One of the 'appalled & betrayed' 'British patriot'
Don't blame me, I voted Remain
Mastodon: @RoyMotteram@vivaldi.net
Oct 30, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a group of #Tory voters about the #NHS.
The consensus was that "we can't afford to keep pouring money into the NHS. It's inefficient, & needs a good manager to wade in & sort it out."
A 🧵 1/11
They went on to discuss nurses (mixed reviews between very caring, & spending their shift at the nurses' station huddled around a computer, rather than being on the ward), & the difficulty of getting a face-to-face meeting with a GP.
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Jul 4, 2021 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
I heard someone today assert that we needn't worry too much about the rising number of Covid hospital admissions, because they're only staying in for a day.
That's interesting, I thought, & reassuring if true.
So I looked into it.
1/72/7 I couldn't find any stats on length of stay, so the assertion appears to be based on anecdote.
But what I did find is not quite so reassuring.
The number of Covid patients in hospital are not climbing as steeply as infections, but they ARE climbing
Mar 2, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Mini thread
I was volunteering at a stall this afternoon.
I like working on People's Vote stalls. You get to hear all sorts of stories & perspectives, from both sides of the divide.
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Today, I spoke to a leave voter that couldn't wait to get out. He was 70, a retired businessman in the cosmetics industry who traded world-wide, & didn't like the EU.
With EU regulations on cosmetics safety being amongst the toughest in the world, I can imagine why.
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Jan 31, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Like many, I signed a petition calling for a referendum on Mrs May's proposed Brexit, & today I received the response from the govt.
For those that didn't sign up to this particular petition, I reproduce it here, with my response
My MP, @JHowellUK probably hasn't seen it
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The response came from the Department for Exiting the European Union.
It starts by insisting that the govt will "respect the result of the 2016 ref"
This is such a key point that they say it twice, using "clear" on both occasions to emphasise it.
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Aug 6, 2018 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
#MondayMotivation
I recently published a thread looking at #LeaveLies. Not surprisingly, I got responses that "both sides lied". After a bit of to & fro, @Jamiepembs kindly sent me some links which demonstrated #RemainLies
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The 1st link was, on the surface, a little disappointing. It appeared to just make the assertion that "Campaigners on both sides of the EU Referendum made false claims" with no evidence of either #RemainLies or #LeaveLies
I thought I'd have a look at the FB targeted ads that have recently been published. We know that VL told porkies, but I wanted to see how much of their campaign was untruthful.
It seems that it was pretty much all of it. #VoteLeaveLied
Here's a sample of the worst offenders 1/17
We know that they targeted groups with their own special trigger messages & we know that they lied about the EU budget contribution (gross of £225m/wk, net £203m/wk), but £350m wasn't just on the bus ... it was pretty much everywhere in their ads 2/17
