Unwell and furious @hils_c
Social worker. Social justice warrior. Camerado. Knitter. Gardener. Loud chatterbox. Often sweary. These views are my own. Joined June 2018-
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Hello again. In case anyone still isn’t paying attention, your government is actively planning to overthrow the rule of law and purpose of an independent judiciary, so please don’t say you weren’t bloody warned or you didn’t vote for this. Here’s the warning. Stop voting for it.
Oh lads, I'm full of the mubble-fubbles tonight. 😔 Send love and funny shit.
Oh lads, I'm full of the mubble-fubbles tonight. 😔 Send love and funny shit.
I love these people so much! If you haven't visited the space, so, it's lovely 🥰
It would have been good then to have @DrHannahBB in a position of power instead of yet another Tory. We'll pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and start building relationships and planning for the next adventure. 💪
It would have been good then to have @DrHannahBB in a position of power instead of yet another Tory. We'll pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and start building relationships and planning for the next adventure. 💪
Just home from voting for Dr Hannah Barham-Brown (@DrHannahBB) to be our next Police Fire and Crime Commissioner in North Yorkshire. Don't forget to vote!! (And wear gloves and a scarf, it's nippy.) #HBB4PFCC #PFCC #NorthYorkshire
Nobody should have to go through this, but well done! 🙌
Nobody should have to go through this, but well done! 🙌
If you get a chance, watch this hustings. @DrHannahBB is the only viable candidate. One candidate said very little outside repeating what Hannah said, and two showed themselves to be wholly unfit for any office, never mind this one. Vote for Dr Hannah Barham-Brown on Thursday.
"If your fear of terrorism is so great that you’ve decided to effectively close off the city to people with disabilities, then I’m sorry but the terrorists have won. This is nothing short of a craven surrender to them." This 👆
"If your fear of terrorism is so great that you’ve decided to effectively close off the city to people with disabilities, then I’m sorry but the terrorists have won. This is nothing short of a craven surrender to them." This 👆
The world is a fucking shit show right now. Stop and let me off.
The world is a fucking shit show right now. Stop and let me off.
So pleased to see people stand up for their values and leave the local parties who have shown they are capable of inflicting significant harm on disabled people in pursuit of their personal preferences. I do keep getting a certain Queen song in my head though 😂
#IsItOk that this morning many of us - disabled and non disabled, york residents and beyond - are feeling the pain and anger that City of York Council voted to keep blue badge holders out the city last night?
Do NOT talk about consultation as a positive in this discussion. I will lose my MIND
No surprise to hear @VictimsComm pulling no punches at the @PoliceChiefs conference: "Why won't the police tackle violence against women and girls properly? I ask you to tell me what more women have to do, to get police to take violence against women and girls seriously." #VAWG
She's a Good Egg. 🥰
Ok, despite best efforts to just ignore it, I have to admit to myself that I'm sick after no sleep and pretty endless coughing. Weak as a kitten with covid tests on the way. Also a ridiculously busy day today that I'm not cancelling. No advice please, I know I'm an idiot. 😂
We asked disabled people how they were feeling about the Blue Badge exclusion in #York. This is an extract of what they said. Full audio will be on DearYork.org soon. Some comments are from council surveys which are publicly available and some are read by volunteers.
@VoicesYork @Katzenjam7 Sadly PSED is too open to interpretation. I teach it & it's application but I wouldn't agree that it's been met in this case. I feel that as a disabled expert I expect a fuller interpretation. To avoid legal action. This case undoes much of what the PSED was intended to be.
After reading through this legal advice it is so clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty is entirely useless as protection for disadvantaged groups. By focusing on PROCEDURE instead of OUTCOME it allows councils to discriminate as long as they have pretended to listen first.
After reading through this legal advice it is so clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty is entirely useless as protection for disadvantaged groups. By focusing on PROCEDURE instead of OUTCOME it allows councils to discriminate as long as they have pretended to listen first.
Read our open letter in full, signed by us and a coalition of disabled people and representative organisations across the City of York buff.ly/3oxzQG1

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