Thread by @JujuliaGrace

I’m not ‘meant’ to write this tweet thread. I’m ‘meant’ to just talk about the NHS. But frankly, I stopped working in the NHS because I received threats about what would happen to me if I ‘carried on like this’, and if you’re up for shelving your medical career because you’re...

terrified for doctors’ safety (because the government intentionally make working conditions more and more unbearable) then why stop there?

I know about political songs. My first campaign was a political song, protesting about the unsafe, unfair junior doctor contracts. Music...

Has a way of energising people which is unmatched. Unmatched. Our song went viral, from nowhere. We sang it to hundreds of thousands of people. Music connects people. It’s powerful.

This government did not protect the public. They did not protect NHS workers. They deny racism..

They are attempting to dismantle democratic mechanism. They denied children food. They are hostile to immigrants. They are trying to shut down protest. And now, now they have a song? A song for our children to sing?

No. My children will not sing a song of unity encouraged by...

Those who seek to divide us. Those who stoke hatred. Those who show no care, no responsibility, no accountability, no remorse when people die in their thousands under their watch.

Songs are powerful. What would it mean to refuse the song? Is it an admission on my part that...

Indeed I do not value the qualities of kindness and unity that ‘this government stand for’? And what does that make me? An alien? A traitor? An enemy?

And what then? What are the consequences?

I could not sleep last night. I am terrified for us. Terrified for our country...

I wonder, I often wonder right now, what it was like in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. And I wonder which year our experiences compare to. 1933? 1935? 1937?

Do not sleep-walk into this. We cannot. We must not. We must push back together against this with everything we have.