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The money raised is going directly to @Running_Charity & @sandblastarts who I will continue to work with long after the run is finished in 9 days time. These donations will make a MASSIVE difference to these charities and I’m excited to share with you all the impact your donations have over the coming years.
If you'd told me in the 90s that 30 years later Comic Relief wouldn't be funding mosquito nets, malaria medication and clean water but instead appealing for food banks for British people, I would have said you'd lost your mind. The Tories have really fucked this country.
When I was a GP 10 years ago, these were the wait times for a medical specialty referral:
Urgent: 6 weeks
Routine: 3 months
The wait time now for the SAME specialty is:
Urgent: 18 MONTHS 🚩
Routine: 2 YEARS 🚩
Tory gov - the public deserve an EXPLANATION NOW!
This isn't just good leaflet copy, this is why politics matters and different parties aren't all "just the same".
Here's a collection of similarly devastating graphs
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The Liz Truss that took a severance payment of £18,660 after 49 days as Prime Minister and who is now entitled to claim an allowance of £115,000 per year for life...
That Liz Truss?
Tory MP Michelle Donelan: “We are the Party of facts”
*VT compilation of Tory lies*
Victoria Derbyshire: “There was never a proposal to use 7 bins, we can’t find any council that wants to decide when you can go to the shop & Labour have never proposed taxing meat”
#Newsnight
Michelle Mone’s PPE MEDPRO was a company that was less than 3 weeks old, with zero employee’s, no contracts, no premises, no previous transactions of any kind and with £100 in the bank.
Then the Government gave it £203,000,000.
Jail, jail, jail.
When you hear about “record NHS spending”, remember that all the dodgy contracts like Mone’s faulty PPE and Dido’s half-arsed Test & Trace were all included in the NHS budget - even though we received none of those funds.
The Secretary of State for Health sits in Parliament for 150 days & gets paid £151,649, plus perks.
He telling nurses who work 12hr shifts, sell their days off & use food banks, to work harder to “justify” a pay rise, is beyond ironic. It’s disgusting.
Back the nurses please.
Harrowing words from a senior emergency medicine doctor showing the despair at not being able to provide the level of care every doctor hopes to for their patients. Every doctor, nurse & HCW can empathise with this right now.
Shared w/ permission. Pls RT to get this out there.
• 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.