sarah jenkins 🌹

Teacher by trade but too ill most of the time! #Fibro #ME/Cfs #FND #Epilepsy. Also carer to 2 daughters with #Autism and husband and daughter with #Longcovid

[sarah jenkins 🌹 @missis_j]

Why do #Doctors train for years to be able to investigate, diagnose and treat patients; but then get angry when asked to - and seemingly often refuse to - investigate, diagnose and treat patients?! Especially non-male patients #GenderPainGap It makes no sense.

[sarah jenkins 🌹 @missis_j]

@jet2tweets Amazing how this public post gets a reply so quickly but every other Avenue I have tried gets nothing! Yes I will DM you.

[sarah jenkins 🌹 @missis_j]

Absolutely terrible customer service offered by @jet2tweets. Nowhere to complain apart from a bot on WhatsApp. My 16 year old disabled daughter was prevented by them from bringing her wheelchair on our holiday causing so much grief and additional expense @jet2vibe

[sarah jenkins 🌹 @missis_j]

@fesshole 👍😂

[sarah jenkins 🌹 @missis_j]

@AngelaRayner I am so sad that they think they’ve won. The Etonians and right wing have been gunning for you from the start. I met you once at a local Labour Party ‘do’ and was so impressed by your honesty, passion, integrity & understanding of ‘normal’ people. Don’t let them win x

[john osullivan @jos02611]

Post Office said it is not enough for SPM's to blame Horizon,dates and transaction details must be supplied.Nick Read uses the same flawed reasoning to defend the non removal of Rodric Williams,Nick Beal,Stephen Bradshaw,Tracy Marshall etc."Nonsense on stilts"as Jason Beer noted

[Onthehorizon @read292]

#PostOfficeScandal so nobody within POL is able to say where the SPMs money went when paid back to avoid jail terms. Mr Read talks of a figure around £36m but it appears any investigation has now stalled. POL are very good at using third parties to stage apparent activity.

[Secret School Business Manager @SecretBusMgr]

1) Children get more tired as the day goes on and as a result become less engaged, less interested and more distracted

2) Adults, as the day goes on, become more tired, and as a result lose focus, become less resilient, less patient and are more easily distracted

Combine the two, then is there any reason why behaviour either dips later in the afternoon?

It is amazing that both pupils and pupils are humans.

But lets continue to insist, or at least coerce, teachers and support staff running after school clubs :-/

Anyone would think schools are a baby sitting service first so adults can work, and a education system second.

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

Worrying trend from @NotFineinSchool families with schools marking children as unauthorised absent where the child is on site but not in lessons (internally truanting).

Parents are receiving unauthorised absence warning letters but their child is attending, and they have no control over what that looks like once their child is inside the school gates.

Yet school is putting responsibility on parents and threatening to refer for fine / prosecution.

@educationgovuk @ASCL_UK @NAHTnews @bphillipsonMP @StephenMorganMP @CMcKinnellMP @OliverConway @gardencourtlaw @IPSEAcharity

[Julie Hull @rivier]

@AnneUndone1 He’s provided a perfect social example of Gisèle’s demand - “la honte doit changer de camp.” Trying to shame the mother of his child into servicing him like he was her owner is disgusting, and horribly pervasive. It’s time to shame that corrosive male selfishness into oblivion.

[Tim McCormack @Jusmasel2015]

#PostOfficeInquiry Mr Read today repeated that he had not used the term 'untouchables' therefore he is calling Darfoor, Burton, Ismail, Jacobs and Staunton liars basically. Who will the Inquiry believe under oath? Burton witness statement...

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Ok so I was waiting for a bus to get work. Talking to this elderly gentleman who I know in passing. I looked at my phone for a second and the gentleman fell over, obviously went to help and then he started to have a fit. I called for help, phoned an ambulance, do you know how long they said? 4 - 8 HOURS.

How has our emergency service gotten a to point where it’s no longer an emergency number? The operator asked if anyone could take the gentleman over, guys we’re at a bus stop? So luckily I asked a passer by and we drove him to the hospital. I’m not joking how the fuck did they expect us to wait outside, in the rain, at a bus stop for between 4 - 8 HOURS?

This isn’t just about ambulance times, people could die. This is Great Britain… allegedly, it sure don’t feel like it.

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

All the Tory and Reform Trump fanboys and fangirls are looking pretty silly right now.

Nigel Farage take a bow.

Plastic patriots every last one of you!

[Sarah O'Connell @SarahOC_MECFS]

How absolute dare the UK government decide that contagious children should go to school & spread Covid..
I wouldn't believe it were it not right in front of our eyes
Do you know what the UK government will do when the child beside them gets #Covid & then #LongCovid?
Sweet F All!

[Karl Flinders @Karlfl]

Post Office NBIT project was 'set to fail' chairman tells #PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal https://t.co/eBVBJftTJu

[john osullivan @jos02611]

On the basis of todays Post Office witnesses at the Inquiry Karen and Nigel ,POL is as smug,complacent and self obsessed as ever.

[Christopher Head OBE @chrish9070]

#PostOfficeScandal Latest in the @guardian by @marksweney

Post Office Horizon IT inquiry: the issues that CEO Nick Read needs to explain‼️

This week is set to be the most keenly watched of the final phase of the long-running @PostOffInquiry into the Horizon IT scandal and the state and culture of the @PostOffice

Nick Read, the outgoing chief executive will give three days of testimony from Wednesday amounting to a grilling by counsel for the inquiry of about 16 hours.

Read, who was brought in to replace Paula Vennells in 2019 and “right the wrongs of the past”, announced in the summer that he was stepping back from running the company to focus on preparing and proving that “nothing like this could happen again”.

Here are some of the key issues the judge-led inquiry is likely to ask him to explain.

Read’s ‘obsession’ with pay and bonuses

Henry Staunton, the former chair of the Post Office, twice asked the government for Read’s pay to be doubled, and has told the inquiry that Read had threatened to leave over the issue.

“It was astonishing,” Staunton told the inquiry last month. “It was taking up a disproportionate amount of my time. If I was a subpostmaster I would have been horrified – with my remuneration going up 1% or 2%, costs going up more, many losing money – to see discussion of moving [Read’s] pay to £1.1m just for hitting target, let alone the amount he would have got for good performance.”

The ‘untouchables’

The inquiry has heard a lot about “untouchables” within the Post Office.
The phrase, which has been attributed to Read, refers to a group of the organisation’s investigators involved in the pursuit of post office operators who would never face disciplinary action over the Horizon IT scandal.

Saf Ismail, one of two subpostmasters who sit on the board of the Post Office, has also referred to a “red” list of 23 other employees deemed high risk given their involvement in the scandal in one way or another, none of whom have even been suspended.

Cultural change at the Post Office

A key theme of the final phase of the inquiry is to examine the cultural change at the Post Office, in the years since the 2019 high court victory led by Alan Bates uncovered the appalling treatment of post office operators and the behaviour of executives.

Outside the inquiry Read has been embroiled in a reputational crisis after allegations of bullying, and questions about the departure of Alisdair Cameron, who officially left the company in June after a year of sick leave.

Cameron told the inquiry that Read prefers to work with teams of “younger, deferential males” and “very few senior and independent-minded colleagues, especially female” have thrived at the Post Office.

The spat with Fujitsu over the use of Horizon IT data in cases against post office operators

The inquiry heard that earlier this year, an email was sent by John Bartlett, the head of investigations at the Post Office, to Fujitsu asking for a witness statement relating to Horizon data for use in a criminal case against a post office operator in which the Post Office was the “potential victim”.

The issue was rapidly escalated to Paul Patterson, the chief executive of Fujitsu Europe, who wrote directly to Read.
He said the request was “entirely inappropriate” given judicial findings against the Post Office and Horizon data, adding that it was clear the “Post Office continues to have significant cultural problems”.

The replacement of the Horizon IT system

The supposed replacement for Horizon – the New Branch IT system (NBIT) – continues to be beset by delays and bugs and has seen its projected cost balloon from £180m to £1.1bn.

The Post Office originally said that NBIT would be deployed by March 2025.
However, Chris Brocklesby, who left his role as chief transformation officer last month, told the inquiry that upon his arrival in 2023 there was “no credible plan” for that ever to be met.

Read the full piece here⬇️

https://t.co/qK2xJXospn

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

The absolute state of this…

Exposed as a complete liar and knows there is nothing he can say to mitigate that.