Lorraine King

@JohnSlinger Reality- you don’t know the meaning of the word! Why not just book a local Premier Inn as it would be cheaper for the taxpayer than paying your rent and utility bills

Myth: MPs get their home bills paid. Reality: I pay my own mortgage and bills in Rugby. When Parliament requires me in London, rent for the flat is covered, same as any worker required away from home. I pay for my own food.

@marykfoy @TUIUK sadly many TUI clients are stranded with no support/information - would you suggest they email their MP?

Thanks official @TUIUK to your team for calling my office. I haven’t used X for ages now due to the cesspit it became and it’s disappointing to see accounts trying to dupe people by impersonating holiday operators - I see nothing has changed on here 🙄. Until next time. ☮️

@TracyEdwardsMBE *they only deliver sofa beds to the ground floor *quite clear stated on their website * seems to be user error here and not Dusk’s fault you can’t read

If you are thinking of buying any furniture from Dusk I would advise you not to. I measured the sofabed and stairs so it would fit when delivered. It arrived in a large box which the movers refuse to take upstairs or take out of the box and take upstairs and they won't allow me to. This is how they left it. Absolutely dire customer service. I will never ever buy anything from them again. They are not on X (wonder why!) but I will be psoting everywhere else they are on Social Media. This seems to be just how things are now. Sick of it. "Dusk Saying!!" DON'T BUY FROM DUSK!!

@JacquiDeevoy1 my husband had hallucinations after open heart surgery; appears very real to them but actually didn’t happen

A good friend has just come out of hospital after heart surgery. She’s just endured the most horrific experience. On her first night in ICU after the operation, she witnessed five deaths. Four died immediately after the use of defibrillators and one was left to die. (No one attended when the alarm went off and, by the time they arrived several minutes later, the patient had died.) None of these poor souls appeared to have any family, whereas my friend had family visiting and calling regularly. She told me the victims were shoved into body bags within two minutes of dying by mortuary nurses dressed in black hooded ‘uniforms’. She was terrified she was going to be next but, fortunately, her alarm didn’t go off. This is the stuff of horror movies. As in all the scariest film dramas, even her family finds it hard to believe her. I believe her though because this isn’t the first time I’ve heard such stories. There’s more to this particular story but I can’t say anything else at this point as my friend wants to remain anonymous for now. She’s also in shock and doesn’t know what to do next.

@DrAsifOfficial The tribunal found that the public would be concerned about his conduct and that he 'posed a current and ongoing risk to the health, safety and wellbeing of the public' and he's now been erased from the medical register. so no longer a doctor, just an arrogant idiot

Arrogant? *Authentic 'Arrogant' former NHS doctor and star of BBC's The Apprentice struck off over a series of anti-Semitic, racist and sexist social media posts share.google/V2E5DG40DmMkGf…

@KirstyChallen @sd45672346403 @iDrSunny @Burnt2020 @dr_shibley @2manypeople4me @DrLKVaughan @cannula_service @cmwilliams99 @medicalmodelbri @LittlePersonDoc @cathjw @parthaskar @davehartin @RachelCB11 @alisonleary1 @Chonkubine @mancunianmedic @Janeajnet @Mary_Tom11 @LucyGoBag @TheBMA @BMAResidents @fletchjack @RCollEM Is Dr Kirsty even a “proper” doctor?

@sd45672346403 @iDrSunny @Burnt2020 @dr_shibley @2manypeople4me @DrLKVaughan @cannula_service @cmwilliams99 @medicalmodelbri @LittlePersonDoc @cathjw @parthaskar @davehartin @RachelCB11 @alisonleary1 @Chonkubine @mancunianmedic @Janeajnet @Mary_Tom11 @LucyGoBag @TheBMA @BMAResidents @fletchjack @RCollEM My consultant anaesthetist husband has been.

Doctors have to stop running down other professions and trades in order to make their point. It’s killing good will. They deserve more money, better training routes, so much better condition. End of. The comparisons have to stop @TheBMA @BMAResidents @fletchjack

@KemiBadenoch Banning doctors from going on strike is fair enough BUT only if you value them in the first place Pay them a proper wage reflecting their training and skills Increase training places Prioritise UK graduates Stop promoting PAs, ACPs as doctor substitutes Help with exam fees

When Labour negotiates, Britain loses. The doctors’ strikes are just the latest in a long list of Labour’s negotiating failures. Before last year’s election, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting told us that NHS strikes were the Conservatives’ fault. They said Labour would end the strikes.    They then got into government and handed doctors an inflation-busting 28.9% pay rise, with no promise of reform to staffing, commitment to productivity gains or a long-term workforce plan. I warned at the time that this would set a dangerous precedent. I was right.    Once again, patients are paying the price for Labour’s political failure.    But this is not theoretical harm. It is cancelled operations and missed cancer appointments.    There will be parents watching their kids suffer and pensioners left in pain, and all because Labour won’t stand up to the doctors’ unions.    And while they wait, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is ducking responsibility, hiding behind process, and pretending this chaos is somehow unavoidable.    The unions know they have Labour over a barrel, and so inevitably they keep coming back with escalating demands, rejected offers and further walkouts. It cannot go on.    We entrust doctors with our lives. That carries privileges, but also responsibilities.    In many countries, that reality is recognised in law. Several governments have banned doctors from striking because public safety must come first. Britain should be no different.    That is why, to protect patients, I have been clear that the @Conservatives would ban doctors from striking.    If you choose a profession where lives depend on you turning up for work, you should not get to withdraw your labour and assume the system will cope. That is not fairness, it is coercion.    Taxpayers fund the NHS, and many of those taxpayers are struggling with rising costs, stagnant wages, and long waits for appointments. But they do not have the option to strike when things get tough. They still turn up. They still pay in. And those working in the NHS should be expected to do the same.    So a future Conservative government will introduce Minimum Service Levels across the health service, legislate to stop doctors from taking widespread strike action – like police officers and soldiers – and we would prioritise protecting patients and the NHS.    Labour talk a lot about protecting the NHS, but they won’t take this small but significant step to ensure it isn’t held to ransom by the doctors’ unions. The unions didn’t just buy Keir Starmer for Christmas, they’ve got him for life.    The Conservatives aren’t afraid to do what’s necessary. Only we have the experience, the competence and the team to deliver better public services, lower taxes and get Britain working again. My piece in the @Daily_Express.

@HRHCatherine @ruskienboots @KemiBadenoch not paid enough to deal with the moaning entitled

@ruskienboots @KemiBadenoch They get paid too much for shit service

Doctors have gone on strike today for the THIRD time since Labour handed out inflation-busting pay rises and told us they were ending the strikes. The Conservatives will ban doctors’ strikes and introduce minimum service levels across the NHS. Only we will stand up for patients.

@cheltdandy @KemiBadenoch MPs - no training, no qualification, grossly overpaid, don’t even save lives but are happy to take freebies which doctors are forbidden to, plus claim huge expenses and have several paid non-executive roles Who can blame drs earning from private work in their own time

@KemiBadenoch Quite right too! And Drs should work their contractual hours not half NHS & half private work

@_BH_6582 @JoshFG @jabberwock951 There is a absolutely no evidence that patient safety will be compromised Flu happens every year - just a little earlier this year and that might be because the govt (Wes) restricted free access to the flu vaccine for many

@JoshFG @jabberwock951 Minor correction - patient safety is the responsibility of the NHS and Government. Doctors are employees who form a small proportion of the army of staff needed for the NHS to function.

What a disappointing thing for a doctor to say Residents had a 28% pay rise and offer to reduce application for specialty places for UKMGs from 4-1 to 2-1. I am not a natural supporter of Wes Streeting, but I can’t countenance the refusal of the BMA to take yes for an answer.

@SteveCrowe21394 @Megsenmumdr you won’t be calling them a disgrace when you have to have emergency surgery and they save your life, or your loved one’s life This country need to value doctors - both in terms of leaning opportunities and pay. If we don’t you best start saving for the emergency operation

Members of public posting “Drs striking don’t have my support anymore. It’s pure Greed” Thank You You have proven public support is fickle & RDs should focus on what a fair wage is for them You have also fallen right into Wes’s trap. Soon you will have to pay to see a Dr 1/n

@AidanCTweets Nothing wrong?? He walked into a female changing room!

Dr. Upton literally was keeping herself to herself, living a quiet life. She did absolutely nothing wrong, and was found to be a calm and credible witness.

@MaggieChapman It was an employment tribunal against NHS Fife, not a criminal trial doofus 🙄 Upton - he’s irrelevant (pretty much how he treats biological women). Nothing worse that a self entitled transvestite

@SamVarley769269 @EssexgoonerMr no one is happy paying a £400 call out fee but would that same plumber be happy paying £400 to see a consultant if they were ill on 23rd December?

@EssexgoonerMr I hope when his boiler breaks on the 23rd of December he will be happy to pay the £400 call out fee for Xmas eve.

NHS consuitant complains over measly a £145k average salary - as he tries to tell the rest of the country that a starting salary of £109k isnt good enough!

@daveylittle @EssexgoonerMr and your point is?

@xxLimaSierraxx @EssexgoonerMr think you are getting resident doctors and GPs confused

@EssexgoonerMr Skill set aside all workers salaries are down thanks to the rates of inflation and frozen tax thresholds. Fed up of GPs harping on about pay increase when they provide a substandard service via phone most of the time and spend the rest of their days striking.

@DavidofNotting1 @dotslondon this address is for DOTS🐾

@dotslondon HELP! I'm still analogue and struggling!! Trying to order sleeping bag from the wish list. But when I get to checkout I only get the options of addresses I've already set up. Do I need to add an address for DOTS (and what is it) or am I doing something wrong?

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@jamespostans1 @MartinSLewis @RachelReevesMP @itvMLshow starts in 2027/2028

@kinglolking @MartinSLewis @RachelReevesMP @itvMLshow Seems they've neglected to tell HMRC who are sending out demands for those who have exceeded the allowance and only have a State Pension.

NEWS: The Chancellor @RachelReevesMP confirmed to me tonight in @itvMLshow that those whose only income is the State Pension will NOT PAY INCOME TAX - not just they won't do self assessment, there will be no tax to pay during this parliament. This is important as the pension triple lock means the State Pension must rise by at least 2.5% each year. So from 2027 someone whose only income is the full new state pension will earn more than the personal allowance (the amount earnable each year before you pay tax) - so tax would be due. Here is a transcript. ML: Rebecca, says ‘does my 85 year old father, who's living with dementia now have to complete a tax return as his state pension will take him over the personal allowance?’ RR: So if you just have a state pension and you don't have any other pension, we are not going to make you fill in a tax return. ML: Of any type or? RR: Yes. And so I make that commitment for that, for this Parliament. You're right. 2027 looks like the time that it will, cross over. We are working on a solution, as we speak, to ensure that we're not going after tiny amounts of money. ML: but people will have to pay the tax. They just won't have to do a return or will they not have to pay the tax? RR: in this Parliament they won't have to pay the tax. You know, further out about to make any commitments, on that. But we're looking at a simple workaround at the moment. ML: Okay. So I hadn't actually got that from budget. So that's really good to have clarity that they won't be paying the tax. This is far more than was said in the budget speech which was just about not doing an assessment. I went on to ask about edge cases "those who have £50/yr of income" and she said she couldn't make the same promise in those cases, it was only for people with no other income.

@FramedTree @PJTheEconomist @DanNeidle £17.5k is *slightly* more than basic state pension The proposal only applies to basic SP in 27/28

@PJTheEconomist @DanNeidle An elderly family member of mine has £17.5K state pension and £2K bank interest. No other income. So just on the edge of the starting rate band. Under the new Budget rule, following her state pension increase next year, will she pay £0 or £200 or £1186?

Not sure how this works. If taxable income is over personal allowance due to state pension = no tax, what happens if you have £1000 of other income? if you only tax the £1000 you have effectively raised allowance to state pension. If you tax the lot, you create a big tax spike

@jamespostans1 @MartinSLewis @RachelReevesMP @itvMLshow

@MartinSLewis @RachelReevesMP @itvMLshow Do you actually believe this Martin, this is the first time this has been even hinted at, frankly I don't believe it.