Marcus Chown
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Writer. Books include Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad
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"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening."
- Rosa Luxemburg
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BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful"
@BBCr4today
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Gary Lineker makes a comparison with 1930s’ Germany where dissent is silenced.
And his dissent is silenced.
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
. Without defining what Brexit meant. Without carrying out any projections of consequences. All in an (unsuccessful) attempt to settle an internal Tory party feud. He then knighted all his mates and f***ed off into the sunset.
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Recall of Parliament.
Vote of No Confidence.
General Election.
Retweet if you want this to happen.
Now.
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If I was found in contempt of court, I would be imprisoned.
If you were found in contempt of court, you would be imprisoned.
So why hasn’t Boris Johnson?
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Retweet if you think speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle is seriously damaging our democracy by persistently allowing Boris Johnson and his ministers to lie on matters of fact and evidence and get away with it.
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The problem is deeper than Boris Johnson. Never forget that Tory MPs voted him leader, knowing he was an incompetent liar, and 360 Tory MPs kept him as leader, knowing he was an incompetent, law-breaking liar.
It's the Conservative Party that is the problem.
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When this is over and those who shafted us - Farage, Johnson, Cameron, Rees-Mogg, Davis, Gove, May & Co - are exposed for the criminal damage they have done to our country, remember one person did the right thing: John Bercow. He defended our Parliamentary democracy.
#BackBercow
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
. Without defining what Brexit meant. Without carrying out any projections of consequences. All in an (unsuccessful) attempt to settle an internal Tory party feud. He then knighted all his mates and f***ed off into the sunset.
Great letter in The Times. I’d also include Cameron in the list. What a tremendous amount of damage this institution has done to our country.
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Retweet if you think speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle is seriously damaging our democracy by persistently allowing Boris Johnson and his ministers to lie on matters of fact and evidence and get away with it
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Who the f**k is Charlotte Owen?
What kind of democracy do we live in where we must pay for a person to be in the House of Lords for the rest of their life and we are not permitted to ask to this simple question?
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Everyone, I'm getting sick to death of saying this. Stop saying it's f***ing NHS Test and Trace. It's a private firm. It's Serco.
Failing private firms hide behind the NHS logo and our f***ing media help them. So the NHS can be blamed for private failure.
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German in London said to me yesterday: "If a foreign power had done as much damage to your country as your country has done to itself, you would have gone to war with them."
#Brexit
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Everyone, I'm getting sick to death of saying this. Stop saying it's f***ing NHS Test and Trace. It's a private firm. It's Serco.
Failing private firms hide behind the NHS logo and our f***ing media help them. So the NHS can be blamed for private failure.
NHS Test and Trace cuts 6,000 contact tracers as troubled scheme scaled back
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Retweet if you'd like to buy John Bercow a drink for defending our democracy.
#BackBercow
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Please stop referring to the “NHS App”. It was developed by a private firm. The NHS tag was used to legitimise it. Now it has failed, the NHS tag will be used to shift blame from the private company responsible.
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
. Without defining what Brexit meant. Without carrying out any projections of consequences. All in an (unsuccessful) attempt to settle an internal Tory party feud. He then knighted all his mates and f***ed off into the sunset.
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The problem is deeper than Boris Johnson. Never forget that Tory MPs voted him leader, knowing he was an incompetent liar, and 360 Tory MPs have kept him as leader, knowing he is an incompetent, law-breaking liar.
It's the Conservative Party that is the problem.
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When a Prime Minister resigns, there should be a general election.
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Retweet if you think the man who "got all the big calls right" actually didn't and is terrified of you seeing how truly awful he really was
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The most sensible thing Johnson could do now is go on TV and say he is calling a halt to Brexit because, in the middle of winter, in the middle of a pandemic and without an EU deal, this is not the right time.
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Listening to Nick Ferrari attacking Mick Lynch this morning was instructive.
“Why were you on a hospital picket line, Mr Lynch”
“Because my wife has been an NHS nurse for 40 years & my mum & dad were treated at the hospital”
They don’t even bother to do their research
@LBC
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
. Without defining what Brexit meant. Without carrying out any projections of consequences. All in an (unsuccessful) attempt to settle an internal Tory party feud. He then knighted all his mates and f***ed off into the sunset.
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Wait a minute.
Thames water puts itself in huge debt to pay dividends to its share holders rather than maintain our water and sewage system.
It goes under. And we pay the debt.
Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong here?
Terribly wrong.
Thames Water troubles swell as parent firm defaults on debt
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Retweet if you think that, before the government even considers raising taxes, it should first recover the tens of billions of our money it gave to its friends’ firms that failed to deliver.
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Am I the only one who thinks that, if Labour came off the fence and said it unambiguously backed Remain, it would be game over for Farage and Brexit?
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Dear
@BBCr4today
, there is no "NHS" Track & Trace. It's run by consortium of failing private firms including Deloitte, Serco, G4S and Sodexo.
Johnson calls it "NHS track & trace" so blame for its failure can be pinned on our NHS. It's part of long-term plan to undermine the NHS.
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The problem is deeper than Boris Johnson.
Never forget that Tory MPs voted him leader, knowing he was an incompetent liar, and 360 Tory MPs kept him as leader, knowing he was an incompetent, law-breaking liar.
It's the Conservative Party that is the problem.
It enabled him.
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How can we live in a country where a proven liar gets £250,000 of public money to defend his lies and woman who is proven by a court to have told the truth is made to pay a penalty of £1 million?
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Am I the only one sick of hearing "We have to respect the referendum result"? Such a cowardly thing to say. It conveniently avoids facing the fact it was a marginal and nationally divisive result on an ill-defined question won by a campaign of misinformation and illegality.
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@bbcr4today
suggesting that an insurance-based health system might be better for UK.
Failed to point out that, in 2010, before the Tories started underfunding and privatising our NHS, it was ranked the fairest, most cost-effective and efficient healthcare system in the world.
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Gary Lineker was one of our greatest footballers. He is a national treasure. What's more, he is a good person who stands up for what is right. The Tories know that, if they can shut him up, they can shut anyone up. This is why they attack one of our most popular public figures.
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Having collapsed the economy and lost all chance of being elected next time, the Conservatives are in full steal-as-much-public-money-as-we-can-and-give-it-to-our-mates-as-fast-as-possible mode
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Highest taxes for 50 years yet our NHS, public services and schools are collapsing because of lack of funding.
What are Tories doing with our money?
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Am I the only one thinking: This cannot be happening? We cannot be governed by people this incompetent and irresponsible. They cannot be playing brinkmanship with the lives of 65 million people. But, incredibly, they are. 100 years after WWI, we are being led by donkeys again.
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Retweet if you think our media journalists should take a leaf out of Led
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
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Retweet if you think Margaret Ferrier AND Dominic Cummings must resign
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My wife, an NHS nurse, is raising my blood pressure - not to mention her own - by reading out all the things written in today’s Sunday Times about the NHS by their health editor which are wrong/misleading
What is wrong with UK media? It has us swimming in a sea of misinformation
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Retweet if you think Cameron, May, Farage, Rees-Mogg, Boris, Gove, Davis, IDS, Francois, Redwood and Co should be made to work zero-hours jobs to pay back the £66,000,000,0000 they have cost our country
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Retweet if you'd like to buy John Bercow a drink for defending our democracy.
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Frédéric Bastiat
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One day this week, my wife, an NHS nurse had to spend £75 of her own money on a patient she visited who had no food or heating. Nurses, doctors, teachers etc are all having to replace the welfare safety net the Tories have cynically removed. Cameron’s Big Society.
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The problem is deeper than Boris Johnson. Never forget that Tory MPs voted him leader, knowing he was an incompetent liar, and 360 Tory MPs have kept him as leader, knowing he is an incompetent, law-breaking liar. It's the Conservative Party that is the problem
#CovidInquiryUK
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Retweet if you are worried about the normalisation of corruption in UK politics
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The Metropolitan Police have still not answered THE fundamental question:
How could police at the most-policed venue in the UK - Downing Street - have not noticed the daily lockdown parties that broke the law?
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The Tories said austerity was to pay down UK debt. It's almost tripled. They said we're all in this together. The rich have doubled wealth.
Do you think we've been conned?
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Johnson says he's "moved on" after the Cummings affair.
Retweet if you have not.
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I think there will be a big backlash against Dyson in the UK. I think his company will see a big drop in its sales over the next year. Do people agree with me?
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A yellow-van man was blocking the hospital entrance. “Can you move, please, we’re taking a dying person [my mum] to the hospice?” “No, I’m not going to. You f***ing ambulances think you own the road.” Paramedics had to call the police.
What is wrong with some people?
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I don't want to see Scotland go.
However, if I was Scottish and I could dump Johnson & this appalling Conservative government; undo Brexit, not have my NHS sold to Trump; not suffer worsened food, pollution & animal welfare standards; get rid of unelected Cummings, I would do it
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Retweet if you think Johnson’s government has lost all authority to govern, that it should resign, and that there should be a general election.
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Unfortunately, a vote for Brexit was a vote for Putin to invade Ukraine because it weakened the Western alliance and emboldened Putin. Putin’s people engineered this by bankrolling the Conservative Party and the Brexit campaign, which is why Johnson has hidden the Russia Report.
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Retweet if you'd like to see Johnson get his comeuppance
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Retweet if, after 12 years, you are sick and tired of the Conservatives
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The Metropolitan Police have still not answered THE fundamental question:
How could police at the most-policed venue in the UK - Downing Street - have not noticed the daily lockdown parties that broke the law?
#Partygate
#CovidInquiry
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Boris Johnson is the ultimate proof that Britain is depressingly far from a meritocracy. His is the ultimate proof that, even if you are incompetent, dishonest and morally vacuous, the highest post in the land can be yours as long as you come from the right class.
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Please stop referring to the “NHS App”. It’s been developed by a private firm run by a mate of Dominic Cummings. The NHS tag is being used to legitimise it.
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It doesn't take genius guess the Tory plan. Starve our NHS of money for 13 years until there are SEVEN MILLION people on waiting lists, then say "Hey, look, the NHS is failing. We need to privatise it."
Our NHS is not failing.
It is BEING FAILED by the Conservatives
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He lies.
He knows he is lying.
He knows we know he is lying.
But he lies anyway.
Again and again.
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
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Am I the only one sick of hearing "We have to respect the referendum result"? Such a cowardly thing to say. Conveniently conceals the fact it was a marginal and nationally divisive result on an ill-defined question won by a campaign of misinformation and illegality.
#StopTheCoup
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
. Without defining what Brexit meant. Without carrying out any projections of consequences. All in an (unsuccessful) attempt to settle an internal Tory party feud. He then knighted all his mates and f***ed off into the sunset.
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Highest taxes for 50 years yet our NHS, public services and schools are collapsing because of lack of funding.
Where is our tax money going?
What is the Tory government doing with it?
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Has any single school done as much damage to our country as Eton?
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“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (The Great Gatsby)
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Retweet if you’d rather have Nicola Sturgeon as Prime Minister of the UK than Boris Johnson
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What I find incomprehensible is that 293 MPs voted to have vital information CONCEALED from them so, when they voted on one of the most important issues since WWII, they would not be informed. Surely this is a dereliction of their duty as MPs and a betrayal of their constituents?
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Dear
@BBCr4today
, there is no "NHS" Test & Trace. It's run by consortium of failing private firms including Deloitte, Serco, G4S and Sodexo.
Johnson calls it "NHS track & trace" so blame for its failure can be pinned on our NHS. It's part of long-term plan to undermine the NHS.
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Surely Boris Johnson’s honours list should now be scrapped? It makes a mockery of all of us?
@mrjamesob
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How can Labour be 14% behind the most murderous and corrupt UK government in living memory?
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I predict one thing: he won’t be invited again.
George Monbiot has to be the best guest on
#QuestionTime
for ages, he ripped apart Mercer & his government.
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Has anyone noticed that countries like New Zealand are preparing to exit lockdown because they have virtually zero news cases of Covid-10 whereas Johnson is talking about the UK exiting with thousands still being infected each day? Does that worry anyone as much as it worries me?
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From an NHS doctor friend: "I am genuinely baffled. How do the Tories manage to persuade/manipulate LOTS of people to vote against their own interests??"
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It feels we are in limbo waiting for the Tories to go and hoping they don’t destroy too much of our country or steal much more of our money before they go. Am I the only one who feels this?
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I am sensing a tide of anger rising against this self-interested, incompetent, malicious and lying government. Retweet if you are too.
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The Tories say the British people want the Rwanda scheme. The Tories say the British people don't want a general election...
Retweet if you are sick of the Tories lying about what you want.
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Dear
@BBCBreakfast
, there is no "NHS" Test & Trace. It's run by consortium of failing private firms including Deloitte, Serco, G4S & Sodexo
Johnson called it "NHS Test & Trace" so blame for its failure can be pinned on our NHS. Part of long-term plan to undermine & sell off NHS.
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Highest taxes for 50 years yet our NHS, public services and schools are collapsing because of lack of funding.
Where is our tax money going?
What is the Tory government doing with it?
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Trickle down: the GIANT LIE at the heart of Tory economic policy
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Who are the people giving Johnson all this money and all these free luxury holidays?
And, crucially, what are they expecting to get back from their investment?
Why isn’t UK media asking these obvious questions?
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THE question our hapless UK media never asks:
If we are paying the highest taxes since the Second World War, how come our public services, NHS, schools, police, justice service… are all collapsing?
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Refugees are human beings. They have mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. They laugh and cry just like you. They have hopes and dreams and a desire not to live in fear. They have not collapsed your NHS, built no homes or filled your rivers with sewage. You are being conned.
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Never forget one thing.
Johnson’s corruption and incompetence KILLED PEOPLE.
His government said “20,000 dead would be a good outcome” and he delivered 230,000+ deaths.
We had the highest Covid death rate of any European country.
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They're punishing Bercow by not giving him a peerage. Retweet if you'd like to buy him a pint for defending our democracy.
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The problem is deeper than Boris Johnson. Never forget that Tory MPs voted him leader, knowing he was an incompetent liar, and 360 Tory MPs have kept him as leader, knowing he is an incompetent, law-breaking liar.
It's the Conservative Party that is the problem.
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Unless you are very careful, the people who "take back control" are always the people whose ancestors have controlled everything for centuries.
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Retweet if you'd like to buy John Bercow a drink for doing the right thing.
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
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I cannot believe the failure of BBC journalism I am hearing
A civil servant says Sunak needed to double funding of schools repair programme but he HALVED it
Sunak says he didn’t.
FFS, BBC, FIND OUT THE TRUTH rather than reporting “He said, she said.”
This is basic journalism
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Fench caller on
@mrjamesob
is saying the French look at Britain and the awful thing its lying government has done to the country and its people since 2016 and cannot understand why there are not 5 million on the streets demanding the government go.
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Billionaire Sunak whose family in the last year took £12 million from a family firm in Russia, which we are supposed to be boycotting, says nurses, many of whom are having to use Food Banks, are asking for a pay rise that’s “unreasonable”.
#NHSStrike
#NHSStrikeNow
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They want to kill the NHS.
I can't say it any clearer than that.
If you don't see that, I don't know what else I can say.
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But what about Michele Mone and all the other Tories who have defrauded the public purse for hundreds of millions?
We all know who the REAL scroungers are, don't we?
Looking ahead to the autumn statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says there will be "tougher sanctions" on those who exploit the benefits system.
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My lazy, overpaid & uncaring NHS nurse wife is paid for 7.5-hour days. Last week, on 3 successive days, she worked 11, 10.5 & 16.5 hours (the 16.5 hours was when she had to take a patient to A&E. She's a Macmillan nurse).
This is how NHS staff keep afloat an underfunded service.
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How is Theresa May still in office? How is Chris Grayling still in a job? Why haven't Boris, Fox and Gove been jailed for their lies? How are the Conservatives still in power?
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Am I the only one sick of hearing "We have to respect the referendum result"? Such a cowardly thing to say. It conveniently conceals the fact it was a marginal and nationally divisive result on an ill-defined question won by a campaign of misinformation and illegality.
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Never forget. This man asked people to vote on
#Brexit
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