Joan Walmsley🔶
@joan_walmsley
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Co-Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords, former Health Spokesman and former Education and Children Spokesman.
Joined July 2015
Compelling evidence from our witnesses led to our worrying conclusions
Our report on Delivering a UK science and technology strategy, entitled “Science and technology superpower”: more than a slogan? has just been published. You can read it here:
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I hope Matt Hancock is OK and learns how hard it is for people to self isolate
Today, I have written to @MattHancock urging him to make it easier for people to self-isolate, by paying their full wages & by providing support for dependants so they don't have to break the rules to care for someone else. We must make it easier for people to follow rules (2/2)
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Extending healthy life by five years will help the NHS to cope with our ageing society and enable more people to be independent for longer. Several important recommendations in our report would help to achieve this.
Here's a message from our Chair, Lord Patel, explaining the key recommendations we have made to the Government to support healthy ageing across the population. Read the full report here and let us know what you think: https://t.co/h6OICJgqo0
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Happy to take part in this enquiry. Many opportunities to improve health in old age but worrying disparities between the better off and worst off. This is something that needs serious attention.
Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on our #AgeingInquiry report that was published this morning. If you haven't read it yet, you can find it here: https://t.co/vyIERRpe69
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This is disgraceful. The government is trying to close down any negative reporting of the consequences of Brexit - even by a legitimate Parliamentary Committee
This morning I have resigned from the Committee on the Future Relationship with Europe as we met to discuss our final report a number of unfamiliar Tory Members appeared whipped to vote our report down.Honoursble conduct?
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This issue is vital to at least one family in our area. After so many years, why has the government still not got this sorted? @Hanseizuremum @joan_walmsley @munirawilson @mapletreecan
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‘All of our children’s lives matter not just the selected few.’
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Some people are not able to self-isolate as they cannot afford to do so. A way help suppress the transmission of #COVID19 is for the Government to provide better financial support to the poorest who need to self-isolate says Baroness @joan_walmsley
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Thanks @joan_walmsley pushing today on #CannabisMedicinal #cannabisoil at 12:40pm @Hanseizuremum 'We're on the case' but 'there will need to be compromises'? Families have waited so long. This needs sorting urgently! @Mikebarnes29
https://t.co/XA4KiDqrHy
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Tories kill bid to give NHS heroes the right to live in the UK
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The government has shut down a parliamentary committee that would have scrutinised the deal! I've signed the petition to help parliament to take back control. Will you add your name?
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The government has shut down a parliamentary committee that would have scrutinised the deal! I've signed the petition to help parliament to take back control. Will you add your name?
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There will continue to be a Lords Committee that can look at this but there really needs to be a Select Committee of the elected house. This is ‘taking back control’ to a few ministers, not to Parliament.
Parliamentary committee that would have examined the EU Trade Agreement is closed down by Commons Leader Rees-Mogg
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Lib Dem Peers have just voted against the Tory Brexit deal ⬇️
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Watch @RichardNewby3 outline why Lib Dem Peers will vote against the Future Relationship Bill ⬇️
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Boris hasn’t a clue!
As ever, the PM demonstrating his phenomenal grasp of the numbers when I asked how much of the extra £7bn for Test & Trace will 1⃣ support local authority contact tracing 2⃣ be spent on consultants & Serco's failed national system 3⃣ support those who self isolate Not a clue 🙄
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Boris’s supine support of loyalists who break the rules that other people are expected to obey makes him look weak and insecure. A confident PM would not feel he needed to rely on such people.
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This from @bmj_latest is a serious charge: “Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic...
"The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science" Read this powerful editorial by @KamranAbbasi
https://t.co/j0a0ujIg7w
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I am so sick of Boris’s self-justification every time he is asked about another terrible milestone in the tragic story of Covid 19. Where is his humanity?
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Yesterday the Scottish Government removed the defence of ‘justifiable assault’ re violence against children. I hope the UK Govt will follow their example and remove the equivalent ‘reasonable chastisement’. I will continue to fight for that. @joan_walmsley @LibDemLords
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Researchers at Stamford University found that 18 Trump election rallies resulted in a total of over 30,000 additional positive cases of COVID 19. This man has no regard for human life or anyone but himself. I hope the American people have the wisdom to roundly reject him tonight.
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