Lord Adrian #FBPPR #FBPE #BLM #FBPA #FBNHS

Supporting the rule of law, the rights of humanity and protection for the natural world. Support PR #RejoinEU Woke #BunnyHugger. #IStandWithUkraine #GTTO

[Lord Adrian #FBPPR #FBPE #BLM #FBPA #FBNHS @AdrianWiddowson]

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[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Are you ready for this?

Our Govt paid £2.6bn for 5 migrant ships over 2 years

And yet…

The general cost to charter the most luxurious Royal Caribbean cruise ship for 2 years

Inc fuel, food, staff, etc

For 5614 people (double our migrant boats’ capacity)

Is $832m

Or £643m.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found.

You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought…

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

The fight for our NHS continues over the next 48hrs with #ConsultantsStrike, their 1st in nearly 50yrs! Our senior docs could be earning 4x more abroad but stay here for you, losing 35% pay since ‘08. Stand with them and all NHS staff against this corrupt govt!

#SOSNHS

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

This is a great country with immense resources — the UK is the 6th wealthiest country in the world — but life is unacceptably difficult for far too many people right now and something needs to change.

Austerity 1.0 wiped out vital public services and destroyed millions of people’s lives in the process. Austerity 2.0 is happening right now, while we all suffer through this cost of living crisis.

But instead of learning any lessons, this corrupt government is doubling down. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mandated that this public sector pay offer should come from EXISTING departmental budgets. No new money. Just more cuts masked as “efficiency savings.” This will inflict yet further damage to our already decimated public services and is an unacceptable way to fund these meagre pay increases.

But it gets worse. In the case of NHS pay, this pay rise will come from charging immigrants like myself a much higher fee just to come and work here. And for the 20% of us immigrants in the NHS workforce who have to renew our visas sometimes every year, this means a further pay cut to those of us with the audacity to leave our countries to come and care for your sick.

Let’s remember that France gave French citizenship to its foreign pandemic key workers to thank them for their service, while here in Britain, we immigrants have been gifted with higher taxes.

Funding this pay rise via departmental budget cuts or by charging immigrants more, are both terrible policy decisions that will cause further harm to our communities by gutting public services and making Britain an ugly place to visit and work.

But Rishi Sunak says that he doesn’t want to increase govt borrowing because he’s concerned it will increase inflation so that’s off the table too.

In order to save our public services, we must tax the super rich.

People like @RishiSunak — the wealthiest PM in history — and the billionaires of the @RoyalFamily — who can all certainly afford it — should pay just a bit more in tax. And not just them, everyone in this country who is fortunate enough to have significant wealth can afford to pay a small percentage extra to help us all recover from the greatest crisis our country has faced since World War II.

A 1-2% tax on wealth above £10,000,000 would not bankrupt any of these people, they will still be obscenely wealthy, it won’t change their quality of life, or absurdly force them to leave the country, but it will raise enough money to pay for public services and it could actually help to reduce inflation.

Let’s call it a Post-COVID Patriot Tax because the people who help finance this will be doing their patriotic duty to help their country recover in it’s time of need.

And we’ll all benefit — rich and poor alike — Because when anyone has a heart attack and needs an urgent ambulance, when anyone needs life-saving care in hospital, or needs a police officer, or good transportation, or a good school to educate their children, or any services from local or national government, we should all have urgent access to that service, regardless of our wealth.

After what we’ve all been through in the last decade with Austerity 1.0, after surviving the pandemic, after losing so many members of our families and our colleagues, after so many have lost their livelihoods, and now in Austerity 2.0 with the greatest cost of living crisis in generations and millions having to choose between heating and eating, it’s time for us all to be a bit less greedy and help each other out just a bit more.

It’s time for us all to work together to improve the country and properly invest in our public services. It’s time for a Patriotic Wealth Tax.

#SOSNHS #WealthTax

[Jessica Simor KC @JMPSimor]

Not one single Conservative Peer lifted a finger to stop the illegal “Illegal Migration Bill” - not a single one. Think about that. Not one was willing to do what they knew was right for risk of being thrown out of ‘the Party’.

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

When the history books are written, this image will stand testament to one of the most economically illiterate, morally broken, incompetent, corrupt and downright shameful governments in British history.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Six per cent for essential public sector workers. 45% for King Charles. And people are meant to accept that? https://t.co/j0ySpCQnsn

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British people: "What about Boris Johnson’s phone?"

The British media:
NIGEL FARAGE'S BANK ACCOUNT !!!!

[Tax Justice UK @TaxJusticeUK]

We've helped make wealth taxes a political possibility.

A few reflections on how far we've come👇

https://t.co/Q3e7BqHgym

[Lord Adrian #FBPPR #FBPE #BLM #FBPA #FBNHS @AdrianWiddowson]

Rebels In Prison Support https://t.co/NIpmALW92n

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Australian travel firm awarded £1.6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation | The Independent. … … Let’s wait to see the connections unravel … https://t.co/0xxCMuHxb5

[Siob, Princess of Yorkshire #FBPE #FBR @Sillyshib]

I know people don't want to hear this, but the reason the Tories keep getting elrcted is there are lots of not very nice people in this country who do not give A SH1T about their fellow citizens

[Global Justice Now @GlobalJusticeUK]

Our NHS is on its knees. And now big pharma companies are trying to squeeze another £2.5 billion a year out of it, by sabotaging a key medicines pricing deal.

We can’t let the NHS be broken beyond repair – take 30 seconds to sign the petition & urge the UK government to step in

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

If you're someone stupid enough to

Have voted for Brexit
To deny climate change
To dismiss the vale of vaccinations
Believed Boris Johnson
Thinks GB News is a real news channel
Supports Farage

Have you considered you might be the problem?

[Global Justice Now @GlobalJusticeUK]

Big pharma companies are pushing to overhaul a key NHS pricing deal – and rinse the NHS of an extra £2.5 BILLION a year.

We can’t let corporate greed threaten the survival of our NHS. Will you urge the UK Government to intervene against this scandalous deal?

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

You can fool some people sometimes… but in a democracy they get a chance to put things right.

Time to #rejoin !

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Monday was another damning day for the government at the Covid Inquiry.

It is becoming clearer what the recommendations from the Inquiry are likely to be…

But there is also a bigger question raised about criminality…
1/n

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Rishi Sunak is holding drinks at Downing Street tonight for "select" political journalists.

Under previous Prime Ministers these events were open to all accredited journalists, whether they worked for 'friendly' publications, or not.

Not under Sunak

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

People need to go to jail...

£1.6BN given to a company without tender

For 5 migrant ships over 2 years

Which house less than 2k people between them

Which had to be sent back to owners after finding nowhere to dock in UK

This is where our money goes.

https://t.co/NlhgMwGyBN