Peak District, England
Joined October 2010
So in Sunak's new Cabinet we have: - Environment Sec married to the exec of sewage-pumping water firm - Health Sec in charge of obesity married to CEO of major sugar firm - Foreign Sec tainted by Greensill lobbying scandal & isn't even an MP Sounds like "common sense" to me...
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Israel's indiscriminate bombing is hitting hospitals, refugee camps, and killing thousands of innocent people. It must stop now.
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Happy Friday! Here’s a few of the things we’ve been working on this week... (1/6)🧵⏬
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Jenny Keating retweeted
In 2015, Jeremy Hunt pledged to increase the GP workforce by 5,000. In 2019, Matt Hancock pledged to increase the GP workforce by 6,000. Today, there are 1,904 fewer full-time GPs than 2015. #TeamGP
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Peter Stefanovic
@PeterStefanovi26 Oct 2021
Eight false claims made in Boris Johnson’s Conservative party conference speech independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Funny that this keeps happening 👏
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Jaw-dropping stat this morning... Me to Transport Secretary: constituents are waiting and waiting - how long is the HGV licence application backlog ? Answer: DVLA says there are *56,144* applications awaiting processing
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Over my adult life the national insurance rate has more than doubled from 5.75% to 12% and is set to go higher today. Over the same period the basic rate of income tax has fallen from 34% to 20%. That tells you a lot about the politics of taxation.
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PM ⁦@ediramaal⁩ on the crisis in Afghanistan and Albania’s offer to shelter Afgani refugees. “We are not rich, but do not lack in memory, traditions or morals and it is in our honour to be there for others as they have been for us”. kryeministria.al/en/newsroom…
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This decision seems both morally wrong & against UK interests. Surely those accepted onto #Chevening will be at particular risk from Taliban & among "brightest & best" whom our government rightly wants to attract to UK. Hope @BorisJohnson & @DominicRaab will review urgently
Deeply disappointing to hear - on top of everything - that Afghans who received Scholarships from the UK government to study in the UK this year have now been told they will not be granted visas due to "administration issues". Surely someone can sort this out?
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From next week, soldiers will be deployed to several of England's ambulance services after a military aid request to @DefenceHQ by @DHSCgovuk - I say again for the NHS to be here in August is hugely worrying.
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Peter Stefanovic
@PeterStefanovi27 Aug 2021
If anyone still doesn’t believe we are facing disaster on a global scale due to climate change watch this
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The ICU Charge Nurse energising the registrar to go and see their eighth referral to ED resus at 4am
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Thought for the evening- “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
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Honestly, can everyone just fuck off please? Just actually fuck off. Fuck this. Fuck them.
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Enough said.
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Jenny Keating retweeted
Yes, I know there are more important things in healthcare at the moment, but... How is it in 2021 Hospitals are still dictating what underwear people can wear? And give them special permission to vary this? Are they meant to be grateful?
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Our new strategy says we will be an anti-racist charity. Overnight, the racist abuse against Black England players has shown why this is so necessary. It is not enough just to be 'not racist' in a country where racism like this still exists.
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