Christopher Owens 🦀🍉💚

‘Tofu-eating wokerati’ #BLM #ACAB #TransRightsAreHumanRights

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I wonder whether the European Civil Protection Mechanism can be activated for people—especially children—burned alive in plastic tents, or is it just for trees.

[Christopher Owens 🦀🍉💚 @ChrisMOwens]

She’s only 44, but this has to be the most boomer use of computers I’ve ever heard
@NoJusticeMTG @notkflogan1875 https://t.co/s6H20zwkyO

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

More important than freebies & Sue Gray's pay, we journalists should be asking about Labour taking a record £4m donation - a party record - during the election (28 May) from Quadrature, a Cayman Islands registered hedge fund not made public til a few days ago cos of El Comm's crazy rules.

[Doctors In Distress @DoctorsDistress]

The 17th September will be the first National Memorial Day for healthcare workers who have died by suicide.

We must never forget them and together, we commit to ensuring that all healthcare workers are valued and supported.

On the 17th September, we are asking people to come together and take time to reflect. You can do this in whatever way suits you.

If you would like to buy a badge for the day or contact us about planting a tree in your healthcare setting, please do get in touch at [email protected]
@NHSPracHealth @ClareGerada @lucyjwarner @DrHelenGarr @DrRosena

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

This sounds exactly like how I would criticise Rachel Reeves in 2024. Unfortunately this is Rachel Reeves criticising George Osborne in 2010

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

Translation:

GPs have been doing £1.5 BILLION/ year worth of work that is not funded & not in their contract i.e. for FREE.

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[Sitso Amankwah #TeamGP 💙 😷 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 🇪🇺 @Dr_Sitz]

Why do GPs need a safe working limit you may be asking yourself?

We barely do any work as it is, right?

Let’s look at a couple of other professions first…🧵

@wesstreeting @doctor_katie @DrSteveTaylor @dave_dlt

[Kyyria #TeamGP 💙🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @kyyria_6]

@anish_k_patel If General Practice can bring the rest of the healthcare system to a halt by ONLY doing the work it is contractually paid for, it says an awful lot not only about the contract, but about the amount of additional work being dumped on primary care without any additional funding.

[Tariq ⌬ @iridium_tea]

They're claiming they raped the detainee in self-defense. And that tells you everything you need to know about Israel's "right to defend itself."

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Said it before I’ll say it again. If you can afford a holiday that’s fine. But for those of us who can’t, taking your kids to the beach for a paddle, or swim in a river is now a luxury we’ve had taken away. It may not sound like much to you but for us it was everything. So knowing water companies would rather pay their shareholders than look after the infrastructure, why should WE be bailing them out? We should renationalise… who’s gonna look after it better, a company who chose to neglect the system and pay shareholders or us as country owning it again?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"

[Christopher Owens 🦀🍉💚 @ChrisMOwens]

Jonathan Ashworth getting schooled hard by @NoJusticeMTG on LBC ✊

[Surgical SHO CT BNO (2019) @AbdoPainHotline]

Look around your departments. THIS is as good as it gets, it's mid summer, it's the end of rotation and it's the end of the rotational year. The F1s are SHOs, everyone knows what they're doing. There are patients in corridors and trusts declaring critical incidents. God help us.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

A crude attempt to undermine teacher’s public sector pension. S of S for education @bphillipsonMP should bar this type of promotion @cyclingkev

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

yeah the Lord guided that bullet right into one of his supporters

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

My eyes aren’t lying to me. I know I saw outrage and anguish when Russia bombed a hospital in Ukraine. I know I saw concern for human life.

And I know I saw none of that today as Israel massacred the al-Mawasi area in Gaza.

A sickening hierarchy of human life.

[Christopher Owens 🦀🍉💚 @ChrisMOwens]

No one ‘just gets on with making a living’ as a landlord - it isn’t a job #r4today