Rob Armstrong

Family, Mountains, Rugby, Running, Beer.....not necessarily always in that order.

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

Pledge to become a conscious traveler for a chance to win a 5-star vacation. https://t.co/QkWnxuybhT

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

To be clear, the reason that the country is in free fall and the planet burns is so that a few rich, powerful people can get even richer and more powerful. That’s it. Everything else is just noise.

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

I just signed the petition calling on @ofcom to make sure their rules are able to hold ALL news channels to account - and properly enforce them on GB News . Will you sign too?
https://t.co/lio2mHCDoW via @38degrees

[Madeleina Kay 🫐🌺💫 @MadeleinaKay]

I don't know who made this but I am sharing... 😂 #NigelFarage

[Cary Cooper @ProfCaryCooper]

What damage the Conservatives have done to the UK over 14 years is summarised by this Newsnight panelist

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

First They Came For

A critically important poem written by German Pastor Martin Niemöller, arrested in the late 1930s by the Nazi regime & released by the Allies in 1946.

He was describing the step up of the Nazi regime to persecute varying sections of society, & how the population didn’t speak out to defend those groups because ….they were not them.

🖤

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

🚨 Politicians: turn the tide for nature 🚨

With a #GeneralElection on the horizon, ALL political parties must commit to taking action for nature - before it’s too late.

Agree? Sign the #Nature2030 open letter 👇 https://t.co/0V5kxrLiYq

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

One country invading another is never a good thing… It makes for a volatile, unstable and aggressive world, particularly when sovereign states now have nuclear capability… Yet part of me feels we, in the U.K., were invaded by a hostile force. This government has attacked every value I grew up with of decency and compassion. They have attempted consistently to pass laws to undermine and reconfigure a fair, inclusive society. They have done so whilst promoting their own values of selfishness, greed, ignorance and loathing for anyone vulnerable or disadvantaged. We may not have been invaded by a foreign power… But those at the helm of this country do not wish us well. They pass laws to allow our waters to become riddled with sewage, effectively dance on graves during a pandemic, nepotistically embezzle or lose billions of public funds, empower corrupt mp’s, increase financial disparity, destroy dreams of stable safety and security and encourage bigotry and racism with their idiotic, uncaring policies.

Invaders normally seek to divide and conquer new lands. This government is the most divisive of my lifetime… We can’t let them conquer whatever beauty we have left. Democracy can work for us. We still have the power to claw back the country they stole…

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Boris Johnson still has, in his possession, his old mobile phone containing crucial messages - well after the deadline that was set by the Covid Inquiry.

But yes, let’s all keep losing our shit over a BBC presenter who may or may not have done something inappropriate.

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK,

For the last 13 years, you have enabled the Tories' devastating assault on our healthcare, serving as lead cheerleaders for policies that have harmed our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. You have poisoned the country's minds for far too long, and now that you are attacking our colleagues, we've had enough.

2/3 of the public still firmly support us striking NHS workers — not the corrupt govt you so readily defend — and now that you are losing the battle of public opinion, you are desperately going after my colleagues to find any way to smear us. We're not going to tolerate it any longer.

While successive Tory governments dismantled and destroyed NHS services, you did your job of manufacturing consent for their harmful policies from Austerity 1.0 and 2.0 to the 2012 and 2022 health care bills — pieces of legislation that faced near universal opposition from health experts and all of the Royal Colleges — and you enabled those policies to succeed, because what you do isn't journalism for the public good, it's propaganda for the government's wealthy friends.

You then manufacture outrage with myths about NHS managers, immigrants, and NHS funding, never questioning those in govt who intentionally defunded and dismantled the formerly #1 ranked healthcare system of this great country in order to drive more people into private healthcare.

Alongside Tory govt ministers, your publications bear significant responsibility for the NHS crisis we now face. With your cheerleading, patients are now suffering on the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4 million people long. 500 patients are now dying every single week due to preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — with over 13,000 dead patients thus far in 2023 alone — all because of Tory policy failures that you championed and you enabled.

We are now suffering through the worst crisis in NHS history — one that your newspapers helped engineer — and because you are so morally bankrupt, even with alarming staff suicide rates, your editors think it's okay to attack my burnt out frontline NHS colleagues, defending billionaires instead of doing real reporting that is in the public interest of our patients.

You could elucidate to your readers why those 13,000 people are dead, or where the billions stolen from the public purse during COVID can be found, or how no one can see an NHS dentist, or how our mental health crisis has let down a generation of children and families, or how the govt still hasn't fixed the broken social care system, or you could investigate how many A&E departments have been closed in the last decade, or how many beds have been shut, or you could look at how much NHS funding goes into the pockets of private companies and never reaches patients, or how govt policy in a dozen other areas has harmed public health, but no, you choose to attack my friend Holly and our colleagues to try and find any way to discredit us.

Holly Turner has more integrity in her little toe than you've got among your entire staff — and certainly among your editorial boards — and we won't sit by and watch as you attack her for sport.

And so to the editors of the Telegraph and Daily Mail: We are not afraid of you. You are mouthpieces for a govt that will go down as one of the most corrupt in our lifetimes and your influence is waning rapidly. It's time to keep Holly's name out of your mouth. It's time to stop cheering the arsonists who are burning down our NHS, and it's especially time for you to stop gaslighting the public into believing that their neighbourhood looks better on fire.

You have never been on the side of patients and you never will be. And no one in the UK who wants reliable and honest information about NHS policy should trust anything that's written in your newspapers.

We fight for our patients. You fight for our billionaires. I think the public knows who to trust.

#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #NHS75

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

We've been failed. The collapse of @ThamesWater and the inability of @Ofwat to properly regulate the water industry shows we need a new system. Sign the petition and demand an independent public inquiry into our water system: https://t.co/SLnz0COz2G

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Do please retweet if you reckon @vicderbyshire should be doing @bbclaurak’s job.

[kerry ✊💙Save Our NHS @hewitson10]

Led By Donkeys have outdone themselves again 👏👏👏

Tories think the public purse is a cash cow for private firms & those shareholders

Thames Water should be forced to go bust then we take it back!

Shareholders shouldn’t receive a penny of our money!

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

• Tories announce 5,000 new NHS Beds. They shut 22,000 NHS Beds.

• Tories announce 19 new NHS Diagnostic Centres. They shut 140 Walk In Centres.

• Tories announce “historic” 15 yr plan to fill NHS staffing. They have presided over almost 50,000 nurses missing in action.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

• HSBC banking profits doubled
• Shell energy profits doubled
• BP energy profits doubled
• BP CEO pay doubled
• Shell CEO pay doubled

And they tell you it is your 18 year low wage packet that is causing the inflation crisis.

Mugged in broad daylight.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Love this from Ben Elton on the BBC…

More of this please.

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

I just signed the petition demanding Liz Truss is denied a resignation honours list. 49 days in office should not justify her getting to promote her friends to a lifetime seat in the Lords. Will you sign too? https://t.co/4qFVz8dDzQ via @38degrees

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Boris wasn’t pushed out, he jumped. May* contain swears.

*Definitely does.

Full video here: https://t.co/Ks5w9lxdxm

[Rob Armstrong @RobArmstrong8]

I just signed the campaign calling on @Jeremy_Hunt to back the ambitious plan to give the #NHS the staff it desperately needs. Will you join? https://t.co/hvu4fbjpKL