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Dan white

@danwhite1972.bsky.social

Children's author / Disability & care campaigner / writer / carer / politics / occasionally on your TV & Radio / ambassador / dad❤️

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King Charles' personal wealth has jumped to equal former prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List.

So why the need for the Sovereign Grant? Deep pockets Charles, maintain your own homes and staff with them.

16.05.2025 09:22 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

‘We welcome migrants.'

‘We don’t scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of migrants and people who’ve come here'

‘So we have to make the case for the benefits of migration, the benefits of free movement.’

Starmer 2020.

What a charlatan.

15.05.2025 11:21 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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‘I thought politics was a dirty thing’ – Zack Polanski on his ‘eco-populist’ vision for the Green party He’s worked as an actor and a hypnotherapist – and has even been arrested. The Greens’ leadership challenger has had an unconventional route into politics and he’s ready to take on Labour and Reform

"We create divisions between the working & middle class, when the real problem is people earning more in their sleep than you could earn in your life."

My life, my politics & why we need powerful stories - with action - to turn our country around:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

13.05.2025 06:37 — 👍 334    🔁 102    💬 16    📌 18

They are not Labour my friend. They are pandering to all those who read the mail.

13.05.2025 13:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it is BONKERS. Plainly they have no idea what they are doing and are just bitches for the treasury.

13.05.2025 12:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Labour has launched a new cost-cutting drive aimed at Access to Work, which insiders fear could destroy the scheme and lead to disabled people being forced to quit their jobs.

Access to work provides support to stay in work, pushing Disabled people of PIP into work with reduced support is absurd!

13.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0
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Another reminder that Labour is determined to destroy social care in the UK.
Care workers from overseas WANT to work in care. This fantasy that we can magically summon up & train home grown care workers to fill the void is utterly incredulous.
MPs are thick as mince.
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...

13.05.2025 09:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cost of Hunger and Hardship - final report | Trussell This is the second and final report from our research exploring the scale and cost of hunger and hardship in the UK.

The @trusselluk.bsky.social have released their latest report called "Cost of Hunger and Hardship" which shows that ending hunger and hardship is not only a moral imperative, but would have substantial benefits for society, the economy and the public purse!
www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

01.05.2025 09:45 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Social Insecurity Report We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

Today @amnestyuk.bsky.social released a report exposing the brutal reality of the UK social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins.

Myself & colleagues authored the section on the impacts on Disabled people.

Please read & share widely! www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...

25.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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Disability groups consider ‘step back’ from government A number of disability-led organisations say they are considering “stepping back” from engaging with the government over benefit cuts

"Disability groups 'stepping back' over benefit cuts"
Disabled peoples organisations say there has been a lack of genuine engagement from Labour & are considering stepping back from working with the government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

08.04.2025 08:39 — 👍 50    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 2
image shows white lettering on a pink background. "oppose the benefit cuts"

image shows white lettering on a pink background. "oppose the benefit cuts"

The conversation around proposed benefit cuts continues. They must be opposed!!
Disability Rights UK have a page containing information & resources regarding the green paper plan on benefit cuts and how people can get involved in responding!
Visit here: www.disabilityrightsuk.org/take-action

07.04.2025 10:52 — 👍 25    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2
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Rampant in the Labour Party.

04.04.2025 20:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Ofcom has ‘failed millions of disabled people’ after clearing two TV shows that attacked benefit claimants The broadcasting watchdog has failed millions of disabled people by clearing two television programmes of disability discrimination and causing offence, including one in which some young people on …

Dan White from DR UK said both “offensive” programmes had been made “when disability hate crime is rising, when disabled people on benefits are struggling to meet the costs of food and energy and when the government was scapegoating disabled people”.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ofcom-has-fa...

04.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

For those on the right who are cheering on the prospect of benefit cuts, please remember you could become Disabled or lose your job at any time.

03.04.2025 11:27 — 👍 50    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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My photo around the reality of disability food poverty has been shortlisted for the world food photography awards 2025.

Shot in B\W on iPhone, old wheelchair dismantled and placed against food bank shelves.

Poverty is a reality, poverty is a political choice, we must not accept it.

03.04.2025 09:22 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

The disease of politically motivated ableism is spreading like a hateful fire across the world.
The lighter of the flame is of course the Labour party.
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

02.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...

What Keir Starmer said and ...

“I’m a socialist”
“Broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden”
"Don't care if I sound like a conservative"

We got: Two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, Frozen tax thresholds, disability benefit cuts.

Labour needs to be party of the working class.

02.04.2025 09:17 — 👍 457    🔁 168    💬 30    📌 4

If you're struggling with the day today, just spare a thought to both Disabled people and migrants who, without evidence or care, are being blamed for everything wrong in this awful, awful country right now.

02.04.2025 11:38 — 👍 42    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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The true scale and impact of benefit cuts for ill and disabled people NEF analysis shows the cuts will hit ill and disabled people by almost £2bn more than what has been widely reported

New Economic Foundation analysis shows the green paper benefit cuts will hit ill and disabled people by almost £2bn more than what has been widely reported.
neweconomics.org/2025/03/the-...

01.04.2025 12:12 — 👍 20    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

This man has never met a Disabled person

01.04.2025 07:04 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cutting disability benefits is a major public health risk, says Centre for Mental Health  - Centre for Mental Health Reducing access to benefits will put people’s mental health at risk and will be a false economy for the Government.

New: “Reducing entitlements to disability or incapacity benefits will do nothing to raise living standards or help more people into employment.” — Andy Bell, Chief Executive of Centre for Mental Health tinyurl.com/m4fk4ep9
#WelfareNotWarfare

31.03.2025 16:01 — 👍 126    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 1
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DWP make tens of thousands of life-threatening errors, while planning more interaction with disabled claimants Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff are making tens of thousands of potentially fatal errors every month when dealing with disabled people’s universal credit claims, just as the department…

Department for Work and Pensions staff are making tens of thousands of potentially fatal errors every month when dealing with disabled people’s universal credit claims, just as the department prepares to increase its level of interaction with claimants.

30.03.2025 07:00 — 👍 39    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1
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Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...

Welfare cuts are a political choice.

685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn.

Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined.

Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor.

Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.

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Really no words to describe how abhorrent the world really is right now.

29.03.2025 10:22 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Forgotten and abandoned, young disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective Hundreds of “forgotten” and “abandoned” young disabled people across the country have taken part in peaceful protests against government cuts to disability benefits, as part of a new movement of ac…

Hundreds of “forgotten” and “abandoned” young disabled people across the country have taken part in peaceful protests against government cuts to disability benefits, as part of a new movement of activists powered by social media.

29.03.2025 07:35 — 👍 41    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 1
white text on a pink background which reads: oppose the benefit cuts

white text on a pink background which reads: oppose the benefit cuts

DR UK have launched a new page on the website containing information and resources regarding the recent green paper plan on benefit cuts and how people can get involved in responding!

Read my story here & pls share.

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-l...

28.03.2025 12:45 — 👍 14    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

The Department for Work and Pensions assessment of the benefit cutting plans shows that they will push an additional 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children – and some experts claim even this is an underestimate.
There is also NO evidence welfare cuts will get more people into work.
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28.03.2025 12:30 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0