Linda Smith

Crochet and stitching are where I'm at! If I can make something with a needle and thread then I'm a happy bunny! I've also been known to take a photo or two!

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

NHS staff are not failing, they are being failed, by successive Conservative Governments.

Please RT if you agree

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Huge thanks to all the NHS staff who are doing their best to keep the health service going despite having 10% fewer staff than we’re meant to have.

We see what you do, and couldn’t be more grateful 💙

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The government is boasting about 900 new hospital beds, but they’ve cut 12,000 beds since 2010

The 900 beds won’t even be in place for winter

And with 40,000 nursing vacancies, how will they be staffed?

It’s just more nonsense from the Conservatives

https://t.co/N97xR1ovRf

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Junior doctors start their careers on £29,384.

There is not a single Conservative MP who would be prepared to do their jobs for that salary.

If we’re not careful there won’t be a single junior doctor who is prepared to do so either.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

I had no money growing up. My dad was a labourer and my mum did everything to make ends meet. Men worked hard. Women worked miracles. But education was free. As was the local library. I knew books were my passport to a better life. #SupportLibraries

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Tell me again why we can’t afford to pay our public sector workers properly?

https://t.co/gYoZFE21b6

[Nature Is Beautiful 🐾 🦋🌏🌸 @AMAZ1NG_NATURE]

Fireman Jeff Clark rescued a pregnant dog from a house fire in Charlotte, North Carolina. A newspaper photographer noticed the dog in the distance looking at the fireman. He watched as the dog walked towards the fireman and wondered what was she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, the dog, a red Doberman named Cinnamon, came up to the tired fireman who had saved her life (and her unborn babies) and kissed him just as the photographer took this incredible image.

[Liz Scott @lily_scott]

@JujuliaGrace The words thank you will never ever be enough to express how grateful I am to all of you, for the sacrifices you made to keep us safe. All NHS workers are incredible 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Liza Tóth JD #FBPE @ipattorneyliza]

@Kelsveil @JujuliaGrace Or those who died after pleading for PPE. I remember, one sent an open letter saying that there was a critical need, and ended up dying of C-19.

[@kelsveil #FBLC @Kelsveil]

@JujuliaGrace You won't hear about the consultants that risked it all and now live with LongCovid

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

#consultantstrike #ConsultantsStrike

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

…his patients.

These are the doctors I know. This is what they’re like. They’re extraordinary. They are fighting for the NHS. They fight for safety of patients and staff every day.

Please support them now.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

…children and no childcare during the pandemic and so they worked opposite shifts - one on days, one on nights, passing children back and forth.

You won’t hear about the surgeon who moved out of his house with his heavily pregnant wife so that he could dedicate himself to …

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

…for safe access to masks and gowns for all staff when it was being limited.

You won’t hear about the informal rotas set up between consultants who just worked all hours, any hours, whatever was necessary to keep patients safe.

You won’t hear about the doctors who had …

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

You probably won’t read in the papers today about the consultant surgeon who padlocked the operating theatres shut when there was no PPE, and safeguarded lives by refusing to operate until PPE was found.

You won’t find out about the consultant who put her hand up and fought…

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear 🇬🇧,

This is a great country with immense resources — the UK is the 6th wealthiest country in the world — but life is unacceptably difficult for far too many people right now and something needs to change.

Austerity 1.0 wiped out vital public services and destroyed millions of people’s lives in the process. Austerity 2.0 is happening right now, while we all suffer through this cost of living crisis.

But instead of learning any lessons, this corrupt government is doubling down. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mandated that this public sector pay offer should come from EXISTING departmental budgets. No new money. Just more cuts masked as “efficiency savings.” This will inflict yet further damage to our already decimated public services and is an unacceptable way to fund these meagre pay increases.

But it gets worse. In the case of NHS pay, this pay rise will come from charging immigrants like myself a much higher fee just to come and work here. And for the 20% of us immigrants in the NHS workforce who have to renew our visas sometimes every year, this means a further pay cut to those of us with the audacity to leave our countries to come and care for your sick.

Let’s remember that France gave French citizenship to its foreign pandemic key workers to thank them for their service, while here in Britain, we immigrants have been gifted with higher taxes.

Funding this pay rise via departmental budget cuts or by charging immigrants more, are both terrible policy decisions that will cause further harm to our communities by gutting public services and making Britain an ugly place to visit and work.

But Rishi Sunak says that he doesn’t want to increase govt borrowing because he’s concerned it will increase inflation so that’s off the table too.

In order to save our public services, we must tax the super rich.

People like @RishiSunak — the wealthiest PM in history — and the billionaires of the @RoyalFamily — who can all certainly afford it — should pay just a bit more in tax. And not just them, everyone in this country who is fortunate enough to have significant wealth can afford to pay a small percentage extra to help us all recover from the greatest crisis our country has faced since World War II.

A 1-2% tax on wealth above £10,000,000 would not bankrupt any of these people, they will still be obscenely wealthy, it won’t change their quality of life, or absurdly force them to leave the country, but it will raise enough money to pay for public services and it could actually help to reduce inflation.

Let’s call it a Post-COVID Patriot Tax because the people who help finance this will be doing their patriotic duty to help their country recover in it’s time of need.

And we’ll all benefit — rich and poor alike — Because when anyone has a heart attack and needs an urgent ambulance, when anyone needs life-saving care in hospital, or needs a police officer, or good transportation, or a good school to educate their children, or any services from local or national government, we should all have urgent access to that service, regardless of our wealth.

After what we’ve all been through in the last decade with Austerity 1.0, after surviving the pandemic, after losing so many members of our families and our colleagues, after so many have lost their livelihoods, and now in Austerity 2.0 with the greatest cost of living crisis in generations and millions having to choose between heating and eating, it’s time for us all to be a bit less greedy and help each other out just a bit more.

It’s time for us all to work together to improve the country and properly invest in our public services. It’s time for a Patriotic Wealth Tax.

#SOSNHS #WealthTax

[Anthony Birch / Liverpool Drone View @LiverpoolDroneV]

Normanton Church, located at the edge of the UK’s biggest reservoir, Rutland Water ⛪️🌊

Would Really Appreciate As Many Retweets As Possible ❤️❤️

[lucy gossage @lucygoss]

I’m an oncologist and I love my job. But I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing our patients with cancer and I’m striking because I know first-hand that the NHS is failing its workforce. https://t.co/Liv26cn8Or #ConsultantsStrike

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

I’ve just tweeted about Grant Shapps and a donation he’s taken from a private hospital. Shall we… raise awareness and hit 5000 retweets?🤞

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We are right behind NHS consultants and all the other staff who are fighting for fair pay and working conditions and in turn the future of the NHS.

Please RT if you are too.