Gareth Payne

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[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

As I voted today I remembered how then Healthsec Eluned Morgan cut Welsh training posts in Clin Neurophysiology

This led to empty consultant posts. I have to work late and at weekends for no extra pay to compensate for lack of staff.

Decisions have consequences @WelshLabour

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

@RestIsPolitics I loved your interview with Neil Kinnock.

I was a little disappointed that you both thought David Lloyd-George was welsh - he was a Mancunian

The only Welsh Prime Minister was Julia Gillard

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

3/without increasing Unemployment, the price of food in shops and restaurants etc

The choice to increase employers NI contributions therefore would contribute more to the cost of living crisis and rising unemployment

If a doctor understands this, why doesn’t the Chancellor?

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

2/ All this is a problem if the business was just scraping by or not making a profit

If there had been an increase in corporation tax instead, the companies paying more would be only those that were making a profit and therefore had the means to pay up

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

1/ I have been thinking about current tax policy.

The mistake of raising NI was that it was a tax on having employees. The implications for a business are:

Freeze planned wage increases
Cut staff
Charge more for product
Take a cut in profit

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

What I think amuses me most about Government ministers explaining how the AI revolution will change the NHS is that we still wait for half an hour for the windows 7 pc to boot up. The idea that AI will run on outdated PCs is a fantasy. Updated IT should come first

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

We are struggling to cope during this unprecedented heat wave. With jumpers, hats and duvet we are just about regulating our body temperature. Without using a hose pipe we think the plants will not die of dehydration #welshheatwave 💨🌫️☔️🌧️🌂14C

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

In UK we will soon live in a country where we will be able to kill healthy babies and sick people

We will not be able to kill rapists, paedophiles or murderers - we spend about £60k per year looking after them

Does this mean we value criminals more than babies and sick people?

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

When the UK public are asked whether they support legalisation of assisted dying, 72% say yes. When told what assisted dying IS, this drops to 36%.

Dignity in dying have been confusing the desire to refuse treatment with the desire to be killed

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

#eccn2025

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

@RestIsPolitics Alistair was right to criticise Reform over uncosted spending commitments, but Rory you need to hold Alistair to account. The labour manifesto 2024 was full of spending commitments which will be paid for by “economic growth”, a fig leaf for the same

[Friends of the British Overseas Territories @BritishOverseas]

You can read our full statement regarding the handover of the Chagos Islands on our website by clicking below.

[Friends of the British Overseas Territories @BritishOverseas]

Members of the Chagossian community are outside the FCDO to ensure their voices cannot be ignored any longer.

@DavidLammy, are you listening?

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

In the Falkland’s they still put flowers at Margaret Thatcher’s statue.
Will Keir Starmer be honoured for giving away the Chagos Islands? #Chagos #surrender #weakleader

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

@CAVUHB My mother was entertained last night to watch names put on the A&E triage board 90 mins after arriving. I am sure this makes targets look good when seen, but this is fraud. Please keep your work honest
@WelshGovernment

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

https://t.co/peoAAGZ9H0

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

As an expert in diagnosing MND I would like to reassure the public that 45% of normal people have the fasciculations. Only seek help if you notice muscle weakness, wasting, changes in your speech or difficulty swallowing. https://t.co/py0gzX57xh

[Gareth Payne @drbrainpain]

Have just arrived at Holyhead Port and looking forward to tomorrow’s Association of Trainees in Clinical Neurophysiology training day and Irish and British Societies for clinical Neurophysiology Scientific meeting