โ€œ One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.โ€ Margaret Atwood.

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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Gaza sea port before and after bombardment by the genocidal Israeli regime
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Faculty of Science and Technology #KhanYounis ๐Ÿ’”
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
The government is quietly engineering a lethal trap for disabled people, and they are disguising it as "welfare reform." โ€‹Abolishing the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to make PIP the single, exclusive gateway for health-related Universal Credit by 2028/29 is not a policy tweak. It is a calculated, malicious act of state cruelty designed to eradicate the safety net entirely. โ€‹Look at the sheer scale of the cliff-edge being manufactured: There are currently over 1.1 million people receiving LCW, LCWRA, or ESA who do not have the Daily Living component of PIP. Crucially, nearly half a million (469,920) of those exact claimants have already been dragged through a humiliating PIP assessment and failed it. โ€‹PIP and the WCA measure two entirely different realities. PIP assesses if you need financial help to wash, dress, or navigate your home etc. The WCA assesses if your health legally prevents you from holding down a job. โ€‹By aggressively insisting PIP serves as the solitary threshold for both benefits, the DWP is maliciously deciding that over a million profoundly sick, neurodivergent, and disabled citizens are suddenly "fit for work" by default. โ€‹Let us be absolutely clear about what this actually means: โ€‹1. Total Financial Blackout: People enduring severe, fluctuating chronic illnesses, neurodivergence, or disabling mental health crises who fail the notoriously rigged, adversarial PIP process will have their health-related uplifts instantly severed. โ€‹2. Punitive Harassment: Stripped of their protected status, hundreds of thousands of sick people will be violently shoved into standard Universal Credit conditionality. Imagine being in a rolling, debilitating physical crash, and being legally mandated to spend 35 hours a week job hunting and attending arbitrary Jobcentre interrogations. โ€‹3. Weaponised Starvation: When our bodies inevitably give out, and we fail to meet their impossible, ableist demands, the DWP will sanction us. They will freeze our basic subsistence allowance and starve us out. โ€‹4. State-Sanctioned Deaths: Letโ€™s stop sugarcoating the reality of these policies. We already know the devastating, blood-stained correlation between aggressive DWP conditionality, financial starvation, and suicides. Forcing deeply vulnerable people through this punitive meat grinder will directly cause severe psychological collapse and a catastrophic, preventable loss of life. โ€‹Advocacy groups are already warning that over 900,000 people will be hit by this exact "double whammy" of losing both benefits simultaneously. And this is those who are currently in power. โ€‹This is not about "getting Britain working." This is about wiping disabled people off the ledger by starving us into submission or into the grave. โ€‹We are not your scapegoats, and we are not expendable. โ€‹#ChangingTheNarrative #PunchDownMedia #TakingThePip
I know the Work Capability Assessment is horrendous But what Labour plan to do is *much worse* Their plan is to "decouple financial support from capability to work" Their plan will mean 100,000s who would qualify now as too ill or disabled to work will be deemed "fit for work"
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Gaza. Reduced to rubble. Thousands of innocent civilians and children have been killed, injured and have lost their homes. Regardless of what side of the debate you are on, this is a humanitarian disaster.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
5 masked guys, 5 masked guys See how they run. They all ran away from the farmer's wife. Then hung around til the cops arrived. Did you ever hear so much crap in your life. 5 masked guys.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Devastated.
Google Earth updated the images of Gaza. It's devastating.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Hearing Chris Bryant waffling and trying to wash his hands of anything to with Drumcree. Pity that Labour have no-one of this woman's stature.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
So the MP for the constituency, Carla Lockhart, has called the inevitable protesters โ€œrabbleโ€. So much for representing all the people as the MP. The next time you hear her calling for investment in NI, or her local area, think about how she is acting today!
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
#HostileMedia The media never report on the fact that austerity policy is leading to Democide in the UK. Democide is where govt policy directly & indirectly is killing its citizens From University of Glasgow 2022 gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnewsโ€ฆ
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
How the fuck is anyone earning minimum wage, or anywhere close to it, in the UK actually supposed to live on their own? The maths just doesn't work anymore. You can work full time, every week, and end up with roughly ยฃ1,700 a month after tax, National Insurance and pension contributions. Then take ยฃ800 for rent if you're lucky enough to find somewhere that cheap, ยฃ120 for council tax, around ยฃ350 for your other household bills, and another ยฃ80 a week just to put food in the fridge. And that's before you've paid for your phone, transport, clothes, toiletries or anything unexpected. By the time you've paid for the basics, there's practically nothing left. No meaningful savings. No emergency fund. No money to actually enjoy your life. And we're still told to be grateful because "minimum wage is going up." Going up to what? A wage that still leaves you broke after you've paid for the privilege of existing? Work full time, do everything you're told you're supposed to do, and somehow you're still one unexpected bill away from being fucked. At what point are we going to admit that something has gone seriously wrong?
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Jim Ratcliffe in a nutshell.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Tesco are making ยฃ4bn a year in profit. About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit. Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Meet the real residents of Benefits Street โฌ‡๏ธ. โฌ‡๏ธ
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
He is the biggest hypocrite in Politics His only interest is self interest
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Oil prices & petrol/diesel prices 2008 versus 2016: UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง โ–ช๏ธOil is 27% cheaper in 2026 than 2008. Yetโ€ฆ โ–ช๏ธPetrol is 41% higher & diesel is 44% higher in 2026 compared to 2008. We are being fleeced.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
Firstly, there are no NHS ADHD clinics Secondly, you will be locked out of the appropriate treatment without diagnosis Thirdly, not diagnosing an issue doesnโ€™t mean itโ€™s not there, it simply remains undiagnosed. How have we ended up with an NHS thatโ€™s so poorly funded it rations healthcare? theguardian.com/society/2026โ€ฆ
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
I would love any person who is moaning about PIP to have an hour of the pain I'm living with. I'd love to hear them bleat after that. I'd love to expect them to go to work, which I have done all my life living with pain. I know they couldn't. Or wouldn't.
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
If Eleanor Donaldson is well enough to launch an appeal against her Trial of the Facts, how is she not well enough to face a criminal trial?
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LindaC ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽพ#FBPE retweeted
A nice summary of Helen Whatelyโ€™s income. What a massive hypocrite she is.
Tory MP Helen Whately is a millionaire on a ยฃ98,599/yr salary. Yet taxpayers cover her London second home expenses. Council Tax, water, electric, everything! Meanwhile, she wants to cut benefits for disabled people living on just ยฃ7k to ยฃ11k a year. Look how much she claims....
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