Dave Murphy ●
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Dave Murphy ●
@davejmurphy
Software Developer, Tech Junkie, Socialist, lover of books. Tweets may contain affiliate links which earn me a small commission at no cost to you.
UK. Pronouns: He/him Katılım Şubat 2009
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@Raw_Combat_ Wait for a brief moment the camera panned to a fully opened garage and the guy was still trying to fight through a little hole on the door?? Is this scripted??

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@moonsoultarot @be_like_ice That's an ignorant response tbh. Not everyone with ADHD will behave like that. Some do and it's an inability to regulate that may or may not be manageable with therapy and/or medication.
Claiming people can change if they want to is ableist af and likely to cause an RSD response
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@be_like_ice Not everyone with ADHD will behave like that, no. It’s not fair to blame it on that. It’s a lack of emotional maturity and discipline and probably avoidant attachment and other traumas. It’s something that person needs to work through themselves and CAN change if they want to.
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@Erinnn46 @PollardTom Diagnosis has nothing to do with disability benefits. They're awarded on the basis of how people's lives are impacted which can and does vary wildly between people.
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I think the fact that they keep just referring to it as 'anxiety' is a big issue. There are many different kinds of Anxiety Disorders. All very different with different impacts as it is. It shows a distinct lack of understanding but I would call it intentional ignorance knowing that the public also doesn't often understand the difference between anxiety and clinical anxiety disorders.
I think by reducing it down to just 'anxiety' is a smart but disgusting tactic on their part because people think about everyday anxiety they experience & put that onto people with anxiety dx's. I think it might make some difference if we started using actual diagnostic terms/labels like Panic Disorder, GAD, Agoraphobia because clearly someone with severe agoraphobia is not the same as everyday anxiety or remotely the same realm as GAD or social anxiety.
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This proposal from the Tony Blair Institute shows a complete misunderstanding of both mental health & the benefits system. Declaring some conditions 'non work-limiting' is a discriminatory & simplistic response to a hugely complex challenge 1/4 telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@PollardTom The report they love to reference is full of caveats and even admits that any work at all makes some people ill.
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@PollardTom They don't even define what good work actually is, nor have they researched the availability of "good" work. The end result at the sharp end is simplistic any work is better than no work.
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@TrevorMore42887 @MPIainDS This is Iain Duncan Smith who was responsible for creating the current benefit system ...
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It’s scandalous that six MILLION workers earn LESS than many jobless claimants.
thesun.co.uk/news/38957947/…
Over six million workers now get less in post-tax wages than many jobless claimants, with claimants telling The Sun they now see no point at all in taking a job, given the combined benefit packages available.
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@Jaketspud21 @MPIainDS How about you do a benefit check and see how much you'd be entitled to if you didn't work?
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@MPIainDS We have lost our minds. As a low paid worker I might as well claim benefits, and to think we are importing millions with no moral obligation to this country to take low paid jobs. 😂 they are simply going to claim benefits and laugh at us.
Governed by retards.
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@RITB_ Isn't this claim complete horseshit though? Comparing the income of single workers with low housing costs to whole households with children and disabilities?
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You wanted UC and a gig economy and you got it
Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green@MPIainDS
It’s scandalous that six MILLION workers earn LESS than many jobless claimants. thesun.co.uk/news/38957947/… Over six million workers now get less in post-tax wages than many jobless claimants, with claimants telling The Sun they now see no point at all in taking a job, given the combined benefit packages available.
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@Lovehasnowords1 It's trying to counter the narrative being fed to MPs that reducing PIP will push people into work. They're being pushed to vote and speak in favour of "welfare reforms" (aka cuts) on the basis of that people are paid too much on benefits and it keeps them out of work.
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@SamJRushworth @domdyer70 @suzyquiquero @PoliticsJOE_UK That's not what the ICGS investigation found though Sam ...
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@domdyer70 @suzyquiquero @PoliticsJOE_UK It is unacceptable to be drunk in a division lobby. I was disputing that this is a common occurrence. I have never personally seen it. I am not saying it never happens, but it mischaracters the majority of MPs to suggest its common.
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"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes."
Green MP Hannah Spencer tells us what Westminster is REALLY like.
The full interview is live on YouTube, and as a podcast here: linktr.ee/howtorebuildbr…
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@robjd239 @Potatoe_Waffles @Swiss____Tony @afneil People born in Northern Ireland are in fact born both Irish and British, not one or the other.
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“Smell the alcohol”?! Wow. I wonder what she thinks it will be like when she and the Greens get their way and legalise heroin? Also, she says that, unlike MPs, she doesn’t think bankers would have a drink then go back to work. What planet is she on?
PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK
"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes." Green MP Hannah Spencer tells us what Westminster is REALLY like. The full interview is live on YouTube, and as a podcast here: linktr.ee/howtorebuildbr…
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@Woman4W @TheGriftReport Whole thing sucks. They'll pay for childcare if someone that isn't family does it. They'll pay for a mortgage as long as it's a landlord's and not your own.
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@Woman4W @TheGriftReport The system doesn't care. If he's living in their house as part of their family then the DWP says his income is part of the household income and therefore reduces the Universal Credit payable.
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Benefit cheat Bethany Elwood, 31, pocketed £78,057 in Universal Credit by lying she was single for over four years.
The mum-of-two from Parson Cross, Sheffield, kept claiming as a lone parent even after her full-time employed boyfriend moved in with her in the mid-2020s.
She failed to update the DWP and continued raking in the cash until a member of the public tipped off the fraud hotline in 2024.
When interviewed she initially denied it but then made a full admission.
At Sheffield Magistrates’ Court she was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to repay the full £78k at just £20 a month.
The judge called it a “long term, wilful fraud for a great deal of money” that defrauds every taxpayer.
£20 a month......

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@RifeTechnology @DrJessTaylor They know who it is. The victim already came forward. Brand apparently sent a BBC car round to pick her up from school
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Ill explain to you why nobody is doing anything, and why they won't either. BTW im not sticking up for him or his actions in any way at all.
What are they going to charge him with? Stagetory rape. OK. Who's the victim? No idea. Ask him who the girl is? Ne response. Force him to respond? Rights violation. When was it that this happened? No response. Force him to tell you. Rights violation.
See? They literally cant charge him with anything and the cant force him to say anything.
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Can we just take a second to really take this in? How on earth has it come to this? Where a man can performatively ‘admit’ to sex with a child on an international platform but then couch it as some form of reflection or responsible accountability exercise - whilst deliberately leaning on our terrible, useless, outdated sexual offences act and age of consent?
This man was 30 years old, and at the height of his fame - when he made an active choice to have sex with a child. I would use much stronger language here but he’s deliberately leaning on our consent laws, that a 16 year old child can technically consent to sex - meaning that he could technically have ‘consensual sex’ with a school age child.
His admission and his disgusting performative ‘progressive’ ‘reflection’ that he is ‘exploitative’ makes my effin skin crawl. If this is not a predator in full swing, I do not know what is.
This man is admitting to sex with children and no one is going to do a thing about it. Absolutely atrocious. Our laws need urgently updating to ensure no adult can ever have technically consensual sex with a child. No adult should ever want that; and no child should ever be exposed to it.
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@smolcitizen @DrJessTaylor Things can be legal and still morally repugnant.
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16 is literally the age of consent, you know... because they're not a child anymore and can have sex freely.
Not saying he's not a piece of shit btw, but I absolutely detest people demonising age gap sex when it's consensual (not "technically consensual" as you put it, just consensual and thus fine, legal and in no way morally wrong, end of).
There is a HUGE difference between this and ACTUALLY being a paedophile, we need to start acknowledging this extremely important distinction rather than using it in a hyperbolic fashion (which is frankly disgusting and you should know better).
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