Challenge for the day, can we find Jess and return her name badge? Found on clean scrubs this morning. #share @yorkunisu @UniOfYork
James Wilson retweeted
This is really interesting. It’s almost as if there’s a connection between media coverage of political events & people’s understanding of them..
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian interference is now up to 13k, and growing fast. It's still early days, but it's notable that the percentage of people signing is highest in Wales.
This suggests that media coverage of Nathan Gill was considerably more extensive in Wales than elsewhere, which is disturbing because it suggests coverage of Gill's treason was insufficient outside Wales, given that it was a matter of UK national importance.
Please share the petition as widely as possible.
petitionmap.unboxedconsultin…
James Wilson retweeted
In the same week the Covid Inquiry concluded that introducing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives and a former Reform politician was jailed for accepting Russian bribes, #bbclaurak hasn’t expended a single second talking about it
That is fucking astonishing
James Wilson retweeted
Here's a chart of the marginal tax rate for someone with two kids. They pay 53% tax on every £ they earn between £60k and £80k. 62% on every £ they earn between £100k and £125k.
9% more if they've a student loan
(See all the detail in our calculator, pinned to my profile)
James Wilson retweeted
I like Dom Perignon, Jim.
A bottle of that in 2008 cost about £137. That's around £223 now after inflation. As you'll know from the HoL cellars: vintages vary, but that's around the current price.
However….
(🧵1/5)
James Wilson retweeted
Less than 20% of the Ilford North electorate wanted @wesstreeting as their MP yet, by a small majority, he sits to represent them — doing a terrible job of keeping promises members.parliament.uk/member…
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Labour won 34% of all votes cast in the UK
Voter turnout across the UK was around 60%, 19 million people voting for parties other than Labour, and around 9.7 million people voting for Labour
BMA turnout 55% but 90% for strike action
This is how voting works Wes & you know it
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"You knew what you signed up for"
"You knew the pay when you applied"
These statements are categorically false.
The social contract has been broken.
When we applied, pay had not been fully eroded.
When we applied, job security was intact.
We are balloting because all the assurances and promises in the world mean nothing while the world watches our pay and conditions being chipped away year after year.
Our pay used to subsidise a crumbling, inefficient system.
Our working conditions are stripped from us and handed to others - without reciprocity, without recognition.
Our movement did not come from nowhere, it's been quietly brewing in the background, seasoned with the burnout, breakdowns, and unrewarded sacrifices of thousands of doctors.
For more than a decade we have tried and failed to solve these problems with discussion and negotiation, and were met with sneers and infantilisation.
"You're just junior doctors"
"You'll be rich consultants one day so suck it up"
The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t hope. It’s a fire.
The truth is that consultants have also seen a drastic erosion of their pay and conditions. Assuming we are even able to get a consultant post in the future.
Our ballot is for FPR is two-fold:
Full Pay Restoration.
Full Professional Restoration.
There is no respect without pay.
There is no profession without respect.
There is no solution without strikes.
I am a normal doctor, spurred into action by the suffering of my peers. I would much rather be spending my time improving my craft, enjoying time with family, with friends. Instead, I find myself battling day in, day out, against forces that would rather see doctors paid a pittance for the life-saving and life-changing work they do.
No more.
Voting yes in this ballot is not just a stance on pay.
It is drawing a line in the sand when Government promises are not kept. A yes vote is a reminder to all that the days of doctors being guilt tripped into sacrificing decades of their lives and precious time with loved ones in return for nothing are over.
Doctors, stand with me.
Stand with the BMA.
Stand up for medicine.
If you have not received your ballot yet, re-order it today:
bit.ly/BMABallot25
If you have received your ballot - stop delaying and vote YES today.
I'll see you on the picket lines.
James Wilson retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Resident doctors in England have re-entered a pay dispute with the Government.
Why? Because progress is being stonewalled by the continued delay in the publication of the DDRB's pay recommendations.
Trust must be rebuilt. Publish the DDRB now
bma.org.uk/residentspay
James Wilson retweeted
2.8% pay increase you suggest? I think not. Our pay erosion is still very significantly higher than the average worker & way higher than our comparators in other professions & competitor countries. The pressure is on the DDRB to respond to its new terms of reference. #NoExcuses
James Wilson retweeted
Kemi Badenoch set an elephant trap for Keir Starmer and then she fell headfirst right into it
thepoke.com/2025/02/12/kemi-…
James Wilson retweeted
Hi @gmcuk, how can you have an entire document called “Good Medical Practice” but at the same time are unable to define what medical practice actually is?
Please clarify.
James Wilson retweeted
NEW: Appalling performance from @NHSBSA 👇
60,000 NHS RPSS statements still outstanding. NHSBSA said they were meant to start coming out in April 2024, the *statutory* deadline was Oct 2024
Thank you again @drlukeevans for highlighting the mess around pensions admin and AA tax
James Wilson retweeted
It's literally ridiculus to expect people to "estimate" in this scenario
RPSS was expected in April 24
PSS by October 24
And here we are in Jan 25, 3 weeks from a deadline expecting busy clinicians to perform calculations @nhs_pensions dont appear able to do correctly?
James Wilson retweeted
BREAKING 📰🚨@BMA_Pensions ask @nhs_pensions @michaelkbrodie to report itself to @TPRgovuk
"We feel that NHS doctors are being completely failed by their pension scheme administrator ...due to exceedingly poor administration"
RT /comment👇if fed up with the service as well
The BMA has called for @NHSBSA to self report to its regulator @TPRgovuk over repeated failings and maladministration in relation to #AnnualAllowance.
Read our letter to @michaelkbrodie below
ALT A letter to Michael Brodie about repeated failings and maladministration in relation to the Annual Allowance.
James Wilson retweeted
The BMA has called for @NHSBSA to self report to its regulator @TPRgovuk over repeated failings and maladministration in relation to #AnnualAllowance.
Read our letter to @michaelkbrodie below
ALT A letter to Michael Brodie about repeated failings and maladministration in relation to the Annual Allowance.
James Wilson retweeted
Another shambles brought to you by @nhs_pensions
nhsbsa.nhs.uk/error-202324-p…
Its *really* not good enough. And isnt the "small number" actually *all* the ones you sent out? Its just you werent very good at sending them out by the statutory deadlines.
Appalling @TPRgovuk
