Prophetic words from Tony Benn.

Today on Covid #DayofReflection we remember those who lost their lives during the pandemic, and who still continue to suffer the consequences.

These are not just numbers, they are our friends, our families, our neighbours and our colleagues. (1/3)

Thousands of patients waiting over 24 hours in A&E 'corridor care' Known as "corridor care", patients are lining up on trolleys or sitting on chairs due to a lack of beds.

Corridor care is the most visceral evidence of systemic NHS collapse. 📉

The BBC’s 52k figure builds on the RCN's "national emergency" declaration: the NHS is failing its most basic function of providing dignified, safe care.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A black and white image features a close-up, somber portrait of a female healthcare worker in scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck. To the right, bold text on a white background reads, "We can’t fix this alone, we need your voice!" It includes a call to action to join EveryDoctor in demanding a safer healthcare system. Below the text is an illustration of an envelope addressed "To: Minister" with the message "END CORRIDOR CARE" from "Concerned Citizens," and a red arrow pointing downward.

Corridor care is not healthcare.

NHS staff are stretched to the limit, providing vital treatment in hallways. This is a safety crisis, and we need your voice to demand change.

Every letter sent to the Health Department puts pressure on the Government to act: bit.ly/end-corridor...

A social media graphic from EveryDoctor titled "CORRIDOR CARE IS NOT CARE" split vertically into blue (left) and red (right) sections. A central comparison table contrasts a "Hospital Ward" with "A Corridor." A Hospital Ward Has: A call bell for help, privacy curtains, oxygen & monitoring, and dignity. A Corridor Has: Passing foot traffic, zero privacy, a cold draught, and a crisis. A yellow banner at the bottom reads "SEND OUR LETTER TO THE HEALTH MINISTER," followed by the text "Join us. Demand better."

This has become the standard. But corridors are for transit, not treatment.

Thousands of patients are spending their most vulnerable moments in hallways without a call bell or a curtain.

It takes 30 seconds to send our letter to the Health Minister: bit.ly/end-corridor...

Let’s swap the jargon for the truth.

When "safe staffing" is really one nurse covering a whole corridor, the language stops reflecting the reality of care.

What’s happening in your Trust right now? Share your testimony securely and anonymously: whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/every...

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"I honestly feel no one cares anymore."

No nurse should ever feel this way. Corridor care is unsafe, undignified, and it’s breaking our NHS workforce.

We’ve written a letter to demand an end to this crisis. Will you send it today?
📩 bit.ly/end-corridor...

Zack Polanski, "When did you first become political?"

Hannah Spencer, "The big moment was during covid where inequality got so much bigger so quickly"

"The very richest were doing incredibly well out of an emergency"

"And the people who were making the rules were breaking the rules"

Brexit campaigning turns 10. Here's how promises to voters hold up Brexit campaigning kicked off on 20 February 2016. The trail saw big promises made to voters. A decade on, how they stan

❌No, the NHS did not get £350 million extra a week.

📉 Yes, the economy has suffered - even more than economists feared...

www.bigissue.com/news/politics/brexit-cam...

With reduced productivity, investment, and trade, the impacts of leaving the European Union is still being felt a decade later. As today marks 10 years since the date of the referendum was confirmed, it reminds us of the importance of repairing our relationship with Europe.

The minimum wage for young people is going to be lowered.

I suggest we lower the maximum wage.

100% tax on all income above £1m a year.

Would affect 0.2% of people, would bring in £200bn

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

Left: Zia Yusuf, "I speak to mothers, many single mothers, who are working class, who have had to fight for everything that they have, some horrible stories"

Right: Zia Yusuf, "Absolute poverty does exist in very very small pockets"

14,200,000 Brits in poverty

That's a very big small pocket 🤷‍♂️

As we near the 10th anniversary of Brexit, with evidence the damage to our economy is even worse than predicted, time to remind ourselves of Brexit Battalions ‘Media Corps’ who pushed for and celebrated this. Good time to tag them in. Any apologies?

Reform accused of ‘pitching for votes of misogynists and homophobes’ Charities have warned that scrapping the Equality Act would be a ‘significant step backwards’ for discrimination protections in Britain

Suella Braverman says Reform would scrap the Equality Act 2010.

Law prevents discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, religion and sexual orientation.

Reform taking us back to Victorian era, removing hope.

Our predecessors fought hard for social rights.

When shame left the room: racism, immigration, and Britain’s moral retreat Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?

When shame left the room: racism, immigration, and Britain’s moral retreat
Britain is sliding backwards into open racism, fuelled by political silence and immigration narratives. Can we reverse this tragic shift?

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/imm...

#NHS DAILY WORKLOAD since 2022

111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged
999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k

Hospital
- Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged
- A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k
- A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k
- Treatment - up 8k
- Outpatients - up 50k

General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in almost five years, says Barclays Bank reports 1.1% drop in card spending despite Black Friday boost for retailers

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years.

Average real wage stuck at 2008 level.

Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Can't rebuild without redistribution.

For much much more on the profiteers behind Britain's catastrophic pandemic failure, check out 'VIP Lane' by @russellscott1.bsky.social

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Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure, says The Telegraph.

Brexit Effect:

UK GDP down 8%
Investment down 18%
Productivity down 4%
Employment down 4%
Immigration not cut
No trade benefits
No regulatory freedom

Why do some still vote for Farage?
archive.ph/L2Gqp

Keir Starmer has again announced that the UK will be moving closer to Europe because Brexit has been a failure.

92% of people in the UK think Brexit has been a failure and made the UK worse.

70% of people would rejoin instantly.

Why don't we get rid of Brexit now?

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social

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Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

Lesson 2 - from the "lost month", as Baroness Hallett so vividly describes it - February 2020:

If you can't be arsed to do your job even as a deadly pandemic grips the world, you certainly don't deserve to be within a thousand miles of Downing Street.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.

The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.

Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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FTA: "if NHS nurses can have the courage to walk towards Covid patients in paper masks and bin bags... And if NHS doctors are willing to speak out about the dangers to patients... then a prime minister should surely be capable of more than deadly vacillation."

A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com

"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."

We will never forget. ❤️

‘Herd impunity’

Brilliantly scathing piece by @drrachelclarke.com on Boris Johnson’s response to covid inquiry report. He says we’re ’wangling on’ about deaths.

His & others’ re-writing of history & ridiculous critique of ‘hindsight’ will not succeed.

@cbffjuk.bsky.social

This is a searing article by Rachel Clarke. A heartbreaking read. Her rightful anger sings off the page.

2020 and early 2021 were years I don’t want to think back to. We were completely abandoned. From all sides. I remember not being allowed to wear masks initially, smuggling goggles into the hospital which my neighbours donated, a self imposed decontamination before entering my home, no ppe for …