Steve Brine serves as a “strategic advisor” for Sigma who won a lateral flow contract in April 2021 worth £100k. He is paid £20k a year for 8 hours a week. He is MP for Winchester and chair of the Health & Social Care Committee /2
Ranil Jayawardena had his office space paid for by Serco for £19k in 2021 they were one of two firms behind the failed £37billion “test and trace” saga. He is MP for NE Hampshire /3
Iain Duncan Smith earns £20k a year as a member of the International Advisory Board for Tunstall Health Group, he also earns £25k a year from Byotrol Technology Ltd who provides the NHS with Hand sanitiser. He is MP for Chingford and Woodford Green /4
Priti Patel has personal links with a consultant for Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd who were given contracts in 2020 totalling £131.4mill. She is MP for Witham /5
Stephen Hammond is a Non Executive Director of OptiBiotix Health Plc he earns £25k a year in this role. He is MP for Wimbledon /6
Sajid Javid earns £152k a year as an advisor to and holds shares in Californian company c3ai. He is said to be in the process of selling his shares. He is MP for Bromsgrove /7
Paul Scully received a £1000 hospitality ticket to a cricket match at lords from Doctor Care Anywhere. He is MP for Sutton & Cheam /8
Tory Peer Lord John Nash who has donated more than £237k to the party is the ex-chairman of and a shareholder of Care UK /9
Tory Peer Stuart Rose is on the advisory board of Bridgepoint a private equity firm that owns Practice Plus /10
Jonathan Djangoly serves as a chairman of Pembroke VCT. He is MP for Huntingdon /11
Richard Fuller is an advisory director for Investcorp who has invested in Cambio Healthcare. He is MP for NE Bedfordshire /12
Bill Wiggin is a non-executive director for AllPay Ltd which has a contract with the NHS to facilitate card top up payments for Healthy Start. He is MP for N Herefordshire /13
Jeremy Hunt was paid £4k and £10k for speaking engagements for Octopus Ventures and Penn Medicines Ltd. He also received a £20k donation from the owner of Genix Healthcare. He is MP for SW Surrey. /14
Penny Mordaunt was paid £6900 for speaking to the Boston Consulting Group who charged £10mil for assisting the gov’s “test and trace” scheme. She is MP for Portsmouth North /15
Andrew Mitchell received £30k a year from 2017-2020 from UK Global Health Care to serve as a senior advisor. He is MP for Sutton Coldfield /16
John Redwood had a £5k/yr contract advising EPIC Private Equity ,which owns equity in the delivery service Pharmacy2U. He is MP for Berkshire & Wokingham /17
Matt Hancock received a £10k donation for his failed leadership campaign from Wol Kolade head of a company who owns Vanguard Healthcare who have donated £360k to the party since 2019. He is MP for W Suffolk. /18
Dominic Raab’s 2019 GE campaign received donations from Dominic Burke, whose Marsh & Mclennan subsidiaries provide healthcare insurance reports for private providers including AXA, Bupa, and Vitality Health. He is MP for Esher & Walton /19
Tory Peer Lord Michal Farmer, who has donated more than £6.5mill to the Tories since 2010 is a shareholder of Cetene which runs Operose Health. One of 67 suppliers awarded a place on a gov contract worth £10bill in order to increase NHS capacity. /20
As part of #EDSAwarenessMonth I am sharing a little of my own experience with this often invisible condition.
Today I am going to share a little about the gynae issues, pregnancy and labour and the aftermath
If you are squeamish at all please skip this thread /1
Back in 2005 when I fell pregnant I hadn’t heard of EDS. My biggest worry was what if anything labour would do to my seizures could I still take my medication while pregnant ? (- I wont go into details about the potential issues surrounding my epilepsy and childbirth here) /2
I found out I was pregnant when I was 3 months down the line. From the beginning I had a complicated pregnancy. I had always had gynae issues and had been told I couldn’t get pregnant so to say I was surprised is an understatement. I was terrified and elated at the same time /3
Myth #1: The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are ‘just stretchy skin.’
Reality: The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are a group of hereditary disorders of connective tissue. /1
Connective tissue is found all over the body, in skin, muscles, tendons and ligaments, blood vessels, organs, gums, eyes, and so on. /2
They are generally characterized by joint hypermobility (joints that move further than normal range), joint instability (subluxation, a partial separation of the articulating surfaces of a joint; and dislocations, a full separation of the surfaces of a joint), /3
To the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire I give you the latest parody. With some serious artistic license, not in any chronological order and credit for the first two verses and the chorus going to @HutchPopperson
This is We Didn't want the liars 👇#ALtLyricsParodyCrew
Boris Johnson, Mad Nads, mystery daughter, Bojo’s Dad
Social media, Daily Mail, smelly people go to jail.
David Cameron, Michael Gove, pigs heads, grams of blow.
North London, South London, are apparently “no go”.
Elon Musk, Space X, Tesla windows broke by eggs.
Gosling, “Barbie” and the one about the bomb.
Covid 19, Vaccine, England’s got a new king.
Hall, O’Connor, Macgowan goodbye.
In light of Gillian Keegan's rant yesterday I thought I'd collate a list of things the Tories have done a "fucking good job" at
Please feel free to add to it
#ToriesOut425 #TakeAChillPillGill 1. Screwing over a school generation 2. breaking the law with parties during lockdown
3. Gaslighting the nation 4. Back Tracking on promises 5. lining their mates pockets 6. lining their own pockets 7. tax dodging 8. Underfunding the schools 9. Underfunding the NHS 10. causing strikes 11. going through PMs 12. Tanking the economy 13. Destroying our rivers
14. not keeping our children safe 15. not reducing crime 16. Breaking international law 17. breaking international law again 18. fire and rehire 19. Passing the blame 20. Losing by-elections 21. losing councils 22. Breaking the law - seatbelt gate
The importance of the ECHR a thread
The ECHR was set up in the wake of WW2 and the Holocaust. The UK was integral to the ECHR with British Lawyers drafting large sections of it and Winston Churchill being a vociferous advocate for it. /1
The ECHR was a BRITISH idea and drafted by BRITISH Lawyers to protect citizens from abuses of state. /2
The ECHR protects the human rights of people in countries that belong to the Council of Europe.
The Council of Europe was formed in 1949 and has NOTHING to do with the EU. The CoE has 47 members as opposed to the EU’s 28. /3