'They're exploiting the human anxiety that comes from something that's slightly different.'
Former Deputy PM Lord Heseltine explains to @BenKentish how the election campaign is being 'dishonest' in not discussing Brexit.
I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? #MrBatesVSThePostOffice https://t.co/Nid0JgnUse via @38degrees
We are braced in 2024 for what we believe will be the worst election for disinformation we’ve seen so far.
We’ll be upping our efforts to prevent misleading ads (and potentially AI) distorting democracy too.
More on that next month.
🧵Below are some of the 2023 "highlights".
@emmaroc33249448 @freddiesayers You do what you think is best for your family. But the answer is better state schools. Blame the Tories for ruining state education - the system the rest of us have to work with for our kids.
Hospital scandal exposed as hundreds of Covid Nightingale beds sold for just £6
Millions of pounds lost..
Bought for £2,500, sold for £6
Yep...Tories...the party of zero responsibility and total financial profligacy (of our money)
https://t.co/ZfY7vG3i8p
Did you know the word ‘junior’ in Junior Doctor doesn’t mean young or unqualified
It’s simply the term for any doctor who is not yet a consultant or experienced GP
That includes this 40 year old who’s been a doctor for over 10 years
Please RT if you think everyone should know
Read this.
US citizens work their whole lives to build something for their families & for 300,000+ of them every year, it's stolen away the moment they cross the threshold of a hospital.
Many choose to die rather than face that.
That's what the Tories have always wanted for us
‘It all disappeared with Brexit’
Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust.
Brexit trade barriers decimate another industry.
Brexit has failed. #Rejoin
https://t.co/1EANRtIUNL
"Fury as national health check of England’s waters delayed by six years"
Last full check was in 2019. The Tories have pushed the next one beyond the GE, so when the report comes back that it's 100% sewage, it won't be their problem. https://t.co/ahbEs3t1Nk
Imagine the shock for the Prime Minister when he finds out on maternity pay the UK falls behind Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Norway & Greece & he’ll fall off his chair when he finds out looking just at the length of paid maternity, parental & home care leave the UK’s 39 weeks is below the OECD average of 51 weeks
Please take two mins to watch this video from the TUC depicting how political decisions since 2010 have all but destroyed our once-great NHS, as waiting lists have soared from 4 to 7.5 million. It’s heartbreaking 😔
I’ve signed @38Degrees’ petition calling on King Charles to do the right thing and reject a HUGE 45% royal payrise. Taxpayer funds should go towards public services like our NHS, not towards boosting the @RoyalFamily’s coffers. Add your name. https://t.co/tQlx5kusp2
This is the unspoken truth about the “small boats” crisis. Outside the EU Dublin Refugee Convention it is harder to control the cross channel migrant flow. Re-association with the EU crucial not only for our trade, but to control our borders and our security.
The UK financial services sector will be £2 billion better off in the next year as a result of today’s decision to increase the Bank of England base rate by 0.25%. They did nothing to earn it. The UK now looks like a giant welfare system for its banks and bankers.
To tackle inflation, we need to fight the corporate greed that is driving up prices - not force down people's living standards with yet more interest rate hikes.