Callum Robins

AFP SHO
BMA Wessex RJDC / Regional Council
MSc Epidemiology (@LSHTM)
Proficient enough in R

[max tempers @maxtempers]

The entire Boriswave will be entitled to Pension Credit IF they obtain ILR. Care workers who arrived in their 40s/50s and have never earned a salary >£30k will all be eligible, along with their spouses. This should be a first order concern if you're worried about pension spend.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[The NHS Whistleblower @ItsnotrightUK]

We need to expand our own medical schools and stop relying on international doctors.

[Dr Luke Craddock @DrLukeCraddock]

They were right in 1948 too.

[Roshan Rupra @RupraRoshan]

Let’s break this down properly. For resident doctors in England, that 28.9% headline isn’t Labour’s gift to doctors and it isn’t a windfall.

It’s three years of DDRB recommendations after a decade of cuts. Labour gave one 4% top-up for the strikes in 2024.

Even now, independent think-tanks say our pay is still below 2010 levels. We had a nice one off catch up, but we’re still 21% down in RPI.

DDRB is constrained by political instructions, and ministers chose not to restore doctors’ pay fully, even when independent evidence shows it’s still below 2010 levels.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at pay since before the financial crisis. By the end of 2023:
•Real public-sector pay was about 1% lower than in 2007.
•Real private-sector pay was about 4% higher than in 2007.

So yes, the public sector has been squeezed. But it is not fair to say that everyone has taken the same hit. Resident doctors are by far, the worst hit.

But here’s the clincher: physician assistants who can’t even prescribe paracetamol start on £23.60 an hour (around 25% more than a new doctor) without overtime or unsocial hours, and with guaranteed pay progression.

Doctors have no guaranteed progression, most do not progress! UK grads are locked out of training to be a consultant, competing with >20k international medical graduates for a handful of jobs. We are stuck in limbo, and some of us are unemployed.

We’re only asking to be paid at least as much as the people who can’t sign the drug chart.

[platinumpizza™ @Xeon4f145d96s1]

@maxtempers Max - here’s one that’ll shock you, did you know that when an IMG wants to apply for training (on an equal footing with a UK graduate), all they need is a “CREST” form that can be signed by a consultant in their home country that has never even worked in the UK?

[max tempers @maxtempers]

When a doctor from abroad applies for GMC registration, the only 'check' that they haven’t had any action taken against them by a foreign medical regulator is a self-declaration. The GMC doesn’t independently verify this with other regulators. It's a joke of a system.

[Reddical Medge @ReddicalMedge]

The whole system is completely unfit for purpose, and I am angrier than ever even though I personally am securely in a HST programme with CCT approaching in the next few years.

🟡From the catastrophe of rotational training and portfolio-tickbox-assessment as a core concept of 'training' itself...

🔴to the MSRA as a low-effort way of filtering out applications without reference to their aptitude for the specialty...

🔴to the nonsense points-based assessment of applications, scoring largely meaningless criteria such as QI, presentations, publication-mill dross papers that have no bearing on candidate suitability...

🔴to the deeply unserious super-short interviews where we pretend we can select the best candidates from very short and rigidly 'marked' scenarios with no scope to actually delve into the candidate...

🔴to the ludicrous worldwide-open recruitment for non-UKGs and unconstrained mass importation of doctors to cheapen the medical jobs market by over-supply and undermine the collective bargaining power of the medical profession...

🔴to the ridiculous numbers of doctors now being churned out by medical schools, packed into placements like sardines with noticeably reduced curricula and rigour of training & assessment... Now doing 5-year degrees in PassMed cramming...

As usual we - by which I mean the Colleges and a whole generation of consultants - have not just accepted this quietly, but have actually facilitated and supported this catastrophe. And here we are, still arguing amongst ourselves still about whether our liberal ideology permits us to 'discriminate' against non-UKGs even as the situation is now literally an existential one of mass unemployment and career devastation for UK-trained medical doctors.

Get a grip, medical 'leaders' and Royal Colleges. We - residents and medical students - cannot afford your luxury beliefs and complacency with this system (that has been broken all along) any longer; radical action is needed, not a little tweak in position.

Show some leadership for once, because it's not your esteemed careers, livelihoods, and future on the line in your ivory towers. It's your members' and prospective members'.

@RCPhysicians @rcpsych @RCSnews @RCSEd @RCoANews @RCPCHtweets @RCollEM @RCPEdin @rcpsglasgow @RCPath @RCRadiologists @RCObsGyn @DoctorsVoteUK @BMAResidents @BMAstudents

[Shimmer Smoker @TobaccoMiner]

@RT_India_news "actually, Britain just funds other things we should be funding, freeing up funding our space program"

Yeah, so we fund your space program.

[JACK ANDERTON @JACKGUYANDERTON]

A man was killed at this tube station last summer.

Rakeem Miles punched Samuel Winters in the head, just for brushing past him on an escalator. Samuel died two days later.

Samuel contributed to Britain. Rakeem only took from it.

Britain’s justice system is broken.

[Mytho Britannia @MythoBritannia]

You can just retweet this account. You can just share images on the internet. You can recommend people follow it. It's all free.

[Elshad @ElshadKarbasi]

Wow! Guys… I am a super genius… I’ve figured it all out 😮😮😮

I’ve figured out how to fix the training bottlenecks 👍👍👍

Instead of prioritising British graduates we should simply have infinity training places 👍👍👍😎😎😎♾️♾️♾️

#Einstein #Leadership #MedEd #ARRRNHS

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I was brought up in the Black Country by parents who possessed a deep English working-class patriotism.

That sense of national togetherness is now being torn to shreds as unprecedented levels of mass migration transform parts of our country beyond recognition.

The disorienting rate of change is rarely discussed by our media elite, so the numbers bear repeating. According to ONS census data, in central Bradford 50 per cent of people were born outside of the UK. In central Luton 46 per cent of all residents arrived in the past decade. Between 2001 and 2021 the proportion of the white British population in Dagenham fell by 51 per cent; in Slough by 35 per cent; and in Peterborough by 27 per cent. There is no historical precedent – or democratic mandate – for this.

Contrary to popular myth, the UK’s demographics have remained remarkably stable for most of our island story. Yes, we have experienced waves of migration, for instance the Huguenots in the late 17th century, but we are not, like our American friends, a nation of immigrants. Stability has served us well. It enabled a high-trust, cohesive society with a unifying national identity.

Few in Westminster dare acknowledge what is happening. They see the success stories – for instance, the politicians from immigrant backgrounds who have risen to the top of Government – which distorts their perceptions. They reap the benefits of mass migration and are wealthy enough to avoid the costs ordinary Brits face in their daily lives.

In 2016 it was found that there are 416 schools where 50 per cent or more pupils are from Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic backgrounds. How many politicians send their children to those schools? If they left their ivory towers, they would see a very different picture – one where mass migration has led to fractured cities, isolated communities, and growing sectarianism.

What I saw recently in Handsworth, Birmingham showed just how far things have declined. Palestinian flags fluttered on lampposts; the Union Flag or St George’s Cross couldn’t be seen. Men outnumbered women on the street, shop signs and posters were emblazoned in foreign languages (with 1 in 7 unable to speak English well) and over half of the population are out of work.

In this ward 45 per cent of the population were not born in Britain and 92 per cent are ethnic minorities. This is not the diversity liberals celebrate as “enriching”, but a monolithic block of first, second and third generation migrants living culturally divergent lives.

It’s impossible to integrate areas like this, as the host society is absent. I challenge even the most devoted pro-migration campaigners to visit and describe it as a success story. It is anything but.

Out of sight, the shameful failures of mass migration are even more concerning. Cousin marriage remains common among some South Asian minorities, with the most recent data showing that in three inner-city Bradford wards almost half of mothers from the Pakistani community were married to a first or second cousin.

There are an estimated 85 Sharia Councils across the country – we simply do not know the full details, other than that they are growing in number. This is despite reports that many of these Councils condone wife-beating, and ignore marital rape and forced marriage. That is a stain on our country that should anger us all.

We have imported ethnic and religious tensions, meaning that conflicts on the other side of the world play out on Britain’s streets. In 2023, for instance, four police officers were injured after tensions in the Eritrean community led to clashes. We cannot accept that as normal.

A nation without a common language or cultural reference points to bind people together ceases to be a nation. In the UK today nearly a million people can’t speak English or can’t speak it well – a situation made worse by government translation services that allow people to get by without it.

Successive governments have rightly been criticised for failing to prevent this. In honesty, there hasn’t really been an integration policy worthy of the name. Cowardly politicians have turned a blind eye and allowed problems to fester. Often they’ve made it worse. Instead of encouraging assimilation, the British state has enforced differences through state-sponsored DEI. Rather than demand immigrants buy into the values, customs, and institutions that attracted them here in the first place, we have tolerated unacceptable practices that offend the British way of life.

Most appallingly of all, the British state has bungled programmes like Prevent which are designed to counter the biggest failures of integration, misallocating resources away from Islamist extremism.

A decade ago, in an independent review into integration, Baroness Casey gave a clarion call for change. But not one of her recommendations mentioned the need to end mass migration. The truth is it’s impossible to absorb the number of people coming into the country and retain a strong sense of national identity. On current trends, by 2050 as many as one in three of the UK population will have been born abroad. Like those who have come before, most of them will settle in urban centres, exacerbating our ongoing challenges. How can we possibly hope to integrate new arrivals into our way of life if there is nothing to integrate into?

That is why we desperately need to end mass migration. I resigned from the previous Government after I couldn’t secure any more reductions. The need for those changes are more urgent than ever.

In Casey’s report she mounted a spirited defence of so-called “British values” (which are, in reality, common Western values) like freedom of speech, freedom of religion and respect for one another. But only tackling extreme behaviour is a low bar for an integration strategy.

We must aspire for more. I want to raise my children, as my parents did, in a country bound by a strong sense of national community, shared customs and tradition, and pride in our history, landscape and literature. One in which people, regardless of their skin colour or faith, live side by side, never ghettoised. It will not be the Britain of yesteryear; however it can still have what Roger Scruton called a love of home.

At an event last week in the Midlands a man rose to ask me a question. He said he was a proud British Sikh, but then corrected himself and said he was, above all, proudly British. He went on to make a powerful speech for a more united country. He called for an end to religious prayers on our streets – explaining there are no shortages of mosques, gurdwaras, and temples – and despaired at the multitude of business groups he was invited to in the West Midlands which divide people by skin colour or faith.

“I am Sikh and a businessman”, he said. “I do not need a Sikh business association to express my views”. He ended by saying, in reference to the foreign flags flying in his neighbourhood that for him, “the Union Flag is the flag I live under and am loyal to, not the Palestinian flag.” Have pride in Britain he said. A standing ovation followed.

We must capture his spirit, and make ourselves one country, under one flag.

[Callum Robins @Callum_Robins1]

@BowTiedPassport Xochicalco? Nice lesser visited site near Cuernavaca. The frescoes on the pyramid you're on are top notch.

[Callum Robins @Callum_Robins1]

@KatherineChin18 @MRCPUK The offer of the 26th March sitting is a kick in the teeth. "Oh yeah, that exam you would probably need to study 3-4 months for even if done directly after part 1, and that you haven't thought about for 1.5 years - would you like a month to prepare?

[Callum Robins @Callum_Robins1]

@KatherineChin18 @MRCPUK I'm now in a tiny village in the mountainous jungles of Oaxaca struggling to process this information and how to proceed. It's like I've had the plans for my life torn up in a 'whoops we're sorry' customer service email, and I've never felt more alone and worried about my future.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Making it affordable for a hardworking young person to afford a family is the core of “America First.”

Too many have bought the lie that the path to prosperity is to flood the nation with cheap labor.

In the next administration, we’ll fight for American workers.