This awful government haven’t learned a single lesson during this pandemic.
We still aren’t mass testing NHS workers and we still aren’t mass testing care workers.
Hundreds of beautiful souls have already been lost, caring for us. 1/9
Whitty admitted they haven’t got a control of the virus. Until we have a vaccine, if ever, we can only rely on a successful testing and tracing system.
Instead, we have proven failures such as Serco, Deloitte, and Baroness Dido Harding, coasting you an arm and a leg. 2/9
Without mass testing, and the capacity to process mass testing, we will not get a grip of Covid-19.
Look at Germany. You can get a quick test while you wait for a train. Hancock can’t even organise routine testing for frontline healthcare workers. 3/9
They produce an app for a phone, yet another Tory pockets your money, and the app doesn’t work on phones of a particular age.
These phones, such as the iPhone 5, are most used by people who can’t afford a newer phone, or get a free phone on a contract. 4/9
This app is like a politician. What good is this, or any app, if it doesn’t work for everyone?
We have to do more. We have to be better.
We registered a greater number of Covid deaths yesterday than we did on the day we locked down in March. 5/9
The World Health Organisation, and leading academics, said from day one, “test test test”.
The countries that followed this advice have succeeded where we have so tragically failed.
We stopped community testing, and Boris Johnson went on holiday. 6/9
I’m afraid the supposed British stiff upper-lip isn’t worth a jot when your lips are blue.
You cannot fight a virus with patriotism. No amount of flag waving will control Covid-19.
We have to get out of this mentality, because it’s the mentality of herd immunity. 7/9
The government have no excuses whatsoever. We have been living with this virus for months now, at an immeasurable cost to human life, & yes, our economy.
The Tories have smashed through the £2 TRILLION national debt barrier.
How much of this is ending up in Tory pockets? 8/9
The testing system needs public ownership. This is Serco test & trace, not NHS test & trace.
They are failing, while taking in hundreds of millions of your cash.
🧵 We need to point out how Israel & the illegal settlers have long targeted Palestinian schools, teachers & children.
I’m not a great thread writer, but let me show you what I mean, starting with this Israeli tear gas attack in Hebron in 2021.
1/23
The first day of school in Jerusalem and the Israeli occupation forces raid a secondary school for girls, detaining the principal and 2 teachers and summoning others for questioning.
2021.
2/23
Dozens of Palestinian children and teachers choke after Israeli occupation forces attacked their school, west of Jenin, Palestine.
I doubt your intern will show you this, but it still needs saying.
You expect US to take a £200 loan while we pay YOU up to £3,500 a year to heat your home?
How is that okay?
1/14
You see, Rishi, you just wrote off £4.3 billion worth of Covid fraud.
28 million households could’ve had that £4.3 billion towards their energy bills.
But you think instructing us to take out a £200 loan is the answer? Are you for real?
2/14
Your privilege doesn’t allow you to understand the difficulty in trying to balance keeping the house warm and feeding the family. Don’t pretend you understand.
How many of your (at least) 4 homes has a key meter, Chancellor?
This Christmas in Tory Britain 4.3 million children live in poverty.
That's nearly one third of all children, or 9 children in a class of 30.
49% of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty.
This was *before* the pandemic.
A little thread: 1/13
This Christmas in Tory Britain work does not provide a guaranteed route out of poverty.
75% of children growing up in poverty live in a household where at least one person works.
The cost of living crisis is biting harder than ever, Mr Johnson.
2/13
This Christmas in Tory Britain 485,000 children (in working households) have been pushed into poverty as a direct result of the government’s in-work benefit cuts.
The number of children growing up in poverty in working households has risen by 800,000 since 2010.