A Thread 🧵: #NHS 1/ It is the Tweet I have been dreading I would post one day.
And I will only tweet this once:
I am leaving the NHS tonight.
And I am blaming mainly one reason for this:
This Tory Government. You have broken me as an NHS Nurse.
12 years of cuts+betrayal 1/2
2/2 …, your Tory-corruption,-greed and shameless acts of intentional underfunding have been bearing fruit: We’re broken.
Long long before the pandemic you cut the GP budgets when I was Practice Nursing, you cut Patient services, you asked us not to refer any more for this+that…
3/You Tories,made those cuts just when you were handing over the budget for patients to the GP’s remember, 40% cuts and more. We went along and tried our best. You also effectively cut our pay over the years. And when Brexit came and 10000’s of my European NHS colleagues left 4/
🧵:Randox seen everywhere now.
This is at the Westfield Shopping Centre in London.
They advertise on the tube.
You know how angry this makes me?
Accused of 10000’s of missing Test- results+given tens of millions of pounds gov contracts.
The new “due to Covid+Tory-rich” are here🥵
This is your daily reminder that Germany 🇩🇪 which has 20 million more citizens than the UK spent less than 1 (one) Billion pounds on their Track and Trace system. And didn’t run out of money.
The Tories spent 37 Billion pounds and ran out of money.
It vanished in Tory companies
2/5 As a reminder: The total cost of running the state of the United Kingdom is 101 Billion pounds. The Tories intentionally spent 37 Billion pounds, more than a third of the total state budget on a failing system. It never worked properly. But they knew this. Some “consultants”
3/5 for Track+Trace earned thousands A DAY. (!)
Money had to be “burned”/ given to Tory Donors in the quickest , most wasteful ,ineffective way, so that that money -the absolutely UNBELIEVABLY AND RIDICULOUSLY HIGH SUM would be ready and waiting once the pandemic was over and
Err… yes, we couldn’t afford the Ryan Air flight to our families back home, many of my Nurse colleagues and I, since we can legally fly again. Oh yes,also due to the lovely Tory-company-Covid-Testing Costs.
Oh, that’s never been your problem?
Yes, I know.
And because you’re not
listening to us you got your “mini”-budget (not even!) so wrong.
You will never know or understand the anger that pictures like that one in my Tweet cause in me and all those who worry if the money is enough for bread this week (forget heating).
Glad to see you had someone
helping you carry your little fashion shopping bag from the Grand Range Rover to the Plane. Good to see our Tories get support.
PS: we Nurses are in debt and can’t afford the food we need for our families (forget traveling and seeing family elsewhere) .