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It's infuriating to hear the government say they don't have the resources to perform vital testing or give people financial support on time.

Imagine how much more prepared our NHS COULD have been if it wasn't for the 'distraction' caused by the same people making excuses now.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 18,000 people you hear Dominic Raab mention in this speech could have been a government employee working to improve the NHS' capacity over the past 4 years.
Instead... Here we are...
"Typical Femi!... Linking EVERYTHING to Brexit. 🙄
....Who could have put the RIDICULOUS idea into Femi's head that our ability to improve the NHS's capacity before this crisis was harmed by Brexit?"

⬇️THIS GUY!⬇️
It's tragic that the real slogan should have been:

"The government is about to spend 4 years and billions and billions of tax-payer money on a project that will do nothing to prepare us for any global emergency....
Let's fund our NHS instead."
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The Labour Party has to change massively if it's ever going to win.

So those of us who criticised what Labour had become or even those who voted for parties that were closer to where Labour SHOULD be, were arguably the MOST faithful to Labour's values.
Attacking people for that?
Put simply: If Labour supported the death penalty, ending NHS and fox hunting in an election, would it make sense for the next leadership to sideline those who criticised them for it?

Is it right to support a movement no matter what it does? Or is that morally terrifying?
Shakespeare once said "A rose (🌹), by any other name would still smell as sweet". In this case, you can keep calling it a rose if you want, but if it smelled like an europhobic, antisemitic, cultish daisy, it wasn't a rose anymore.
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I'll be totally honest.
I shared this article many times since 2018 to show that, based on the highest medical consensus, those who supported No-deal Brexit were trying to kill 1000s of Brits.

But even I thought the "deadly pandemics" bit was a bit much.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Do you remember the last big story before Coronavirus took over?
The NHS was saying the government's immigration plans had done nothing to reassure EU medical staff (statistically improve UK doctor-patient ratio).
Brexit has been harming our NHS since 2016
health.org.uk/news-and-comme…
I'm not saying this to say I told you so, or just to rub your nose in it.
I'm saying this for the same reason people discuss gun control right after a mass shooting.
NOW is the best time to learn that lesson. BEFORE we re-enter negotiations thinking no-deal is an option.
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You could choose to fix this, @RishiSunak.
People need you. And they will not forget what you do now.
Your job is to look out for the financial well-being of your citizens and they are crying out for help!
Young people change jobs a lot in their early careers.
If you let them fall between the cracks, because they've fallen between two jobs, they will remember...
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"People are dying."

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I'm going to expand on this a little. Note, I don't really want to tell you how to vote, but I do think people should carefully consider the impact of their choices, and issues like PrEP and HIV treatment are very important.
If you followed the campaigning for access to #PrEP in the UK, you'll remember there were many vocal people against it (even amongst the gay community).

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More #HealthcareFraud

So, Lenox Hill Hospital in New York has to pay $12.3 MILLION to settle False Claims Act violations for submitting fraudulent Medicare claims for hospital services & Urology procedures/surgeries.

Guess what Doctor was involved?
That would be Dr. David Samadi of Fox News/Sunday Housecall fame.

Say "Cheese"
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Imagine if a socialist institution caused a 6 day black out.
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It's much worse than "#Tories don't care about poor people or the #NHS" (Cummings). #Tories actively *hate* poor people and the #NHS.

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