Deb Lyon
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Deb Lyon
@debzly
Proud to have been a nurse back when the NHS used to work. No unsolicited DMs
Cornwall UK Katılım Kasım 2010
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Iran just told Trump to go ahead and pull the trigger. Thirty-three hours left on the clock, and Tehran didn’t blink. It escalated.
Trump threatened to obliterate Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t open for business within 48 hours. A reasonable person might have expected some back-channel signal, a quiet diplomatic murmur, maybe a phone call through Oman. Instead, Iran’s senior military command walked up to the microphone and announced that its entire strategic posture has shifted. Not defensive. Offensive.
The country has enough reserves to last a year. The Strait is closing completely. Every vital piece of infrastructure in the Middle East, energy, water desalination, IT, is now a declared target. This is not a country signalling that it wants a way out. This is a country that has decided the cost of backing down exceeds the cost of the wall it’s about to hit. Which puts Trump in the kind of position he has never actually been in before: a deadline he set, in public, that the other side just laughed at.
He can obliterate the power plants. In which case Iran closes the Strait, hits the desalination plants that keep Saudi Arabia and the UAE alive, and about a fifth of the world’s oil supply disappears overnight.
Markets open Monday to scenes that make 2008 look like a minor correction. Or he doesn’t. In which case every adversary on earth just watched the President of the United States issue an ultimatum and absorb a public humiliation in real time.
There is no clean exit here. There is no art to this deal.
Thirty-three hours.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@debzly @MedRegoncall1 Can’t believe we even have to discuss it
Or that the public are woefully, dangerously, uninformed about something so critical.
How is it possible to live in a supposed democracy when this is relatively hidden +neither journalists nor gov sources will openly discuss.
@ShaunLintern
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🔴 This is concerning.
Did you know that some completely unqualified paramedics (with no degree) are working as advanced practitioners and are paid at senior registrar level?
⭕️You are paid at Band 8a with no MSc degree, which most ACPs brag about.
⭕️You are looking after critically ill people with no basic knowledge or expertise.
Most patients cannot verify the qualifications of the HCPs reviewing them.
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@BlackM1710 @MedRegoncall1 @ShaunLintern Emm I agree with you and for the first time I think we really are in a dangerous situation with a completely unsuitable health sec who either hasn't got a clue or he knows exactly what he's doing and therefore needs to go before he fucks it up for us completely and forever!
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Deb Lyon retweetledi
"London is opening a Thames bathing spot… full of toxic chemicals."
You have been warned.
inews.co.uk/news/london-op…
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@Starseeker1986 @NHSEngland @greatnhsheist @WeCareAboutMH So that's making access to healthcare much more difficult especially for the vulnerable. Who came up with this nonsense,as if I couldn't guess😡
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As a Professional working in Secondary Care NHS Mental Health Services, as a Specialist - this👇 new change to the NHS referral system will cost lives!
How can @NHSEngland think this is the best approach?
I see so many flaws @greatnhsheist
@WeCareAboutMH
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This 👇😡
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey
"Water firm says 700 sewage spills stopped in a year." Yet more complete and utter nonsense from South West Water. @CurtisLancaster In 2022 SWW told govt that by 2025 it would reduce sewage dumping to an average of 20 times per year and reduce the impact on local rivers by 33%. During 2022 SWW spent 290,271 hours on 37,649 occasions dumping sewage into the environment. During 2024 544,439 hours on 56,172 occasions. Nothing but the usual bullish*t then. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Deb Lyon retweetledi
@RCollEM @rcgp
EM Dr
‘ I’ve had enough of EM I want to work as a GP’
- Go back to the beginning and do GP training 📚
EM ACP
‘I’ve had enough of EM I want to work as a GP ‘
- here’s your GP office , start next week 🩺🧑⚕️
#protectdoctor @Melissa_S_Ryan @RobLaurensonD4P
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@narindertweets What a perfect example of who not to invite to dinner. I would invite the chap tho!
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What the actual is this abomination of a woman?
Is this video from 1970s National front England?
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@andytwelves @GoodwinMJ Has it won the Best of British Bollocks award yet?
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EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations.
Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?
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SOUTH WEST WATER TURNS DEVON INTO A TOILET
37 years after privatisation, the great British seaside now comes with a swim, a rash, and a small prayer that the dog does not come back glowing.
Last year there were nearly 15,000 illegal sewage spills on dry days across England, with @SouthWestWater managing more than 4,300 of them on its own. Quite the achievement. Some firms build legacies. These lot build faecal weather systems.
Then comes the usual corporate lullaby about “investment” and “improvement”, which is always touching from companies that have treated rivers and beaches like a giant open sewer.
@Channel4 "Dirty Business" barely needed dramatisation. It simply reported the old British tradition of regulators napping, executives cashing in, and the public being used as unpaid test strips for human waste.
The series is based on real whistleblowers, campaigners and victims, including Heather Preen, the eight-year-old who died after contracting E. coli linked to contaminated seawater in Devon.
At this point, fines are not punishment. They are just a subscription fee for poisoning the coast. Prison is the only deterrent left, because shame clearly floated out to sea years ago.
Source: The Sunday Times, March 22, 2026, Chris Haslam, @dromomaniac “Water companies are ruining our seaside: prison is the only deterrent”.
@TransparencyTF
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This 👇
As this is where my water comes from I'd like to know where all of our money has gone because it's cost us a fortune and now you expect more.
Will it be trousered or can we expect clean streams,rivers and seas again?
@SouthWestWater
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566
SOUTH WEST WATER TURNS DEVON INTO A TOILET 37 years after privatisation, the great British seaside now comes with a swim, a rash, and a small prayer that the dog does not come back glowing. Last year there were nearly 15,000 illegal sewage spills on dry days across England, with @SouthWestWater managing more than 4,300 of them on its own. Quite the achievement. Some firms build legacies. These lot build faecal weather systems. Then comes the usual corporate lullaby about “investment” and “improvement”, which is always touching from companies that have treated rivers and beaches like a giant open sewer. @Channel4 "Dirty Business" barely needed dramatisation. It simply reported the old British tradition of regulators napping, executives cashing in, and the public being used as unpaid test strips for human waste. The series is based on real whistleblowers, campaigners and victims, including Heather Preen, the eight-year-old who died after contracting E. coli linked to contaminated seawater in Devon. At this point, fines are not punishment. They are just a subscription fee for poisoning the coast. Prison is the only deterrent left, because shame clearly floated out to sea years ago. Source: The Sunday Times, March 22, 2026, Chris Haslam, @dromomaniac “Water companies are ruining our seaside: prison is the only deterrent”. @TransparencyTF
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Deb Lyon retweetledi
Of everyone in the UK that Peter Thiel could choose to run Palantir UK, he chose Louis Mosley, grandson of violent British fascist Oswald Mosley—who had his wedding at Goebbels house so Hitler could attend.
Louis is rarely seen without a black shirt.
Palantir is Nazi cancer.
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
Oswald Mosley’s grandson is the head of Palantir UK because out of every single Brit in existence, Peter Thiel had to pick that guy.
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@PatrickGri7919 Oh my mum was a nurse too and I think I know what you mean, altho some of the more recent changes ie tec stuff doesn't fill me with joy as I really don't understand how to use it or even understand what any of it means😂
Hope your health issues gets the treatments it needs xx
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@debzly Lucky for me I came from a poor but educated family who were either engineers or medical staff, (my dearly departed mother was a nurse) so I have a better chance of adapting to change..I think..😐
Once I have got the health issues sorted 😂
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Well said!
Feargal Sharkey@Feargal_Sharkey
LBC EXCLUSIVE: 'Strip his knighthood': Minister backs review of ex-environment agency chief's honour over toxic water scandal. James Bevan presided over the utter decimation of the Environment Agency and every river in the country. Current project is that by next year just 6% of England's river will be in good ecological condition. That is his legacy. Should we show him any deference? None whatsoever, strip him of his knighthood. lbc.co.uk/article/calls-…
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"Feargal Sharkey has described it as “one of the greatest acts of criminality and lawbreaking that we’ve witnessed in the modern world in this country”.
Time for criminal prosecution imo!
Prem Sikka@premnsikka
Water companies are ruining our seaside, prison is the only deterrent. Last yr illegally dumped raw sewage on more than 15,000 occasions. Execs rewarded, dividends paid, customers fleeced. No one held to account. Criminal activity exceeds that of mafia. archive.ph/KOPMK
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Deb Lyon retweetledi
@reformexposed @Nigel_Farage For anybody who wants to see Farage's vision for the UK, just look at Trump's USA.
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Deb Lyon retweetledi
Yeah, @Nigel_Farage wouldn’t want this video to be shared over and over of him lavishing poodle-like praise on Donald Trump.
He’s trying to disassociate from him, so every time it’s shared it ruins that.
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Well said Sir 👍
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen!
It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week.
Regular as clockwork...
So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread!
PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji?
This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚
🤣 I digress!
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@RiverActionUK The fact that water companies and the organizations that allowed them to fill our rivers ,streams and seas with shit for so many years and continue to do so is utterly unforgivable!
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The UK is running out of drinking water.
Yes, really.
The UK is one of the wettest countries in Europe. Yet by 2055, England could face a 5 billion litre daily water shortfall without urgent action.
So how did we get here?
We have spent decades over-abstracting our rivers, draining wetlands, and failing to build new reservoirs. At the same time, temperatures are rising, droughts are becoming more frequent, and demand for water continues to grow.
When it does rain, our landscapes no longer hold water as they should. Hardened cities, deforested hills, and degraded soils send water rushing into the sea - often causing floods along the way.
But there is hope.
With the right leadership and investment, this crisis is solvable. We can fix leaking pipes, restore wetlands, reduce abstraction, reuse water, and work with nature to store it in the landscape.
What we need now is urgent action.
It is time to declare a national freshwater emergency and deliver a funded plan to secure our water future.
Because if we don’t act now, Britain will run dry.
#WorldWaterDay
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