Danny Coll

Does everybody have to be the greatest story ever told?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SEVEN WHISTLEBLOWERS. ONE DEAD WOMAN. ONE KNIGHTHOOD FOR THE MAN WHO IGNORED THEM

In 1999, seven care workers at a BUPA care home in Bromley reported abuse of vulnerable elderly residents.

They followed every rule. They submitted formal evidence. They did everything the law required.

Edna had no family. She was entirely defenceless. Seven people risked everything to speak up for her.

Every one of them lost their job.

Edna died.

The man who received the evidence and chose to act on none of it became Sir Des Kelly OBE, a government advisor on elderly care, head of the National Care Forum, and a welcome contributor to CQC @CareQualityComm policy on the very sector where his inaction let an abuser harm more people.

You genuinely cannot make this up.

These seven became known as the BUPA7. They were the first people in UK history to use the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), the law that was supposed to protect whistleblowers. The law that failed them so badly that other workers across the country saw what happened and quietly decided it was safer to say nothing.

That silence has cost lives. It still does.

Eileen Chubb @CompassnInCare, one of the BUPA7, has spent every year since building Compassion in Care and supporting over 13,000 whistleblowers. She has seen the exact same pattern repeat itself across the NHS, social care, finance, construction, and local government.

Report wrongdoing. Lose your job. Watch the wrongdoing continue untouched.

Even if a whistleblower wins at an employment tribunal under PIDA, nobody is legally required to fix the problem they reported. The abuse can just carry on. The risks remain. The tribunal hands out a payout and everyone goes home.

Mid Staffs. Gosport. Rotherham. Bristol Babies. Winterbourne View. In every single one of these cases, someone knew. Someone spoke up. And the system destroyed them for it while the wrongdoing continued.

Robert Francis produced his Freedom to Speak Up review in 2015. Joint investigations by Compassion in Care and @PrivateEyeNews later revealed that the CQC @CareQualityComm lied to the public for years, falsely claiming it had closed 100 care homes when the real number was two.

The same CQC had invited Des Kelly's input into its policy on the sector he had already failed so catastrophically.

Nothing meaningfully changed.

Eileen Chubb is calling for Edna's Law. A law that would make it a criminal offence to ignore a genuine whistleblower, put wrongdoers in front of a criminal court instead of an employment tribunal, protect whistleblowers as protected witnesses, and force corrective action on the actual wrongdoing.

The State would prosecute. Not the whistleblower, who is currently expected to become a legal expert and fight experienced barristers alone.

The petition has 7,417 signatures. It has been running for a while.

It is addressed to Sir Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer.

If you want to protect the public, you protect the people willing to protect the public.

Sign the petition. Share it. Write to your MP.

Because the alternative is just waiting for the next inquiry. The next preventable scandal. The next name we will all say we should have done something about.

Sign the petition

https://t.co/bmEI8vHq7w

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Andy Robertson, welcome to our family 🤍

[Áras Uí Chonghaile | James Connolly Visitor Centre @JamesConnollyVC]

James Connolly was born #OTD 1868

A Trade Unionist, Socialist and Republican, his values, ideas and ideals remain as inspiring and as relevant as ever.

🌍 ‘For our demands most moderate are, We only want the earth.’

#ConnollyWasThere

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

#Italy — Livorno ultra tattoo depicting Quarto Stato (The Fourth Estate), the famous 1901 painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo that represents a workers' strike and has become one of the symbols of social struggles.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Polish football club owner likens doing business with Maccabi Tel Aviv to dealing with Nazi Germany

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/ruNPE8LknU

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

For many decades, Zionists promoted the biggest lie in modern history. They claimed they came to “a land without a people, for a people without a land.”

But the truth they tried to erase is that Palestine was pulsing with life. It was not a barren desert, but a complete homeland embracing a civilized people.

This photograph, taken in Jerusalem in 1896, documents people living peacefully side by side in Palestine. The holy places of the three religions are scattered across a few hundred square meters. The Great Mosque is close to Christ's tomb, further along at the foot of the Wailing Wall.

Until armed Zionist gangs entered turning this prosperity into rubble, and displacing its owners.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[Danny Coll @DannyColl]

Bergvall needs 2 years of first team football, Scott's already had his. Get him in.

[Ben Bowman 🏆🏆🏆 @ben_bowman_]

If we signed Alex Scott but it meant we HAD to sell Lucas Bergvall, would you do it?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“I don’t give a shit what your system is, what does it mean for the river?”

I genuinely never thought I would have to challenge the British state in order to protect the river I love, but here we are. Massive thanks to Channel 4 for spending so much time & care in detailing the incredible work done by volunteer river guardians on the River Roding: I am going to use the description of us descending on litter like a “squadron of community-minded locusts” again!

Whilst I no longer shocked at the indifference of public bodies like the EA & local councils to the desperate plight of our rivers, it has genuinely surprised me that @EnvAgency thinks it is a good use of their powers to prosecute volunteers for doing their job for them by restoring rivers, especially when there are serious illegal sewage discharges nearby that they have done nothing about. Please withdraw your prosecution threats EA & work with us instead. The Roding could genuinely be a test case in how government & river guardians can work together to protect & restore our rivers.

https://t.co/vCBY3cPxmE

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Two tier industry and production strategy by the Labour government:

▪️Carbon tax on fertilisers for farmers.

▪️Massive energy and water consuming data centres (often in prime farmland) for the tech giants.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Barely a month ago this man was imprisoned for the violent rape of a Sikh woman believing that she was a Muslim. No Douglas Murray articles in the Spectator, no Baroness Fox speech in the Lords. No riots. Two tier? Too right https://t.co/8wABWe3bww

[Danny Coll @DannyColl]

@GaryRWard 4 years ago was dying to get him. Bang average for Juve and lots of injuries. Would be hard to move him on with his high wages if he flops.

[Danny Coll @DannyColl]

Should be target no 1

[Tottenham Tiers @TottenhamTiers]

Although Alex Scott is in talks with Bournemouth over a new deal, it appears UNLIKELY he'll sign a new contract.

[@TheAthletic] 🥇

Do you think #Tottenham should be targeting Scott this summer, Spurs fans? 🤔

[Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @DebbieKennett]

Visit Cheshire have responded to public pressure and removed the photos of Ravi Jayaram from their website. He was one of the two chief accusers in the Lucy Letby case. https://t.co/RsPSI0xvLu

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

And Europe volunteers to be technologically colonized by the US even further than it already is 🤦‍♂️😢
https://t.co/C1ozjAkiQq

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Did you know? Cuba🇨🇺 not only exported its army of doctors around the world, but also a revolutionary system to eradicate illiteracy; Yo, Si Puedo.

The system was designed to bring literacy to poorer and rural areas which had limited access to training and teachers.

Rather than relying on traditional textbooks and teaching, the program used a combination of numbers, letters, audiovisual lessons, and local facilitators to teach adults how to read and write.

The system was adapted for dozens of languages in international usage, as well as indigenous languages.

Venezuela🇻🇪 widely used the revolutionary program in its own literacy campaign, with the country being declared illiteracy free by 2005. Bolivia🇧🇴 under President Evo Morales also used the program to eradicate illiteracy in the country.

Nearly 10 million people learned to read and write through the Yo Sí Puedo method between 2002 and 2016, the program was implemented in over 30 countries.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Here’s what the majority of people understand instinctively, even if they lack the economic jargon: Companies like BlackRock behave like feudal landlords. They purchase infrastructure, water systems, ports, energy grids, data centres, at above-market rates using borrowed money. Then they transfer that debt onto the companies they’ve acquired.

You, the consumer, pay off that debt through higher bills.

The company, not the asset manager, services the debt. BlackRock and its shareholders extract profits while you’re hit with rising water bills, soaring energy costs, and inflated service charges. When systems fail (see: Thames Water’s £14 billion debt and sewage-filled rivers), taxpayers face bailouts while executives who loaded the debt have already cashed out.

This is a giant Ponzi scheme.
https://t.co/S88QWE03vI

[Patrick @Pogblah]

The Killers spent more time in PSG's half than Arsenal did in over 130mins

[Danny Coll @DannyColl]

https://t.co/Oop9xgMCEV