As it's both #SocialistSunday and the season of goodwill to all men, let's talk about #PrinceAndrew.
He is a good representation of our Little Britain, isn't he? 1/
#PrinceAndrew went on television and doubled-down on his contempt for the law- abiding people of the United Kingdom. In favour of a paedophile billionaire. 2/
Sticking up for billionaires has become the only purpose of the #FascistTories, hasn't it? Sticking up for hedge-fund managers, energy companies and the financial markets instead of the rest of us. 3/
#PrinceAndrew is like Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, a member of the cruel and idle rich, who only cares about himself and his kind. 4/
#PrinceAndrew represents the rot at the heart of the British Establishment.
He had to get his long-suffering mother to bail him out. Who's going to bail out the nurses, ambulance drivers, posties and rail workers? 5/
It's #SocialistSunday
Do we need a institution with people like #PrinceAndrew at our time of crisis?
Or do we need the palaces and riches to be sold off so we all have enough to eat? 6/
#PrinceAndrew is the Rich Man in his Castle, we are the Poor Man at his Gate.
It's time for some redistribution of both Wealth and Priorities. #GetTheseToriesOut 7/
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To exist with #LongCovid is to be in a state of constant terror. I pace myself. I conserve my energy by spreading out minute tasks. I drag myself to health settings, to see a doctor or a pharmacist. It's full of risk 1/
Others don't see it. I have to risk whether to have a booster jab because the last one made me ill. Am I worse without it? So, I mostly stay home, and hope for the best and fear the worst. 2/
But, all my careful work is inevitably for nothing. People aren't wearing masks. Covid, and other ailments are spreading around. I got Covid twice from my wife. Probably twice for my daughter. Even a cold brings me to my knees and puts me in bed for a week. 3/
Austerity has led to excess deaths through poverty. Austerity has led to David Cameron’s Big Society Actually meaning #FoodBankBritain. And it’s not just the unemployed using food banks. Wages for hard working people is so poor, and inflation so high that teachers and nurses are
using them to feed their families too. #FoodBankTories
The #Tories have run down schools and run down the #NHS. Schools aren’t properly supported or ventilated. Staff turnover is ridiculously high. Burnout is commonplace.
The #NHS has been deliberately run down in order to justify selling it off. #Covid was deliberately mismanaged to justify selling the #NHS off. Billions of pounds were given to Track and Trace during the pandemic while Nurses and Doctors of colour were forced into frontline
It's another #LongCovid thread. I am a man with #LongCovid. I have had it for 31 months. I regularly see my GP and talk about it. I have a Long Covid doctor I see online. I also have POTS so I have a POTS doctor. Why am I telling you this? 1/
I am a man but one with more feminine priorities. I have been a stay at home parent since my daughter was born. I remember birthdays and book the holidays. I talk about my feelings. And, I try to look after my health. It didn't stop me Pushing Through to get #LongCovid but 2/
None of us knew any better. So here I am, disabled with #LongCovid and advocating so you know how dangerous it is. Now, Women. Woman are much better at listening to their bodies, noticing changes, and going to the doctors to get checked out. 3/