This is a painful, car crash interview.
Peter Kyle: I believe in the plan!
Naga Munchetty: When did you seen the plan?
Kyle: I haven’t.
Naga: Did Mr Healey and Al Carns see the plan?
Kyle: Of course!
Naga: So they’ve both seen the plan and resigned.
Looking at the government as it sits,
The final nail would be @RobKenyonReform winning in makerfield.
A vote of no confidence will be called.
Come on makerfield vote @reformparty_uk for the good of the country 👏
More money needed for Defence ? Why don’t we stop the Republic of Ireland freeloading on UK ? An officially neutral country that spends zilch on defence,criticises NATO and takes U.K. to court over Legacy yet relies on our free defence capabilities to protect their country
Now Miliband comes for your underfloor heating, your towel rails, after targeting your tumble dryer, in his net stupid zero drive
This miserable little man can do one
Reform will scrap all his potty plans
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This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
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This is total lies.
State school parents do not in any way subsidise independent schools; if anything it is the other way round because independent school parents pay their taxes that fund the state schools, and they pay the fees for independence school on top. Thirdly, they save the state at least £8000 a year per Child by doing so
This is why many people no longer trust the BBC
My morning so far…I feel the need to get this off my chest 🤣🤦🏼♀️
At London Waterloo I tried to board my train as soon as the platform was announced, but my ticket wouldn’t scan.
Showed the guy my ticket & asked him to pls let me through the barriers. He said ‘no, you need to use your ticket’.
I showed him ticket & explained it wouldn’t scan. He shrugged & told me to ‘go & see that woman there’. Woman had a queue of people so I asked if she could let me through, she told me ‘no, you have to wait your turn’.
I waited, but conscious I only had minutes left, in desperation, I tried to buy another ticket at the machine, but the contactless wasn’t working. I tried to get another via the app, but it wouldn’t work (presumably because now, it was so close to departure?).
Anyway, I returned to the barrier exasperated. Please, I said to ‘the woman’, can you help me because I really need to board the train which is about to depart.
‘No. Wait your turn’ was again the response.
I went to two other staff members at the gates & showed them my ticket and said ‘please, can you just let me through the barriers’.
‘No, she needs to say we can’ was the response.
Anyway, you guessed it - I missed the train.😩🤬
As I said to all the staff members, if I had just turned up to the train & barged through the barriers, ticket-less, as so many seem to do these days, I would have been happily on the train and en route to the destination… Makes me wonder why we bother trying to do the right thing 🤷♀️
Argh! Anyway, I feel better now having got that off my chest! 😉
A defence secretary has never resigned in this way. Fox, Heseltine, Profumo - all resigned over scandals. To resign because the PM would not pay enough to keep the country secure - unprecedented.
Well done, @JohnHealey_MP. We prioritise disability benefits over drones. The MoD can’t get the £28 billion which it needs to keep us safe, yet the welfare budget is set to rise by £42 billion.
We spend more than 5️⃣ times as much on social security as on actual security.
Brutal Al Carns’ resignation letter:
“…the NI Legacy Bill. I have worked to fix the Bill from the inside, but it remains unfit for purpose. It risks failing the very veterans it claims to protect.”
Nobody in good conscience can support a PM who prosecutes British war heroes.
If you vote for @reformparty_uk they will stop HMO in their constituencies
When you vote in Makerfield think about it.
Vote for @RobKenyonReform who will put Makerfield residents first.
How is this any different to my angry tweet?
I don’t advocate anyone be arrested for words. I’m a free speech absolutist.
However I’m not down with the two tier society we find ourselves in.
Neither are most and it’s fuelling people’s anger.
Labour maxed out on spending in their first two budgets.
They promised to limit spending increases to £9.5 billion a year.
But they increased it by £146 billion instead.
That’s why they’re dithering on the Defence Investment Plan.