Cllr Dr David Nicholl
@djnicholl
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@bromslibdems 🔸 Councillor Avoncroft ward 🚴♂️ @libdems Parliamentary candidate #Bromsgrove Promoted by David Nicholl at 1 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PN
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In the light of
#RCPEGM
we drafted together a timeline & action plan on how to implement the 5 motions as well as the aspects
@RCPhysicians
must investigate to see how we got to this place.
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Thank you for your support. It means the World to me👊
.
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
insult about Dr David Nicholl is disgraceful.
@djnicholl
has courage and experience to speak the truth about the disaster of a no-deal Brexit. He should be praised not attacked
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Thanks. I accept
@jacob_rees_mogg
apology and hopefully he will reflect on his choice of words better the next time . I would be grateful if he could address this in the HoC where his comments were first made.
Jacob Rees-Mogg apologises to senior doctor he compared to disgraced anti-vaxxer – live news
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Seriously overwhelmed by emails from
#NHS
staff whom I’ve never met thanking me for taking on ‘Mogg the Muppet’...ESPECIALLY from procurement managers....these are the unseen ppl who KNOW supply chains.
#BlessedAreTheProcurementManagers
#YellowHammer
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This interview sums British exceptionalism…a doctor (me) points out
#COVID19
cases ⬆️⬆️ we should wear a 😷 as
#COVIDisAirborne
‘No, no, they’re muzzles and a waste of time’ says unqualified Isabel whose ‘done her research’ 🤷♂️
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I’ve been given a tip-off which hopefully is ill founded, but if, as is alleged one of the Sunday’s is planning what colloquially is known as a ‘hit job’ on me.
It is worth recalling the words of
@MichelleObama
“when they go low, we go high” ...& we will be going high tomorrow👊
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In light of
#Yellowhammer
I repeat the question I asked
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
last week
“What level of mortality are you willing to accept in a
#NoDealBrexit
?” It remains the ONLY question journalists should be asking, what level of harm are you willing to accept to any politician
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Doctor who clashed with Rees-Mogg to run as Lib Dem in Javid's seat
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Dear Steve
@snb19692
any chance I could borrow your megaphone about 530pm ish...Id like to SHOUT a message to the House of Commons "Ministers need to stop bullying experts & listen to expert advice.Any minister who uses Parliamentary privilege to bully whistleblowers is a coward"
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Good journos starting to ask the very question I suggested...&
#nodealBrexit
politicians DO NOT LIKE IT
#yellowhammer
keep it up!
Dr David Nicholl, a neurologist involved in the government’s no-deal
#Brexit
preparations, warned of risks from medicine shortages and was accused of fearmongering.
Are Brexiters willing to put lives at risk for their project?
Tim Sebastian asks pro-Brexit MP Andrew Bridgen.
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I am Clinical Lead for Neurology at my Trust,all my own family, siblings & children are fully vaccinated & boosted as appropriate.
Sadly the only family member who wasnt vaccinated, my sister-in-law died of Covid19 last July.
Please don’t make the same error &
#GetVaccinated
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Michael Gove (certainly has a brass neck!) insists chief medical officer is wrong over Brexit threat to life 😱
Trust a doctor or
@michaelgove
...err no contest!
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A statement was made by a govt minister this am which I believe 2 be defamatory but is protected by Parliam privilege.
I am currently catching train 2 London 2 speak to
@bbcpm
Im happy 2 speak to any other legitimate journo on College Green afterwards.Apologies 2 my dentist.
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This is what I mean by the
#CancerOfLying
@SteveBarclay
tells a lie on GP numbers, gets caught out & keeps repeating it. Lying becomes like a malignant tumour spreading through our politics. Time for some surgery to cut the tumour out🤬
#GeneralElectionNow
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My 23y daughter went to the ballet in Paris last night…
ticket was 10 euros…..this was the view.
If I was 23…I think I would go again.
❤️arts
10 euros…
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🇬🇧 I 💗you...had incredible support from EVERY section of society...from NGOs representing ex
#gitmo
prisoners to members of military, lawyers, civil servants, Drs, patients, etc etc. All of you ROCK. It is VITAL that anyone who volunteers to advise govt can do that candidly
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@djbradshaw64
@allisonpearson
Man with 500 Twitter followers makes mistake & apologises.
@Telegraph
columnist on a good salary, threatens him with lawyers. Not a good look.
Do the rest of us need legal advice or this fair comment?
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BBC News - Child poverty cash handed back to Europe unspent
Are the 🤡 in Brussels or Westminster? Awful
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Dear
@MailOnline
I will be lodging a formal complaint to the 'freelance journalist' of yours who doorstepped my daughter at home (our house is ex-dir) to the Press Complaints Authority. Outrageous behaviour. I will not b giving ANY interviews to u until I receive a formal apology
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Genuinely Im humbled. Thank you for your courage
@DrPhillipLeeMP
I hope more join you across the floor. We must put patients first.
#NoDealBrexit
is just dangerous
Jacob Rees-Mogg's "disdain" for a doctor's Brexit concerns during a radio phone-in was "the straw that broke the camel's back", says ex-Tory MP Phillip Lee after defecting to the Lib Dems
"I'm sorry, it's wrong... it's time we raised the bar in politics"
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“Dear parent, Gt Ormond St are REALLY sorry but your child’s heart op is delayed 6 months…as our cardiac anaesthetist has been suspended 6 months by
@gmcuk
for using his wife’s Oyster card, for which he was already fined, we’re sure you’ll be 👍 w/ this”🤪
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I turned whistleblower in March over
#NoDealBrexit
plans to
#newsnight
as
1)weren’t safe (for Neurology)
2)I took
@gmcuk
guidance on raising concerns seriously(GMC were useless & didnt feel issues were relevant!
ANYONE in same position contact
@WhistleUK
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A reminder of all the Brexiteers who appeared in the Paradise Papers as EU tax avoidance legislation looms
Which explains the 31/10
#brexit
date 🤷♂️
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I have just been to ITU dressed like this...first time in >a year I didn’t have to go in dressed like a spaceman. BLOODY MARVELLOUS 👍👍👍👍
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@ToniBrodelle
@MattHancock
I’ve had to take people into ITU with a stopwatch to make sure they didn’t overstay their 12 minute goodbyes to relatives on intensive care, on grounds of infection control. Why will anyone listen to me the next time when there is the ultimate
#COVIDIOT
in charge?
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Which “senior people in the NHS?” Name them
@michaelgove
I am a senior person in the NHS & I don’t know anyone who would agree with you....oh and even the Health Secretary doesn’t agree with you
Now, even now, he uses the pandemic to spin the lie that we have somehow gained our independence. It’s a pity so many of the people requiring ventilators will never regain theirs
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My daughter saying goodbye to me …en route to Paris
“Dad, I cannot thank you enough for my 🇮🇪 passport”
She got the 🇫🇷 job.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all 🇬🇧 had such opportunities 🤷♂️
Official: U.K. rejects EU offer of mobility scheme for young people between EU and UK
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And Journalists you do not need to call me up (or doorstep me) I’m going to work...YOU need to go to work & ask the politicians this ONE question.
#yellowhammer
K.B.O.
In light of
#Yellowhammer
I repeat the question I asked
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
last week
“What level of mortality are you willing to accept in a
#NoDealBrexit
?” It remains the ONLY question journalists should be asking, what level of harm are you willing to accept to any politician
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I would strongly urge all Telegraph readers to watch
#RiseoftheNazis
rather than buy a paper with this awful headline. Breaking the law is breaking the law...it is not defying the law
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#ThisIsGoingToHurt
is deeply upsetting🥲, troubling, brilliant😀…& 100% accurate
…anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t work in the NHS or hasn’t watched every episode. Not an easy watch….but then life isn’t.
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Number of people taking part
#clapforNHS
around me=zero.
People can see through a government trying to spin & yes they are very grateful to NHS & care staff. They don’t need spin
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Clearly he isn't allowed to be the father of a sick child👇
It has emerged that the father who confronted Boris Johnson in a London hospital is also a Labour activist
Read more:
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…anyhow here’s some research for
@IsabelOakeshott
to read rather than spreading dangerous nonsense 👇
#COVIDisAirborne
😷
LONG THREAD on masks. Mute if not interested.
Do masks work? Why do some people claim they don’t work? Do they cause harm? What kinds of masks should we wear? How does masking need to change now we know that Covid is airborne? When can we stop wearing them?
Get your popcorn.
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If you can’t be arsed to wear a mask next to a 95y old man in a pandemic, you certainly can’t be arsed to sort
1)the
#COVID19
pandemic
2)
#ClimateCrisis
#COP26
3)anything else for that matter
#MaskUp
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As a current NHS doctor, I will be standing at next general election to kick shysters like this out. It makes me sad that
#CancerOfLying
is so widespread.
13y of neglect ….where life expectancy ⬇️, children are <7 cm shorter due to stunted growth & fantasy ‘40 new hospitals’ 🤬
As a former NHS doctor, it makes me sad and angry to see doctors involved in action which I believe to be unethical and unforgivable, given the harm being done to patients and the NHS itself
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So let me get this right
@BBCNews
A couple choosing not to return to the U.K. is the lead story on your website....& our government acting unlawfully in a pandemic is NOT? 😱😱😱😱
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Truly the UK reaches a new low...Home Office is planning to deport my colleague Dr Syed Kazmi from acute medicine🤤🤤🤤...we need him!! PLEASE SIGN & RT
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100% of Consultant Neurologists in
#Bromsgrove
are 1) on
#PVRoadTrip
2) support
#FinalSay
3) will be at
#PeoplesVoteMarch
4) so
#JoinTheDoctor
@sajidjavid
as our MP
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This is a lie. People are not fully vaccinated until they have had their SECOND vaccination. Stop spreading health misinformation
The UK has now vaccinated 10% of the adult population – an incredible achievement.
Thank you to everyone helping to roll out the vaccine across the country.
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This could not be more serious…
Baroness Finlay in House of Lords last night
….are the Courts aware who is giving evidence as an expert?
#RCPEGM
March 13th
🧵The motions for
@RCPhysicians
#RCPEGM
MOTION 1: SCOPE OF
PRACTICE
Physician associates are not doctors. They should not be regarded
as replacements for doctors, and they should never replace a
doctor on a rota….
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Millions of apples left to rot as EU pickers stay away
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The Times:
Wes Streeting: “The NHS uses every winter crisis as an excuse for more cash.”
Average health spending in the UK is £3,005 per person.
In Singapore it was £4,917 per person.
Do the maths
@wesstreeting
🤦♂️
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BREAKING NEWS...there is no Dr in UK who knows more about this topic, it’s why I’m standing due to
@MattHancock
s incompetence, happy to debate the topic any time today
(*although I’m talking to Drs in Coventry about genetics...u might learn something)
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And as I’m on call tonight…I can confirm that the ambulance service are responding to category 1&2 calls in the West Midlands….
(& I agree with Steve….if the government was a doctor, they would be struck off for negligence)
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I grew up in N Ireland & left in 1983 because of this kind of crap, if you have no idea what this kind of bigotry is.
Get informed & BE alarmed...it’s scary shit😳...
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Stop risking the lives of my patients and my family
@MattHancock
#stopbrexit
@LibDemHealth
#TeamNicholl
😡
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Only the third extraordinary general meeting of
@RCPhysicians
in its 505 year history.
A landmark result
#RCPEGM
Thank you all FRCPs who voted
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This from Facebook...is THE best description how the
#NHS
is NOT like the airline industry in light of
#BawaGarba
@hSafetyIB
#NHSAirlines
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I don’t normally draw attention to a Quack,but when you run a private clinic for non evidence based functional medicine &detox for £500 a pop…you don’t get a free pass to say the science ain’t good enough 2support
#vaccination
👉the data is overwhelming
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I recently diagnosed a colleague who is terminally ill, devoted his career to the NHS & was looking forward to retiring to France with his French wife....he (& I am being polite here) is not impressed with
#brexit
Priti Patel vows to end all our rights to live, work and retire freely in the EU27.
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If you believe in
#learnnotblame
&
#patientsafety
👇
This letter to
@MattHancock
is HUGE, RT if u agree
& refers back to when I first spoke to
#newsnight
which at the time was referred as ‘scaremongering’. The 🇬🇧 is bigger than this
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‘Funniest’ moment of
#peoplesvotemarch
for me? Someone shouted “HELP..We need a Doctor!” Minimum 20 Drs start wading through crowd who open up...”Ok ok”, the crowd go “she’s already sorted, we maybe don’t need QUITE so many doctors”😳
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🧵For avoidance of doubt…2 criminal cases involving non-accidental injury. The term ‘member of Royal College of Physicians’ was used to introduce them to Court.
The CPS only apparently realising that
#physicianassociate
was not a Dr when pointed out to them
#RCPEGM
This could not be more serious…
Baroness Finlay in House of Lords last night
….are the Courts aware who is giving evidence as an expert?
#RCPEGM
March 13th
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Would have been my Mums birthday today (she died 3 y ago), I know what she would be saying “just be careful, now David”
I always am.
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Turns out my interview w/
@lbc
on NY day was prophetic…just left my friend Sarah stretched across 2 chairs at Worcester ED w/ likely paralytic ileus post appendicectomy, awaiting an USS, morphine &..a 🛌 She’s been there since 4pm…going to be a LONG night
@mrjamesob
@TheDA_UK
🔴 “More people on gurneys than I have ever seen before”, says DAUK’s Dr David Nicholl on
@LBC
regarding the pressure on the NHS at the start of 2023.
#r4today
#NHS
@djnicholl
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I'm a doctor standing as an MP after having my no-deal Brexit concerns dismissed
@BromsLibDems
#BetterFuture
#Bromsgrove
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I had 📞 w/ wife of a patient dying in ED of
#COVID19
&having to ask her..”this is really difficult as your husband is v ill as to how safe it is for u to come in,there is no right answer?”She chose
#StayHome
2 protect family.
Vs
Utter arrogance of
#CoronaCummings
🚘 the M1😡
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@mrjamesob
First time I’ve ever voted in a
@nationaltrust
election as clearly there are some nut jobs trying to infiltrate
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AT LAST medical leader with a spine
"In my opinion, the rules are clear and they have always been clear. In my opinion, they are for the benefit of all, and in my opinion, they apply to all"
Prof Jonathan Van-Tam is asked whether people in authority should obey the lockdown rules
Updates:
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I have got one HELL of an excuse for missing my dentists appointment today. Phew😊
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This is going high,
thank you Sir Robert for raising this (whatever ones view)
all NHS staff MUST be free to speak up
Both doctors & politicians can make mistakes
#learnnotblame
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When the Health Secretary is making comparisons with flu, strikes me we haven’t learnt much in the last 18 months 🤷♂️
#PoliticsMidlands
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Been interviewing for neurology SpR posts all day. In induction,"anyone got any conflicts of interests where they know any of the candidates?"
1 wag peeps up "Dont worry there's no Dr Rees-Moggs or 'Dr' Wakefields on the list, so you'll be fine, David"😁
V funny lads, v funny 😂
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Hands up if you are a man & you have never ever called any woman to watch their tone when asking a question & would call out any idiot who did so as a sexist plonker. Take note
@MattHancock
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Quite & in due course I have no hesitation in handing over ALL communications wrt to my small part in
#Yellowhammer
to
@CommonsHealth
(although to be fair I did send the Excel files to the clerk in March)
So it’s really interesting how Cummings was very willing to go through the phone of Javid’s aide and sack her on the basis of private messages, but now that it’s *their* communications that are due to be released, No 10 are suddenly up in arms about the value of privacy 🤔
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This is Cosham in Portsmouth...where the local hospital has had 200
#COVID19
deaths,the map shows where they are relative to Cosham.
200 deaths-that’s nearly 10 times as many as ALL OF New Zealand&Cosham are having a
#streetparty
FFS😡
#StayHomeSaveLives
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Nice to speak to
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
just on
@lbc
happy to talk further
@gmcuk
further if you have any doubts about my probity 👇
I turned whistleblower in March over
#NoDealBrexit
plans to
#newsnight
as
1)weren’t safe (for Neurology)
2)I took
@gmcuk
guidance on raising concerns seriously(GMC were useless & didnt feel issues were relevant!
ANYONE in same position contact
@WhistleUK
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Job done
...im off to the W Midlands for my tea 👊
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Great to be joined at
#Brexitclinic
by my neurological colleague, Barbara, originally from Poland, she is one of my fab colleagues (14% of UK neurologists are from EU...just saying)
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@BethRigby
Many don’t realise he is a practising infectious disease doctor....wouldn’t do any harm if that got pointed out!
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Fury as children's doctor is suspended from NHS for six months... for using his wife's travel pass….that tweet went a bit louder than expected…the q is WHY the
@gmcuk
fails to take action against Drs who DO pose a risk to patient safety Dr 🍩🤷♂️
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Leaked report: no‑deal will hit leave‑voting areas hardest
Not
#yellowhammer
but
#kingfisher
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Dear
@BBCBreaking
please pay attention the journalist who broke the story has NEVER stated that this was the worst case scenario
#yellowhammer
What's different about the new Yellowhammer document that the government has just published compared with the one I got hold of last month? The heading.
What did the version I had say? BASE SCENARIO
Now what does the new one say? HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions
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Its in the Daily Telegraph, ask yourself in whose political interest was it to leak this?
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The Guardian view on Yellowhammer: the ugly truth about a no-deal Brexit | Editorial
Wow...I think I now know why my MP
@sajidjavid
won’t meet me, but it took
@guardian
writing about me to tell me
#YellowHammer
K.B.O. 😡
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My thoughts are with every GP in the country today.👇
(In the lack of any government advice, I would suggest any of my neurology patients shielding continue to shield as the evidence for this change has NOT been published)
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BoJo’s language is quite deliberately cyclical. It alternates, just this week, 1 day ‘humbug’, next day ‘we need to calm down’, today ‘collusion’
...it’s quite deliberate, to create confusion but he NEVER EVER apologises
‘However No 10 declined to specify what evidence it had against the MPs’. Making the headlines and apparent direction of the story effectively into fake news. The Mail on Sunday should be ashamed.
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Which brings me back to THE question I asked Jacob & will keep asking
@sajidjavid
‘what level of patient harm (that’s MORTALITY)are YOU willing to expect for the constituents of
#Bromsgrove
?
#NoDealBrexit
No-deal Brexit: Health Secretary says NHS has ‘all plans in place’ via
@YouTube
and that “health is a risky area” when asked if guaranteed that no lives will be lost in a
#NoDealBrexit
FFS😡
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Half of doctors tempted overseas ‘unlikely and unwilling’ to return
It’s almost as if
@SteveBarclay
is engaged in a gigantic game of ‘chicken’ with the entire medical workforce. 🤬
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Ladies & gentlemen I give you the THICKEST member of
@Conservatives
👇
This is real Dumb&Dumber stuff
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It’s official! All forms in, I am the official
@BromsLibDems
candidate & exactly the gutsy candidate that
#bromsgrove
needs, here’s why
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To be clear my MP
@sajidjavid
voted for this
#brexitchaos
there cannot be an MP in the land who is more aware of the HARM that would be caused by a
#NoDealBrexit
...he has refused to meet me for months....SHAME ON YOU
#TeamSaj
😡😡😡😡
Dr David Nicholl put in a terrible position here. Having to say on live national TV that doctors will need to choose who can have the limited supplies of life-saving medicines in the event of a no deal Brexit. This is so horrifying that most people are struggling to understand.
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@aldaricojr
Suggest speak to your senior ask security if can identify on CCTV (if don’t know them). They need to be warned racial harassment has no place in nhs or anywhere else
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“Eventually all the lies caught up with Trump & that’s how I won….so how are you doing?”
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As I queued for petrol tonight, I reflected on how much of his 2019 paper…
@martinmckee
was correct….and how much 💩 we had chucked at us for pointing this out 🤷♂️😡
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@sarahwollaston
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
I have just heard of this alleged story just now. I will be seeking professional legal advice. There will no further comment at this time.
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@lindsayvoss6
@Otto_English
The security services knew….the rest of us were not paying sufficient attention
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Ok I’ve got a specific URGENT request for a hospital in Ukraine that is running short of both Phillips defibrillators & specifically the PADS for Phillips defibrillators….any medical supplies companies that could help
@FrontlineMap
ASAP…DM me 🇺🇦
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“We’ve all got to play our part…wear a 😷in crowded space”
@sajidjavid
The death of irony
#DowningStreetBriefing
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Top tip kids...never ever try and tinker with the exam paper AFTER you hand it in...it’s fairly obvious when you’ve changed it 🤷♂️
#Yellowhammer
What's different about the new Yellowhammer document that the government has just published compared with the one I got hold of last month? The heading.
What did the version I had say? BASE SCENARIO
Now what does the new one say? HMG Reasonable Worst Case Planning Assumptions
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Although in a significantly shorter time for his offshore business interests..
Jacob Rees-Mogg says it could take 50 years to reap the benefits of Brexit
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