How can it be that the International Court of Justice is determining a case of Genocide against Israel, our own Foreign Secretary recognises civilian deaths in Gaza are too high and yet, we are still arming Israel.
We must immediately suspend all arms exports to Israel.
The Foreign Secretary today said he's "worried" Israel is violating international law in Gaza – a fact that's blatantly obvious.
He said this having just defended selling more weapons to the Israeli military.
This complicity must end: Britain must suspend arms sales to Israel.
Pope Francis:
“……a useless slaughter that offends the dignity of every person on earth.”
Pope Francis, again willing to say what our politicians will not.
Yes, Israelis were killed, sexually assaulted, and kidnapped on October 7th. A horrifying day of war crimes. Yes, some are still suffering because their family members are being held hostage.
None of that justifies 11 weeks of mass killing by Israel, backed by the United States.
'Every school should be supported to provide freshly prepared meals, taking a ‘whole school approach’ to food education that includes direct sensory knowledge of real vegetables and fruits'. This is the full letter to the Prime Minister about children & ultra-processed food
Dear @VictoriaAtkins,
Welcome to X and to your new role as UK Health Secretary. It’s been said that the role of Health Secretary is a “poisoned chalice” so here’s my best advice for you in your new job: stop poisoning the cup.
Your Conservatives inherited the #1 ranked healthcare system in the world and because of your party’s criminal-grade negligence, our NHS is now performing among the worst in Europe.
Patients are waiting longer than ever before to see a GP, get a diagnostic test, get an ambulance, be seen in A&E, be admitted to hospital, receive social care, or have their cancer diagnosed and treated. Mental healthcare is a tragedy. Our hospitals are falling apart with the same dangerous aerated concrete that’s in our schools. NHS clinicians waste hours just waiting for our computers to start.
The situation has become so dire in emergency medicine that 500 patients are dying every single week — that’s 25,000 deaths in 2023 alone — from preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care. Those 25,000 people would still be alive had it not been for your party’s terrible decisions.
But the worst part about your collapse of the NHS and the hundreds of thousands of people killed because of this negligence, was that it was intentional. This wasn’t an accident. It was all by design.
Your @Conservatives engineered this tragedy to drive more people into private healthcare, holding patients hostage on a painful never-ending waiting list, forcing the most desperate to take on medical debt or empty their life savings to pay out of pocket for care that used to be rapid, accessible, and free for all.
This has been catastrophic for public health and the wider economy, leading to record numbers of people unable to work due to infirmity.
The facts are clear: Your @Conservatives engineered the greatest assault on public health in the NHS’ 75 years by gutting NHS resources, denying us £400b in funding over a decade, funnelling record amounts of NHS money into the private sector, failing catastrophically to plan for the pandemic, wasting shocking amounts of taxpayer money during the pandemic, and all throughout this government has taken the hard work and sacrifice of our amazing NHS staff for granted.
We NHS staff have never felt more abandoned by our government. You cannot expect us to continue working in a system you are intentionally collapsing, cutting our pay by 25-35% for our nurses, junior doctors, and consultants. You have allowed the system to hurt so many of us that it’s no wonder that we’re seeing record numbers of our colleagues leaving the NHS, either by suicide, or by airplane to other countries where our labour is respected and valued.
So how do we fix this mess? The answer is not more of your party’s terrible ideas. The answer is to start listening to healthcare experts who unanimously agree: the NHS has been starved of its funding, beds, staff, and social care needs for far too long. Each one of these issues is a national security crisis that needs an urgent solution.
So it’s time to start listening to experts and fix the damage your party has inflicted on our health.
It’s time to fix our staffing crisis and deliver safe staffing every single day for patients by valuing our labour and addressing our staff retention crisis.
Because if you don’t — if you continue to ignore our expert advice — you’ll see all 1.5m NHS staff on the picket line, and the public will stand firmly with us, because while you fight for billionaires and sell off our NHS for profit, patients know we’re standing up for them, fighting for their care, and protecting their NHS for the next generation.
Madame Health Secretary, I promise you today: We will not rest until our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS is safe. Do the right thing and start listening. Good luck.
#SOSNHS #DoctorsStrike #PayRestoration
A wise autist once said:
"The special interest doesn't choose the autistic. Instead, it throws the autistic into the trunk of a moving van and screeches away into the darkness"
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