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Mik Scarlet

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Mik Scarlet

@MikScarlet

Wheelchair User. Co-CEO @phab_charity Broadcaster, Journalist, Musician, Access/Inclusion Expert. Writer for @blitzed80smag1 All views my own.

Camden, London

Joined June 2013

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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 7, 2018
Dear Twitter peeps, Please follow me, like my tweets, reply, comment, challenge, debate, inform & educate me. Let's engage & use Twitter for good. As soon as you become aggressive, hostile or insulting I will block you If I wouldn't accept behaviour face to face I won't here.
Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Mar 17, 2025
Just did the maths. My full PIP is £9500/year but my wheelchair cost £6500, Batec £5500 & my car was a £800 non-returnable deposit with a lease of £75/week. So just to be able to go to work I'm down £6400. Yeah scroungers all.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Mar 17, 2025
To everyone losing their shit about #Motability, it's a car leasing scheme. No one gets a free car. We borrow it, with a weekly payment of £75 with a nonrefundable deposit which can be £1000s. The cars go back to Motability after 3 years & they sell them 2nd hand.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
May 13, 2022
This is what young disabled people deserve. This is what all disabled people deserve. The pure joy of doing what non-disabled people take for granted. Having a go on a swing. We're not asking for the moon, just the normal joys of life.
Susanne Driffield
@s_driffield
May 13, 2022
Replying to @flowergirl_lon
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Oct 19, 2025
I look back on my life, disabled since birth & paralysed since I was 15, never in my 60 years alive have I experienced such anger, hate & jealousy targeted at disabled people. All fueled by the Right & the media. I know I have never felt so angry at our society as I do now
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Mar 19, 2025
If I do lose my PIP I will insist on being able to live like a nondisabled person. I will expect accessibility everywhere & to face no exclusion ever. I will also expect NHS staff to carry out any support I need. That'll cost more than my PIP but that's the price of yesterday.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 9, 2021
Really saddened that by trying to highlight how Colourful Crossings exclude disabled people after another 4 have been rolled out in Camden has been turned into my being anti-trans. If your equality comes at the cost of another's it isn't equality. You've just gained privilege.
Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 18, 2023
In 2003 I was a world famous TV presenter. But my spine collapsed & I had to stop work, needing major surgery to keep me alive. During the next few years there was no way I could work & Diane had to care for me. She gave up a £500/week job to claim £50/wk carers allowance 1
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Oct 11, 2025
If job coaches are to be installed in GP surgeries surely tax inspectors should be installed in corporate finance offices? I'm pretty sure one will bring more into the funding of the country than the other & fair is fair.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 23, 2023
If it's the duty of every disabled person in the UK to work, it's the duty of the UK to be fully accessible & inclusive to said disabled people? I work, because I'm lucky enough to be able to, but I'm still unable to enjoy even basic things as I would do if I wasn't disabled.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Jul 6, 2019
Replying to @emilylinka
Been dating @digidiane for 24 years tbis August, married 14 Nov 5th. Love each other to bits & have done since we first met. Never found my wheelchair as a barrier to dating. If someone was put off then it's their loss & a lucky escape for me. Go out there & mingle, have fun.
Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Mar 11, 2025
I just don't get it. How the fudge will cutting PIP help people get into work? It's not an out of work benefit but is in fact one of the few benefits that actively help disabled people INTO work. Truly feel like we're on a ship with a captain that has no map.
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Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 15, 2020
Replying to @itsdrjoseph
If I was like you (a wheelchair user) I'd kill myself. (said far too often sadly, meant to say how strong they think you are but just invalidates my existence & really pisses me off)
Mik Scarlet
@MikScarlet
Nov 20, 2020
Replying to @Sia
I wasn't going to weigh in on this but by posting this tweet it is obvious you've missed the point. The film may be enjoyable but the casting is offensive to the community the film is about. Any portrayal is as much about casting as it is story.