lnkd.in/epJfpPvf NHS WINTER CRISIS ERUPTS AFTER 12 TORY YEARS OF INCOMPETENT TORY GOVERNMENT ‘I’m afraid A&E will collapse’: The NHS winter crisis erupts after years of warnings.
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'Whatever happens this winter, the paramedics i spoke with hopes the public will understand why NHS staff are striking.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf "A year ago, we were clapping for nurses," he says.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf "Now they are being demonised as greedy. It is not greed. If we were in this job for the money, we'd be insane.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf There are better paying jobs that have much less death and dying and disease.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf "While it is about pay and fair reimbursement, the strike action is about making the service better."
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf How did we get in this mess and how do we solve it?
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf With paramedics worrying they might be unable to help anyone beyond cardiac arrest patients, how did we get in this mess and how do we solve it?
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf How bad could the NHS winter crisis really become in the next few months?
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf For one paramedic already used to waiting for hours with patients in ambulance queues outside hospitals in the London area, the answer is almost too worrying to say out loud.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf “I am afraid the service will collapse,” he says.
REFERENCE lnkd.in/eRiiQUsD BORIS JOHNSON HAS MOBILISED PUBLIC AFFECTION FOR THE NHS AS A WAY OF DEFLECTING SCRUTINY FROM HIS GOVERNMENT
lnkd.in/eRiiQUsD ‘The National Health Service (NHS), as the Conservative Party MP Nigel Lawson once quipped, “is the closest thing the English people have to a religion”.
lnkd.in/eRiiQUsD For Conservatives, this has long been a source of irritation, standing as an obstacle to privatising the public service.
lnkd.in/eRiiQUsD But amid today’s coronavirus pandemic, Lawson’s famous lament has only become more apt – and Boris Johnson’s government is taking full advantage.’
lnkd.in/er2C38kZlnkd.in/eXPqBzzM Show this thread WHAT IMPACT WILL PLANNED NEW UK COALMINE HAVE ON CARBON EMISSIONS? 'CAN THE MINE BE STOPPED? Despite winning planning approval from the government, some climate experts doubt the mine will ever become operational.
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There will almost certainly be a legal challenge against this week’s decision, with NGOs and law groups like ClientEarth actively scrutinising the decision for potential grounds for appeal, New Scientist understands.
lnkd.in/er2C38kZlnkd.in/eXPqBzzM The Liberal Democrats and Labour are both opposed to its development, with Labour’s shadow climate and net zero secretary Ed Miliband saying the decision shows the government is “giving up on all pretence of climate leadership”.
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN BRITAIN IS ENTERING A NEW AGE OF CORRUPTION - BRITAIN HAS RETURNED TO THE ‘OLD CORRUPTION’ THE VICTORIANS TRIED TO END - TAKING US FURTHER DOWN A ROAD TO A KLEPTOCRACY THAN MOST PEOPLE IN BRITAIN IMAGINE.
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN Britain has entered an era of legalised larceny by the politically well-connected some 150 years after the Victorians ended what they execrated as the “Old Corruption”.
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN By this they meant the toxic system whereby the ruling elite enjoyed a parasitic relationship with the state enabling them to obtain jobs and money through patronage, partisanship and purchase.
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu PEOPLE: A BID TO RIG ELECTIONS UK, TORY VOTER ID LAWS LOOK LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO RIG OUR ELECTIONS, NOT IMPROVE THEM It’s not too late to avoid the disenfranchisement of the poor and the young before the next general election.
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu EXTRACT ‘Rishi Sunak may this week have been battered and bruised by strikes and U-turns, but he has at least made it past one key milestone:
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu his 45th day in power today means he managed to stay in office longer than Liz Truss did before she announced her resignation.
lnkd.in/epdpte9n UK PUBLIC BACK STRIKERS RATHER THAN MINISTERS ...AFTER PARTYGATE AND THE DISASTROUS TRUSSONOMICS, MANY MORE UK VOTERS NOW SEE THE TORIES AS INCOMPETENT, SERVING THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE
lnkd.in/epdpte9n EXTRACTS 'Opinion polls on industrial action show a mixed picture at best for the Government.
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd NORWAY MOVES TO GREEN FUTURE DESPITE OIL RICHES
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd The Nordic nation is moving faster than most in de-carbonising its economy, but it has faced criticism for not rushing to Europe’s aid in the current energy crisis.
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd Norway has become astonishingly rich thanks to its oil and natural gas.
@KevinClimate "We've developed this term 'net zero' which allows us to move the burden of reducing emissions out to future generations, out to 2050 and beyond. It’s vacuous. Completely meaningless. It’s Latin for kicking the can down the road."
Source: How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: @GeorgeMonbiot, Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26 11 November 2021