Chris Banks
@chrisjohnbanks
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NHS management survivor 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇵🇸social justice, tax the wealthy. Views my own.
Rutland, England
Joined September 2009
This is how dictators work. We used to think it was confined to Russia and its satellites but now it’s happening in the former democracy of the United States of America. #Trump #NewYork #Mamdani
https://t.co/cb3WDRELeO
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President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post and says he does not want to send ‘good money after bad’
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In fairness how many of us haven’t released a sex offender by mistake, especially when it’s likely to be highly politically charged? https://t.co/5I9irRACpG
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Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre for deportation after assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman
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Just a reminder that Reform’s former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has admitted taking bribes from Russia while an MEP. Yet Reform spokespeople have suggested their leaders didn't really know Gill. So here's a few pictures of him with Nigel Farage.
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Michelle Mone(Dec 2023): "I don't honestly see there's a case to answer. I can't see what we've done wrong." 😂
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NHS 10-year plan will embed privatisation and hollow out the health service | My Letter
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Letter: Government reforms could lead to the NHS going the way of social care, where the state is longer able, or willing, to deliver, says Margaret Greenwood
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Can’t believe I missed the Rapture. Did everyone go without me? Let me know if you’re still here.
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Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd. We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton. I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
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Nobody seems to have asked why on earth Farage's partner would want to buy a house in Clacton.
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I’m in the desert, little or no WI-Fi, but when we find some I check the news. Apparently he’s still alive. MacDonalds you’ve really got to up your game.
White House to make an announcement at 2pm September 2, all roads to Walter Reed hospital shutdown.
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White House to make an announcement at 2pm September 2, all roads to Walter Reed hospital shutdown.
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As a @AskNationwide account holder I have voted against this obscene pay package. I hope the majority of account holders will do the same. If the Board ignores a majority vote then they should be voted out.
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Critics say building society has strayed too far from its roots with the compensation package likely to be rubber-stamped
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Absolutely hilarious suggestions 😂😂😂
If Nigel Farage brought out a fragrance, what would it be called?
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/2 dead hand of the dictat and inadequate funding was closing in. Now, of course, Streeting has unplugged a lot of the wiring. It wasn’t perfect and needed changing. But where now is the calm, sensible discussion amongst all relevant parties. 🤷♂️ A grand committee? Why not?
I was a manager from 1993 to 2010 and part of the managerisation of the NHS. I did my very best but left because the rule by dictat was exhausting and often nonsensical. I rejoined in a GP Fed in 2015 and for 7 years it was wonderful. Close to clinicians and patients, but the 1/
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I was a manager from 1993 to 2010 and part of the managerisation of the NHS. I did my very best but left because the rule by dictat was exhausting and often nonsensical. I rejoined in a GP Fed in 2015 and for 7 years it was wonderful. Close to clinicians and patients, but the 1/
It worked once but was swept aside by managers, special advisors, whisperers and ineffective Boards. Buried in a landscape of silos… and we are no better for it. It might just be what we need again? Could it be any worse?
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Love having y’all here, you are very welcome to stay, but if you’re so wealthy you can live wherever you like and pay less tax then that’s your choice and you can just fuck right off and go there. Please. Let’s have people who are invested in this country.
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Reports say wealthy elite are leaving over tax changes – prompting a possible rethink by Rachel Reeves – but hard data is tricky to find
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#GazaDoctorsUnderAttack Truly harrowing. It’s hard to comprehend that a state whose ancestors suffered appalling atrocities at the hands of the Nazis in the last century could itself visit such inhumanity on other human beings in this one.
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Nailed it. I wish politicians like Pat McFadden wouldn’t treat the electorate like we’re f*cking idiots, (unless of course he’s addressing Reform voters, in which case, fair play).
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Nothing says you’ve lifted the mood of the nation like having to haul your chancellor to a photocall at a ‘wellbeing centre’, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Unusually for me I can’t disagree with President Trump on this one.
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