Remember.

There was a moment — not so long ago — when the world paused.

Not by choice. Not by comfort. But in that strange, uncertain silence, something flickered awake in many of us.

You stepped off the treadmill. And for the first time in a long time, you breathed. You noticed the way time stretches when you’re not being watched.
You baked, walked, listened, and grieved. You dreamed.

And asked:
What if life didn’t have to be this way?
What if work served life instead?
What if I had time to be with my family, myself, my thoughts? And think?

A hard truth: some disabled people who look like they could work… can’t. Not reliably. Not consistently. Not in ways employers need. But the benefit system doesn’t recognise this. If you’re not visibly incapable, you’re expected to “try.” Employers need roles filled to get work done. It’s not about “inclusion”—it’s about output. If someone’s disability means they can’t sustain that output—physically, cognitively, or both—there are no “reasonable adjustments” that make the role viable.

My rent has gone up
Food has gone up
Water up
Electricity and gas up
Insurance up too
Coffee? Crazy prices

And yet Labour have:
Frozen disability benefits
Frozen the already inadequate housing allowance
And I’m also facing erosion of severe disability supplement

How do I live?! So a five year freeze… Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predict inflation over the next five years:
•2025: 3.2%
•2026: 2.1%
•2027: 2.0%
•2028: 2.0%
•2029: 2.0%

That means by 2029/30 the cost of living will be about 14.05% higher than today.

Misinformation around disability benefits and “free cars” needs addressing urgently. Here are the clear facts: a thread🧵

Blue Badges
•Blue badges DO NOT mean a free car.
•A car displaying a blue badge is not necessarily a Motability car.

continued… •A blue badge is issued to a person, not a vehicle.
•You can hold a blue badge without owning or driving a car. It allows parking concessions essential for disabled passengers.
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Disability benefits contribute more to the economy than they cost.

PIP alone contributes approximately £42 billion annually to the UK economy, an economic multiplier effect of 1.8 times what is spent by the government on it.

Cuts: morally, legally and economically wrong. economic multipliers are about how money circulates through the economy and not about “printing money” or “endless resources”.

Conservative manifesto policy draft ideas:

1. **Compulsory Patriotism Training:** Mandate that all citizens, starting at age 10, attend annual patriotism training camps where they learn British history, military drills, and pledges of allegiance to the flag. 2. **Royal Taxation Exemption:** Exempt all members of the aristocracy and anyone who can prove direct descent from historical British nobility from paying any form of tax, forever, as a reward for their "historic service to the nation."

I’m getting so frustrated and fed up with @forduk dealer “technicians”. I’ve got clear vibration issues in my car. Gave them data, graphs, and so on. Their response was my car was “quieter than others”. Ffs. Two different things! Pro NVH software: It’s not the wheels or tyres as they’ve been checked and eliminated as a source of tyre/wheel speed vibrations. I should not be feeling these vibrations at this intensity in the cabin or the seats. People will literally not travel with me in my car any more.

I’ve had such an awful awful day 😭
The frenchie I look after was goaded by an Alsatian. He lurched draggING me along the tarmac until I couldn’t hold on any more, then the Alsatian was vicious trying to EAT poor tiny Freddie. In it the guy holding the Alsatian got scratched … … and he accused my dog of biting him. Blood everywhere, none around the dogs at all. The “bite mark” just looked like a long knife cut. Freddie jumps and what have you but is no way vicious. The Alsatian … I though Freddie was gonna be dead. But no actual bites. Thank god.

People have asked me how the can help. Well firstly, my biggest worry is the bills and food. I don’t know how long this is going to be for. It might be three weeks. It might be three months. It could be even longer. Back in 2006 I went over 6 months without anything coming in —>

https://twitter.com/MePeterNicholls/status/1363959314143141894

—> while I appealed an incapacity benefit decision (that got overturned in my favour at the appeal tribunal). (That was a catalogue of atrocious errors by almost every contact point by job centres, sociss ask security offices and the DWP. I won and got back pay, but —>

I put up a strong front on here. But on thurs my disability support was cut completely because of some irrational DWP policy even while i am in the system waiting for the to get round to assessing me. Leaving me with less than 1/3rd of my already low income to live on.
... I’ve been on all the help lines. I’ve spoken with all the support charities. And there is nothing anyone can do. There’s no way to appeal. There’s no way to get it looked at. I’m expected to live in a limbo that has no time or date to count down towards; no way to hurry it up...