Pleb
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Pleb
@EffinPleb
Just an effin pleb who wants the vote.


SHE REPORTED AN AVOIDABLE DEATH. THE NHS SPENT 12 YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY HER. Dr Usha Prasad was the only female consultant cardiologist at Epsom and St Helier University NHS Trust (@epsom_sthelier). In 2012 she raised concerns about the avoidable death of a heart patient. A death that was never reported to the coroner or the Care Quality Commission. What happened next is one of the most documented cases of NHS whistleblower abuse in recent memory. The trust compiled 43 complaints against her and sent them to the General Medical Council. Every single one was thrown out. An independent cardiologist from the James Cook Hospital reviewed the cases and found nothing. The GMC exonerated her completely and extended her licence without condition. No restrictions. No caveats. Fit to practise anywhere in the UK. The trust still sacked her. She spent 28 months banned from clinical duty, sitting in an office while the NHS simultaneously complained it was short of cardiologists. She saw 2,000 patients a year before they benched her. Those patients saw nobody. Then the CEO at the time, Daniel Elkeles, put it in writing. He would drop the entire disciplinary process if she dropped her employment tribunal case. The whistleblowing claim, the harassment claim, the discrimination claim. All of it. She refused. So they went for the money instead. The trust, already £35 million in debt and planning to close St Helier's A&E, maternity and children's services, commissioned law firm Capsticks (@CAPSTICKSLLP) to pursue Dr Prasad for £180,000 in costs at a separate tribunal. The normal maximum in the rare cases where costs are awarded at all is £20,000. In 99.95% of employment tribunals, employees never pay their employer's costs at all. Twenty lawyers and paralegals were deployed against her. She had one barrister for part of the hearing and a colleague helping pro bono. The £180,000 claim was eventually cut to £24,000, but only after a judge intervened. The BMA refused to fund her defence, citing insufficient odds of success. The colleagues who worked with her at St George's said they had no concerns about her competence whatsoever and called the trust's response "profoundly vengeful." A trust that cannot report a patient death to the coroner managed to find the resources to pursue the doctor who flagged it across multiple tribunals for over a decade. Reported by @davidhencke | Westminster Confidential




We need to stop illegal immigration, but this is abhorrent from Reform. Zia is proposing the siting of detention centres expressly as a form of political punishment for people and places that don’t vote Reform - not just Green, but presumably Conservative, Liberal and Labour too. (And what about Reform voters in those constituencies?) It would almost certainly be deemed an abuse of ministerial power for political purposes, and as such would likely be stuck down in court before ever being implemented, wasting millions for the taxpayer without detaining anyone. If it were to go ahead, it would still represent an appalling waste of public money as these sites might well not be in any way suitable for the proposed centres, or near the other infrastructure required. What’s worse is that he is doing all this to provoke outrage and draw attention to Reform a few days out from the local elections. Reform know what they are doing. But this goes beyond a pre-election stunt. It’s declared as a major policy commitment, and should be treated as such. We need a proper plan to leave the ECHR and restore safe border controls, not gimmicks that wouldn’t survive first contact with reality.

I may not agree with Green voters, but deliberately placing deportation centres in areas that vote against you as political punishment is vindictive and counterproductive. You don’t win people over by threatening them. It’ll also put people in serious danger.


Prime Minister Keir Starmer arriving at the #EPC summit 2026 taking place in #Yerevan, #Armenia

"They seized my baby and sliced him in two with a knife. My second child woke up ... They split his head with a machete." THIS IS THE REALITY FOR NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS. When will the world wake up?!

Should we make this list?


They're going to apply the same playbook to meat that they applied to tobacco. They've been saying they're going to do that for years now. This is just one step along the way. Enjoy your bugpaste.















