Paul Lythgoe

The UK can afford State Pensions. Properly funded Universal Healthcare. No University fees. Government run Energy, Water and Housing. What it can't afford is the billionaires blocking all of these things. YOU choose which you want. I'm picking NO billionaires.

Bloody appalling. Just like Blair did to registered nurse training numbers His gov claimed we didn’t need as many RNs as less qualified could do the work. Now we are suffering the consequences of this in spades !!!!

America has a Senate. Australia has a Senate. Canada has a Senate. Most democracies have two chambers - one elected, one providing scrutiny. Why does Britain still have 800 unelected lords? Should we finally build a democratic second chamber?

High time the media informed the public that the gov is paying out £25-£75m a year to train PAs while earning more than Drs, & not studied medicine. Yet @wessstreeting @Keir_Starmer are cutting training placements for Drs. It's blatantly obvious they don't want pts to have Drs.

@ian_ibbotson @triffic_stuff_ I guess being educated to a Masters degree level makes me an uneducated cunt. And you - did education pass you by.

@triffic_stuff_ @PALythgoe You thick, uneducated cunt…

The damage Keir Starmer has done and is doing to Britain cannot be understated. Ex-soldier and Traitors winner Harry Clark just told LBC he would "probably not" fight for the UK in 2026. "Especially how the country is nowadays and how hard it is to live... what am I fighting for?" We no longer stand for freedom and peace like we used to. Starmer has turned Britain into an authoritarian police state, cracking down on protest, free speech, and everyday life while ordinary people struggle. This is what happens when patriotism is destroyed and the country no longer feels worth defending. Resign! 😡

Most people assume that if the NHS needs more specialist doctors, the Government would train more of them. But that’s not actually what’s happening. The Government can decide how many specialist training jobs exist each year. They can increase them, reduce them, or remove them entirely. These numbers are a political decision. So when the Government removes 1,000 future NHS specialist training jobs, that is an active choice to have 1,000 fewer future NHS specialists. That means fewer potential radiologists reading scans. Fewer potential surgeons doing operations. Fewer potential anaesthetists running theatres. Fewer potential psychiatrists and GPs seeing patients. At a time when waiting lists are in the millions and patients are waiting months or years to see specialists, the Government has actively chosen to reduce the number of future specialists. That doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS as a whole, because it means fewer potential specialists and longer waits in the future. And the most concerning part is why this happened. These training jobs were discussed in the context of negotiations with doctors. That means specialist training jobs, and therefore future NHS specialists, were being treated as something that could be added or removed depending on whether doctors accepted Government terms. That is not workforce planning. That is using future NHS specialists as leverage. The Government can create more NHS specialists if it wants to. It can reduce waiting lists faster if it wants to. It can train more doctors if it wants to. Yet they’ve chosen not to. This was a political choice that this Labour Government have made. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-go…

@KemiBadenoch @RebeccaHarrisMP Giving the richest our money. How very tory of you.

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

Hundreds of peace campaigners shut down the main gates of Iran war base, Lakenheath airbase, in Suffolk for 3hrs today. Two people were arrested for refusing to move from the road. @xrebellionuk @peacepledgeunion @caatuk @stwuk @worldbeyondwar

I'm beginning to think that @Keir_Starmer is there to destroy the @ukLabour party, not to run it and that has been his only goal since joining.

It was an honour to speak at the historic Paris Bourse du travail last night. It was a huge anti war meeting building the London peace conference on 20 June. You can see the whole meeting with my contribution and that of the RMT’s Alex Gordon here: facebook.com/share/v/1FT6hQ…

France, Spain and Norway all have wealth taxes on the very richest. Britain doesn't. With public services crumbling and food banks at record demand, should those sitting on tens of millions be asked to contribute more - or would it just drive wealth offshore?

We never rejected the 1000 places. We rejected an offer that fails on pay, tried to lock us into below inflation deals, is full of vague promises for LEDs, and we worry you can’t deliver it. Stop tweeting. There’s still time for a credible offer to call off these strikes.

The finance ministers of Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for windfall taxes on the big oil companies raking in superprofits from the energy crisis. Over to you, Ms Reeves.

For most of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have been indistinguishable from those of a pretty run of the mill Labour MP. That's why opinion column hit pieces depicting the Greens as 'far left' are garnering such little traction.

@gracemonkey1971 @Mikefromtheuk @BladeoftheS No but that’s the point. Who educates the scientists that create the drugs not big pharma it’s the state.The plan was not just to manufacture but develop new drugs that were needed.

@PALythgoe @Mikefromtheuk @BladeoftheS There’s a difference between manufacturing a drug & discovering/inventing it. Do you really think Eli Lilly is going to let a government manufacturer a drug like Kisunla for free?

Let me explain Universal Healthcare. It doesn't matter how much it costs, because if all the money goes to Nurses, Doctors, Hospitals and treatments run by the Government all that money goes back to the Government. So it cannot be unaffordable. The real problem, no profits

@sarahhuntantiq @goodatmaths57 @WorldByWolf Without the ability to talk to the IRA there would have no peace in Ireland. Corbyn played a part in that process. When peace talks were failing Mo Mowlem asked Corbyn to help in that process. He was trusted by the Republicans and also by Paisley. huckmag.com/article/jeremy…

@goodatmaths57 @WorldByWolf Yeah, I don’t think supporting terrorists of all stripes makes you decent, but you do you. He’s a cretin.

I’m not sure most people realise that Douglas Murray’s only formal qualification is a third class bachelors degree in English Literature. By his own standards he isn’t qualified to talk about foreign policy, immigration, or Islam - all of which he’s built his career on.

@Mikefromtheuk @BladeoftheS Interesting unevidenced question. Why would there necessarily be a such a difference in salary. Does the private firm pay all its scientists £150k would a nationalised service only £50k. The private companies would lose their largest market would this impact pay?

@PALythgoe @BladeoftheS Where do you think the top scientists will go? Will they want to earn £50,000 under Corbyn or £150,000 under a private firm?

Wes Streeting is blaming us, the resident doctors, for the upcoming strikes, even though 98.9% of GPs voted against his plans for primary care and Consultants are being balloted for future IA. I don't know Wes. Have you considered that maybe *you* are doing something wrong?