Lucy Webster

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 dk.com/uk/book/978024…

This Disability Pride month, I’m grateful for the readers who say Who Wants Normal? is helping them feel more valued and confident. This book was never about downplaying inequality but proudly rejecting the shame and stereotypes the non-disabled world forces on us. With jokes.

Look I would like some more left-wing politics as much as anyone but if you don't see how splitting the Labour vote only helps Reform I don't know what to tell you

but reading IS fun… i’m sorry but i fundamentally don’t understand this take!!! there was nothing more exciting to me as a kid than living in the world of a book and so many of my best memories are dressing up as characters from those books and playing with my friends afterwards

I know disabled people who worked for 40 years prior to their disability. I know disabled people who still work. I know disabled people who would love to work. I know disabled people who have been disabled since birth and can't ever work. They all have the same worth.

This is very good and very true, but I do have to point out we've *never* been able to fix the lifts on the tube in a reasonable timeframe

had 10 days off and feel vaguely more human! honestly probs needed a whole month but I'm back, what's up?

Starmer really does like to fight needless fights he can't win, hey?

“When the political and media class wish to leave disabled people hungry and dirty, the disabled community must explain why we should be allowed to eat and be clean.” Today’s col. reflects on a tough month and what it all means for disability in the U.K. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Just been asked by a big organisation to "share my expertise" No mention of a fee

So far everyone is failing the Don't Ask Disabled People To Work For Free During Disability Pride Month Challenge

“28 million people in Britain are now working to pay the wages and benefits of 28 million others,” Kemi Badenoch says of ‘welfare’. “The rider is as big as the horse.” Ugly, divisive language from the Leader of the Opposition that would be suited to a far right fringe event.

My heart feels so heavy this morning. Last night at my book event in Stockton Joy Dove, mam of Jodey Whiting spoke openly about how the DWP had caused Jodey’s death. At the same time MPs were voting to cut the same benefit for many disabled people

As awful as the welfare cuts are, they could have been so much worse. The fact that they are not is not because the government showed compassion but thanks to the dogged work of the disability community. I doff my hat to you

Labour spent 14 years opposing austerity only to get power and cut support for the poorest and sickest disabled people Literally what are you in power for?

And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Labour.

MPs and much of the media have spun a false narrative about tonight’s Universal Credit vote. The PIP pause has created the myth the government has fully u-turned on its disability cuts. But £2 billion is about to be pulled from the sickest and poorest people in the country.

Today MPs will vote on proposals to cut £2 billion from support for sick and disabled people. 750,000 low-income sick and disabled people would lose £3,000 a year. We must not balance the books on the backs of the poor and disabled. I will vote against these plans.

“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by the upcoming Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected. My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Quite embarrassing really for a *checks notes* Labour government to be criticised by *checks notes again* the UN