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[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hi @andyburnham the UK has tens of millions of uncovered parking spaces: from supermarket car parks and retail parks to workplaces and other paved areas.

Why not make better use of the land we have already covered in concrete and tarmac by rolling out solar canopies over parking spaces?

A large-scale programme could potentially generate a significant share of our electricity demand, while providing shade for vehicles, supporting EV charging, reducing pressure on farmland and bringing energy generation closer to communities.

It's a no brainer. Just needs a little leadership 👍

[Alastair Morgan @AlastairMorgan]

With a significant segment of the population quite prepared to abolish our civil and human rights and scrap our national health service, you have to ask how the fuck did we end up here?
How did we breed so many halfwits without the faintest understanding of human history?

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This week the NHS will undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote, electronic “advice and guidance” from hospital ‘clinicians’ (note, not necessarily doctors), making it even harder for patients to see a hospital specialist.

Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do so effusively when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures?

It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists.

You don’t need me to point out the patient safety risks it potentially entails. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything. The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.”

The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million annually. And the government, in a really quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting years months or even years for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.)

I believe this is a national health scandal from a government that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care.

If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP or the Secretary of State and tell them why. Please shout about this online, in the press, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.

[Paul Husband @PaulHusband_]

I have finally finished my new website.
If you need a photographer for any of your needs (but not rude ones) feel free to have a look and get in touch.
I'd also really appreciate a retweet. It's almost like I'm starting over.
Thanks and much love. ♥️
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[Andrew Parnall @dontbrexitfixit]

White boomer here, I'm with Howard, I cannot imagine ever voting for Reform, not ever. Voting for Reform is nothing about how old you are, it's about how gullible you are, how bigoted you are and how lacking in decency you are. Never Reform, ever.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

*wearily sips coffee and adjusts wig*

Morning, David Lammy & Sarah Sackman 👋

70 courts. We only have 516. And 70 of them. Closed.

Imagine keeping closed 70 A&E units. 70 primary schools. 70 MPs offices.

What kind of ideology is this?

Can we hold trials in them?

Please?

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Morning again, David Lammy!

I do wonder how long you & I must do this merry little dance. But here we go again.

75 courtrooms. Today. Sitting empty.

Will you let us hold 75 rape trials in them?

Instead of restricting jury trials for thousands of people?

And if not, why not?

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

There will be an Opposition Day Debate in the Commons today about David Lammy’s proposals to restrict and to limit the public’s right - your right - to a jury trial.

Here’s what MPs should ask him on behalf of their constituents👇🏼 📣

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

If only these had been the headlines all these years…

💥YOUR BOSS’S BONUS JUST ATE YOUR PAY RAISE

💥WAGES STAGNATE WHILE PROFITS SOAR: CEOS POCKET MILLIONS AS FAMILIES SKIP MEALS

💥BILLIONAIRES GOT TAX CUTS - YOU GOT A TAX HIKE

💥THEY PRIVATIZED YOUR POWER, THEN BILLED YOU FOR THE BAILOUT

💥THE RICH DON’T PAY TAXES - BUT THEY DO OWN YOUR POLITICIANS

💥MEGA WEALTHY BUY UP HOMES WHILE RENTERS ARE EVICTED

💥POLITICIANS BLAME IMMIGRANTS WHILE QUIETLY VOTING TO CUT YOUR HEALTHCARE

💥FOOD BANK USE SURGES AS GROCERY CHAINS REPORT RECORD PROFITS

Instead of these headlines below

Maybe we’d all be marching side by side and angry at the same people

…which is exactly what they fear the most.

[Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance]

Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Lots of talk about the welfare tax bill lately…

A suggestion:

Before pointing the lazy finger at the people our media tells you to hate

Look up

At the billion-pound firms refusing to pay fair wages

You know…

The ones posting record profits while taxpayers subsidise the shortfall

Because 34% of Universal Credit claimants are in work

Many full-time

Still not earning enough to live

Why don’t we get angry about that for a change?

[Stuff_By_Mark @The_Ren1981]

Start spreading the news etc... I'm having a big clearance sale over on my website. There's lots of things reduced to 50%. Help me stave off eviction for another month by treating yourself to a print or two. https://t.co/lF93vFWuyF

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Instead of being one of ‘Blair’s Babes’ or ‘Cameron’s Cuties’ or ‘Farage’s Fillies’ - we should be teaching our daughters to take Blair / Cameron / Farage’s job.

[Jamie Carragher @Carra23]

RIP Joey Jones ❤️

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

In all the noise about jury trials today - know this:

If you drive a car / go to work / socialise / use a mobile phone / go to the pub / date / interact in any way with other humans then you could be wrongly accused of a crime at any moment.

And you’d want one thing:

A jury.

[☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) @riotgrandma72]

🙁🙁Dear @YvetteCooperMP … so why is this OK when chanting an anti IDF slogan is not?
Why is this man allowed to wish our deaths freely on a public broadcaster?
Sorry - are we less ‘worthy’ than a genocidal army?

#TakingThePIP #2tierlabour #Disability #eugenics #benefits

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Whatever people’s views about the concessions, surely everyone can see the process here is ALL wrong?

Third Reading in eight days?

A timetable like that diminishes the role of MPs in getting this legislation right, shuts out disabled people and puts too many at risk.

[MARK HUGHES STANDING UP FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL @UnsungheroMark]

I ask my followers to please help me by re tweeting this to @Keir_Starmer

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

They're having a whole debate in House of Commons about Bob Vylan.

There are children starving to death and being murdered in front of the world.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

📍Glastonbury

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