Michael Callaghan

@wesstreeting Well, I'm a cancer patient and I support the strikes. I find your bashing of the Resident doctors and removal of training posts to be deeply spiteful & NOT at all in the interest of patients! I have resigned my Labour membership as a result. I'm so disappointed in Labour.

8 lines every flag-shagging plastic “patriot” has in their playbook 1.“I want my country back” - From what? You voted for the party that ran it for 14 years. 2.“Our grandads didn’t fight for this” - Your grandads would be ashamed that you can’t find Normandy on a map. They fought with Poles, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and West Indians beside them. They’d have more in common with the immigrants you hate than plastic patriots sharing memes about them. 3.“This isn’t the Britain I grew up in” - Correct. It has lower crime, longer life expectancy, and better healthcare than the 1970s you’re romanticising. You just don’t remember the power cuts and three-day weeks. 4.“Britain is broken” - The most unpatriotic sentence in the English language, repeated daily by people say they love their country. 5. “We’re full” - The Netherlands has twice the population density and somehow manages. The UK is not full. It’s just had 14 years of no housebuilding and you need someone darker than you to blame for it. 6.“We look after our own first” - You vote for parties that cut disability benefits, froze nurses’ pay, gave tax breaks to the rich and closed Sure Start centres. You don’t look after anyone. 7.“Stop the boats” - The Tories spent £700 million on Rwanda to deport four people. Zero boats were stopped. You cheered anyway. 8.“Starmer is a traitor” - The man prosecuted terrorists, paedophile rings, and war criminals as DPP. You import American culture war propaganda from people who openly despise our allies, trash your own country 24/7, and follow convicted fraudsters who lied about where they were born. The only ones treacherously trashing Britain’s reputation daily are you.

@wesstreeting Cancelling training posts to punish resident doctors and NHS patients was spiteful. Is this all part of your doctor replacement agenda? (Disappointed Labour Party member)

The BMA think their demands are more important than patients. Unsurprisingly, patients don't agree. Patients deserve better. The BMA must call off these strikes.

@Microinteracti1 @Pro__Trading Nobel peace prize beckons 😳

🤡 The Strait was already open before the war. So to summarize: Trump started a conflict that closed it, then celebrated reopening it. And somewhere out there, his supporters are calling this a masterclass, which tells you everything you need to know about who’s been doing their reading.

UPDATE: Iran has AGREED to open the Strait for two weeks. Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground. Wow.

@Microinteracti1 Section 4 of the 25th can only be invoked with the vice president’s cooperation?

Bipartisan calls are growing for Trump’s removal after he posted on Truth Social Tuesday morning: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”  The backlash spans the full political spectrum, from Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene to Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.  Greene posted: “We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness. 25TH AMENDMENT!!!”  The threat is tied to Trump’s self-imposed 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  Iran rejected it as an incitement to war crimes and cut off direct communications with Washington. Section four of the 25th Amendment, which allows involuntary removal of a president, has never been invoked.  Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Haggis_UK He wouldn’t have banned Hitler from entering the country.

Nigel Farage(Reform MP) on Kanye West being denied entry to the UK: "I think if we start banning people from entering the country, because we don't like what they say, I worry where that ends up.... bans are a slippery slope."

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin. I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2. This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.

@KarlTurnerMP @NickFerrariLBC @wesstreeting The £3 billion guesstimated extra costs exclude any savings from less resident doctor pay/reduced hospital activity during the 60 odd days of strikes. (A smaller sum but specifically excluded from calculations maybe for political reasons).

Good question from @NickFerrariLBC and good answer from @wesstreeting.

@JujuliaGrace Is the consultant doing extra shifts for free or being paid at premium rates?

Famous champion of the NHS, The Telegraph, valiantly chooses to amplify the views of a doctor who disagrees with strikes. You’ll understand that this brave work is being done in the interests of the public, who The Telegraph’s editorial team always have front of mind.

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC @grok Have strikes by resident doctors cost £3 billion over the last few years? How is this figure calculated?

"We could have built a few hospitals with that..." Strikes by resident doctors have cost £3 billion over the last few years. Wes Streeting tells @NickFerrariLBC what the money could have been spent on if the strikes had been prevented.

@afneil “hard-left”. Muppet.

All very well. But when it was the Tories having to deal with the hard-left resident doctors’ leaders, Labour pols like Wes Streeting said a deal could be reached if only the Tory government negotiated with them properly. So what’s the excuse for no deal now?

@BBCBreakfast @wesstreeting He’s a liar.

'Resident doctors are by a country mile the stand out winners of the entire public sector workforce when it comes to the pay rises they have received' Health Secretary Wes Streeing spoke to #BBCBreakfast about a six day strike by resident doctors in England over jobs and pay bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@SunsSup1 @BenGrahamUK @adamboultonTABB

@BenGrahamUK @adamboultonTABB

The UK has crossed a line. Welfare spending: £333 billion Income tax revenue: £331 billion We’re now paying out more than we bring in from workers. This is unsustainable.

Streeting keeps claiming doctors are "breaking" the NHS, but cutting 1,000 training posts is the real damage. The government should be solving staffing shortages, not using doctors as scapegoats. Punishing them only accelerates the NHS collapse! tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-go…

@DHSCgovuk @wesstreeting @TheSun @WesStreeting has cancelled training posts in revenge. Fewer future Consultants and GPs will increase waiting times for patients. Why is he punishing patients?

"NOBODY wants strikes in our NHS. Every time junior doctors walk out, it's patients who feel the impact — and other NHS staff left picking up the pieces." @WesStreeting on how these strikes will mean delayed operations and families left waiting in pain. More in @TheSun: thesun.co.uk/health/3873537…

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Most people assume that if the NHS needs more specialist doctors, the Government would train more of them. But that’s not actually what’s happening. The Government can decide how many specialist training jobs exist each year. They can increase them, reduce them, or remove them entirely. These numbers are a political decision. So when the Government removes 1,000 future NHS specialist training jobs, that is an active choice to have 1,000 fewer future NHS specialists. That means fewer potential radiologists reading scans. Fewer potential surgeons doing operations. Fewer potential anaesthetists running theatres. Fewer potential psychiatrists and GPs seeing patients. At a time when waiting lists are in the millions and patients are waiting months or years to see specialists, the Government has actively chosen to reduce the number of future specialists. That doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS as a whole, because it means fewer potential specialists and longer waits in the future. And the most concerning part is why this happened. These training jobs were discussed in the context of negotiations with doctors. That means specialist training jobs, and therefore future NHS specialists, were being treated as something that could be added or removed depending on whether doctors accepted Government terms. That is not workforce planning. That is using future NHS specialists as leverage. The Government can create more NHS specialists if it wants to. It can reduce waiting lists faster if it wants to. It can train more doctors if it wants to. Yet they’ve chosen not to. This was a political choice that this Labour Government have made. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-go…

@DrHWazir @AndrewMeyerson This fits with the government’s doctor replacement agenda. Ultimately this punishes patients, not just resident doctors.

This Labour Government has decided to remove 1,000 potential NHS specialist training jobs because doctors wouldn’t bow down to their terms. Those jobs aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are the future GPs, surgeons, radiologists, anaesthetists and psychiatrists the public will one day need. Removing them doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS. So once again, it’s time to stand together. Join us at St Thomas’ Hospital on 7th April at 8am for the London picket and show Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer that we are not going anywhere. All doctors and members of the public are very welcome! There will also be new exclusive BMA merch at the London picket. Stick together. Strike together. Win together. ✊