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@filmcritic anyone who didn’t have to get out of the house to face an unknown virus and see their collleagues get sick, die, and witness the damage the virus has done (directly/undirectly) should support a fair pay re inflation for those who did. The public was very much protected from seeing how awful it really was, and now they seem to have completely forgotten

@scullingmonkey I spent 6 months at the start of the pandemic NHS volunteering delivering meds to vulnerable people, 2 dead bodies, 3 rounds of Covid leading to eventual long covid, losing 30 friends dead to it in 6 different countries and gammons being spat on me/assaulting me when I was jumping (legitimately) the queues at pharmacy to pick up the meds to deliver…gave me wonderful insight into it all!.

@filmcritic yes its been and awful time, and those who spent it at home learning how to do new stuff and getting fit - yes it maybe wasn't the greatest time - but they dont understand what the reality of covid looked like and for some of us still looks like as we are ill years later.... and now suddenly they claim there is no money (or even time to talk to the unions) when plenty of tories made millions out of the pandemic

@filmcritic not to comment on the disastrous decision to not give furlough to 3+ million forgotten self employed or between jobs at time of pandemic.

Contrasted with this : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boss-paid-himself-13m-for-covid-ppe-that-went-unused-5flkv8cmp

Boss paid himself £13m for Covid PPE that went unused

A businessman whose company made a £70 million profit on a contract for PPE that was mostly unused has paid himself £13 million — and celebrated his birthday la

The Sunday Times

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic
9% over 2 years for Royal Mail workers is nothing considering their boss got a 27% increase even though he missed several targets. Senior management & Tory elites reward themselves for failure, generously praise themselves for their astute cheating while claiming everyone else are spongers.

@filmcritic @paul_briley and they are gaslighting the public pretending all was well during covid.

The risk all postal workers took to deliver letters, parcels up and down the country so people can do their cocktail parties on zoom etc - and then to be so under appreciated, it makes me angry. I don’t know what I can do to show support to them, we have a sign on our door and I think they are amazing.

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic
I think all public service workers whether rail or post etc should be nationalised. Those that worked during lockdown should've all been rewarded for their endeavours & sacrifice. Certainly Johnson rewarded himself with his parties & £250,000 after dinner speeches & their PPE, furlough, covid loan frauds sucked away billions of taxpayers money to their offshore tax havens. So why not the real workers. Plenty of money available.

@paul_briley @filmcritic yes the whole “there is no money” is another example of gaslighting

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic
There's £400 BILLION in uncollected taxes since Tory Party came to power in 2010!
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/
And over £587 BILLION of tax evasion money in British protectorate tax havens that HMRC know about but don't do anything.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/05/30/uk-fails-to-assess-scale-of-tax-evasion-from-offshore-accounts/
Plus Govt money comes from Bank of England and not taxes. UK can't "run out" of money!
https://youtu.be/PquBmjlS4uI
We're being SCAMMED by American news media & #ToryCriminals

The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙Dec 4, 2022

@paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
Yes, they think we've forgotten about the parties. At the time there was an "Everybody was doing it" narrative pushed by the right. I was teaching, and we were never even in the same room as other staff members.

The rail workers, postal workers and hospital staff sacrificed a huge amount, and saw colleagues die. They were and are essential to keep the country running, yet the Tories consistently denigrate them and paint them as greedy. I am so angry.

Andrew C.A. Elliott Dec 4, 2022

@ClaireCopperman @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
Stay angry.

@ACAElliott @ClaireCopperman @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
And vote tactically at next election to #GTTO

Useful site showing most likely party to overturn Tory MP
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/dynamicmap.html

Dynamic Map

@paul_briley @ACAElliott @ClaireCopperman @scullingmonkey @filmcritic

Who me?Dec 4, 2022

Labour 89% chance of ousting Johnson.
A day I would love to see.

The snark was a boojum Dec 4, 2022

@paul_briley
That is so useful - thank you.

Stephen Cox Author Dec 4, 2022

@ClaireCopperman @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic In an NHS hospital throughout and management were rigorous in preventing unnecessary socialising - even when eating

@paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic I find it crazy that the govt spent £6bn on PPE that the NHS couldn't use or didn't want. This is £200 per taxpayer. It's absurd profligacy, and all the more shocking that this money was mainly funnelled to their VIPs. The magnitude of failure in this procurement exercise beggars belief. £6bn on stuff they couldn't use.

@paul_briley @filmcritic @wtfrank yes and then they just casually wrote it all off.

If I ordered anything from Amazon/youNameIt shop and it would arrive unusable, I would be asking for my money back

@scullingmonkey @paul_briley @filmcritic In any case, before you spent £200 in a shop you would without doubt have checked that you needed it and it was suitable. Maybe if it was 10p you wouldn't check that hard, but £200 is such a large amount of money you'd be rather careful about the contents of your cart when you clicked pay.

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic @wtfrank
A Florida jeweller got $50 million as a middleman!
https://goodlawproject.org/the-jeweller-and-government/
Yet genuine British PPE firms turned away & ended up supplying them oversees instead
https://inews.co.uk/news/british-firms-government-ppe-abroad-421112

The US jeweller, the middleman, and the UK Government - Good Law Project

Almost $50 million to one man. Not to supply PPE, but to act as a middleman to sort the logistics for the jeweller from Florida whom the UK Government selected to supply PPE.

Good Law Project

@filmcritic @paul_briley @wtfrank 😡

@paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic I accept that there was a worldwide surge in demand leading to elevated prices - but this is all the more reason for the Government to have been careful about what they bought, and ensuring that the NHS wanted it! It's like some clueless senior managers were just signing anything that was put in front of them. That said - $50m in profit is extraordinarily high...surely if they'd asked around beyond their VIPs they could have got a way better deal.

@wtfrank @paul_briley @scullingmonkey but they didn’t and that’s the Tories for you! They SAY they support a free market but then give all the contracts to their mates!

@wtfrank @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
That's NOT $50 million profit. It was a fee alone for someone with zero experience or expertise in PPE!

Tory Government action IS CRIMINAL & OBSCENE.

Paul Briley 🇪🇺Dec 5, 2022

@wtfrank @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
British NHS PPE suppliers were deliberately ignored
https://labour.org.uk/press/dozens-of-companies-offering-ppe-ignored-by-government-labour-reveals/
by Tories hell bent on milking taxpayers money for themselves, their mates & donors. Just pure blatant GREED & CORRUPTION while dedicated hard working ppl suffered & died trying to deal or work in pandemic.

Real true SCROUNGERS & leeches in UK are Tories, not just in Govt but also councils too.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/another-tory-council-goes-bust

https://medium.com/shit-britain/the-bumper-uk-conservative-government-corruption-thread-26d6e0fcd673

Dozens of companies offering PPE ‘ignored’ by Government, Labour reveals - The Labour Party

The Labour Party

Nicki Stephens Dec 4, 2022

@wtfrank @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
… and the rest if you tally up the overall cost you are talking about £400 billion - Furlough estimated around 70 billion £147 billion for support for business ( I would like to see the breakdown ) 5 billion for other support ( what in earth is this supposed to cover ) Track and Trace at least 20% was lost in corruption £4.9 billion lost to Covid loan fraud and has been written off . Covid 19 provided a opportunity for systematic corruption .

@Nickistephens @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic They cited the public health emergency to bypass procurement/competition requirements, then immediately demonstrated why they're normally forced to run competitive tendering processes!

@Nickistephens @wtfrank @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
I think this link covers some billions wasted or ignored
https://mastodon.online/@paul_briley/109456730179723594

Paul Briley 🇪🇺 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Great collection. Some additions. £400 BILLION in uncollected taxes since Tory Party came to power in 2010. Tories ignoring £587 BILLION in tax evasion held in British protectorate offshore tax havens. £5 BILLION Furlough fraud £12 BILLION PPE fraud £1.3 BILLION #covid loan fraud £11 BILLION unnecessary interest paid to banks by Treasury £37 BILLION Test Trace fiasco that would've been free using existing NHS, Councils & University labs & tracers.

Mastodon

@Nickistephens @wtfrank @scullingmonkey @filmcritic
Follow the thread up and down to see how HORRENDOUS the Tories have been for UK.

Gordon 📀 Data Hunter-Gatherer Dec 4, 2022

@wtfrank @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic

Over £200 for each & every single household in the UK

Madeleine Masterson Dec 5, 2022

@wtfrank @paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic that’s our government right there profiteering cheap stuff handshakes dirty deals lying promoting all of that as a successful UK economy - we like a black market island up for grabs

Grannie Annie Dec 5, 2022

@paul_briley @scullingmonkey @filmcritic yes and that 9% is 9% of bugger all by comparison. Percentages can be so misleading.

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic

brewdog1950 Dec 4, 2022

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic
My neighbour, a nurse, caught covid and was in hospital herself, she did recover but she got back to work and caught it again. She was in tears when she left.

SunnySideUp Dec 4, 2022

@FayeSouthall @scullingmonkey @filmcritic A working hero

@FayeSouthall @filmcritic @sbaker9014 yes and no. Hero always implies they/we don’t need the usual terms and conditions that come with work: fair pay, health and safety at work, protection / financial support for occupational exposure that results in long term illness. The uk is the only European country not to declare long/covid an occupational disease

@scullingmonkey @FayeSouthall @sbaker9014 because we left the EU 😡 so aren’t bound by…etc etc., I’ve got it myself and it’s crippling me. Probably 2 good days per Week out of 7 😞 The lethargy, ffs the lethargy

@sbaker9014 @FayeSouthall @filmcritic it wasn’t actually declared by the eu, more by individual countries. And given that the occupational burden is probably highest here, it shows yet another level of disrepect for those who kept the country going at high personal risk.

And I hear you re fatigue. My life is existing, not living.

@filmcritic @scullingmonkey @sbaker9014
Im in the same boat. 2-3 good days a week.

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic @sbaker9014
Long covid is going to be a huge problem the government is ignoring.

SunnySideUp Dec 4, 2022

@scullingmonkey @FayeSouthall @filmcritic How can they not see the correlation?

@sbaker9014 @scullingmonkey @filmcritic Bingo

Peter Brown Dec 4, 2022

@scullingmonkey @filmcritic when our government saw the horrendous images on our television screens from Italy, they immediately prohibited television crews and photographers from entering UK hospitals, with the result that nobody has those images engraved on their minds except the professionals who were inside the hospitals.

They have done the country and particularly the NHS a massive disservice.

Sir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic #ToxicTories

Nick@NorthLondon Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic and apparently an enabler of Putin.
The Tories must be humiliated to the point of extinction.
#enoughisenough

@N12nick if Ukraine hadn’t happened. The ever increasing power of the City of London since the time that Britain lost its colonies but instead created a financial web around the world which encouraged every gangster and corrupt dictator to deposit their filthy lucre in its mysterious and arcane trusts. Before BREXIT, the City had resisted any attempts by the EU to bring these transactions into the light and therefore tax them. It believed in a kind of historic exceptionalism which is unchallenged in the UK. and very attractive to all those oligarchs! Post BREXIT it’s come back to bite city if London in the arse as they've lost all those privileges and it’s all gone to Frankfurt (is it?) and the Tories had to react to Ukraine and freeze all those Russian assets

Nick@NorthLondon Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic I'm seeing a massive collapse.
They've tried to shore it all up but that's driving inflation
The pandemic was a convenient cover, I'm not going down the deliberate biological attack conspiracy, and no doubt added to the problem
However, there's only so much shoring up you can do before the weight of debt and hidden assets will collapse the system
If all the money sucked out of the system and hidden in Swiss and Tax Exiled territories was in circulation....it might be different

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/the-tories-know-the-game-is-up-even-if-the-city-of-london-doesnt?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab

@N12nick and here you go (after what we just said) todays Guardian.

The Tories know the game is up, even if the City of London doesn’t

With faith in Labour economic policies on the rise, and staunch voters losing faith, the next election will not be another 1992

The Guardian

Nick@NorthLondon Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic Bang on.

Voron Dec 4, 2022

@N12nick @filmcritic Weird how billionaires & multimillionaires never ever have to sacrifice ANYTHING for the good of the country huh 🤔

Voron Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic btw Unions are just representative democracy in the workplace beware those who seek to demonize democracy

Brigite Bobo Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic they are disgusting creatures.

kabads Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic Well put.

@filmcritic hell yeah !
#ToriesOut

Galad Dec 4, 2022

@filmcritic This is Workers in just about every Industrialized Nation on the planet. The Pandemic proved just how out of touch the Professional Managerial Class is. Essential Workers should be paid to reflect that they are essential. I hope that the Rail Workers in the US go on strike.