Dear UK Media:
No, Disabled People Aren’t Getting Free BMWs — And Here’s the Truth You Keep Ignoring

By Emma Dolan Horlock
(Chronically ill, slightly sarcastic, and extremely tired of correcting you)

A thread 🧵 You’ve done it again, haven’t you?

Another week, another headline crafted to rile the masses — suggesting disabled people are being handed luxury cars, completely free, courtesy of the taxpayer. All thanks to that lavish and opulent system you love to whisper about: The Motability Scheme.

Honestly, the only thing more predictable than this storyline is the fact that none of you seem to bother fact-checking it. Take this whopper as an example. Peddling the usual Narratives that if you say the right thing on a phone call, you’ll get given a sparkling new BMW. What did the host do to challenge that?

Absolutely nothing @LBCNews @LBC

Hey lovely followers, I need your help. This isn’t an easy ask… but I’m so angry right now and I need your help to get this OUT! Please, please take the time to read and share this thread.

Big Supermarkets… Im looking at you! Can you help? @Tesco @Morrisons @asda @coopuk @AldiUK @amazon #SouthLiverpool Firstly, Let me introduce myself…
My name is Emma, I’m a 49-year-old woman living in an assisted living home in Liverpool. After a long and gruelling illness, I now require care—care I’m incredibly grateful for. I share my home with 17 other incredible adults, all navigating life with their own challenges, united in resilience and the will to simply survive. But sadly, our story isn’t just about resilience…. It’s also about neglect.

I’d like to take this opportunity while #ME #CFS is in all major news outlets today, to recognise the role our media have In peddling false narratives of ‘tired’ people... @BBCNews @Telegraph @guardian @thetimes chose to run these images 👇🏼

I’ve replaced with a little realism This is @DafoeWhitney bed bound with #ME for years, and like myself, only leaves his room to attend hospital appointments via stretcher.
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“These sweet girls don’t understand why they are stuck in a kennel and they are so sad that they cry all day long when they are alone. Every time we leave them we have to hold back our tears as we hear them start to get so upset..

@JaneFallon can you help RT? 🙏 Kissy and Lovely are mum and daughter who came to us last year. We were told they were 6 and 4 at the time, but they were actually much older. Their names describe their personalities perfectly, but right now we are faced with two of the saddest dogs we have ever encountered