Will Norman

But for blind people specifically, the pay gap is a career gap.
Did you know that as a blind person with a degree you have the same employment chances as a non-disabled person without even one GCSE?
We work twice as hard for half the chance.
#RNIB #Accessibility #EqualPay 2/3

For blind people, it’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a locked door.
Perhaps, instead of punitive cuts and demonisation in the media, the #DWP and #TimmsReview should turn their attention to where this problem starts, not where it ends - a discriminatory employment landscape. 3/3

Today’s #WomensPayDay in the UK. The first day of the year women get paid according to the #GenderPayGap.
But for #disabled ppl, that day is 2wks off, and for disabled women, it’s months away.
@disrightsuk.bsky.social #Disability #DisabilityPayGap
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If Keir Starmer, Pat McFadden & Rachel Reeves believe they have a moral case for welfare reform, why act immorally by falsely linking PIP to disabled ppl in work, when, in fact, PIP is not an out of work benefit. Those truly on the moral high ground don’t need to sneak.

Some people spot a sack of crap a mile off. Others need to be force fed manure before they see it for what it is. Not sure what this difference is, some might say education, some instinct, others intelligence, but whatever the quality is, we don’t seem to have enough of it lying around these days.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

The UK doesn't need to raise Income Tax because people who pay Income Tax already pay a lot of tax.

But among the richest 1% more than 80% of their money isn't taxed by Income Tax.

Tax that at 47% too, and you get £250bn a year.

That's what needs to be done.

The richest 1% in the UK have £3tn, more than the poorest 75% of people.

With their wealth you could build 30 million houses.

That's more than we currently have in total.

3.6% of all tax revenue in Switzerland comes from Wealth Tax.

That would £38bn in the UK, and Switzerland has 20% millionaires.

Have they left?

A 2% wealth tax in the UK would raise £40bn a year.

The richest 150 people in the UK are making £2m EACH every single day, on which they pay next to no tax and greater than 90% goes to tax havens.

You want to worry about that, not Disabled people.

I know there are a lot of these on socials, but trust me, Layla is a special kid who deserves so much more. Maybe just skip your latte this week and donate that £4? https://gofund.me/95ca1e58

Social security is not a burden—it’s a force for good Instead of old-fashioned rhetoric about costs to the state, the government should tell a better story about welfare

Labour came to power on a promise of “change”. But their muted changes to social security represent a continuation of austerity and the decimation of the UK’s safety net, writes @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine...

I mean this figure could be wrong by an absolutely massive margin, and still be a problem that needs fixing. 

Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people Controversial plans to cut personal independence payment (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs

Good if it happens, but what an unholy shambles www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"The rich aren't a bottomless pit of money."

The richest 1% £2.8tn
The poorest 70% £2.4tn

The richest 0.0005% £300bn

And us

Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit

Prime Minister backs disability benefit cuts bit.ly/3XGUkOZ as Labour discovers that taking money off millions on low incomes is easier than taking it from the better off.

You hate to see it.

Killing Medicaid, killing vaccines, killing Social Security: It all has one purpose. The Nazis called people who required public assistance Lebensunwertes Leben: Lives unworthy of living. They had another term too, for people unable to work — Unnütze Esser: useless eaters. The elderly, the disabled.

The richest 3,000 people have $15tn that is $5,000,000,000 each.

If you made them all live with just $1bn there would be $12tn to spend.

And they wouldn't even notice.

When I was an athlete we were repeatedly told, it doesn’t matter how it got there, what it was, or what you knew about it, if there was a band substance in your body it was 100% you. Guess times have changed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cz7e4l2248wo

If you would like to support a call for more support from government for SEND, please consider signing this open letter: https://www.ncw.co.uk/support-our-campaign/

If you would like to support a call for more support from government for SEND, please consider signing this open letter: https://www.ncw.co.uk/support-our-campaign/

If you’d like to support @pocklington.bsky.social in trying to make banking more accessible to VI people, there’s a petition here: https://tpt.eaction.org.uk/MakeBankingAccessible

#OpportunitySecurityRespect It’s in our hands to make a difference.

New figures from @jrf-uk.bsky.social‬ show Disabled people face a higher risk of poverty, and can't afford benefit cuts.

Use your voice to help save millions from even worse poverty - Write to your MP today!
https://buff.ly/3WiBs8m

#Disability #OpportunitySecurityRespect

Paradise is nothing more complicated than a world in which this one problem is resolved, if only temporarily. 

Yes. Derrida says so anyway, and that’s good enough for me. 

Long-term sick will need to look for jobs in benefits overhaul Claimants could face cuts of £5,000 a year as government prepares for rows with backbenchers and campaigners over bringing down £65bn sickness bill

Taxing the poor back on the agenda after taxing rich non-doms and landowning farmers has proved so difficult bit.ly/4ghTcIl £5000 a year each from millions on long term sickness benefits would close some of the Chancellor’s fiscal gap

I believe Hitler tested his machinery of death on disabled people, before rolling it out in the extermination camps, so don’t think for a minute that this isn’t just the thin end of a very unpleasant wedge. 

I thought I was largely desensitised to the constant stream of idiocy coming out of America, but this one managed to sneak through and surprise me.