Kathy Bossley

In ancient Rome, at one point, a bill was proposed to the Senate that would require slaves to wear "clothing that would clearly identify them as slaves". The bill was shelved for the reason that "It would be unwise to remind the slaves of how numerous they are"...

So glad this is finally public so I can comment on it openly. I have seen a fair number of HR investigations over the years. In my experience, whistleblowers are often formally investigated before they are pushed out, or as a way of “teaching a lesson” to anyone who challenges the status quo. This is actually one of the most competent internal investigation reports I have seen. What surprised me most was the outcome. Usually, management plays an active role in managing out people who raise concerns - such as Lucy, who was clearly DATIXing poor standards and practices within the neonatal unit. Dr Brearey and Dr Jayaram were in management positions at the time and therefore carried responsibility for patient safety and culture within the department. So that would have been a pretty major motivator to want her out if she was shining the spotlight on their managerial/leadership failures. Lucy Letby was never going to be safe returning to a workplace where she was clearly being bullied by a group of colleagues (most of whom were consultants and thus in a position of power over her) unless individual accountability followed. At the very least, that should have meant formal warnings, apologies to Lucy, and mediated discussions. Management could have supported her with a temporary redeployment to another clinical unit so she could continue practising while matters were resolved. Clinical work was clearly what Lucy wanted to continue doing. Some people in these situations , where redeployment is necessary during HR investigations, choose to remain in management or leadership roles instead, but that wasn't what Lucy wanted. So in essence the hospital made a strong start with doing a competent HR investigation - but by failing to follow through properly, the situation escalated to the point where consultants went to the police. What nobody seems willing to ask is this: if the consultants genuinely believed Lucy was murdering babies, why did they only go to the police after they were found to have bullied her? If you truly believed a nurse was a serial killer, is it reasonable to accept that a consultant would really think that internal Trust procedures were an appropriate way to deal with it? UK trained consultants are NOT politically naïve. Consultant appointments are highly political positions, and consultants understand very well how NHS systems actually work. It stretches credibility, and that's a generous description, to claim the consultants genuinely believed reporting concerns over a serial killer internally was what they thought was the right thing to do. If they truly thought Letby was such a prolific killer, were they not concerned she might harm children outside work as well? This entire case is a national disgrace, and I suspect it will remain in history as one of the most consequential modern witch hunts in British healthcare. Witch hunts within the NHS are unfortunately, however, very common - often carried out through internal employment procedures or GMC processes. But turning that common dynamic (whose root cause is toxic leadership practices) into the conviction of a serial killer is something else entirely. An extraordinary outcome, enabled by a broken medical "expert" system and sealed by an inadequate police investigation and criminal justice system. What a world we live in. I hope everyone involved in this MoJ - or anyone who knew what was happening and could have helped but chose not to - gets what they deserve. @LucyLetbyTrials @drphilhammond @PrivateEyeNews @NadineDorries @ClarkeMicah @peter__duffy @MartynPitman @willcpowell @DavidDavisMP @DavidRoseUK @PeterElston1 @Michelehal7344 @Voice4theDead @reasonoverfear @Oversig58651516 @Seagreen2707 @RexvsLucyLetby

The United States has no universal healthcare, but we DO have 49 private insurance billionaires.

@JeffreyRumney @HomoSocialist @thomasck1986 60s and 70s? 😂 Rolling Stones, Beatles, hippies, LSD, free university, council housing, dentists even. Where on earth did you grow up?

@HomoSocialist @thomasck1986 Entitlement??? I grew up with an outside toilet and a tin bath. We all did. You’re the entitled ones with your TV’s, iPads, iPhones etc. We worked hard for what we have. You woke & weak people wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes in the 60’s & 70’s.

My golden rule is that every politician in every party makes vague promises to the WASPI campaign before taking office, and then does a reverse ferret within moments of realising the cost.

@BasilTheGreat Today we are reminded that racists have no respect for the family of Lee Rigby

13 years ago today we lost Fusilier Lee Rigby He was murdered by a Muslim

@arf84648947 😂

@gareth0108 Last week hundreds of Green-supporting posters were saying “Now do the £5m”. So I did.

He might be a Fat Jab addict. A tubby fuck. And consistently wrong about everything. But I am in awe of the brass neck on this cunt. Phenomenal.

@TRobinsonNewEra 😂

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Starmer Tried to Stop Us… But Britain Showed Up Anyway 🇬🇧 Against media smears, government pressure and speaker bans, our May 16th Unite The Kingdom rally became one of the biggest patriotic gatherings Britain has EVER SEEN! I called for peace, no masks, no violence and total discipline and you delivered! THANK YOU! This wasn’t far right. This was ordinary British people standing together to say they’ve had enough of being ignored, betrayed and silenced. The movement is growing, the message is spreading, and they can no longer pretend we don’t exist.

If these parties and their supportive media outlets will never willingly give up chasing Yer Da in favour of appealing to younger, more liberal people who do want more EU, then yes: the idea of us rejoining Europe any time soon is pure fantasy, barely worth even discussing.

The main parties have been very aggressively pandering to the most reactionary, xenophobic Leave-voting section of the public, because you need their support to be a status quo/crackdowns government. Are they going to stop doing that and pivot to impressing liberals and the left?

@serialsemantic It’s just a lack of staff.

I'm sure Royal Mail put aside all your post then deliver it all in one day. Nothing all week, then six items of mail in one day. Anyone else noticed this?

@DanNeidle 😂

Our team of lawyers is standing by to deal with any further correspondence he sends:

The British fugitive behind a $600m US tax fraud has now sent me a "FORMAL NOTICE OF TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE, ACTUAL MALICE, AND TRANSATLANTIC LIABILITY". He says I triggered "Pinkerton Liability" and must answer for the "math of IRS Algorithm 810". And pay him $120m.

@Mike_Fabricant A lot of them appear to have weak bladders

Some friends went on this march to find out what it was all about. This was NOT like the racist skinhead marches of the BNP of years ago, it was ordinary, well-meaning folk of ALL ages from toddlers on their mothers’ shoulders to old age pensioners expressing pride in their country and concern about its current direction. To brand them as “Far Right” is both deliberately inaccurate and ignorant. Maybe I’ll go next time to see for myself.

@PhilipProudfoot My granddaughter is a PA, lives in London, this is about £200 more than she gets for a 35 hour week

28,000 pa and in London. You can only live even moderately comfortably on this with parents supporting you, or if you’re still living at home (if you’re lucky enough to have a family home in London). This is who they are.

A quick update on this. Sovereign citizen fraudster Iain Clifford Stamp has announced he's a "candidate" for the Nobel Prize.

@Negscratch @DollidarityArmy 😂

@DollidarityArmy Unless Tineh Tommeh is being railed by Hatie Cockpins wearing a frozen Cumberland sausage as a stap-on whilst he makes a coked-up speech using the voice of Porky Pig, I ain’t coming to the next one.

My biggest takeaway from the Tommeh rally was that if you really want to offend and own Islam, you have to play cello with a rasher of bacon on each shoulder. I'm not even making this shit up.

@TerrySparrow4 The “counter march“ is in fact the annual Nakba commemoration march, which this year has been rerouted in favour of Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s demonstration

Personally, I’d rather see the counter march protesters flying OUR flag 🇬🇧, not a foreign one 🇵🇸!

Huge concern in New York that Zohran Mamdani is spending $122 million on schools and hiring 1,000 school teachers when that money could be buying bombs for Israel