PLEASE WATCH THIS. APOLOGIES FOR THE LENGTH OF TEXT, BUT PLEASE READ & SHARE THIS (via copying and pasting or going to Clwyd South Labour Party Facebook page if you can’t share from here. Thank you). Video is from approx 8mins 35 secs in. Another superb report about the Save the Welsh Independent Living Grant – WILG campaign […]
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There will be a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday to call on the Welsh Government to retain the #WelshIndependentLivingGrant – this follows @nathanleedavies presenting an 80 page dossier of evidence to the First Minister. https://t.co/Nxrn7Q6hWL #SaveWILG — Disability Wales (@DisabilityWales) February 11, 2019
I’m too tired to write creatively today, but it is important that I let people know how I am after my blood clot scare. I had woken on two consecutive mornings with a badly swollen lower leg. See pictures below: I just thought this was a case of my sock being too tight, but after
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I received this email about the Petitions Committee discussing the imminent closure of the Welsh Independent Living Grant and our efforts to save it on Tuesday morning (12th February). This day also marks an important meeting which I will keep under wraps for now and then I am off to Kimnel Bay to feature on
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I was watching BBC Four late last night in an attempt to tire myself out so I was more likely to sleep through the night. They were showing a programme entitled One Hit Wonders. One of the artists featured was Peter Sarstedt who was singing Where Do You Go To My Lovely? I have included a YouTube
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FOR THE ATTENTION OF DEPUTY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTER JULIE MORGAN AM Dear Julie It was really good to meet you once again at my home on January 24th. I would like to thank you for listening intently to the evidence presented by myself, Sheila Meadows OBE and Vic Grout as to why the
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I would like to dedicate the following song to everyone at WCBC and the Welsh Government.I am really struggling at the moment due to inadequate hours of care and support and not being able to use my direct payments in the way they are intended, thanks to an inept local authority that are failing in
With time running out to #SaveWILG, we are pulling out the stops. Brian Hilton – our creative designer – has produced the following Valentine’s Day memes that will soon be reminding AM’s and Local Authorities just what a mess they have got themselves into. The only solution is to #SaveWILG. A full list of tweets
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Time for something different as the pressure increases with the #SaveWILG campaign. This morning I received news of the International Welsh Poetry Competition in my inbox and think that I may enter if I can get enough head space away from all this injustice. I don’t fancy my chances with meetings lined up solidly until
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BY JOHN PRING ON JANUARY 31, 2019 A disabled campaigner has sent an 80-page dossier of evidence to the new first minister of Wales in a last-ditch bid to persuade him to abandon plans to close the Welsh government’s independent living grant scheme. Nathan Lee Davies has written to Mark Drakeford with just two months left until
