Gareth Payne

@RestIsPolitics I loved your interview with Neil Kinnock. I was a little disappointed that you both thought David Lloyd-George was welsh - he was a Mancunian The only Welsh Prime Minister was Julia Gillard

3/without increasing Unemployment, the price of food in shops and restaurants etc The choice to increase employers NI contributions therefore would contribute more to the cost of living crisis and rising unemployment If a doctor understands this, why doesn’t the Chancellor?

2/ All this is a problem if the business was just scraping by or not making a profit If there had been an increase in corporation tax instead, the companies paying more would be only those that were making a profit and therefore had the means to pay up

1/ I have been thinking about current tax policy. The mistake of raising NI was that it was a tax on having employees. The implications for a business are: Freeze planned wage increases Cut staff Charge more for product Take a cut in profit

What I think amuses me most about Government ministers explaining how the AI revolution will change the NHS is that we still wait for half an hour for the windows 7 pc to boot up. The idea that AI will run on outdated PCs is a fantasy. Updated IT should come first

We are struggling to cope during this unprecedented heat wave. With jumpers, hats and duvet we are just about regulating our body temperature. Without using a hose pipe we think the plants will not die of dehydration #welshheatwave 💨🌫️☔️🌧️🌂14C

In UK we will soon live in a country where we will be able to kill healthy babies and sick people We will not be able to kill rapists, paedophiles or murderers - we spend about £60k per year looking after them Does this mean we value criminals more than babies and sick people?

When the UK public are asked whether they support legalisation of assisted dying, 72% say yes. When told what assisted dying IS, this drops to 36%. Dignity in dying have been confusing the desire to refuse treatment with the desire to be killed

@RestIsPolitics Alistair was right to criticise Reform over uncosted spending commitments, but Rory you need to hold Alistair to account. The labour manifesto 2024 was full of spending commitments which will be paid for by “economic growth”, a fig leaf for the same

You can read our full statement regarding the handover of the Chagos Islands on our website by clicking below.

Members of the Chagossian community are outside the FCDO to ensure their voices cannot be ignored any longer. @DavidLammy, are you listening?

In the Falkland’s they still put flowers at Margaret Thatcher’s statue. Will Keir Starmer be honoured for giving away the Chagos Islands? #Chagos #surrender #weakleader

@CAVUHB My mother was entertained last night to watch names put on the A&E triage board 90 mins after arriving. I am sure this makes targets look good when seen, but this is fraud. Please keep your work honest @WelshGovernment

As an expert in diagnosing MND I would like to reassure the public that 45% of normal people have the fasciculations. Only seek help if you notice muscle weakness, wasting, changes in your speech or difficulty swallowing. mol.im/a/14489759

Have just arrived at Holyhead Port and looking forward to tomorrow’s Association of Trainees in Clinical Neurophysiology training day and Irish and British Societies for clinical Neurophysiology Scientific meeting

⁦@kimleadbeater⁩ as a Consultant I am concerned about the slippery slope effect. Where well intentioned legislators draft laws to allow assisted suicide in “difficult cases” the remit always widens in the following years. Denying so on media last week was misleading