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Happy Wife & proud Mum. Fascinated by people & Medicine, (Retired GP principal). Love-kids,animals,music,food,travel. Hate-Cruelty,Unfairness,COVID & Brexit. Mantra-'There must be a way'.
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‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’ So says the ever-insightful @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Again, George is absolutely 100% right.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A Telegraph journalist does not accept that judges make decisions according to the law, rather than the imbecilic whims of uninformed newspaper proprietors.

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

1000000% this 👇👇

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 10 days ago • 432 comments

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

That's right Liz, it was the plastic straws that lost Tories the election. Not the lies, corruption, incompetence, law breaking, higher taxes, tanked economy, increased poverty, sleaze scandals or rivers full of shit.

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

The jury is in, water privatisation has failed. So I'm introducing a bill to Parliament that would democratise water ownership. On 28th March, MPs can put public ownership of water on the table by backing my bill. Ask your MP to be there. actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

Zack Polanski, "Austerity was always the problem, not the European Union" "If we want to solve the problems in this country right now we need to tackle inequality" Kay Burley, "How?" Zack Polanski, "Wealth tax.. Inequality in the country.. People are unhappy and our services are broken"

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments