Weightlifter, freediver, Skeptics in the Pub organiser. Retired doctor and small batch dustiller @ClioBel@Eldritch.Cafe
Eastleigh, Hampshire
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Why is this not headline news?
The former leader of @reformparty_uk in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Putin’s Russia. Not once, but 8 times.
If these are the friends @Nigel_Farage keeps, can he really be trusted to run the country?
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Now the victory is public from that excellent C4 News interview, I will say this
"Having had to deal myself with an NHS attempt to argue me and 54000 doctors out of whistleblowing protection, I am delighted that Max and his legal team have successfully resisted the NHS' plan to deprive the Chairs of all NHS Trusts of whistleblowing protection. As a doctor I can tell you the NHS desperately needs people like Max chairing its Boards. Max's victory is a victory for us all."
Kudos Max! channel4.com/news/hospital-w… via @vsmacdonald
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Clio Bellenis retweeted
Trump's demands to Zelenskyy (the defender):
1) Formal apology
2) Give up the minerals
3) Hold elections even though Ukrainian law forbids it
4) Declare Russia as the non-aggressor
5) Give up all the temporarily occupied territories to Russia
Trump's demands to Putin (the aggressor):
Absolutely nothing.
This cannot be stressed enough - Trump is allied with Putin.
Clio Bellenis retweeted
I have been told I am a fraud for talking about COVID, that it wasn’t that bad, that it was exaggerated, that I have blood on my hands for supporting the vaccination programme.
This is the reality. @Kevin_Fong with his usual eloquence describing what it was actually like.
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020.
The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope.
Please watch this 2min clip.
This is scarcely credible.
How can it not put the out of business?
I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer.
The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software.
This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this .
You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well.
Going to have to learn some new tools.
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Clio Bellenis retweeted
It's time to call out these comments. When I started my career, the BBC called a programme I went on, about debt crisis "Hey Big Spender" - I objected. The biggest cause of debt crisis was change of circumstance.
Since we've had a pandemic, cost of living crisis, mental health crisis. People lose jobs, lose partners, lose legs. People get cancer, have mental health breakdowns, get disabilities that stop them working.
The idea that everyone can have enough saved to bring up a child when they have a child (ie £100,000s) is ludicrous. The idea that we should live in a society where there is no underlying support for people who need it, is dystopian.
While there will be a few who desire to be on benefits. I suspect its very much the minority. A huge chunk of those getting Universal Credit are IN WORK. A majority of those getting child benefit are IN WORK.
This was about a late payment for money many rely on. Show some bloody compassion!
Clio Bellenis retweeted
Cost of compulsory national service: £2.5bn a year.
Cost of pay rise for junior doctors that ministers insist is “simply unaffordable”: £2bn a year.
Clio Bellenis retweeted
5 years ago, the uk media was full of warning pieces about why American healthcare was terrible. I haven’t seen any recently, as both major political parties show such enthusiasm for private healthcare. Is this ringing alarm bells for anyone else? 🚨🚨🚨
Clio Bellenis retweeted
If a Rwanda flight does take off…
Your bills will still be as expensive
Your wait for a GP/hospital bed will still be as long
Your court date will still be as delayed
Your taxes will still be as high
…but we will all be more more morally & financially bankrupt as a nation
This has been such a long haul.
Kudos to Dr Day for not giving up the fight
Fantastic result just in today.
As a Litigant in Person, I succeeded in stopping Hill Dickinson and their KC prevent or delay further the final hearing of my wasted cost application.
3 day hearing ordered for October
linkedin.com/posts/dr-chris-…
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We'll give you jobs and you share your profits with us.
The donation wagon has become circular
Hester was so wealthy from NHS contracts that he had £10M spare to give to the Conservative Party.
This cycle has to end.
🚫 Donors to political parties should be ineligible for govt contracts.
🚫 Winners of govt contracts should be banned from donating to political parties.
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Holy Fuck!
"He was instructed by a senior civil servant to stall on compensation payments to Horizon victims so the government could “limp into the election” with the lowest possible financial liability."
thetimes.co.uk/article/post-…
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Clio Bellenis retweeted
starting to think this Vote Leave video was maybe not entirely honest about a future outside the EU
Clio Bellenis retweeted
So with Starmer, we get no strikes, decent pay for those ‘ordinary workers’ we hear so much about & productive negotiations with trade unions. I’m not sure this is quite the gotcha the Telegraph & the disgraced former Prime Minister think it is…
🚨 EXCLUSIVE
Sadiq Khan’s bumper offer to rail unions is a sign of things to come with Starmer, Boris Johnson says tonight
Johnson tells me Khan’s last-ditch deal to suspend Tube strikes “is only a foretaste of what the nation could expect under Labour”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01…
