Craig McCleary

[Craig McCleary @CraigCraigmcc]

@Feargal_Sharkey A lot of golf courses collect their own water through the year, to use it in the summer. Maybe this case of water use was that?

[Alex Barnicoat @AlexBarnicoat_]

Gatwick Airport, one of the busiest transport hubs in Europe, had to shut down toilets and basic services because they lost access to running water.

This is what decades of corporate neglect and weak oversight look like.

We pay sky-high airport fees, record utility bills and massive taxes, yet the people running these essential hubs can’t even keep the taps working on a normal day.

It’s embarrassing.

The executives running these private monopolies take home huge profits, but when basic infrastructure fails, ordinary travellers are left stranded in filthy conditions.

The entire system is broken.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Successive governments have failed to address our chronic capacity issues, and in fact the number of beds has actually gone down from 2.8 in 2013.

We think the NHS needs a proper plan to resolve this asap, involving appropriate staffing, funding, and system-wide measures to support it.

But what do you think?

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Number of hospital beds per thousand people according to the most recent figures:

🇰🇷 Korea = 12.6
🇯🇵 Japan = 12.5
🇧🇬 Bulgaria = 8.6
🇩🇪 Germany = 7.7
🇷🇴 Romania = 7.3
🇦🇹 Austria = 6.6
🇭🇺 Hungary = 6.5
🇨🇿 Czechia = 6.4
🇵🇱 Poland = 6.3
🇸🇰 Slovak Republic = 5.7
🇭🇷 Croatia = 5.7
🇱🇹 Lithuania = 5.5
🇫🇷 France = 5.5
🇧🇪 Belgium = 5.4
🇨🇳 China = 5.2
🇱🇻 Latvia = 5.0
🇨🇭 Switzerland = 4.4
🇬🇷 Greece = 4.2
🇪🇪 Estonia = 4.1
🇸🇮 Slovenia = 4.1
🇱🇺 Luxembourg = 3.9
🇦🇺 Australia = 3.8
🇵🇹 Portugal = 3.4
🇳🇴 Norway = 3.3
🇦🇷 Argentina = 3.3
🇹🇷 Türkiye = 3.1
🇮🇹 Italy = 3.0
🇮🇱 Israel = 3.0
🇮🇪 Ireland = 2.9
🇪🇸 Spain = 2.9
🇺🇸 United States = 2.8
🇫🇮 Finland = 2.6
🇮🇸 Iceland = 2.6
🇨🇦 Canada = 2.5
🇳🇿 New Zealand = 2.5
🇧🇷 Brazil = 2.5

United Kingdom…

[N A Burton #ExcludedUK @Paliakythro_ann]

A tax dodger that wouldn't help 3.8 million #ExcludedUK when he was Chancellor during COVID. @andyburnham you're redefining what a PM should be, please do not forget about us after all the support you have given.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

As the water companies slap hosepipe bans on millions of people…they are punishing people for their own in incompetence and greed…

▪️3 billion litres of water lost every day from leaking pipes.

▪️ Water companies have sold off dozens of reservoirs to housing developers, while no new ones have been built in the last 30 years.

▪️ Total water company sector debt in England is estimated to be between £60.3 billion and £82.7 billion.

▪️Despite huge water company debts, shareholders have withdrawn an estimated £85.2 billion from water and sewage firms in England and Wales since privatisation.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Stephen Davies @DaviesSteve]

Hope without action will not clear the debts, restore the businesses or heal the trauma caused by Covid support exclusion.
But action can bring recognition, accountability and justice.
Andy Burnham has been with ExcludedUK from the beginning.
Now is the moment to stand with the 3.8 million once again.
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless @andyburnham @UKLabour @downingstreet

[ExcludedUK Official @ExcludedUK]

ANDY IS FOR US. NOW, AS PRIME MINISTER, HE CAN DELIVER JUSTICE.

Andy Burnham has been the loudest and most consistent political champion of ExcludedUK since the beginning of our campaign.

In his own words, which you can watch in the video below:
“The support for you is strong and it will always be there, the reason being because the level of injustice that you have faced is indefensible.”

He listened when others would not. He gave our members a platform. He publicly recognised the devastating injustice inflicted on 3.8 million UK taxpayers who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left without parity of Covid-19 financial support when they needed it most.

During his first speech as Labour leader, Andy spoke about putting political power at the service of people and places that had been waiting too long to hope again. He promised to bring back the hope.

He also spoke about the Hillsborough Law and the importance of ensuring that people who have suffered institutional injustice are finally given truth, accountability and justice.

The ExcludedUK community is one of those communities.

More than six years later, thousands remain trapped by debt, lost businesses, lost homes, damaged health and severe mental distress. More than 40 people connected with our campaign saw no other way out than to take their own lives.

Towards the end of his leadership speech, Andy also spoke about supporting British business and rebuilding the economy.

That promise must include the company directors, freelancers, sole traders, newly self-employed people and small business owners who were legally prevented from trading, denied fair and equal support and forced to carry the financial consequences personally.

These businesses did not fail because they were unviable.

They were failed by government policy.

Andy has taken part in ExcludedUK livestream events, listened directly to our members and repeatedly highlighted the need to secure justice for the excluded.

During our livestream on 24 June 2024, he told us:
“The public see you and the public support you.”

He also promised:
“We will work with you to make sure that the excluded is recognised as one of the injustices that this country needs to rectify.”

Andy made his commitment unmistakably clear:
“I supported you back in the pandemic, and we support you now. The passage of time doesn’t change that.”

And he recognised the strength of our case:
“The support for you is strong and it will always be there, the reason being because the level of injustice that you have faced is indefensible.”

Today, Andy Burnham is no longer simply one of our strongest supporters.

He is our Prime Minister.

He now has the power to turn those commitments into meaningful action.

For the 3.8 million, bringing back hope must mean recognition, accountability, parity and justice.

Prime Minister, you have always stood with us.

Now is the time to come through on your promise.

Bring back the hope. Deliver justice for the excluded.

https://t.co/bmIoivlotd
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless

[Anita Pepper @anitapep15]

The 3.8 million excluded taxpayers did everything asked of them. They paid their taxes. They closed their businesses. Their government abandoned them. Andy B has never been afraid to call out that injustice. Now we need him to help put it right.#ExcludedUK #relentless

[Stephen Davies @DaviesSteve]

The 3.8 million excluded taxpayers did everything that was asked of them.
They paid their taxes.
They followed the rules.
They closed their businesses.
Then their government abandoned them.
Andy Burnham has never been afraid to call out that injustice. Now we need him to help put it right.
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless @andyburnham @UKLabour @downingstreet

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is increasing the Pension age to 68.

Poland has lowered theirs to 60 for women and 65 for men.

Their pension provides a better standard of living too.

(Oh and in case you are wondering how it can be afforded the Polish Government privatised very little.)

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

LORD Michael GOVE is a dangerous and malign dissembler.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Hands up if you think Michael
Gove describing the revelation from the Covid Inquiry that £10 billion was wasted on duff PPE as an 'honest mistake', a load of old bollocks.
#CovidInquiry

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

It wasn’t PPE failure, it was government failure.

And NHS workers died whilst Lady Michelle Moan bought a yacht.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A brilliantly accurate dissection of England’s self-destruction. Every word is spot on.

[che guevara @Tiger911494404]

This crocodile crying crooked lowlife matt hancock, health secretary during covid, whose government awarded his pub landlord a contract for suppling PPE that was later thrown away,now owns a private health care data company, who gets awarded goverment contracts.

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

The £38,000,000,000 supposedly allocated to TEST, TRACK and TRACE has never been plausible... The big question is where this money really ended up and who benefitted. Personally, I am of the view that this was a form of opportunistic ESTABLISHMENT LOOTING via different fronts

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

"Accidentally" giving £10billion of government money to companies owned by your mates isn't "waste", it's fraud.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

After this £10,000,000,000 “mistake” they had the cheek to tell us NHS workers they couldn’t afford to give us a pay rise.

Meanwhile, here is Michelle Moans new Yacht.