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Lucy Webster

8 months

It's publication day! I'm so proud of this book. Everything I have and everything I've experienced as a disabled woman is in these pages I hope you love her

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

I can't drink without plastic straws. For years I've bought clear ones online (look a bit nicer than kids' ones). Since the straw ban they've got more expensive and now they've disappeared If your environmentalism only affects disabled people, it's not as progressive as you think

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Next time a disabled person tries to talk to you about ableism, please remember that it's not just frustrating things like a lack of ramps. It's stuff like this, that hurts more than I can say

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3 years

Disabled people look away now, the following tweet involves some really hurtful #ableism . Non-disabled people, I don't really want to share this here but I think you need to see it.

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Imagine for a second being told that you are too disabled for a non-disabled person to love. That's how my Wednesday is going

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

I just received this email from a 'professional' dating service. I have been crying for an hour. When I spoke to them on the phone they said that my disability was fine, but when I clarified that I was a wheelchair user, this:

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

It's been a month since I was turned down from a dating agency for being too disabled. I can't seem to stop thinking about it. I really don't want anyone's sympathy, I just wanted to say ableism has very real mental health consequences and it's exhausting

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

1 month

Just a reminder that today the UK govt is having to give evidence to the UN, having been found to be in violation of the UN convention on the rights of disabled people No other economically developed nation has ever been found in breach of the convention

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

I deleted this because I accidentally included identifying details. Will report shortly

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

Here's a great explanation of why SOME disabled people *NEED* plastic straws

Hell on Wheels🔥♿🔥

@rollwthepunches

2 years

I did create that goofy Straw Chart so if you've seen my name around, it could be from my dope straw facts. Disability advocacy is so friggin important to me, and was never MORE important than when we hit a panorama. But here! Have a freshie with no jpeg rot!

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5 months

Something I think about a lot is how hatred of benefits claimants is just acceptable hatred of disabled people

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@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

Also. I get that people are trying to help but it's kind of wild to think a disabled person in this position won't have thought about and tried alternatives

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@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

Once I'm in bed I can't get back into my wheelchair without help I have a buzzer to let my (also asleep) PA know I need help (loo, a drink, etc) and always have my phone just in case Tonight I dropped my phone, and then discovered the buzzer wasn't working What would you do?

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@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

If anyone comes at me with recs for paper, glass or reusable ones

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

11 months

Hi @Waterstones - I've just noticed your disability section of your website comes under 'coping with personal problems' which is a bit icky. Disability is neither personal nor, indeed, a problem Signed, a disabled gal who routinely gives you all their money

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

Let me tell you about what happens when you dare to go on a night out as a wheelchair user. Hold on to your hats, it's a bumpy ride...

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

"Taking benefits from disabled people who can’t work is not really some misguided attempt to help us... it’s just another way to punish and demonise us, to push us further into poverty" My response to the #AutumnStatement in today's @guardianopinion panel

Will Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement revive the Tories’ election chances? Our panel responds

National Insurance cut; pensions and benefits increased. But is that enough to distract from sluggish growth and the rising cost of living?

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

Hi, if you are surprised about wheelchair inaccessibility at Cop, you have not been paying attention. Access is bad everywhere, all the time. And no, it is not 'illegal'

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@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

@hippychicky55 These are similar to the ones I had been buying, which were also biodegradable but have disappeared. But £34 for 250 straws isn't really plausible!

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@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

@thisislaurent Lauren didn't you know disabled people are only allowed to date each other?? Also not that there's anything wrong with that, disabled people are clearly superior, but smells like segregation to me

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Absolutely delighted to now be permanent staff at BBC News. Even happier to be staying with my ace team at BBC Politics. And super excited that I've been selected for the @JSchofieldTrust mentoring scheme! Bring on 2021 🎉🎉

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

. @SW_Help need to retrain your staff. Guard on the 22:41 from Twickenham to Waterloo last night was extremely rude re ramp Said we'd held up the train and made his job harder by not booking. Talked over my PA as she explained legal right to Turn Up And Go and wouldn't talk to me

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

1 year

WHEN are we going to stop using the term "special needs"?

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

Why am I tweeting this? I don't know. I think these realities of disability - a 29 year old woman sat on the floor in the dark, shouting for help - are hidden. We experience these things and then we move on. We trust that the buzzer will work tomorrow. But the stress accumulates

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@Lucy_Webster_

7 months

While it's true that you should never assume a disabled person's needs, the government's new #AskDontAssume campaign is completely misguided Disabled people already face intrusive questioning ('what's wrong with you?' etc). Encouraging this is just opening the ableism floodgates

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Disabled people please remember there are exemptions for care. You should have all the help and support you need over Christmas

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

While we're all here being angry about straws, can I recommend pre-ordering my book and being angry about... everything?

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@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

@Fighting_LC I am too wobbly - they are actively dangerous for me. I need plastic ones, as I said

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

Hey disabled pals! I'm writing another piece about language and disability. So... Tell me your most hated phrases! C'mon, do your worst #DisabilityTwitter #journorequest

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

Here's your periodic reminder that removing covid restrictions is a deliberate middle finger up to disabled and vulnerable people

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

people really ignoring this tweet huh

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

when I tell people that the Tories are letting disabled people die, they look at me like I've lost the plot just going to show them this front page from now on honestly not sure how much more I can argue for my community's right to be alive

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I’ve reported on a lot of terrible Tory ‘welfare reforms’ over the years but withholding sick people’s medicines to force them to get a job is genuinely a new low.

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Lucy Webster

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8 months

Somewhat unbelievably, an extract of my book is in tomorrow's Sunday Times News Review It's about the ableist bullying I endured at school and what it did to me I'm very nervous sharing this - it still really affects me - but also quite proud

Shunned by the girls at my private school for being disabled

I can pinpoint the moment when knowing I was different morphed into knowing I was being excluded: the week in year 8 when we were supposed to do a sponsored wal

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

Your annual #InternationalWheelchairDay reminder that wheelchairs are great They're freedom and fun and power and life. Keep ya pity in ya pants I bloody love mine

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

Update: my fab BBC colleague Katie Wright asked @Aquum for a response and they have offered an apology and are going to retrain their third-party staff

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@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

Luckily I have a pretty good set of lungs on me and after what I think was about ten minutes of yelling my PA heard me I'm safe and back in bed but honestly pretty shaken I have a lot of anxiety/literal nightmares about these exact scenarios so this is really hard to process

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

4 years

Absolutely can't-keep-the-smile-off-my-face delighted to say that I am officially moving to @BBCPolitics online full-time from January. This is a dream come true and I can't believe my own luck, working with the best in the business.

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@Lucy_Webster_

24 days

I'm not reading the Matthew Parris piece because I have frankly seen enough ableism this week and I can guess what it says But I will say: this is where 14 years of extreme govt rhetoric about disabled people takes us - a 'moderate' encouraging sick people to kill themselves

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Some *personal news* (am I doing this right?) After four fab years I'll be leaving the Beeb in August to try my hand and freelancing and (hopefully) writing a book! Will pop into Millbank a few times before I go but today saw my last NBH trip so I took the obligatory photo

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@Lucy_Webster_

11 months

This makes me so happy!! Quick, effective change to make this industry just a little bit more representative Thanks, @Waterstones ! 😍

Waterstones

@Waterstones

11 months

@Lucy_Webster_ Hi Lucy, thanks for raising this excellent point. Some categorisation is driven by the industry database, Nielsen, but we're going to change it so that Disability sits within 'Personal, Social & Health Topics'. That should take effect later today. Thanks again.

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

In surreal life moments, tonight I watched the Last Leg's brilliant @alex_brooker address my dating agency shenanigans by saying it all better than I ever could. It hasn't been a great week but I'm really glad we're finally having this conversation

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

If you are shocked that disabled people, including *children*, have had blanket #DoNotResuscitate orders imposed on them, you have not been paying attention Firstly, disabled people have been shouting about this since spring 2020. Secondly, medicine has been ableist forever

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Lucy Webster

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4 years

Right. I have had enough today. So I just want to say being disabled during this pandemic is really hard. And if you, like me, are suddenly exhausted and stressed when you thought you were ok, and the whole disability situation is getting to you, I just want to say I see you.

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@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Why have my old pals at @BBCNews started saying "people with disabilities"? Plz stop

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@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

I have spent a lifetime subconsciously and consciously making plan Bs and plan Cs for how to reach help. Already tonight I've attached string to my door handle so I could open it from the floor, making it more likely a PA would hear me shout. I'm calming down now

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@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

Here's what I did: crawled down to the floor to retrieve my phone But in the dark I couldn't find it How do I turn the light on? With my phone This was when I started to panic because I was now not only unable to get help but also stranded on a wooden floor

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

6 months

Hi @BBCNews why are you uncritically repeating Simon Steven's claim that no decisions were made about who would live and who would die during covid? People with learning disabilities had Do Not Resuscitate notices imposed on them - deciding they would die - as you have reported

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Due to my disability needs, I can't do my NCTJ exams via their remote portal in April. Will have to wait until me (and my PAs) get the vaccine to do it in the office in May/June. I have paid nearly a grand to do the course. And people wonder why journalism has a diversity issue

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

Sorry, did Rishi just say the Tories have CLOSED the disability employment gap?! Stick a fork in me I am done

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Lucy Webster

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1 year

Accessibility in Japan is so good I don't know what to do with all the spare anxiety I use up just getting around in Europe It's genuinely a different world. I just used a wheelchair accessible escalator in a train station

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@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

@S_Tinyhome That's really kind but please don't worry - was tweeting to raise awareness rather than out of dire need. Thank you

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

Let me just say that again. @Aquum wouldn't let me in in my wheelchair because they decided the music wasn't suitable for me. It is 2019.

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

Tomorrow is International Day of Disabled People and I have a few things to post But the truth is I'm not feeling very celebratory at the moment. Both professionally and personally, it feels like a difficult time to be a disabled person and especially a disability activist

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4 months

There are more failsafes to implement. If I do end up stuck it'll only be until the morning or the start of the next PA shift. It'll probably never happen. But the possibility that it could is always in the back of my mind. I wonder what else I could do with all that brain space

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@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

@SW_Help @sw_train @TransportForAll @SW_Help your staff need to know that there is no obligation to book a ramp They also need to treat disabled people like people If you're struggling to train them, give me a call

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

11 months

I poured my heart and soul into a memoir of disabled womanhood and now... IT HAS A COVER! AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER IT! The View From Down Here, out 7 September with @dkbooks

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

4 months

The thing is, I'm unlikely to see this exact confluence of problems again. But there'll be another time when my options fail and I have to swallow my panic and find an answer. So far I've always found one. But I worry that one day I'll just be stuck on the floor, needing the loo

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5 months

Reminder ahead of the autumn statement: sick and disabled people are not the enemy We are not the cause of this dire economy. The Tories are Don't let them shift the blame by demonising us

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@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

"It can’t be right that going on holiday as a disabled person so often involves public humiliation" Disabled people keep being left on planes and trains. It needs to stop Me for @guardian @guardiang2

‘I have to plan for if I am stranded, if I am dropped, if my chair is damaged’: the perils of...

Using trains or planes can be fraught with difficulty and danger for disabled people, from being forgotten about at stations to being unable to use the toilet on long flights

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

25 days

I understand the horror here but I can't help but feel that if you "can't get your head around" this you have absolutely no idea what society is like for disabled people

LBC

@LBC

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'It makes me feel sick.' 'Every day I hit a new level of shock.' @Matthew_Wright hears from a mother, whose daughter's class were given the option to edit her child out of a school photo because she has additional needs.

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Lucy Webster

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2 years

All my life, people have pitied me because I need full time care. And yeah, managing a care team is uniquely stressful But the reality is that my care is my freedom: to work, to travel, to enjoy my flat and make memories with my friends Me for @guardian

Some people think they would rather die than have help brushing their teeth – but care is not...

For disabled people like me, care can be brilliant and has enabled me to experience university, holidays abroad and nights out dancing with pals. There is nothing to pity in that, writes Lucy Webster

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@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

My old school, where I experienced the worst ableism of my life and which I pay significant money to reprocess in therapy, wants to use me in their list of alumnae to watch and honestly sometimes I wonder if I'm existing in a satirical play and I just can't see the audience

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

9 months

@FLORIDABUTTERF1 I have very little muscle control so I shred paper ones but hurt myself on hard metal or glass. Also need them for hot drinks

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

Talk of blackouts is especially terrifying for disabled people who can't keep themselves warm and get sick easily. But don't count on the government doing anything at all to protect us

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@Lucy_Webster_

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it's not accessible if there's no disabled loo it's not accessible if there's no disabled loo it's not accessible if there's no disabled loo it's not accessible if there's no disabled loo it's not accessible if there's no disabled loo it's not accessible if there's no disabled l

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A member of the UN committee has just accused our government of fuelling hate speech towards disabled people Of course, we know this. But it should still sober and horrify us that the UN is alarmed by the UK govt's rhetoric towards disabled people

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@Lucy_Webster_

1 year

Hi @GreenFlagUK could have done without your mechanic asking what was wrong with me and telling me I look too healthy for my wheelchair

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

Over the past few months my job has basically been interviewing brilliant disabled people and I am hyped for the day we take over the world

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

The absolute SHAMBLES of delivering a budget that didn't mention the 16 MILLION disabled people in the country Don't worry though, only a whopping 27% of disabled people live in poverty #Budget #Budget24

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

Hello TV and radio editors working this weekend! Did you know Sunday is International Disabled People's Day? 1 in 5 people are disabled. It'd be really great if you could mark this day for and with us! I'd love to help you do so #IDPWD #InternationalDisabledPeoplesDay #IDPD

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@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

Literally wouldn't let her finish a sentence or even look at me When she asked for his name said "I think you mean thank you for helping even though you hadn't booked" Other passengers commented on how rude he'd been #DisabledByTheRailway @SW_Help @sw_train @TransportForAll

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@Lucy_Webster_

3 months

This is just... all disabled people? Do other people still not know that this is how the state treats us?

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🚨 EXC: A generation of children left permanently disabled by epilepsy drug sodium valproate, are being hauled in front of degrading and barbaric DWP tribunals that has left some traumatised 1/8

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

11 months

Aside from the horrendous ableism involved in the 'how much of your taxes go to those lazy disabled people?', I find it wild that people think they should choose where their taxes go Quite a lot of us don't like the Home Office. We still fund it. It's called the law

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

4 years

NEW from me: Working age disabled women are 11x more likely to die from coronavirus than their peers. Disabled men are 6.5 times more at risk. I spoke to disabled women, public health experts and charities about fear, inequality and calls for an inquiry

Coronavirus: Why disabled people are calling for a Covid-19 inquiry

Wheelchair-user Ginny Butcher says disabled people in the UK have been abandoned during the pandemic.

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@Lucy_Webster_

4 years

NEW from me: A quarter of disabled people fear losing their jobs because their employers can't make their workplace safe for them to return. Campaigners want disabled people put at the heart of the Covid recovery plan

Coronavirus: Disabled people fear losing their job

In a letter to No 10, campaigners say disabled people are being 'forgotten' in virus recovery plans.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

8 months

To cap a brilliant week, my new book, The View From Down Here, is featured in @GdnSaturday today! I wrote about how being disabled led me to love my body, and the lessons the disabled community has for everyone else Really proud of this essay

I learned to love my disabled body – why can’t my non-disabled friends love theirs?

For years I blamed my disability for my adolescent unhappiness. Then, as an adult, I learned to embrace and celebrate my body. I wish others could do the same

www.theguardian.com

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@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

Days like this should make us hang our heads in shame about the effort our government makes to keep out refugees

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

Then @Aquum bouncer number 2 gets involved. She tells me the music is "too rowdy" for me, as if as a disabled woman I can only listen to girly pop and, presumably, very sad songs. I feel my discrimination hackles raise. I ask if she's seriously saying this to me. She is

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7 months

When you belong to a marginalised group, claiming your identity gives you community, support, empowerment, self-understanding and so much more Really disappointing to see this outdated view that identifying as/being disabled is a negative thing is still being reinforced

Philippa_Perry

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Oh dear. I’ve upset a lot of people. I didn’t mean to. I’m not saying ADHD doesn’t exist, I’m saying it shouldn’t be an identity and it shouldn’t be self-diagnosed. We are more than our diagnoses - that’s what I’m trying to say.

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2 years

My first piece in ⁦ @FTMag ⁩ is a love letter to the disability community and everything it has done for me With endless thanks, #DisabilityTwitter

As a disabled person, social media has been a lifeline

The internet bypasses what keeps us apart: inaccessible transport, a lack of appropriate care, pain and fatigue

www.ft.com

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@Lucy_Webster_

6 years

The government is now obliged to try to keep the UK in the European medicines regulatory framework. A win for Philip Lee, who resigned from govt over hard Brexit

BBC Parliament

@BBCParliament

6 years

Government defeat! New Clause 17 approved with 305 votes to 301. That's a majority of four. #TradeBill

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

The Tories are *not* increasing benefit rates, they are merely going up with a certain measure of inflation The real value of many benefits, like PIP, has fallen dramatically in the 13 years of Tory government

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

6 months

Not to be overly sincere on main but We went to queer karaoke tonight and I sang. In front of people For a girl who spent decades hating her speech impediment, that's huge Coming out has made me comfortable being me in a way I didn't even know I wasn't. Feeling proud

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1 month

Obvs pitching on this BUT Editors/producers! YOU SHOULD BE COVERING THIS. The UK is purposefully and knowingly failing its largest and most marginalised minority. Where is the outrage? Get in touch for expert/lived experience commentary and analysis

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@Lucy_Webster_

1 month

Just a reminder that today the UK govt is having to give evidence to the UN, having been found to be in violation of the UN convention on the rights of disabled people No other economically developed nation has ever been found in breach of the convention

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2 years

Feel like the Queen could go to Epsom if an ableist society hadn't conditioned her that it's better not to go out than to use a wheelchair

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

Just like in 2017, the ramp at my polling station is almost unusably steep. I just about made it with some help in my very powerful electric chair and it was pretty hairy. No way a manual chair user would make it

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 months

Genuinely think Disability History Month is so roundly ignored because people don't think our stories are part of the collective story #DisabilityHistoryMonth

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. Anyway. At this point I decided if @Aquum didn't want my money I wasn't giving them my time. We headed to KFC, because sometimes you just give up and get chicken

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1 month

Heartbreaking story but good to see the stark realities of the care system laid bare But it shouldn't take a celeb interview for us to recognise the horrific way the system treats disabled people and their carers

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@Lucy_Webster_

18 days

The thing about a lot of the ableism we've seen in the past few weeks is how many people must have signed this stuff off So, once again: this isn't bad apples. It's a whole rotten orchard of society

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

It's my last day at the BBC! I can't express how incredible the last four years have been - from making a film for Newsnight to covering an election and a pandemic from Westminster, all my baby journo dreams have come true.

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@Lucy_Webster_

5 years

KFC is of course not accessible, so I wait outside and my mates go in. But I am a magnet for drunk people. I am pointed at, laughed at. A man asks if he can spin my chair. I am done. I shed some tears in the taxi. I eat a lot of chicken

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Lucy Webster

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The committee session is happening now The govt hasn't sent a ministerial representative. They've sent a civil servant In case you needed more evidence of their contempt for both disabled people and their own international obligations

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Lucy Webster

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2 years

BIG NEWS! So so excited and proud to say my first book, a memoir of life as a disabled woman, will be published by @dkbooks next year! The View From Down Here, coming 2023

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 years

A pleasure to be involved with this important @libertyhq campaign to save the Human Rights Act Disabled people's rights are already so tenuous. If the HRA is scrapped, it'll only become easier to trample on them - and us

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Lucy Webster

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3 months

Just sickening Disabled people's right to choose - work, socialising, family life, even what to have for dinner - sacrificed in the name of cost cutting

Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 months

A cash-starved council is proposing disabled people be interned in care homes if their social care is “too costly”. This is a story of savage public funding cuts but also of which people society deems to matter. My col. in today’s @guardian

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

4 years

Any disabled woman will tell you finding comfortable, fashionable shoes is a nightmare. Well, that's my excuse for now owning four pairs of converse in different colours, anyway

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

6 months

The scrapping of the separate disability cost of living is just another cruelty Me for @guardian @guardianopinion

The UK government is about to make some disabled benefits claimants even poorer | Lucy Webster

Cost of living payments for those receiving Pip have been quietly axed, says writer and disability advocate Lucy Webster

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

3 years

My parents had their vaccines yesterday so everyone in our bubble has been jabbed! 🎉🎉

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Lucy Webster

@Lucy_Webster_

2 months

If we really want more people working, we need to change how we work Flexible hours, genuine wfh, accessible workplaces, and a recognition of disabled people's skills would all be good places to start Instead the govt just wants to force disabled people into unsuitable jobs

Tom Pollard

@PollardTom

2 months

New ONS stats show that almost 3 million people are 'economically inactive' because of disability or poor health - it's a damning indictment of the state of our economy, public services & wider social support. This number will only grow if the government doesn't change course 1/3

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