Retired librarian, volunteer at People’s Hist. Museum, CAMRA member, parkrunner and physically-distancing all round good guy. member of anti-growth coalition
On the 6th October 2023 I shared a link on X to a Mail Online article entitled ‘Militant union leader at the heart of doctors strikes is a Labour activist who boasted of charging the NHS for a strike cover shift. I accept that my words were misleading as the subject in question Dr Tom Dolphin was not on strike on the date of the shift in question but was simply covering a shift as a consultant for junior doctors who were on strike on 11th August 2023. I would like to offer my sincerest apologies to Dr Dolphin for any distress upset caused. I will also like to add that I understand that Dr Dolphin actually donated his pay for the covered shift which I believe was £1870 to the BMA strike fund and whilst I do not agree with the strikes I want to go on the record to say that I think it is a very unselfish act on the part of Dr Dolphin to put his money into something he strongly believes in. I will make the same contribution to compensate the upset I may have caused Dr Dolphin. Please Repost.
Energy Ombudsman: Complaints up by 84% in one year.
Profiteering and abuses continue as govt has removed bankruptcy threat from energy companies.
Ofgem is in their pocket. There is no public accountability.
Only public ownership can end the scams.
https://t.co/fTAIz4xbgo
Feargal Sharkey, "This year is the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. For 25 years the people of NI have been able to prosper and grow and blossom. And have discovered that this thing peace, is a very delicate beautiful little flower that needs nurturing caressing supporting."
"I do wish the people of Gaza, Palestine, and Israel, get to discover what 25 years of peace, prosperity and diplomacy and democracy looks like. And that those people can blossom into a much more confident and brighter future for everyone involved" #HIGNFY
TORY PARTY - just the last 9 days
Bob Stewart MP....guilty racial abuse
Crispin Blunt MP...arrested on suspicion of rape & possessing banned substance
Peter Bone MP....suspended for bullying & sexual misconduct
#CovidEnquiryUK
Matt Hancock wanted to decide "who should live or die "
Endless gut wrenching testimony insulting the very fabric of this country.
What do we have running the UK?
An entitled, arrogant, greedy, divisive, useless, irresponsible, morally bankrupt, bunch of what?!
Looking back over the lockdown periods, do you think those working at Downing Street generally did or did not follow lockdown rules and guidance? #CovidInquiry
Failing to hold Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson to account: what I learned. You have to act now. After the event is after the event. You’ll be told to ‘move on’, to ‘get over it’ to ‘look forward’. This is already happening now. While people are dying.
Bankers can earn unlimited bonuses again from today, following a change to rules brought in following the financial crisis. Do you think this is acceptable or unacceptable?
Loving how mainstream journalists are feigning shock at the Boris Johnson Covid revelations now…
…when it was all utterly obvious at the time - but they were busily sucking up to power and repeating No10 soundbites vapidly with fawning credulity.
We can parse and debate here the vile Tory gang who plundered the tragedy of Covid as a business opportunity but we MUST demand justice.
Accountability. Resignations. Arrests. Prison.
These spivs thought they were untouchable.
They must be shown to be 100% - TOUCHABLE.
🚨 VICTORY
RMT welcomes resounding victory against ticket office closures
@RMTunion today welcomed the government’s complete withdrawal of its ticket office closure plans in light of passenger watchdog objections as a complete victory.🧵
#SaveTicketOffices
The @covidinquiryuk is a very powerful example of how “duty of candour” and “freedom to speak up” don’t work in public life. Witness after witness details how incompetent they thought the UK response was at the time, and yet nobody spoke publicly about it at the time. Why not?