2020 Shaw Trust
#Power100
-
#30in30
30 marathons in 30 consecutive days - Pride of Britain & 3 NDA nominations - 4x DSotY awards - Service to Sport award winner
Ladies and gents,
@julesGBSVB
and I are very pleased and so very proud to introduce you to Darragh Antony Williamson, born at 02:39 on 7th February weighing 7 pounds 11.
Mum and baby are doing absolutely perfectly xx
Jesus Christ, is that the best that
@Joey7Barton
can do?
I've had *both my legs amputated* and all you can come up with is a reference to a TV show from the 60's?
Shit footballer, shit opinions, shit jokes.
Is there anything more illustrative of British politics in 2020 than a
@Conservatives
MP tweeting like an anon football account by accusing
@mrjamesob
of being 'anti-British' whilst spelling 'British' incorrectly?
I've wheelchairs more qualified to be an MP than
@andreajenkyns
Right wing press: People pretend to be disabled so they can live a life of luxury on benefits; this is why we can't have nice things
Reality: DWP send me an 80 page questionnaire because they suspect that the legs I had amputated 40 years ago may have grown back
#DisabledSnark
5 years ago I was summoned for a
#PIP
assessment by
@DWP
- I've been a double amputee since 1979 - after returning their questionnaire with a note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs have not grown back yet."
This is what happened next...
#DisabledSnark
#AbledsAreWeird
5 years ago I was summoned for a
#PIP
assessment by
@DWP
- I've been a double amputee since 1979 - after returning their questionnaire with a note saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs have not grown back yet."
This is what happened next...
#DisabledSnark
#AbledsAreWeird
I found this photo in Oxford during my morning wheelchair push today. It says "Mum and Dad, 1955" on the back.
Please retweet to help me try to get it back to the owner! Too much of a beautiful photo for someone to lose π
Joey Barton wants to "protect women's spaces" but is happy to organise a pile-on of a 17 year old.
Mind you, he stubbed out a cigar in a youth player's eye so maybe it's just kids he likes bullying.
Usual shit-show on the train, Assistance fail.
Everyone else is off; I'm literally sat on a train on my own in the dark waiting for Manchester Picadilly to decide if they can be arsed to get a ramp or not.
Something most (abled) people just don't experience or realise happens.
@LozzaFox
@NHS
Hi
@TwitterSupport
and
@Twitter
, this is the exact type of "content that increases the chance that someone contracts or transmits the virus" that you should be deleting and dealing with.
Nothing in the honours list, lads.
30 wheelchair marathons in 30 consecutive days, a fair few pennies raised and, so I'm told, a fair few inspired.
Is it cos I keep calling the
@Conservatives
fuckin' corrupt, freeloading wankstains?
#SeeTheAbility
#NotTheDis
#DisabledSnark
So basically what's happened today is some bloke went and had a cup of tea with his nan.
Bloke: Awight, nan?
Nan: Hello, love. You leaving, then?
Bloke: Yes, nan.
Nan: Mind how you go, love.
And Piers Morgan is losing his tiny little mind once again...
#MeghanAndHarry
My nephew's name is Fin.
He's only six right now but once he enters the workplace he'll never be able to end an email without sounding utterly pretentious.
#OddWaysToEndAnEmail
@ultimapaul
I can only assume that Paul is *furious* every time he sees a fire engine go past.
"I'm paying towards that but my house has *never* burnt down."
Sorry to say Paul but one of my wheelchairs was funded by the NHS too.
We all contribute to things we never use, champ.
A lot of my mentions have been "lol u can't walk" and I just think...
I had my legs amputated as a baby and I was just the *happiest* little boy. Almost idyllic childhood.
Like, if your life is defined by something physical, that's so sad, genuinely.
Choose happiness, lads.
I see David Vance is, for the second day running, targeting
@drphiliplee1
, a doctor working on the front line of the NHS during a pandemic, with his usual racist, belligerent bullshit.
At some point
@twitter
@TwitterSupport
are going to have to act.
I don't want to cause a scene but I got up, got showered, got dressed, caught a bus to work, worked, caught a bus home - all with no legs - and am currently in the pub and NOT ONE OF YOU FUCKERS called me inspirational today.
My ego my never recover.
#DisabledSnark
@brianmoore666
@JohnnyMercerUK
@bbcquestiontime
I've worked for a military charity, helping people in desperate need. Like Johnny.
Never got paid 85k for it, like Johnny.
Then again, I've never shit myself in public by claiming that people use foodbanks as a 'choice'.
So, thankfully, not much like Johnny.
The edited version of Fairy-Tale of New York has been in circulation since 1992.
So if you're going to pretend to be outraged by it all over again I hope you have a hot-take about the release of Windows 3.1 to go with it.
#EverySingleYear
#Pogues
#FairyTaleofNewYork
Seriously lads, we need to have a chat about the state of this country.
@nationalrailenq
have decided to commemorate the death of an old man with a visual impairment by making their website unreadable for old people and those with visual impairments.
#ItsWhatHeWouldHaveWanted
Speaking as a double amputee who was hugely inspired by Pistorius and who held him up as the absolute pinnacle of disability sports achievement...
He's not a fallen hero. He's a murderer. Fuck his future.
#SpeakHerName
#ReevaSteenkamp
I suppose it's when the
@DWP
send me a form every three years to check if my condition has changed.
I had both my legs amputated in 1979.
#AbledsAreWeird
Tell you what, given Joey has 2.8 *million* followers compared to my 4k, his tweet about me getting 600 likes and mine got 3x and 7x that makes you think.
Makes you think his followers are bots, for one.
And that the quality of my followers are through the roof.
Cheers, lads.
This is, ultimately, what Brexit boils down to.
Not 'sunlit uplands'. Not 'global Britain' or any of the other lies they used to tell. Not even vile Breaking Point posters.
Just angry, miserable men wanting to make things worse for as many other people as they can.
@chloed0207
@sqhunt11
Because they understand the difference between comedy and unkindness?
Oh and also the difference between an original thought and plagiarising someone else's tweet, too...
@SkyNews
Lads... these are not 'counter-protesters' interested in defending *anything*.
They've rocked up with 12 packs of Stella and smoke grenades, the latter of which have been chucked at police horses.
Tell. The. Truth.
I'm struggling with not having any work, it's been 3 months & it's getting serious.
I don't even know how to word this without sounding like a dick but after helping so many people I could really do with the universe sending some of that back to me right now.
#AwardsMeanNothing
@JuliaHB1
Yeah, choosing the life of a guy who admitted that "40% of the reason" he moved back to Romania was to avoid rape charges sounds entirely reasonable.
Andrew Tate got dunked on by Greta today so letβs make sure we know who this man is and how
@TikTok
has created an incredibly dangerous radicalization machine with Tate at the helm.
@lewis_goodall
That wasn't a mob.
That was friends, neighbours, a community coming together to help one of their own.
The
@ukhomeoffice
should be ashamed, describing peaceful UK citizens as a "mob".
If I've learnt one thing - and I probably have only learnt one thing - it's to be careful of whose journey I decide to join.
People didn't die terrified and far from home just so you could put a Poppy as your Twitter avatar and have a rant about immigrants, Gemma.
@RobBurl
@richardosman
A sarcastic retort to yet more non-answers from a politician was exactly what was needed.
Perhaps if presenters were strong enough to press and insist on an actual answer before moving on to the next question then sarcasm amd humour wouldn't be needed.
In the above tweet I'm deflecting with humour but the stories shared in the replies are heart-breaking.
As is this.
We now add Philippa Day to Errol Graham, Judy Whiting and the countless others whose lives have been destroyed and then stolen by
@DWP
Back in 2016 years ago I had to go for my
#PIP
assessment, mainly because I returned the questionnaire the
@DWP
sent me with a post-it note on the front saying "As I'm not a salamander my legs have not grown back yet."
This is what happened next...
@DC_ARVSgt
@patel4witham
It is excellent. Truly excellent.
In fact, it's so excellent that these powers were granted by the Health Secretary under 1984 public health legislation.
Why do you not know this?
@Bren4Bassetlaw
@BBCBreakfast
The flag represents freedom, Bryan.
Which includes the freedom to mock the people who hide behind it whilst having to be shamed into feeding hungry children.
"Was you born like that?"
Me, thinking they're joking "What, in a wheelchair?"
"Yeah."
"You're asking if I was born in a wheelchair?"
"Yeah."
"I don't know. I never knew my mum. She ran away before I was born"
"You're so inspiring"
*slams head into table*
#DisabledSnark
@june_mummery
If only Nige had turned up more than once out of 50-odd meetings.
If only this wasn't what you campaigned precisely for.
Genuinely, what are you for
@june_mummery
?
What is the point of you?
@Otto_English
@Iromg
@fifa
As a chap who had both his legs cut off 40 years ago, I'm utterly confident I could beat Mr Graham in a 1-on-1 football match.
@lindseyjcarter
@bobscartoons
I'm disabled, as are most of my friends, and I know a lot of able-bodied people with disabled kids.
And not a one of them has called for doctors to be abused and then hidden behind their or their children's disabilities as an excuse.
@DawiLDanger
I think the best thing about Joker is that there *is* no origin story.
Sure this pulls from The Killing Joke, as did Batman's Jack Napier, but surely telling a different story is far preferable to telling the same story.
It's like asking for yet another Spiderman origin film
If I put up a tweet, talking about the shit I've been through as a double amputee and ended it by saying "Disabled Lives Matter" would you immediately jump in with "Bollocks to that! All Lives Matter!"
No? Then shut the fuck up.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BLM
@DevinNunes
@batchelorshow
@DevinCow
Hey
@DevinCow
.... this is a bit cheeky but I'm about to do 30 marathons in 30 days in my wheelchair for 2 disabled kids and a charity that helps amputees who want to get in to sport. Any chance you could RT my fundraising page?
Real talk:
I had both my legs amputated. You all know this.
I've also dealt (best I can) with manic depression since I was in my teens, with substance abuse, self-harming and a suicide attempt.
I would say that of the two, the depression has been far more disabling.
How the hell is "depression and anxiety" a valid reason for disability benefits? It's now the number one cause of disability payments.
People always had "mental health" issues but got on with it and never would have been allowed to claim disability.
@mrjamesob
Danny is at pains in his bio to let the world know that he doesn't reply to anonymous accounts.
But he is of course reduced to retweeting them as they are the only ones still falling for his shtick.
@ProfBrianCox
Hey Prof Cox, could I possibly get a retweet please?
I'm pushing my wheelchair 30 marathons in 30 days to fundraise for three causes within the disability community. I'm up and starting the warm up for the fourth one.
#30in30
#SeeTheAbility
#NotTheDis
Always shocks me when people exclaim "Oh! You're so independent!"
Yeah. I'm a 45 year old geezer with two small children. Why wouldn't I be indepen... oh.
You mean cos I'm in a wheelchair and outside without supervision.
Sigh.
@RobDelyn
@mrjamesob
Conservative MP not knowing the difference between "following" and "followers" and announcing it to the world via the hubris of a "I'm gonna own
@mrjamesob
with this one" is the most Conservative MP thing ever.
Here's a fun game.
Find some defending Brand on the basis of "he deserves a trial, innocent before bring proven guilty" and search their TL to see what they said about Shamima Begun.
Bet you a dollar to a dime they had a *slightly* different way of looking at things...
I don't want to cause a scene but I got up today, got showered, got dressed, worked for 8 hours and have come home - all with no legs - and NOT ONE OF YOU have told me what a fucking good job I'm doing...
I feel your pain
@GillianKeegan
#DisabledSnark
#FuckingGoodJob
@belovedbless
Does written
#DisabledSnark
count?
Because I sent a form the
@DWP
sent to me about changes in my "condition" not filed in bu with a post-it note on top on which I had written "As I'm not a salamander my legs haven't grown back yet."
@toadmeister
No, it puts it back in favour of Parliament rather than solely in the hands of the Executive. An Executive fully willing and able to lie to the monarch.
But I thought this was what you wanted, buddy? British courts ruling on British laws? Taking back control? Sovereignty?
@JuliaHB1
@JMPSimor
Ah, our daily reminder that
@JuliaHB1
is not only too afraid to stand for anything herself but is more than willing to have a sly dig at those that are.
I had both my legs amputated in 1979 and I stand for more than JHB does.
I get this *a lot*
Complete stranger: Have you always been like this?
Me: Devastatingly handsome? Why, yes, thank you for noticing.
CS: I mean, were you born like that?
Me: In a wheelchair? Yes, and my mother's poor foo-foo was never the same.
#DisabledSnark
#AbledsAreWeird
Merrily wheeling along in Lottie when a man flags me down in the street. I stop.
Man: Can I ask why you are cr*ppled?
Me, looking down at my lap and wheelchair in astonishment: Oh my GOD, when did THIS happen?!
Then I flipped him the bird and sped off π
@PressSec
@CNN
@POTUS
You realise there's video out there, yes?
And that
@realDonaldTrump
tried to claim that one of the newspapers over here made up quotes so they released the audio to prove they had not?
Oh dear ... it's not great is it?
@DeborahMeaden
You can't blame Kathy, though.
In this world of influencers and YouTube stars all a 15 year old kid cares about is what's trending...
Oh, she's a grown woman. Nevermind, then.
@NickFletcherMP
Mate, you must be gutted that you forgot to add the Queen to your list.
I mean, she's been the monarch since 1952 and just look how much cyber crime has risen since then.
We certainly do live in interesting times.
@SpillerOfTea
I got hit by a van when I was in my wheelchair.
Thing is the van hit me so hard my artificial legs flew off and went about 20 yards down the road.
The driver shit a brick and drive off. There's someone still out there believing he cut a person in half.
Pic of chair afterwards.
Disabled Twitter... what's your thoughts on Evac chairs?
My opinion - genuinely - is that I will throw myself down a flight of stairs before I let a couple of one-hour-trained four-limbed ableds tip me forwards in that death trap.
Respectfully.
I dunno if you heard but...
I'm pushing my wheelchair 30 marathons in 30 days.
Yeah it's a bit bonkers but I need your support. Donate if you can, but if you can't a retweet and a like really does help.
Thank you.
#30in30
#SeeTheAbility
#NotTheDis
Joey Barton is literally me if I had a following and heβs so fucking funny, just rattling everyone left right and centre itβs bloody brilliant π€£π€£π€£
@Welshdellb0y
@Shambles151
And yet the government have successfully brain-washed you into thinking one set of people are more worthy than another set of people.
There's enough money to help everyone.
Clearly not enough empathy though.
Just got on thectrain, loads of blokes stood round the wheelchair spot on the beers already.
They were top notch and moved to give me space.
Turns out they're on a stag do and I've just been adopted as an honory member till they get to Reading!
Make friends everywhere, me ππ