Chris

Not one national paper talked about this. That’s how far things have gone.

Do you want to nationalise Water, Power, Rail, Mail, Fossil Fuel, Steel, Telecoms, Public Transport, The NHS, Care Homes, Airports, Air Traffic Control, Ship Building and much more?

This isn't something radical, it's 1970.

I've long campaigned for a Wealth Tax - and it’s great to see the call growing stronger by the day.

A 2% Wealth Tax on assets over £10 million could raise £24 BILLION per year.

And polls show that 75% of the public supports a wealth tax!

Together, we can win this!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.

@sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote about how Kennedy is systematically undermining vaccines in a coordinated and very effective way in the US for @uk.theconversation.com

full article here:
theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-i...

The healthy & wealthy complain

‘not needed a Doctor for 20years’

Unhappy that £3000pa NHS funding has been used by others who needed it

It’s called society, caring & compassionate

The sick & poor need the NHS

They are the ones who need Drs & Nurses, hospitals & health centres, medicine & tests

But stir up some racial antagonism, anti left feeling and they all follow you again. Its populism just pushing the emotional buttons of the easily led.

It's extraordinary how they lack an awareness of how they come across. It's almost as if they never mix with ordinary people outside Downing Street.

Why has the Labour government made such a terrible appointment for the new head of the UKHSA?She was such an obvious good science denier that even Baroness Halley commented on it. Which scientists are the government listening to and why?This is a very important question. People's lives depend on it.

The Lancet thinks the same as me.

Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
#SARSCoV2 carries POST infection risks lasting years and yet I only see UKHSA talking about the acute stage. Why? Long Covid has surpassed childhood Asthma, children have suffered lung damage! 🧵https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486

The Great VAT Panic Or how not to run a campaign

"The number of private schools [in the UK] has actually increased from 2,421 to 2,456" since VAT was put on their fees.

No calamitous shift of pupils from private schools to state schools, either. In other words, the scare mongering from vested interests was wrong
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GPs are being progressively paid less for the work they do

Example: 2019 Care home Direct Enhanced Service was £120pa to provide enhanced care, recognising the health care needs of residents

The payment in this year’s enforced contract was …£120pa

Inflation CPI should have meant £153 payment

Warning of NHS staffing crisis as fifth of doctors tempted to move abroad General Medical Council warns of ‘ongoing risks to retention of doctors’ in latest report

"43 per cent of doctors surveyed said they had researched career opportunities in other countries, and 15 per cent had taken “hard steps” towards working outside the UK – such as applying for roles overseas or contacting recruiters": save the NHS, pay Doctors properly. share.google/0b9GQ20fSb7b...

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
What the hell is going on? Give these GPs jobs , by providing the correct income stream to finance it, so that we can see a GP quickly.

GP UNEMPLOYMENT

No record of employment in GP practices
19% of 2018/2020
27% of 2021
31% of 2022
33% of 2023
46% of 2024

6900 qualified GP in are either back in hospitals, locums, left UK or unemployed - such a waste of training

Graphic from 2018-2025

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Hands off our allotments | We Own It Recent media reports have pointed out that Angela Rayner has permitted the sell-off of eight allotment sites since taking office. We believe that one allotment sold is one too many.

Why is Angela Rayner rubber-stamping the sell off of ANY allotments? We need more not fewer

Allotments help with cost of living, food insecurity, physical + mental health, climate

STOP SELLING OFF THE FAMILY SILVER, end austerity, fund councils properly

weownit.org.uk/news/hands-o...

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.

It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.

Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.

Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.

Crucially, decarbonising power so rapidly means that decarbonisation of transport and heat is so much easier through electrification...

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

It's like when a child sticks on a fake tattoo. But a lot less fun.

Excellent article explaining what we mean by herd immunity and why low vaccination uptake lets dangerous pathogens like measles resurge

Absolutely. In hock to the tech bros, allowing the oligarch's to control/have deep influence over many aspects operation of public systems service governance etc. Falling for the AI for everything argument. It's almost like they have been groomed.

Why we need a cap on water industry executive pay - High Pay Centre A sensible pay limit would restore a public service ethos to the industry, and send a much needed message about fairness and proportionality across the wider economy. HPC Executive Director Luke Hildy...

Call to fix water company exec pay at ten times the level of their lowest-earning workers.

Need focus on total remuneration, not just pay.

Exec pay should be subject to a binding vote by employees, and customers (wherever possible).

Democratise big business to curb inequalities and abuses.

Long COVID can lead to ME/CFS &this is what happened to me. No pathway for treatment, having to use a wheelchair etc.We have an urgent need for greater understanding of diagnosis and treatment.Allowing COVID to run freely through schools hospitals will increase cases and disablement. It is terrible.

Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

“Netanyahu's plans to occupy the whole of Gaza are utterly abhorrent - and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.”

View from Westminster: £1.4m Southern Water bonus insults residents I’m also a firm believer in the importance of community policing in preventing crime, including anti-social behaviour.

My latest column for the Echo, on Southern Water, transport for disabled people, SEND and CCTV. www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2536950...

She needs to resign.

She needs to resign.

Was there a full moon?