Scunner Campbell🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇦

Dad to Grant & Sophie, polisher of motorbikes, builder of Daleks, sometimes smells of WD40😎. Views are very much my own.

[Colin Brown @FBU_Scotland_EC]

Ivan McKee ignoring reality. SFRS have an £800 million+ capital deficit, stations held up with internal scaffolding & the board have just ratified 166 post reductions "temporarily" forced through in 2023 in response to budget pressures. Over 1200 frontline posts cut since 2013!

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Healthcare assistants in the NHS are being paid just £12.92 per hour.

That’s just 21p above the National Living Wage.

Please retweet if you think they deserve better and help raise awareness of this issue.

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

Today #WeRemember the 52 people who lost their lives during the 7/7 London bombings, 21 years ago.

The FBU send solidarity to all those affected by the 7/7 bombings including members of @RMTunion and @ASLEFunion.

[Scunner Campbell🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇦 @Turbo_GSXR11]

@Neilsocialist

[FBU Scotland @FBUScotland]

🔥SNP minister Ivan McKee “living in fantasy land” after he claimed savings from the creation of the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service and Police Scotland have been “redirected to the front line.”👇🔥🚒@fbunational @FBUScotNorth @FbuEast @WestScotlandFBU @FBU_Scotland_EC @AngusSproul @JMcKScotRegSec @JohnSwinney @Ivan_McKee @UnityConsults @fire_scot

[Scunner Campbell🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇦 @Turbo_GSXR11]

GSXR1100 turbo. #OldSkoolSuzuki #GSXR1100

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

If you are unfortunate enough to need NHS over the weekend, please show staff the respect they deserve.

Nobody deserves to be abused at work.

[Steve Wright @UnionSteveW]

After losing one in five firefighters since 2010, Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service now faces plans to close 8 stations, remove 8 fire engines and cut 96 firefighter posts.

We need investment, not cuts. Stand with firefighters.

A cut to one is a cut to all.

#CutsKill

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

🚨BREAKING: Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Authority have cast their final decision to abandon proposals to close eight fire stations, under the conditions that…

👉They are granted approval to raise council tax
👉There are no more cuts to DWFRS by February 2027

The FBU will continue to hold Dorset and Wiltshire CFO and the Fire Authority to account and will stay vigilant against potential covert cuts disguised as “service modernisation”.

Firefighters’ duty is to protect the public, and that is exactly what FBU members have done in fighting against these closures.

[Steve Wright @UnionSteveW]

Firefighters at Balmossie are right to be "despondent".

Removing a wholetime fire engine means longer response times for the communities they protect.

This is another example of frontline fire cover being cut in the name of savings.

The public deserves better.

#CutsKill

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Another young satellite-tagged Golden Eagle from south Scotland translocation project found injured with 17 shotgun pellets embedded in wings & body.

Police Scotland press release + commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/IkEK14AQUv

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Financial pandemic: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity

£24.4bn of public spending on contractors went to PE

PE profiteering destroyed town centres; devoured water, vets, energy, dentistry, social care, rewarded by govt.
https://t.co/S4We0ihznG

[Glasgow Times @Glasgow_Times]

“Our main concern is that the service just isn’t properly funded.”

[MAW Holmes @MAW_H]

Oh and, you know, anything that the Gruntleigh appreciating community can do to spread the word would be very helpful 😉

[Scottish Express @ScotExpress]

SNP Government put lives at risk by allowing cuts to fire service.
https://t.co/YtJX9jYxhM

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Yet another Hen Harrier 'disappears' from Ruabon grouse moor in North Wales - her satellite tag had been "deliberately cut off".

Press release from RSPB and commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/KA6u8gPfHF

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

🔥 Kent FBU members fight back and win🔥

Today Kent Fire Authority have postponed proposed cuts that would have seen -

• 5 fire stations closed
• 63 Firefighters lost
• 6 fire engines lost

Councillors today decided to postpone the proposed cuts for 6 weeks and look for alternative options.

Steve Wright, general Secretary said “ In 6 weeks we will be back, louder and bigger than today’s rally. We will not accept any cuts that compromises firefighter and community safety”.

This is what sticking together and standing strong does. This is a message to any FRS that seeks to make cuts to frontline services - the union will not standby and let that happen.

[Scunner Campbell🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇦 @Turbo_GSXR11]

@georgethefourth @bbcdoctorwho Yes please! If only that was a series.