
Marianne Scobie
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Depute CEO Glasgow Disability Alliance #DisabilityEquality #HumanRights campaigner #SocialHistory #JIA #NDYUK #Yoker *tweet own views*
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02-03-2012 22:13:46
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Thanks to all the @UKGov MPs who listened to their constituent and expert #DPOs as well as other research and evidence. Disabled people absolutely see you and support you and will remember Inclusion London Disability Rights UK Inclusion Scotland Disability Equality Scotland Glasgow Disability Alliance Disability News Service


Since I published this blog on Wednesday, begging (again) my MP Chris Murray MP to vote against the disastrous Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payment Bill, I've found out how he chose to spend his day ๐งต



.โฆGlasgow Disability Allianceโฉ 6000 members outraged that Sir Stephen Timms, minister for social security & disability REFUSED to listen to his own disabled advisers: this raises valid concerns over his pledge to co-produce PIP review reporting in autumn 2026. disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ignorโฆ

Government ignores warnings of new DWP deaths, & UN intervention, as MPs pass universal credit cuts bill: โฆGlasgow Disability Allianceโฉ members agree with #DPOs around UK that this Bill is a betrayal which will increase poverty, supercharge inequality & cost lives disabilitynewsservice.com/government-ignโฆ


#RealityCheck about numbers and percentages of the population on PIP. Also way to reduce disability is by reducing barriers & structural inequalities: not pretending there are less disabled people say Glasgow Disability Alliance members

There's still time to sign up for our young disabled people's photography workshop, taking place on Wednesday 30th July! Parents and carers are welcome too. Hear from our Community Navigator and Rights Now team. Call: 0141 556 7103 Text: 07958 299 496 [email protected]


So govt are setting up โinnovation squadsโ to fan out across the country and help โto re-build public servicesโ. Hereโs how this works, should you ever find yourself in a meeting and someone uses a phrase anything like โinnovation squadsโ, get up and leave the room instantly,





Ministers have published research they have been sitting on for more than a year showing how the proportion of disabled people in financial difficulty doubled in 2 years, days after MPs voted for ยฃ2 billion-a-year cuts to out-of-work disability benefits. disabilitynewsservice.com/number-of-disaโฆ