Natasha Flitcroft💜

Registered nurse working with Intensive Home Support Service delivering the UCR, keen interest in NIV too. all views my own

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The NHS isn’t in crisis because doctors are striking.

Doctors are striking BECAUSE the NHS is in crisis.

Solidarity ✊

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Wes Streeting has never worked a day in the NHS

He has never operated on someone, resuscitated someone, talked through diagnoses & tests

He isn’t the one sorting waiting lists, seeing patients

He is the one blocking training, encouraging Drs to leave & destroying the future

[Bex 🏃🏻‍♀️ @Bex_Runs]

Diesel at £1.70, advice ‘drive less’ ok but who will continue to deliver the community healthcare that .@wesstreeting is so passionate about?? NHS Nurses cannot keep footing the bill for delivering care in the community on an arrears basis when our basic pay is so poor.

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

Fuel prices are rising again.

So what’s Reeve’s answer?

Put fuel duty up.

At a time when households are already stretched and businesses are fighting to survive.

Think about that.

Every van driver.
Every tradesman.
Every delivery company.
Every small business that relies on transport.

All get hit.

And when their costs go up, prices go up for everyone else.

Food.
Goods.
Services.

It spreads through the whole economy.

Fuel duty is one of the easiest taxes to cut
and one of the fastest ways to ease pressure on families and businesses.

Instead, the state reaches for more.

People are already paying record taxes.
They don’t need another squeeze at the pump.

Cut fuel duty now.

Because when transport costs explode, everything else follows.

[British Geriatrics Society @GeriSoc]

Have you read our "Pragmatic prescribing to reduce harm for older people with moderate to severe frailty" document? It aims to support prescribing decisions for older people with moderate to severe frailty.
https://t.co/cPpX3UGfPq

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Christmas gift giving is a zero sum game. Too much tit-for-tat ends up in tat, that wastes money and fills landfills.

Time for my annual ‘no unnecessary presents’ Christmas message (courtesy @itvMLshow)

[Shrine @shrinepod]

MOTHER OF GOD IT’S HAPPENING!!

Line of Duty Season 7 is confirmed! AC-12 will return to our screens in 2026 🚓 and Shrine of Duty will be back with all the info TOMORROW! 🚨

#LineofDuty #ShrineofDuty

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Three basic reforms on term time holidays I am pushing for in Parliament...

- Every family should have the right to a small number of authorised term time absence days each year.
- No fines for responsible parents.
- Empower headteachers to use their own judgement.

Agree? Seems reasonable, doesn't it?

[Bank of Dave OBE @FishwickDavid]

Would people vote for me?

Bearing in mind I have no qualifications & I've not been to Eaton or any other College. I needed to go straight to work on a building site at 16 and earn money to live & pay my rent & bills.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?

We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.

Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.

Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.

Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working…

VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.

Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.

Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.

Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.

Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.

Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.

You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.

More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.

How depressing. Time for a pint.

Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.

You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?

You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.

Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.

What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?

Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?

Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.

And the final kick in teeth.

Inheritance tax.

After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.

Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.

Even after death, it continues.

What are we paying all this money for?

Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?

No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.

Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t.

When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?

QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.

The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.

Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working.

We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.

You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.

LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

[Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc]

Antibiotics towards end of life- good practice recommendations from Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group.

Great work!!
https://t.co/QQDjf2necI

https://t.co/KavYRm3RC5

[Dr Chris Carson @drchriscarson]

Hey resident doctors, remember this:

You owe the NHS nothing
You owe the public nothing
You owe the Trusts nothing

You worked hard to become highly qualified and skilled professionals, it was all you

You are owed a fair wage and NOT a pay cut! Same for consultants

Strike hard

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

Please report "sorry we are experiencing unusually high call volumes" messages, we are testing if firms play this for EVERY call.

If you call a bank, broadband, mobile, credit card, energy, water, sewerage firm, pls take 30s to report it via https://t.co/iwHdA6L0NL

This is our final data collection before we contact the worst offenders (if it's a lie that the volumes are unusual it may well breach the FCA consumer duty) . It's unfair on callers, and unfair on call centre workers who bear the brunt of people's frustrations.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Repost, spread the message 👏🏻

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

A difficult conversation…

Please share that Tomorrow (Tue) 8pm @itvMLshow I'll talk you through Free Wills (and key rules), why Power of Attorney’s arguable more important (& how to DIY), crucial Inheritance Tax need-knows and more.

Do suggest your parents / partner / children watch if conversations about these things have been difficult.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: 900,000 people have cancelled the BBC licence fee in a year

The British have had enough.

[Royal College of Emergency Medicine @RCollEM]

"My colleagues are running on hard work and goodwill, and our patients are receiving unacceptable, undignified and unsafe care in corridors and in the back of ambulances."

RCEM's Vice Chair for Scotland Dr Fiona Hunter responds to the latest A&E performance data from Public Health Scotland 👇
https://t.co/ED3gfBzYUU

[South Dallas Foodie @SouthDallasFood]

Yaaaassss Mr Trombone Man giving us EVERYTHING 👑

[Rob Music @robmusic_]

Excited to see our poster at Euston station on the way back from doing ⁦@BBCBreakfast⁩. Much to do to increase awareness of #migraine & that it isn’t just a headache! #MigraineAwarenessWeek ⁦@MigraineTrust⁩