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@SCFCJosh96 Without a doubt, we are about to see the election of The Last Labour Government. Ever.

@IsraelMFA Just stop. The surge in hatred for Israel across the world isn't driven by religion, it is driven by your country being genocidal maniacs. Just look at the statements of your government leaders. Nobody cares about your religion. You are a threat to everyone.

NHS SPENT £857K PROVING THEY WERE WRONG Dr Kevin Beatt @drbeatt built Croydon University Hospital's @croydonhealth cardiology unit from nothing. Then he did something the NHS apparently cannot tolerate. He told the truth. He warned about dangerous equipment, nursing shortages, and bullying. Nobody acted. In June 2011, a senior nurse was suspended mid-procedure without his knowledge. A 63-year-old man, Gerald Storey, died on the table. The coroner confirmed the suspension contributed to his death. Beatt raised the alarm formally and repeatedly. The Trust sacked him for gross misconduct. Reported him to the GMC. Issued a press statement the tribunal later found was deliberately designed to destroy his reputation. Then they spent public money trying to make it stick. The Employment Tribunal ruled against them. Landmark judgment. No misconduct. No ulterior motive. Unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing. The Trust appealed. Lost. Appealed again. Lost. Tried the Supreme Court. Refused. Final bill to taxpayers: £857,110 in compensation. Plus years of legal costs. Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt, Health Secretary at the time, called it a matter for the trust's board and walked away. The managers responsible faced zero consequences. This is the template. @NHS trusts have learned that burying a whistleblower in legal processes, exhausting their finances, and waiting long enough means most people give up. Dr Beatt did not give up. He won. And it cost him everything anyway. If institutions will not protect the people who protect patients, we have to. Share this. Because somewhere right now a doctor is deciding whether it is worth the risk to speak up. Sources: Employment Tribunal: Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2014] Court of Appeal: [2017] EWCA Civ 401 The Guardian / Croydon Guardian / ITV News

NHS CEO SACKED FOR TRYING TO PROTECT CANCER PATIENTS John Watkinson raised concerns about gastrointestinal cancer care at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust @RCHTWeCare. In April 2009, he was dismissed. His crime? Refusing to let the NHS South West Strategic Health Authority quietly move a cancer service to Plymouth without legally required public consultation. He even obtained legal advice confirming a consultation was mandatory. The SHA called that advice "a severe irritant." So they got rid of the irritant. The board was told that if they did not go along with suspending Watkinson, the non-executive directors themselves would be removed and replaced with a more cooperative group. The former RCHT Chair described that as tantamount to bullying. The SHA denied everything. The employment tribunal in 2010 was not impressed. It found the appeal process was "a travesty of anything approaching basic concepts of fairness." The dismissal "flew in the face of any concept of fairness." Watkinson had been automatically unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure. He won. The Health Secretary then ordered an independent review into why it all happened. That review was published in January 2011. It was 175 pages long. Watkinson was 54 years old, unemployed, and had his house on the market. The SHA boss who oversaw the whole thing, Sir Ian Carruthers, had previously served as acting Chief Executive of the NHS. He also chaired the panel that recommended a knighthood for the man tasked with reviewing his conduct. You honestly cannot make this up. This is what happens when you tell the NHS something inconvenient. They do not argue with you. They just make you disappear. Source: gov.uk/government/pub…

Lord Robertson, Blair's Defence Secretary, former NATO Secretary General, well paid lobbyist for arms manufacturers, tells us we are not ready for war. Well, thank goodness for that! Imagine if we had been ready to leap into the action over Iran. The pressure from the US to get involved would have been far greater if our two aircraft carriers had been battle ready and prepositioned in or near the Gulf. We would have been dragged in willy nilly. Having more frigates off the Cyprus coast would not have changed anything. Iran would still have lobbed over enough drones to create a minor panic. So what precisely do these scaremongers and warmongers like Robertson suggest we should have been doing by way of deploying more assets if we had had them? They don't say. In fact it was our limited involvement such as it was, allowing the US to use bases in Suffolk and Diego Garcia for bombing Iran, alongside our long history of hostility towards Iran, which prompted the Iranian attacks on Cyprus in the first place. What dunderheads like Robertson fail to understand is that security comes more from not having enemies than from being armed to the teeth. This simple truth escapes them. It's whipping up war fever against Iran and Russia which has got us into a position of vulnerability. By sanctioning Iran, a country which has never conceivably been a threat to us, in order to help Israel, and by joining in Israel's campaign to demonise Iran, we were paving the way for Trump's mad gamble. We never dreamed that our recklessness would come back to bite us. Well now it has, big time, with the UK turning out to have more exposure to the economic fallout from the crisis than any other Western country,  A proper common sense defence policy would have realised how exposed we were and put more emphasis on conflict avoidance than battle readiness. In this same week of Robertson's plea for throwing more good money after bad the cry went up that we were not ready to retaliate against Russia. But as with Iran this is to ignore our own provocations. We have been threatening action against Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of civilian vessels, a fleet which only exists anyway because we led the way in sanctioning Russia over Ukraine. The alleged cyber-attacks and cable-related actions only took off after the start of the Ukraine conflict and in light of the leading role this country has taken in trying to bring about Russia's collapse. Are those Gulf countries who paid vast amounts to US arms contractors  saying to themselves: "If only we had spent more on weapons"? No, they are ruing the day they put faith in being armed to the hilt and regretting that they had not done more to appease Iran. Appeasement, by the way, simply means soothing your adversary, as we do in our personal lives all the time, and as we did for a long time with Trump. Starmer for once has read the room correctly, more or less. He has gained a few points in popularity by distancing himself from Trump somewhat and by keeping our involvement in the Iran war limited.  Farage has lost points by over-association with Trump and seemingly being in favour of greater involvement if only we had had more military capability (proving our point, incidentally). In responding to Robertson Starmer would be doing himself a favour if he turned the tables on the old nitwit, calling him out for shameless warmongering. But Starmer doesn't have the gumption to do that. His minions proclaim "Oh but we are in fact  spending loads on the military. We have the highest sustained military spending since the end of the Cold War." Labour should be apologising for that, not boasting about it. No, we should not be spending more on what is misleadingly called defence. We would be safer if we spent less, indulged in less  post-imperial posturing, sought to calm conflicts rather than exacerbate them,  and focused on a domestic front where so much has been neglected and run down. Peter Ford Former Ambassador

The govt has appointed a new Prevent commissioner who will no doubt look into the radicalisation of UK ministers backing Israeli terrorism. He was appointed by security minister Dan Jarvis, who is a Labour Friend of Israel. You have to admit, UK governance is genuinely funny.

Das sind die Jüd*innen von der antifaschistischen, internationalistischen Initiative 'Kufiyas in Buchenwald'. Da sie Kriegsverbrechen ansprechen und Deutschlands Waffenlieferungen an Israel thematisieren, werden sie als Antisemiten diffamiert. Nie wieder gilt für alle.

Il y a 12 ans aujourd’hui, l’Ukraine envoyait l’armée au Donbass pour réprimer le soulèvement de ses habitants qui ne voulurent pas reconnaître le gouvernement intermédiaire issu d’un coup d’Etat à Kiev financé, soutenu et orchestré par Washington et Bruxelles. Il n’y aurait jamais eu de guerre en Ukraine sans l’ingérence atlantiste.

@ponbeep @NobodyIol1 @WorkersPartyGB Everyone wants to be treated with respect and dignity, and to feel welcome in their chosen home. You are trying to shoe-in racist fear mongering about malevolent immigrants. WPGB opposes mass migration, yet a large proportion of the party are from ethnic minorities.

@RedYorkshire1 @NobodyIol1 @WorkersPartyGB but the immigrants want mass migration. even if you can convince some of them that they benefit from pulling up the ladder behind them, they will always say "yes but my family can come still right?" and their families will say the same

The ability for capital to crush wages following the miners strike set the scene for Britain today. One is the contradiction that in the pursuit of maximising profits by crushing wages, automation and export of industry the working class are less able to buy goods and therefore create profit. The result is smaller families or no children at all, which has deepened the issue generationally, as workers are provided the choice of either material comfort or a family So in mass immigration capital seeks not only to shore up a reserve army of labour, but to essentially import consumers, human quantitative easing. Which sounds strange on the surface, but when taking into account benefits and welfare amongst migrants is proportionally much higher you begin to see it is essentially a means of public wealth redistribution to corporations. One example is cars, 20% are now provided via welfare, as overproduction has afflicted the industry for years. Migrant hotels are another key example, British tourism has been unable to compete with Europe for years. And as ever, debt is nationalised whilst profits are privatised.

@the_mantress @shetlerjones @TrevorPTweets 'Off our coast' - you mean in International waters then. Do we ever put ships in the Baltic? Yep! Are they just friendly visitors when we do it? Jig on you war-mongering sad sack.

@RedYorkshire1 @shetlerjones @TrevorPTweets Odd that he put the Yantar and SSNs off our coast then

The jump from ‘we can’t project force’ to ‘let’s talk about conscription’ is a non sequitur. The reason we can’t project force isn’t shortage of soldiers but lack of weapons, systems, platforms and logistics to send, sustain, and protect them. Don’t make it worse, @TrevorPTweets

@the_mantress @shetlerjones @TrevorPTweets 'Off our coast' - you mean in International waters then. Do we ever put ships in the Baltic? Yep! Are they just friendly visitors when we do it? Fuck off you war-mongering sad sack.

Israel’s iron dome didn’t see this coming from Pakistan

@sonofr This is very true. The Labour Party is as fanatically pro-Israel as all the leading lights, and dominant governments, of the EU. Presumably that's why you so desperately want us the rejoin?

The last Labour MP to resign from Labour Friends of Israel was Rupa Huq in 2018. Despite everything Israel has done, not one Labour MP has resigned from Labour Friends of Israel. Please remember this on May 7th. “NOT ONE SINGLE LABOUR COUNCILLOR”

Czech Republic Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka: Israel is a civilized country surrounded by uncivilized enemies. Follow: t.me/presstv

A recent live panel discussion on ADHD, medication, diagnosis and alternative approaches youtube.com/live/8urp3xT9y…

THE MAN WHO SAW THE CRASH COMING GOT FIRED. THE MAN WHO CAUSED IT GOT A KNIGHTHOOD. This actually happened. In the United Kingdom. Within living memory. Paul Moore was Head of Group Regulatory Risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland. In 2004 he put it in writing. The lending was reckless. The sales culture was rotten. This bank was going to implode. They fired him on 8 November 2004 and replaced him with a retail sales manager. Let pause for a second. The person whose job was to prevent a catastrophic banking collapse was replaced by someone who sells products to customers. At one of the biggest banks in the UK. In 2008 the bank collapsed. The taxpayer bailout was £20.5 billion. Moore spent the years after his dismissal battling addiction, depression and suicidal episodes. The man who was right about everything nearly died. The men who were wrong about everything kept their bonuses. But here is the part that should make you put your phone down. The FSA Deputy Chairman who resigned after Moore's @CommonsTreasury Select Committee evidence was Sir James Crosby. Crosby was the same man who fired Moore. He had been CEO of HBOS while simultaneously sitting on the board of the regulator that was supposed to be watching HBOS. This was considered acceptable. By everyone. Crosby eventually gave up his knighthood and part of his pension. Not one person was criminally prosecuted. The FSA was then rebranded the FCA. Fresh start. New name. @TheFCA board today includes former executives from ING Bank, EY, PwC and Willis Towers Watson. The people regulating the financial industry are still the financial industry. Same revolving door. Same conflict of interest. No lessons were learnt. Taxpayer money is still underwriting institutions that treat accountability as a PR problem. Whistleblowers are still being fired, gagged and broken while the people they warned about negotiate their exit packages. Paul Moore died in September 2020. He spent 16 years trying to make people care about what happened to him and to this country. Nobody went to prison. Everyone moved on. And the door kept spinning. Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @Channel4News @TransparencyTF

@Ikol_98 @NiallChristie1 🤣🤣 Are you ok? I'm not a YP member so not part of any of your factions. There was a chance of a mass left wing party to represent the working class. You blew it spectacularly. No-one, NO-ONE gives a fuck what you do now. And you call ME a cultist 🤣🤣🤣

@RedYorkshire1 @NiallChristie1 Neither me nor Niall are associated with the GL slate You people are so fucking obsessed with labour factionalism Literally all we expected was for our conference votes not to be ignored, how is that fucking ego or narcism? Its called fucking democracy you angry little cultist

All 12 members of the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) have also unanimously left their roles and pledged to help form a new party. Full statement from them below. (1/2)

@Ikol_98 @NiallChristie1 Mate, literally no-one cares about any of you. 800k people were interested in YP, you fucked it all up so badly it's got hardly any members and no support, especially in the working class. You all grandstand over egos. Irrelevant narcissism. Just shut the fuck up.

@RedYorkshire1 @NiallChristie1 We voted him to be our representative so obviously Scottish YP members do Clearly YP English members are more than happy to showcase their disdain for Scottish and Welsh comrades

@michael_chessum @UKTogetherAll Hold on. Aren't you the bloke that pushed the 2nd Referendum disaster on Corbyn's Labour Party, thereby handing the vile Boris Johnson a landslide? That was you was it not? Some fucking cheek now talking about stopping the Right by voting Green. Impressive Brass Neck.

We need to mobilise to defeat the far right - but we also need a serious political alternative. Here's why I joined the @UKTogetherAll march last month. Vote Green and organise!