Hi @andyburnham I spoke today to a friend whose father had Alzheimer’s. He told me that last year the council was paying around £900 a week for carers to visit four times a day, providing a combined total of about two hours of care per day.
That works out at approximately £64 per hour of delivered care to the agency.
While many care workers providing the actual visits are paid around £16 per hour.
For comparison, an experienced NHS Band 6 nurse earns around £20 per hour.
Why are taxpayers paying such high rates to private care providers when the frontline workers themselves receive a much smaller proportion of the cost?
Would a publicly provided model, with qualified nurses and care workers employed directly by the NHS or local authorities, provide better value and more consistent support, rather than relying on care agencies that often deliver short, offer fragmented visits, charge a fortune, and make extortionate profits?
🔴 Toutes nos excuses eux joueurs Paraguayens qui ont été fair-play, respectueux, éthiques, droits et professionnels, comme rarement dans le monde du football
In court it was mentioned the patriot:
>lives with his parents
>has history in violent assualts
>involved in another fight earlier that day
>always high on cocaine
And he ended up getting a suspended sentence with a fine of £739
Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”
Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”
Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.
This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂
RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇
Squirming Farage knows this is now a scandal that could end his chances of being PM.
Everyone, including his own supporters, knows his failure to declare a secret £5m bung from a Thailand-based crypto tycoon absolutely STINKS.
She is Sarah Everard , a White Police officer Wayne Couzens, handcuffed her. He drove Everard to Kent, where he raped and strangled her before burning her body and disposing of her remains in a pond in woodland.
Has you seen Elon Musk Tweet about her ??
There’s a moment in this clip where you can practically see Myron Gaines shrink in real time, his bravado evaporating as Louis Theroux calmly dismantles his views on monogamy.
Then comes the awkward recovery attempt: dismissing his girlfriend and telling her to clean the room, trying to reassert control, but the moment’s already passed. The mask slipped, the room saw it, and the “alpha” act suddenly looked very small.
Scrapping jury trials because of backlogs is like removing the brakes on most cars to get rid of traffic jams.
Dangerous.
Actually having judges decide cases and not juries is like replacing the brakes with windscreen wipers. They’re both necessary but have different jobs
HOW IS THIS NORMAL?
Trump on the girls’ school in Minab:
“The Tomahawk missile that destroyed it could have been anyone’s. A Tomahawk is very generic.”
Facts:
Tomahawk missiles are manufactured by RTX in Phoenix, Arizona.
The US sells them to exactly four countries: the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.
None of them are at war with Iran.
The White House already confirmed behind closed doors to Congress that the US targeted the area.
CNN confirmed US responsibility.
165 girls aged 7-12 are dead.
And the President of the United States just told the American people a Tomahawk missile is “very generic.”
This is not a mistake. This is not confusion.
This is a lie. On camera. About dead children.
All the Brits who left because they didn’t want to pay tax and are now trying to flee Dubai should settle in the first safe country they reach. And all the military age men should remain in Dubai and fight.
It’s a crazy world we live in, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will get abuse from the British media for just trying to live a normal life away from the bullshit but yet Prince Andrew who is a sexual predator and was on the Epstein island client list with over 1,000 email’s sent just walks around freely in the royal family and still doesn’t get hardly any abuse whatsoever from the British media, it just show how fucking corrupt the media is in this country, well we kinda know why as they work alongside the royal family 🖕
I honestly can’t hold this in anymore.
Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are not aberrations. They are the same project, running in two countries, with the same backers, the same tactics, and the same end goal.
Both wrap themselves in flags while looting the country they claim to love. Both posture as champions of “ordinary people” while serving billionaire interests. Both scream about morality, family values, and patriotism while embodying corruption, cruelty, and hypocrisy at a scale that would have ended any serious political career a generation ago.
Trump has been found liable for sexual assault. He has a documented history of misogyny, racism, and outright contempt for the rule of law. He is repeatedly linked to Epstein’s circle, praised authoritarian strongmen, undermined democratic institutions, and treated public office like a personal cash machine.
Farage plays the same game in a British accent. He gets a free pass despite his proximity to the same toxic networks, the same culture-war opportunism, the same pattern of scandal that would destroy anyone else. Reform isn’t a grassroots movement. It’s a fear-driven marketing operation, propped up by billionaire money, bot-amplified engagement, and relentless misinformation.
Immigrants. Minorities. “Woke elites.” Trans people. The EU. The media. There’s always a target, always a threat, always someone to blame. Not because it’s true, but because fear is profitable. Fear keeps people angry, distracted, and voting against their own economic interests.
And that’s the real point. While people argue about flags and pronouns, vast amounts of wealth continue to move upwards. Away from workers. Away from public services. Away from communities. Straight into the hands of donors, allies, family members, and friendly corporations. Deregulation. Tax cuts. Asset stripping. Corruption dressed up as populism.
The most grotesque part is the hypocrisy. The people who claim to care about faith, family, freedom, and national pride are cheering for men who violate all of it openly. Lying, cheating, assaulting, scapegoating, enriching themselves, and laughing while they do it.
This isn’t about left vs right anymore. It’s about whether we’re willing to admit what this actually is. A billionaire-funded con that feeds on fear, corrodes democracy, and treats ordinary people as expendable.
If this is what you’re still defending, then stop pretending it’s about values. At least be honest about what you’re supporting.
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I visited a friend who had just given birth in the hospital. She had just woken up, so I joked that the baby must have kept her awake all night.
She smiled and said, “No, he slept all through the night.”
Her MIL advised her not to wake him, so he could “learn” to sleep at night.
I immediately asked her to put him to breast, but something was wrong. He wasn’t crying, sucking and barely moved. When I touched him, his body felt cold.
I raised an alarm, the nurses rushed in. His blood sugar was dangerously low.
This baby wasn’t calm, he had hypoglycemia and was shutting down. Urgent attention saved his life.
Newborns don’t always cry when they’re in danger. Sometimes, they become quiet.
Low blood sugar in newborns is life-threatening and often silent.
Watch out for these danger signs:
⚠️ Too sleepy or hard to wake for feeds
⚠️ Poor or no sucking
⚠️ Cold body, hands, or feet
⚠️ Weak or absent cry
⚠️ Little or no movement
❗This is NOT a “good” or “peaceful” baby.
❗Newborns must feed frequently, day and night.
❗Do NOT delay feeds to train a newborn.
If you notice these signs, go to the hospital immediately.
Early feeding and urgent treatment save lives.💝