Catherine Edgson
@catherineedgson.bsky.social
Autistic disabled activist Non-binary & queer Interests: film, music, theatre, welfare, social justice, disability, fighting for equality
@andyburnham.bsky.social Don’t cut welfare or restrict it for younger people or add conditions PIP is non means tested and for all disabled people who need it to help with extra costs, it is not an out of work benefit Rhetoric this week against disabled people has been horrendous My comments:👇
Any conversation about cost of living immediately falls into the “working people” trap and media commentators discuss welfare cuts at the same time Big 🚩 especially as a disabled person 😬 This doesn’t feel like change It feels the same as the last few years where anyone not working is excluded
@andyburnham.bsky.social Your decision to keep hard right figures like Mahmood, McFadden & Phillipson in place signals your utter contempt for British people, especially refugees, the disabled & the LGBTQ community. Why did you bother staging a coup to offer more of the same misery?
Recent minister announcements Wes Streeting is defence secretary Oh god 😳 Lucy Powell replaced Bridget Phillipson as education sec Angela Rayner for housing secretary More here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who's in Andy Burnham's new Labour cabinet?
An in-depth look at which Labour MPs have been appointed to cabinet roles by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
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For Keir Starmer Lammy Kendall Jones Steven’s Reed Reeves Kyle
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Somehow Burnham the champion of the left, looks even more right wing than Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... Tories are happy about Healey and want to cut benefits to fund defence How about Fck off kemi! This is why his appointment is worrying We know this will happen Pat McFadden annoyingly stays as Work and pensions Ffs 🤦♀️ Yvette cooper now in health 🤔
Healey appointed chancellor and Miliband becomes foreign secretary as Andy Burnham picks cabinet
Meanwhile Shabana Mahmood will stay on as home secretary as new Prime Minister Andy Burnham forms his top team.
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While some of the cabinet sackings have made me happy including Lammy, Kendall etc Less ecstatic at Mahmoud coming back as Home Secretary and the guy who resigned over lack of defence spending is now chancellor John Healey Not what you want to see when Labour are prioritising war over welfare 😬
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Some important priorities for @andyburnham.bsky.social - Protect welfare don’t cut it - Listen to disabled people - Help everyone with cost of living not just “working people & families” - Allowing Milburn/blairites to influence DWP policy is very worrying - No new oil/gas drilling - Fund the NHS
Some don’t want to believe chronic illness… Fine But don’t deny my reality that fatigue, pain and illness is in fact valid and real and I’m not able to do everything they want in their timing especially when you don’t see the crash or fall Invisible, fluctuating, dynamic doesn’t mean imaginary
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Me after lunch 😴 Energy drained 🪫 Increased pain Brain fog esp. doing puzzles Fatigue Currently horizontal 🫠 Busy day with errands responding to Timms review campaign statements, research interview Activism brain still going & responding to things as I see them No more deep dives/reading tho
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Interim report of the Timms review is out I’ve briefly looked at it as well as sharing thoughts based on media coverage and DWP comments about concerns around cuts/restrictions for neurodivergence and mental health Not helped by continued media attacks Why are these conditions targeted so much?
Stop going after the poor when they’ve already had enough cuts and austerity Tax the super rich! Cutting welfare is the easy scapegoat It needs to stop We need change This ⬇️
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 4w agoA new report shows Britain has made almost no progress in closing the gap between rich and poor regions for nearly 30 years. This is a result of political choices and it doesn't have to be this way. Tax the super-rich and invest in every community.
🧵 Dear CSJ Have you ever thought that maybe the rise in mental health cases, claims etc was due to the pandemic, the 🌎 going to 💩 or more awareness? Or that mental health services have long waiting lists, lack of funding or people just being ill? www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/hal...
Half a million extra out of work benefit claimants for each PM losing job since 2019, analysis reveals - The Centre for Social Justice
Britain has added more than half a million people to the out of work benefit caseload for every Prime Minister to occupy No10 since 2019, according to new
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Can we already stop calling the badly misnamed Centre for Social Justice a think-tank, when it's a lobby group very like the badly misnamed Taxpayers Alliance? It lobbies for social security cuts, keeping the working class out of universities, the usual #Milburn www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Burnham will push for welfare reform and knows it’s ‘necessary’, welfare tsar says
Former health secretary Alan Milburn says he and the presumptive prime minister have already ‘discussed privately’ the issue of welfare reform
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Jubilee bridge, London Eye, Southbank, River Thames
🧵 Dear CSJ Have you ever thought that maybe the rise in mental health cases, claims etc was due to the pandemic, the 🌎 going to 💩 or more awareness? Or that mental health services have long waiting lists, lack of funding or people just being ill? www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/hal...
Half a million extra out of work benefit claimants for each PM losing job since 2019, analysis reveals - The Centre for Social Justice
Britain has added more than half a million people to the out of work benefit caseload for every Prime Minister to occupy No10 since 2019, according to new
centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
Just did a long rant video on Instagram after reading the CSJ piece Great coverage once again by the canary and @rachelcdailey.bsky.social on this His links to this think tank, Purnell, Milburn, Blair And their views on welfare as well as hints to cut it to fund defence is a concern 😕
The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · last mo.Shady think tank the Centre for Social Justice just sent out a stark reminder about who Andy Burnham works for: them By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
Facebook has been interesting today Comments can become a dumpster 🔥 This one was 🤔 So there was an article where my previous employer West London NHS had upset the transphobes, Tories and the telegraph for defying the Supreme Court ruling and allowing trans women to be in women’s spaces Amazing
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Been posting on threads a lot this week Especially about chronic illness, neurodivergence and this heatwave 🥵 Definitely been struggling More pain, more feeling stuck Not much productivity tbh Anyone else? This morning my body had had enough Flared, crashed Missed our first local pride 🥺 🏳️🌈
Tired Hamster Takes a Nap
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The Met Office has issued their first Red heat warning for Wednesday and Thursday, covering a large part of Southern England & the Midlands. A Red warning means that there is a danger to life to everyone. BuDS has prepared advice on how to keep yourself safe at the link. buds.org.uk/extreme-weat...
Extreme Weather Warning: June 2026
Temperatures across England will be dangerously high this week
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🫠 This is just the beginning of the heatwave 🥵
Cat Cooling Off with Fan on a Hot Day
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Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure
