What a farce. UK Govt proposes shameful legislation to degrade our democracy & disrespect legal judgment of highest domestic court in the land. And now Rwandan Govt warns it wants nothing to do with a deal if it trashes international law. Words piss up & brewery spring to mind.
Mick Lynch on David Cameron:
“It's just Etonians and public schoolboys passing around rewards between each other, creating a ruling class that's even more sharply defined probably than it's ever been in recent times.”
I'm an A&E consultant and I'm tired after a weekend of nights.
But this am, I've handed over what I described as a "good department". This was said genuinely and with no hint of irony.
We provided great care and have very short waits to see an A&E doctor, but I'd forgotten how unacceptable it was to have 18 patients in the corridor, and elderly patients waiting over 2 days for a ward bed.
My lens of what is good and acceptable has been slowly warped by the slow & damaging effect of the working conditions of A&E departments up and down the country.
My biggest worry is that I'm starting to accept the unacceptable.
This is not about a lack of gp appointments, patients "abusing" the system or poor management - in fact we had excellent hospital management support, with patients boarding on each ward waiting there instead of A&E for a bed.
This is a simple case of patient demand being greater than what the overall health economy can cope with.
We have to either change the way we work, change demand via expectation management or increase resources.
If not, then the unacceptable becomes the norm and that's unacceptable.
Our patients and staff deserve better.
Excuse me, Johnson and Sunak, but if what Vallance is saying is true, you were not doing your job of protecting people. You were saying (according to Vallance) that it was OK for us to die. Is this a national scandal? If not, why not?
Odd that Johnson & Sunak both sacrificed the public in order to save the economy yet the countries who focused on saving lives were the ones to actually save their economies.
It’s almost as if the public are important to an economy!
🧵 Nigel Farage makes his I'm A Celebrity debut tonight, where he will be presented as a purveyor of robust but mainstream rightwing views. A pre-show reminder that he's not: he has regularly aired conspiracy theories linked to antisemitism & far right beliefs. Here's a sample 1/
We’ve got London building again, with more homes being built now than at any time since the 1930s.
But there’s still a long way to go to fix the housing crisis.
'This Tory Party, it's not a political party. It's a bunch of business people who use government as a hustle.'
Why is Jeremy Hunt proposing tax cuts? @SangitaMyska's caller Matthew thinks he has the answer.
@GabrieleMontone@Councillorsuzie@MontoneFranco71 The Tories have been liars, cheats and corrupt for 13 years. Sadiq has battled for London against 20,000 police officers cut, crashing the economy and systematic cuts to our NHS. Shame on you