Mark That Disabled Green Party Guy

Aspirations vs. Action: The Glaring Gap in Telford’s Housing Strategy and the Plan That Offers Real Teeth Labour led Telford and Wrekin Council has unveiled its draft Housing Strategy for 2025-2030, which will be sanctioned and rubber stamped by the Labour cabinet on the 4th December 2025. It's a document that speaks of "higher standards" and "more options." But a closer look reveals a strategy long on past achievements and future aspirations, yet critically short on the binding, concrete actions needed to address a growing housing crisis for its most vulnerable residents. In stark contrast, Mark Webster, the Green Party’s Disability Officer for Telford and Wrekin, has laid out a comprehensive and actionable critique, exposing the strategy's weaknesses and presenting what he calls a "common-sense" alternative with the teeth to force real change. The core difference is simple: one plan hopes for a better future, while the oth...

An Urgent Call to Protect Children and Parents from the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill I’m writing today with a real sense of urgency about a piece of legislation that I believe will have profound consequences for families, especially those with disabled children. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is still very much alive and will be debated again in Parliament on 1st December. We have a small window to act, and I need your help. The government is selling this Bill as the solution to the "ghost children" and poor attendance crisis. It sounds like a clean answer, but beneath the surface, it contains some deeply troubling moves that shift power away from families and into the hands of the state. Here’s what has me, as your Disability Officer, so concerned: · It doesn’t fix the real problem . The laws to protect children already exist. The tragedy is that they haven't been implemented properly. Council's and other agencies haven...

A Masterclass in Evasion: How the Labour Government Proved the UN Right Let's be clear. Many of us dared to hope. After the scorched-earth policies of the previous government against disabled people, the arrival of a Labour government felt like a chance to finally breathe. A chance for a government that would see us as people, not as a line on a balance sheet. That hope, was tragically premature. What I’m about to walk you through is a perfect, clinical example of how this Labour government is already learning to sideline, ignore, and gaslight the disabled community. It’s a story that shows how our concerns are systematically filtered out of the system until all that’s left are empty, polished phrases that mean absolutely nothing. It starts with a letter from the United Nations. Yes, that United Nations. Their Special Rapporteurs on the rights of persons with disabilities and extreme poverty wrote to the UK government expressing “alarm.” They stated bluntly that the “Pa...