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Kaliya Franklin

Kaliya Franklin is an experienced disability rights campaigner, writer and speaker. She blogs at the 2012 Orwell Prize shortlisted blog Benefit Scrounging Scum, was voted one of the top 10 most influential users of twitter in 2011 (@BendyGirl), founded the lobbying group The Broken of Britain and was an author of the 'Spartacus Report'

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