On any given day, you might as well roll a die to predict whether Donald Trump is going to claim total victory; imminent victory; a negotiated ceasefire; an imminent ceasefire; new attacks; crucial negotiations or imminent crucial negotiations. The only certainty is that he’ll be lying.
‘Ben Delo shows how easily Labour’s curbs on foreign money can be circumvented.
Starmer needs to put the integrity of British democracy first and use his Elections Bill as what it is: a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take big money out of politics’
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When a serious, premeditated crime is committed, somebody should pay. When hundreds of such crimes are committed, it's not good enough just to lock up one woman and slightly demote a prince. These women deserve real justice.
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
And i also admit that, although i have not been in any kind of senior medical management/leadership/policy role for 7 years now, i did not see most of this coming and was more concerned by far about lobbying for health and care services and care for older people than i was around medical careers
but there is very clear evidence from numerous reports that when Labour left office in 2010 after a period of sustained improvement and investment, the NHS was performing far better in England than it did subsequently, with far higher patient., public and staff satisfaction and better access
Politico: Lab MP "Anneliese Dodds tabled an amendment to the elections bill to propose a £23m spending cap for parties during election campaigns. It follows repeated warnings from campaign groups that an increase in spending limits under the last Govt has left parties at the mercy of mega-donors."
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t
📢 The NHS isn’t for sale. 📢
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Under the new Crime & Policing Bill drs will have to report all sexual relationships between under 16s and 18+ to police & social services. This will destroy trust & deter young patients from seeking sexual health advice. It'll be harder to help vulnerable teens because they will stop talking to us.
I'm not into gesture politics but I think this visit should be cancelled, actually because it would be a gesture that it doesn't matter that in recent months Trump has repeatedy insulted Britain. But it does. The counter-argument is that it'd keep him sweet: it won't.
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EU-UK relations: Council greenlights talks on electricity and cohesion deals, as well as UK’s participation in Erasmus+ for 2027. Council of the European Union, 30 March.
Today, the Council of the European Union formally gave the European Commission the green light to begin negotiations with the UK on two key agreements: one covering participation in the EU’s internal electricity market, and an appropriate UK financial contribution to the bloc’s cohesion policy.
📌 ICYMI — Nigel Farage’s Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
A social media graphic from EveryDoctor focusing on the St George’s Hospital neurology wing, set against a background of £50 notes. Two large boxes compare interest rates: the left box shows "Govt Borrowing rates at the time" at 5%, while the right box shows "Shareholder loan interest rates" at 17%. Below these, text highlights that this is 3.4x the cost of government borrowing, totaling £2.6m interest per year in a red banner at the bottom.
£2.6M. Every. Single. Year. 🚨
That’s the interest bill for ONE wing at St George’s.
Why is the NHS paying 17% interest to private shareholders when government rates were only 5%? This is a systemic drain on our health service.
Read here: bit.ly/PFIProfits
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🚨 Switzerland just declared US-Israeli attacks on Iran a violation of international law.
Switzerland.
The country that hasn’t taken a side in a conflict since 1815.
An elementary school bombed. A boys’ school. Freshwater desalination plants. Oil refineries blanketed in acid rain.
anyone sending me DMs on here you wasting your time
it won't let me access them without age verification, like it is a dodgy site or something
so i never look
Damning verdict on England social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'.
22 major reviews over 3 decades. Govts do nothing.
No integrated healthcare system. Social care privatised. Corporations profiteering. Public money buys less. Govt handing the NHS to them as well
End privatisation.
UK democracy in action
The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads.
Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.
How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him
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Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too.
But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing.
He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him.
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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.
He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…
UK PM Keir Starmer to woo voters & MPs with plan to cut cost of living.
Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.
Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.
The Washington Post has published a scathing attack on the NHS, essentially claiming that socialised medicine doesn’t work. Dreadful. The reason the NHS isn’t working well is that politicians are turning the NHS into a cash cow for private companies 🚨
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
One of the arguments for PFI: the private sector would deliver better quality hospitals. The reality? A litany of dangerous failures. 🏥⚠️
Swipe through the evidence ⬅️
Now they want to try again with 250 new centres.
Full story 👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
Graphic of briefcase and Autumn budget booklet with the text "The NHS asked for support. The public asked for transparency. Nobody asked for another PFI-style plan. Yet that's what we're getting."
Although you'd be forgiven for having missed it - yesterday's budget confirmed it: private partnerships are back to fund NHS projects.🚨
So who DID ask for PFI to come back? While 69 NHS trusts still owe £21bn on old PFI contracts?
👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
It wasn’t easy uncovering the £21bn still owed for PFI hospitals - many NHS trusts delayed or denied our FOI requests.
🔍 Transparency should be simple.
Read the rest: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
#PFI #ProtectTheNHS
Private Equity curse.
Collapse of US-based Genesis Healthcare shows the usual problems.
High debt. Owners have charge on assets, can gut business at will.
Staff/wage cuts
Profiteering
No long-term interest
Poor service
Playing with fire: PE making inroads into UK healthcare, high street, vets ...
Well said! Keep up the good work
