Want something to read on this rainy day and live in #Lewisham then @CroftonBooks is your friend.
With thanks to my daughter who took the picture.
If Martyn is this cross with my Audible version I'm clearly doing something right.
There's a bit of a clue on the front cover that my book isn't exactly going to bang on about how great Rule Britannia is... an awful lot of anti-woke people seem to have thrown all caution to the wind and purchased or at least... reviewed it anyway.
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NHS Nurses currently earn, on average, £2750 a month. Around £620 less than Boris and Carrie spent each month on luxury takeaway meals.
A 3% pay rise would give nurses an extra £2.70 a day. Before tax.
People asking me how much I think nurses should earn. Well it's not up to me to decide but "more than the cost price of Carrie and Boris's takeaway meals" might be a good metric
Two of Farage's great great granparents were penniless migrants who came to this country in search of a better life. I wonder what they would make of their ridiculous descendant.
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Yes it's in my book. Farage's immigrant great great grandparents were the Schrods from Germany. That far back we have 16 great grandparents and it's likely that many a rabid Brexiter (like all if us) has immigrant ancestors... fairly recently... that they know nothing about.
Giving the NHS a George Cross is so WW2, so utterly unimaginative, so very Boris Johnson - so school of the empty pit of ideas. Give the NHS staff proper respect and a pay rise instead. That would mean something.
So easy to indulge in gestures. So much harder to actually reward people for their hard work and sacrifice.
A George Cross costs about £10 to make. Yes it's a very high award etc etc... but this is the cheapest gimmick of the pandemic so far.