• The Secretary of State for Health receives £151,649. His food is subsidised; his travel, energy & parking free.
• A newly qualified nurse is on £20k- £22k pa, pay £1300pa parking, rely on food banks & pay all of their energy costs.
The Sec of State won’t discuss pay.
Dear @trussliz / @RishiSunak the cost of living crisis has left millions worried how they'll make ends meet.
I'd like to formally invite you, as the new PM, to join me asap once you take office for a special hour's @itvMLshow discussion/Q&A to answer/ease people's concerns.
Ukrainian mothers are writing their family contacts on the bodies of their children in case they get killed and the child survives. And Europe is still discussing gas.
Everything they are doing to the NHS they did to British Rail.
Underfunded it, exhausted the srvice, got the public angry and then said privatisation is the solution.
We cannot allow that to happen - RT if you agree
So in France the government have limited energy price increases to 4%, including EDF. In the UK, EDF have increased prices by 54% - so far. This “taking back control”. 😳
On Today prog this morning: Gordon Brown earns over £1m a year from speeches and writing but gives it all to charity. Some politicians really do have great integrity.
Hundreds of thousands of young people, including my children, had their education and lives repeatedly turned upside down again and again after dutifully and responsibly isolating. And now this. Anger doesn’t begin to cover it.
Apparently, Johnson and Sunak will use the “daily testing pilot” to avoid self-isolation.
Of course they will. What a joke. They’ve got a magic loophole that none of us have.
Yet another ridiculous “one rule for them” scenario that will obliterate trust & compliance.
One rule for them, another rule for most voters - Johnson and Sunak pinged over contact with Javid but avoiding isolation because they’re covered by a special test pilot. Seriously.
The French gave their nurses a 10% pay rise. They also gave immigrant key workers French citizenship as a thank you for their work during a pandemic. Meanwhile, we did some clapping, and Boris Johnson used a nurse for a photo shoot, who is now so disillusioned she actually quit.
I know I was never a big fan of Brexit. But it's done. And I do seem to recall a promise of £350 million a week for the NHS. Here's a picture of that promise. That's £18.2 billion a year that @michaelgove and @BorisJohnson promised. So that's the nurse's pay issue solved. Right?