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Hector Skill #FBPE retweeted
Mike Johnson won’t know he’s out of a job for a few days. He wasn’t aware there was an election, so he can’t comment.
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NHS CALLED HIM A NUISANCE. A TRIBUNAL CALLED IT A WITCH HUNT.
Andrew Smith spent 28 years as an NHS nurse. Served in the Gulf War. Not a single blemish on his record.
Then he raised concerns at Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust @MSEHospitals about staff being wrongly denied recruitment and retention payments. He pushed. He represented his colleagues. He did exactly what a union rep is supposed to do.
The Trust decided he was a nuisance. They hit him with a disciplinary process. Then they sacked him for gross misconduct.
He took them to tribunal. Won. The judgment described what happened to him as a witch hunt. Senior nursing officers were personally criticised for their conduct.
The Trust appealed. Lost again.
Then came the remedy hearing, where reinstatement should have been the obvious outcome. Instead, a trust manager told the Employment Tribunal that they were worried Andrew might continue raising concerns if he came back.
A manager told a tribunal, out loud, that they did not want their own vindicated employee reinstated because he might keep flagging problems.
He was not reinstated.
Meanwhile, one of the senior nurses found by the tribunal to have mistreated him walked straight into a director role at NHS Improvement. No consequences. A new title. A better salary.
Andrew Smith's children had to use their own savings to keep him and his wife housed. He had been effectively blacklisted from @NHS work, unable to secure positions he was more than qualified for.
He wrote to the National Guardian's Office (@NatGuardianFTSU) asking for help with reinstatement, as they had promised in 2017 to support unfairly dismissed whistleblowers.
They declined to review his case while tribunal proceedings were still ongoing.
Source: minhalexander_com / Dr Minh Alexander and others
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For Chuck Schumer to even SUGGEST that Trump might "change his ways" to work with him and the Democrats is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE! Democrats like him are the REASON that The Trump Treason Train has RUN AMERICA OFF ITS TRACKS for the past 10 years! Both 2016 and 2024 were RIGGED for Trump and some GOP members of Congress, but Democratic leadership collectively decided NOT TO CONTEST! This is why, even though I voted for Harris in 2024, I would NEVER vote for her, AGAIN! Even when Democrats held the EXECUTIVE BRANCH and the SENATE, during Biden's administration, Trump and his cronies were allowed to CONTINUE their crime spree without ANY CONSEQUENCES! We cannot allow corporate Democrats to FUCK UP this opportunity to PUT AMERICA BACK ON ITS TRACKS! We need new LEADERSHIP!
Hector Skill #FBPE retweeted
There will now be a temptation in many parts of Europe, including the UK, to think that things will eventually go back to normal with the US and that Europe can stop its reluctant shift towards strategic autonomy. That would be a serious mistake.
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Just turn the wifi on the fridge/freezers OFF.
They don't need this shit and you shouldn't be able to hack a fridge, freezer, tv, heating, car...
Because it shouldn't be possible, like it wasn't 20 years ago when we had all these things and they worked fine.
Without this BS
Hector Skill #FBPE retweeted
The British use of Red and Blue in discussion of US elections is the kind of over familiar nonsense I can do without. Especially as it seems to be the wrong way round.
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So... US... not to be negative, but other countries don't wait months for a new parliament or congress to come together, it happens immediately after the election, like minutes after. You should fix that nonsense because waiting opens you to a coup d'état and sabotage. Something to consider.
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BBC CHIEF LORD HALL
It has been apparent for years, that the BBC did not pursue an impartial path, on Brexit.
To compound matters, it has subsequently allowed Farage to appear on BBC programmes, in a totally unbalanced number of times. In fact it has made a mockery of its previous reputation, as a national “treasure” sponsored by the Nation.
NATIONAL DISGRACE, would now be a better description.
And @lisanandy has been a totally ineffective Minister in charge of Media. Indeed one could be forgiven for thinking she didn’t exist.
@andyburnham @cabinetofficeuk @DCMS
After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for over 2 years, thus grossly biasing the debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy.
radiotimes.com/tv/current-af…
Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. This was just one of them.
#BBB Brexit Betrays Britain
Hector Skill #FBPE retweeted
For the MAGA shidiots in the back… some facts:
No, Trump didn’t “get” Greenland.
Denmark didn’t “give” us Greenland.
We’re never going to “have” Greenland, much like how we don’t “have” Venezuela or “have” control over the Strait of Hormuz.
He didn’t “solve inflation” and the war he started 8 months ago, that isn’t a war, isn’t “won”.
Gas prices aren’t lower than they were when Biden left office and neither is diesel.
We’re not the “hottest country” in the world.
This isn’t the “Golden Age”.
We aren’t “respected again”. We are a global laughing stock, and at this point most people in other countries just want to know if we’re ok.
Affordability isn’t a “hoax”, data centers aren’t popular, vaccines and Tylenol don’t “cause” autism and the Epstein files, much like the creepy ass birthday card Trump sent his best friend Jeff, are very, very real.
It’s still Lake Ontario, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico, and it’s still very fucking much, called AI.
He doesn’t have a “healthcare plan”, you’re not getting your Doge check, your tariff check or your $5,000.
The ballroom you’ll never see and the golf course you’ll never use aren’t “free”.
The reflecting pool wasn’t “vandalized”, January 6th wasn’t “peaceful”, and the 2020 election wasn’t “stolen”.
No one is changing your child’s gender at school, no one is eating your cats or your dogs, and no one is coming here from Africa or anywhere else for that matter, to steal your shitty minimum wage job.
Mexico and Canada aren’t our enemies, and Russia and China are not our friends.
Losing your Medicaid, your SNAP, and your healthcare plan isn’t “winning” and it sure as shit doesn’t “own the Libs”.
The word “dumb” has always had a B in it, and the word “incumbent” has nothing to do with something you might have worn to your prom.
Now, I know that facts are about as useful to you as a cousin-less dating pool, a sheep that’s not in the mood, and a book with no pictures, but that doesn’t make them any less true.
You’re poorer, sicker and less safe than you were 2 years ago.
Trump didn’t make America “great” again, he’s actively destroying it, while lining his own pockets, and the pockets of the Epstein class at the very same time.
Now I know that he still hates who you hate, and maybe that really is enough, but the truth is that he lied to you about everything else.
He lied about lowering prices, lied to you about no new foreign wars and lied about accountability for pedophiles.
And I’m sure you stopped reading when you met the first word with more than two syllables, but in the event that you’re still here, all I want, all I ask, is that you sit this one out.
If you’re not going to vote to stop him, then don’t vote at all.
Stay home and brush your tooth.
Let the grownups with still firing synapses handle this one.
I think we can all agree that you’ve done more than enough.
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The blue wave should not lull the EU into complacency. Trump may be politically weakened, but the forces driving America’s retreat from its traditional alliances are structural, not just personal. Europe should continue to pursue strategic autonomy, regardless of who leads Congress or the WH
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Ireland has a very serious russia problem. They STILL have a russian owned refinery exporting materials to St Petersburg. Completely embarrassing. All allowed by a totally inept government.
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Charlie Mullins crying about his racism being called out when he said
🗣️send em back to the jungle
Obviously he was referring to detention centres 🤔😒
Fuck sake the guys 74 and he pronounces Calais as Ca-liss 🤦♀️
Hector Skill #FBPE retweeted
I have no interest in reports that Trump will accept the election results. Anyone who trusts anything the man says is a fool.
He'll be judged by his actions, not just over the coming days but the coming months. And I promise you—I *promise* you—those actions will be horrifying.
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Hey Google, change Lake America and the Gulf of America back to its proper names, and don't let that shit happen again.
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Anyone who thinks that the route to electoral success for right of centre parties is to embrace populism should be paying attention tonight.
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The UK now requires A-Level English standard for immigrants.
Good job is not for residents or Reform/Restore voters would be finding themselves deported.
