Andy Burnham: “I don’t blame anyone who left our party. I don’t blame anyone who voted for other parties”.
“We need to renationalise water, energy and housing.”
The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory.
Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team.
Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried.
And we're making hope normal again.
HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF.
In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths.
That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower.
What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all.
Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing.
Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession.
No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency.
During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release.
The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy.
He hasn't.
Sources: The Guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | Protect @WhistleUK | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.
The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.
I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
Susanna Reid, "I'm going to ask you about hypno-boobing"
Zack Polanski, "I'm sure the audience will be delighted that you're asking me a question about something that happened 13 years ago including an interview a week after The Sun article, when I've apologised many many times since"
"Your audience will notice that I'm talking about taxing multimillionaires and billionaires"
"Taking wealth away from powerful people and putting it back into our communities"
"And GMB ten days before local elections"
"Rather than asking about our policies around food banks, or spending money on our public services, or making sure people are supported in this country"
Ed Balls, "I thought you'd like to answer these questions"
Zack Polanski, "You're really struggling here, ten days before local elections, on the day I'm announcing I want to bring buses into public control to make sure reducing bus fares in cities and rural communities"
"It's interesting you don't want to ask me about any of these things, you want to do shock jock tactics, and by the way, this is why people hate the media"
Could anyone identify this @BHAFC travelling on a Brighton to Worthing train this evening? He repeatedly racially abused a 29 year old woman, calling her a Somali pirate and ugly bitch? She was left very distressed and shaken up. Cheers. @sussex_police.👇
Joe Rogan: "They all do the same move they drop down and do the splits."
Miley Cyrus: "That's what I think when i'm watching your shows too, all the same stuff."
She didn’t stutter 😭