@InstituteGC This requires a considered response. I will set one out now. A think tank that undermines efforts to combat climate change while being bankrolled by Gulf states and which is led by an utterly discredited politician who led the UK into an illegal war can kindly go do one.
@RGE_Art Awww Richard, I’ve just seen your post. Well done you, so thankful the little one is safe and well. It’s all very distressing but thank you for being a lovely human.
We have been told that the NHS is in recovery mode under Wes Streeting's leadership. It really is not true.
Two-thirds of NHS staff believe shortage of nurses is endangering patients, survey shows
https://t.co/lErP4feOwS
Labour is sacking 60,000 staff, replacing doctors with PAs that have the equivalent of 'A' levels, and 'insourcing' care to private companies who get paid for using our facilities, all the while loading health trusts with more PFI debt. No, Labour is not 'fixing' the NHS
Disgusted to see that @wessexwater have blocked access for swallows to get to their nesting site at Tonedale water treatment works. The pair have bred there for at least the last 3 years.
While the average pint in central London now costs £7 and some bars are now charging £10 or more for draught or bottled beer….there is one place in central London where the drinks prices are significantly lower because of taxpayer funded subsidised prices - the House of Commons.
Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA) given to multi-millionaire former UK PMs in 2024-25
John Major £115,000
Tony Blair £115,000
Gordon Brown £114,644
David Cameron £85,054
Theresa May £114,319
Liz Truss £97,152
Boris Johnson £115,000
Rishi Sunak declined.
PDCA isn't means-tested
Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year.
Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group, which, in the words of @EveryDoctorUK, “provides services to the NHS [and] is ultimately controlled by Peter Hearn, whose company Odgers Berndtson offers headhunting services to the NHS as well as the private healthcare sector”.
Out of the kindness of their hearts?
Two things caused the mess this country is in:
1. Brexit
2. The Tories
So why vote Reform when:
1. Reform want an even harder Brexit
2 Reform is full of ex-Tories
That is why I will #NeverVoteReform
The minimum wage is around £26,000. The state pension is £11,000. And the elite talk about the triple lock? We expect our pensioners, who can't typically work, to live on less than half of the minimum wage. It is outrageous and cruel in my view. #skynews#gbnews#bbcnews
This is the sad reality of a normal day in the NHS. No strikes, No excuses.
Yet we’ve got fully qualified doctors sitting unemployed while patients are left waiting 21 hours in A&E.
Years of mismanagement and catastrophic workforce planning failure.
What a betrayal to patients
BREAKING: Anger in Croydon Labour as two longstanding popular black Councillors with impeccable records are deselected and Keir Starmer’s niece is imposed by London Party HQ on their safe Labour seat (via @TheTimes) https://t.co/jMpv5Q1x5x
.@ZackPolanski: "The 50 wealthiest families in this country own more wealth than 34 million people. That's unsustainable. The govt say there is no money left. There's plenty of money. It needs to be in our communities, both for the environment & for the people we serve"
This needs more attention. If Taylor Wimpey think it’s acceptable to fell trees during nesting season we need to make sure no one buys their poor quality overpriced homes. Tell your friends and family to avoid these ecocidal developers.
Just 56 people hold more than the combined wealth of 27m Britons.
The poorest Half have 4.6% of the wealth.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't rebuild economy without equitable distribution of wealth.
https://t.co/ni47sPd9Xx