Amber Throop

22 ✨ Paediatric Critical Care Nurse 👩🏼‍⚕️ She/her

[Amber Throop @bumba58]

Feel free to enjoy this live of Sanj and I trying to take a selfie, throwing the peace sign at the same time and then getting WAY too excited about it... it is now my fave video to ever exist 👀

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Congratulations to British Gas who made record profits of £969,000,000 in six months.

That’s almost *ten times* more than last year, while millions are struggling to pay the bills.

We must end this daylight robbery and bring energy into public hands, now.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Nurses work 12hr shifts; sell their days off; use food banks; pay £1300 a year to park. And 40,000 have left their jobs in a year.

Tory MPs sit for 150 days; get subsidised food; claim travel & energy on expenses; get free parking & £2,200 pay rises.

Back the nurses please.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

You are 23 times more likely to be prosecuted for benefit fraud than tax fraud in the UK.

Tax crimes cost the economy at least nine times more.

It’s a rigged two tier system. One rule for us and another for them.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The private sector is now charging the NHS £1.7bn to supply the bed spaces the Tories cut from our NHS.

Every NHS bed the Tories close gains private health £78,000 a year.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

In the summer Zahawi said he was "being smeared" and "I've always declared my taxes."

Today the Guardian report that he has now paid taxes owed, interest, and a 30% fine, a total of £5 million.

Why did HMRC fine him if everything was above board?

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Does ANYONE think this is a coincidence?

We are now constantly discussing whether a free* NHS is financially sustainable, after 3 years of the Tories literally stealing billions from the NHS budget via dodgy contracts.

WEIRD, HUH! 🤯

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Michelle Mone has a new yacht, Boris Johnson has a £6m book deal and Nadhim Zahawi's horses have centrally heated stables. But remember, you can eat for 30p a day if you batch cook.

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

We have a government that doesn’t use public transport, they access private healthcare and their children are in private education. They claim expenses for everything from heating to furnishing and paying for a second home. They might as well live on a different planet to us

[Frances *Deadly SoverAuntie* Danger @FrancesMFDanger]

Today is the 160th anniversary of the largest mass execution in u.s. history, carried out on the orders of The Great Emancipator, abraham lincoln.

[Maddy Mussen @maddy_mussen]

ooooof this campaign from Women's Aid though

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

As Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng for implementing her own economic policies, millions of people are still waiting for a plan to tackle the cost-of-living emergency.

It doesn't matter how many Chancellors they get through, this Tory government is rotten to its very core.

[Leah Smart @leahsmartxo]

I am a student nurse and I am a mum. This year I have no choice but to put my daughter into nursery. I’m not entitled to tax free childcare because my student loan is not seen as an income. I’m not entitled to UC due to my partners wages (1/2)

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @SteveBarclay,

I'm an NHS A&E immigrant doctor making £14/hr here working in London. I volunteered twice during the pandemic to be redeployed to the COVID-19 wards. Last week I paid £500 for visas for myself and my partner. We can't afford our bills. Please help.

🧵 1/5

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Republicans think 10-year-olds should be forced to give birth, meanwhile they think 16-year-olds are too young to vote.

[Rachel Ward @RachelWardbooks]

The more I think about it, the more I feel we should start again with Parliament. Have a modern building, electronic voting, office hours, decent childcare, no on-site bars. Governing this country is too important for it to be treated like a 'gentlemen's' club.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

10-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIMS IN OHIO CANT VOTE IN NOVEMBER. DO SOMETHING NOW!

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

A 10-year-old girl was denied abortion services in Ohio.

10.

So no, I’m not ok with the Democratic Party’s response federally simply being “vote in November.”

Residents in my state can’t wait till November and 10-year-olds can’t vote.

Here’s what they should be doing.

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[sio @bestinsio]

wearing shorts is so embarrassing. Like here are my legs I guess. jesus christ

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

£65,738 - MP salary in 2010
£84,144 - MP salary in 2022

If rail, teachers, nurses, etc had the same rate of increase, there would be no strikes.

[LaRonda Robinson @JamaicanVision]

I was seven years old. It’s not ancient history, it’s current reality.