@d_magpie

Comments are my own view NHS Consultant Anaesthetist (conscripted inflation fighter)

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Joined December 2011
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Feed your mitochondria every day - happy mitochondria make happy cells and a healthy body & mind - you’ll feel better for it With regular activity And nutrient-rich real food The high prevalence of poor health in society is from falling into today’s default toxic environment
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Money is created when government spends. Money is not the problem. The question is what we do with money and for whose benefit. Let's start with renewable energy, insulated homes, rent controls and council houses? Their economics has delivered poverty and billionaires. Enough!
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnightOct 23
“Next year he actually has to find the money that doesn’t exist.” “There are things the Government can do that aren’t just about tax.” Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the 2019 Conservative manifesto and Paul Nowak, TUC General Secretary, discuss the challenge facing Andy Burnham’s government, ahead of next week’s Budget #Newsnight
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Replying to @TheGreenParty
@TheGreenParty, for the sake of our futures can you stop saying ‘raise taxes to pay for…’ Tax removes money from the economy - it doesn’t ‘fill government coffers’. Multiple crises have arrived because our political parties do not understand this. For all our sakes, be better.
The Green Party
@TheGreenPartyOct 23
It is time to cut tax breaks for big tech and use it to fund warmer homes. Here's our policy to lower energy bills, explained in 30 seconds.
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Steve Hall@ProfHall1955Oct 24
The question here is - does Rachel actually know she's talking complete nonsense or does she believe it? Money that doesn't exist?? Issuing public or private credit creates money, a fact confimed by that wacky fringe anarcho-commie organisation called the Bank of England.
BBC Newsnight
@BBCNewsnightOct 23
“Next year he actually has to find the money that doesn’t exist.” “There are things the Government can do that aren’t just about tax.” Rachel Wolf, who co-wrote the 2019 Conservative manifesto and Paul Nowak, TUC General Secretary, discuss the challenge facing Andy Burnham’s government, ahead of next week’s Budget #Newsnight
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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanskiOct 22
I'm not sure what Miatta's "common sense" approach will look like when we all share this during the next round of wildfires and floods. Insulate homes. Invest in renewables. Keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Zoë Crowther@zoenora6Oct 22
A "common sense" approach to climate change & clean energy can fend off challenges from the Greens, energy sec Miatta Fahnbulleh told @politicshome Zack Polanski said Labour had “abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change" by approving gas drilling at Jackdaw
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Craig Tildesley@Odin2001iomOct 23
Cool. Let's stop selling bonds and stop paying interest on reserves. No interest, problem solved – at Knottingley, England
Liam Halligan
@LiamHalliganOct 23
The UK government has, since April, spent no less than £61 billion - that’s £61,000,000,000 - on debt interest payments. That’s equivalent to our entire annual defence budget - on just half a year’s worth of debt service costs, not paying back a penny of our national debt. For £61bn you could build 40 state-of-the-art hospitals. Or employ 100,000 nurses for a decade Or fund free-at-the-point-of-use social care, across the entire UK, for three years. Watch this short “When The Facts Change” video for more on the UK’s soaring debt interest bill - the biggest national scandal our mainstream media continues to ignore.
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This man either believed fiscal ‘black holes’ were an actual possibility in a currency issuing regime - or he lied to us. Either way, we need to expunge these Davos/Treasury monsters from our political system. #MMT
Darren Jones MP
@darrenpjonesOct 22
This Labour government has: ✅ Hit its target of having the fastest economic growth in the G7 📈 Secured multiple unexpectedly good growth statistics, and 🧑‍💻Started to deliver more efficient public services Now the budget next week should: 💷 Help consumers with the cost of living, and 📊 Help businesses to grow, export and employ more. My latest piece for the Times 👇
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Why does a state that issues its own currency by decree need a wealth fund? It’s based on the same illiterate ‘fiscal black-hole’ - ‘we’ve run out of money’ madness that got us here. Modern fiat nations do not need to save the currency they freely issue. #MMT
Peston
@itvpestonOct 21
‘We'd have a British sovereign wealth fund now that will be worth probably a trillion pounds’ Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP suggests what Britain could have gained if it had set up an energy wealth fund like Norway’s back in the 1980s #Peston
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Healey is lying. As Chancellor he surely knows that not one £ the government spends comes from taxes. Yet he hides behind Thatcher’s great lie in order to kick the renewable can further down the road. The establishment has been pulling this con for near 50 years. @MMTUK_PRG
The Labour Party
@UKLabourOct 21
Britain has been exposed to volatile international energy markets for far too long. That is why Labour is establishing a new Energy Wealth Fund which will reinvest tax revenues from North Sea oil and gas into renewable and low carbon projects to support the clean energy transition and bring bills down for good.
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D Laws 💙@d_magpieOct 21
The lame excuse Gov give for this NHS pay cut is that they state NHS care would have to suffer if pay matched inflation. This is utter nonsense. The UK Govt can fund both. The UK Govt has CHOSEN to tie its shoelaces together so it can’t run the NHS properly. Detestable lies
The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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The £3 trillion @griffitha refers to, is of course the net savings in the UK economy parked with the Treasury to earn £120 billion a year interest. When the MP talks of cutting the deficit, he doesn’t mean the £130 billion paid to banks, he means welfare.
Andrew Griffith MP
@griffithaOct 21
🚨 Government borrowing of more than £3 trillion – the highest in history – and rising inflation show Labour has lost control of the economy. Healey’s Budget must take urgent action to tackle the deficit, reduce red tape and net zero costs that are driving up the cost of living.
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Replying to @Jeremy_Hunt
2004 wasn’t the time Family Doctors were scrapped 2010 seems to be the moment the decline started @Jeremy_Hunt you failed because you didn’t invest in GPs Funding was cut 2014-2024 by 20% per patient, training more but no funding to retain Then there was funding of ARRS 🤷🏻‍♂️
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More tinkering from our PM All he can do is tinker around the system he has been brought in to protect
Faisal Islam
@faisalislamOct 21
PM announced at PMQs that the Government will consult on ending standing charges on gas bills … Chancellor and energy secretary will review. Unexpected. Would be a significant shift.
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Replying to @UKLabour
When will he renationalise utilities? When will he announce full funding for local councils and the NHS? When will he raise the personal allowance? When will he increase the state pension to a decent level? When will he remove the barriers to claim benefits?
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The lame excuse Gov give for this NHS pay cut is that they state NHS care would have to suffer if pay matched inflation. This is utter nonsense. The UK Govt can fund both. The UK Govt has CHOSEN to tie its shoelaces together so it can’t run the NHS properly. Detestable lies
The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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Mr. Keynes
@TyKeynesOct 20
Libertarians think taxation is theft but somehow charging $800 for an ambulance ride is the beautiful expression of voluntary exchange.
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James Steen@BMA_James_SteenOct 20
The audacity of a government listing “higher inflation, energy costs and reducing income” as arguments to cut NHS staff pay. NHS staff also face these things, and they’re not in government, they’re not in the unique governmental position to materially influence them, unlike… 🤔
The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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D Laws 💙@d_magpieOct 19
The UK Govt creates £s as it spends - it CAN afford pay restoration The UK Govt chooses to squeeze doctors’ pay (once again) at a time of significant challenges across the NHS NHS doctors are not an army of inflation fighters to be conscripted by @andyburnham as he chooses 👇🏻
The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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The UK Govt creates £s as it spends - it CAN afford pay restoration The UK Govt chooses to squeeze doctors’ pay (once again) at a time of significant challenges across the NHS NHS doctors are not an army of inflation fighters to be conscripted by @andyburnham as he chooses 👇🏻
The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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The BMA
@TheBMAOct 19
Cutting doctors’ pay won’t keep them in the NHS. The DDRB must show its independence and recommend what patients and the NHS need, not what the Government is prepared to pay. Full statement: bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/…
Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

ALT Graphic on blue background, showing scissors making a cut. Text reads: “Doctors in England. 2.4% for doctors. This is a real terms pay cut. At a time when the NHS desperately needs to keep its doctors, the Government is proposing a pay uplift below inflation.”

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