile to find a usable one, and let me tell you, my shoulders ached like hell!. So please, be conscious of your parking spot, and think of us #disabled folks. Thanks!

The definition of an idiot being owned!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@IsabelOakeshott @reformparty_uk The Reform UK Supporters that put those up in the fist place broke the law by putting those posters up on a road sign. It is considered flyposting under Section 224 (3) of the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) 1990 and the Highways Act 1980. Reform UK can be fined up to £2,500

This summer will be a moment when Putin decides what to do next: expand the war or move to diplomacy. And we must push him toward diplomacy. Russia has announced a May 9 parade in Moscow without military equipment. If that happens, it will be the first time in many, many years. They cannot afford military equipment – and they fear drones may buzz over Red Square. This is telling. It shows they are not strong now. So we must keep the pressure, by sanctions, on them. Please oppose any ideas to ease sanctions – this is important. And thank you also to those who are fighting against Russia’s shadow oil fleet. From an intervention at the European Political Community Summit (2/3)

I help benefit claimants every week and I've never met one, not one, who gets £50,000 Whately is a disgrace

wow..nicely played sir

Prince Andrew claimed he was at Pizza Express in Woking on March 10, 2001. Flight logs show him departing London that morning on Epstein's jet. Customs stamps his arrival in New York at 14:20 EST.

Here's one to push back on the nonsense media framing that theres massive amounts welfare fraud when it comes to disbility/pip.

Hi @SuellaBraverman , 48 hours ago I asked you to substantiate or withdraw your claim that “250,000 foreign students took £4bn in UK loans.” That time has now passed. You have provided no evidence, no clarification, and no correction. I have taken the time to examine the data myself. I have reviewed materials from the Student Loans Company, the Department for Education, the House of Commons Library, the UK Statistics Authority, and reporting from Times Higher Education. Across these sources, one thing is clear. Your statement is presented in a way that gives the public a deeply misleading impression. Let’s deal with this carefully. The £4bn figure you reference relates to the total value of student loans issued to non UK nationals. It is not a direct cost to the taxpayer. These are loans. They are repaid over time based on income. Presenting that figure as if it were money handed out or lost is not an accurate reflection of how the system works. Then there is your use of the phrase “foreign students.” This is where the distortion becomes more serious. The fact (which you know quite well) is those eligible for UK student finance are not newly arrived international students. They are people with settled status, indefinite leave to remain, refugee status, or long term lawful residence in the UK. They live here. They work here. They pay into the system. And under the law, they are entitled to access student finance. Standard international students on student visas are generally not eligible for these loans. By leaving out that distinction, you create a very different picture in the minds of the public. One where large numbers of people are arriving from abroad and immediately accessing public funds. That is not what the data shows. You also cited a figure of 250,000 without pointing to a clearly published dataset or transparent methodology. Numbers like this carry weight. They should be used with care, not as loose estimates in politically charged statements. I am not interested in party politics. But I am concerned about what this kind of messaging is doing to the country. When lending is presented as spending, and long term residents are presented as outsiders, it fuels resentment. It deepens division. It creates tension where clarity is needed. And ordinary people end up carrying the consequences of that confusion. Like I was being racially attacked and profiled in my initial response to you in X by supporters of your party who were obviously misled and triggered by your misinformation. I did consider legal action. But the reality is that the law is not designed to deal easily with this kind of broad public misrepresentation. You know that, which is why ignoring a challenge like mine carries little immediate consequence. That does not make it acceptable. I will be submitting a formal complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards regarding your use of misleading statistical claims in public communication. The public deserves accuracy. Not selective framing. Not distortion. And certainly not narratives that risk turning people against each other on the basis of incomplete facts. Stephen Dada.

Debbie Abrahams : "it is important to dispel one ever spreading myth-DWP spending as share of GDP-the only reliable way to assess it over time- has barely risen in the past 20 years". Finally a single MP makes this point. Thank you.

This is on @wesstreeting and @UKLabour - baby killers are employed in our #NHS

The DWP's latest report (Fraud and Error in the Benefits System, year ending April 2024) states the PIP claimant fraud rate at 0.0%

BREAKING: I have received information that Dr Eastland Staveley is working at @DHUHealthCare today as a GP. Complaints have been filed with the @GMCUK, the police, and now directly with DHU. This is a matter of public interest. British patients deserve to know.

@DanielJMath1 Quite amazing what a private education can do eh?😂

She’s an absolute fucking moron.

The state pension is not a random government favour, it’s the back end of a 35–40 year compulsory “contract” where people are forced to hand over National Insurance on the clear promise of a basic pension at the end. Politicians and think tanks helped design an unfunded, pay‑as‑you‑go system where today’s workers pay today’s pensioners, then have the gall to call it “unsustainable” as if the public dreamt it up. If a private firm sold you a retirement product on fixed terms, took your money for four decades, then announced at 66 that you “didn’t really need it” and would henceforth be means‑tested or frozen, they would be in court for mis‑selling and fraud. The crisis here is not pensioners “leeching off the young”, it’s a political class that built a Ponzi‑style NI system, diverted the proceeds for other spending, and now wants to default on the people who kept their side of the bargain. You do not blame the victims of a defective product for believing the brochure; you go after the people who wrote it.

@MrJohnNicolson So looking forward to Sarwar getting his derriere kicked.

Scottish Labour could be reduced to just 13 MSPs at the Holyrood election on Thursday, a bombshell poll has predicted. #SP26 dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

I’m a pensioner. So I benefit from the triple lock. I get the full state pension. Which is £965 every four weeks; so equivalent to £1045 a month. I get the full amount because I have 50 years of working and paying my stamp and income tax. I get no other pension. It’s not luxury!

@crepycidon @MissLauraMarcus I brought up 4 children and gave half my private pension to my ex wife. 🤡

@MissLauraMarcus If it’s not a ride question. How can you have no other provision ? You’re presumably almost 70…. So what were you doing for half a century ?