Dave Pick💙

Physical Educator, Passionate about Sport , cycling, reading books. All views are my own.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Ominous:

Tories Praise Wes Streeting’s Plans For The NHS.

Privatisation isn't the answer. 30%-40% of money handed to private healthcare providers vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

Healthcare must not be a profit centre for corporations.
https://t.co/upK9E9Vg0L

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

England university tuition fees could rise 13.5% to £10,500.

Student debt £240bn. Interest rate 7.3%, would double debt every 10 years.

Young people financially disabled.

Most European Countries do not charge Uni fees.

Abolish Uni fees, write-off debt.
https://t.co/ZfS9xvUW9q

[Jamie Pick @jamie_pick]

Fantastic concept of online darts tournaments. Hope this idea takes off and more people get involved

[Caroline Voaden MP @CarolineVoaden]

A shocking Brexit “bonus”

Pesticide residues in 100 foods ranging from potatoes to onions, grapes to avocados, coffee to rice have soared since Brexit.

Residues in tea increased by 4,000 times

UK has slashed protections - the EU hasn’t https://t.co/EyNCV5kGPx

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Robert Jenrick, who is the favourite to be the next Conservative party leader, received £75,000 from a firm which has no employees, has never made a profit and has £332,000 in debts after taking a loan from an untraceable British Virgin Islands company https://t.co/9xVksRJEC8

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

The Institute of Economic Affairs don't want to scrap the NHS 'to save lives'. They want to scrap the NHS to open up new profit centres for the private businesses that fund them.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care.

Privatisation hiked profits, fewer cleaning staff, higher rates of patient infections, higher rates of avoidable deaths.

Govt pushing UK into privatisation.

Must oppose privatisation of the NHS.
https://t.co/dqVoXBsrMc

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Pensioners should not need the Winter Fuel Allowance in the first place.

Maybe the real issue is that UK pensioners have the lowest state pension in the developed world.

What does this tell us about the 6th richest economy in the world?

#bbcqt

[Samuel K @SamuelKOfficial]

There is no excuse for not increasing taxes on the top 1%.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Because what everyone needs most right now is to watch the most corrupt politician in recent history having his tummy tickled by his number one fan in order to enrich him further by plugging his new book of lies.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

I recently paid my painter £30 per hour.

He did a good job - better than I could have.

It then dawned on me that he earns more than the vast majority of healthcare and education staff.

Quite something, how little we value those that look after our lives and our kids’ futures?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Spire Healthcare reports profit jump as NHS outsourcing increases.

NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector.

Money buys less as companies make profit.

Soon, NHS won't train surgeons for cataract, hip/knee replacement. Crisis awaits.
https://t.co/uvmH94ogwS

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

House of Commons cafeteria prices. If only pensioners could get meals at these prices they cud afford to heat their homes

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

Why isn’t Keir Starmer eliminating profit creation from the delivery of public healthcare? That’s the reform we actually need 🚨

https://t.co/zKPjTqB7Xe

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

it’s interesting isn’t it that every single one of labours ‘tough choices’ so far has meant an already poor group of people having to shoulder cuts, pain and poverty. no sign yet of any ‘difficult decisions’ or bad news for CEOs and shareholders…

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Once the NHS is gone, we will never get it back.
Our children won't thank us for this wreckage.

[Dave Pick💙 @DavePick8]

This!

[Chirpy Chet @ChirpyChet]

What galls me is that we need to have allowances, top-ups & credits (all sounding like benevolent add ons), when, in fact, we should have decent living wages, pensions and well-functioning public services & infrastructure.

[Dave Pick💙 @DavePick8]

“Meet the new boss;
same as the old was….!”
Where have I heard that before??

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

"No more money for NHS without reform", says Starmer.

7,624,600 hospital appointments awaiting. 300,000 people a year die waiting. More will?

Clearest sign that more of the NHS wil be privatised.

30%-40% vanishes in corporate profits. Money buys less.

Disaster in the making.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Switzerland pays pensioner couples £44,000 a year and a referendum last year voted to give them an annual '13th month' bonus. Compare and contrast.

[Sam and King Lucy the 1st @KingLucythe1st]

I might be looking at it the wrong way but it seems to me that, if the pension was at a properly liveable level, pensioners would not need the winter fuel allowance.