Funding the NHS while increasing the role of the private sector is like trying to fill a bucket of water while drilling holes in the bucket.
It is what successive governments have done and it is patients who suffer.
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The oldest pensioners are on £9,614.80pa. But many, maybe most women, don't get a full pension
I'm confident there are more pensioners over 72 than there are 67-71
So over half are on Basic £9.6k and many don't get that
And some of those women lost up to £25k thru SPA increases
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough.
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HE'S NEVER LEAVING.
HE'S PREPARING FOR WAR.
One major clue is the creation of a ten-story Führerbunker below the White House that'll be topped with a massive sniper tower and drone port.
Oh, and also HE STARTED AN ARMED REBELLION the last time he had to leave office.
WAKE UP.
Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 - measured as a percentage of average earnings - and the highest rate of pensioner poverty in western Europe. And Jeremy Hunt thinks pensioners have got it too good?
Farage is paid to be an MP but doesn’t do the job. He doesn’t meet his constituents, he hardly shows up at Parliament and rarely votes. Farage was paid £5m by a crypto billionaire and then promoted crypto and crypto tax reduction. Who does he work for? It isn’t you.
No axe to grind and clarity of point. We didn’t vote to be worse off financially, educationally, scientifically, holidayingly ( I know there is no such word😂) and health wise.
Wes Streeting has frozen NHS radiographers whilst handing £241 million 2025, private contractors, with lower expertise
1 in 3 newly trained midwives can't get jobs despite massive shortage
£27.4 billion since 2019 paid out from #NHS budgets, in claims against childbirth, and midwifery failings
Experienced midwives leaving
#Wesstreeting #NHS
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“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
CAT ADVISORY: It's very hot across the UK this weekend. All cats should find the coolest spot in their home and stay there. Tell your staff to bring chilled snacks and water every 15 minutes.
You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇