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@Gasman_J

8 months

@SAS_gas_Thomas “Steve Barclay asked me to give you this…”

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Hey @bbcnickrobinson , look at the graph below; at least 50% of the long waiting lists arose BEFORE the pandemic & relate to @Conservatives ’ austerity underfunding the NHS. Why did you fail to mention this? #r4today

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. @SteveBarclay I’m delighted to hear from you in your capacity as SoS for Health that I’ll be getting a tax free pension of £73k p.a. As a former solicitor you’re no doubt aware that a verbal contract can be legally binding… or would you like to publicly retract your falsehood?

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Question for ⁦ @SteveBarclay ⁩ : MPs have salaries of £86,584 plus generous expenses & pension, & subsidised food & drink at work - why do so many of you feel the need to have second / third jobs? ⁦ @thetimes ⁩ ⁦ @TheBMA ⁩

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@MattHancock Hi Matt. Consultant Anaesthetist here, doing resident oncall tonight again. Actually you CAN thank me enough: reverse the decade of sub-inflation pay, return the entirety of my pension to ‘95 scheme & remove AA limit for DB pensions. @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @TheBMA @HCSANews >>

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@Smokemeakipperi @LozzaFox I’m an NHS Consultant Anaesthetist in Wrexham. You’re lying.

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@LanceForman @RishiSunak Hi, Lance. NHS Consultant Anaesthetist here (we’re the ones that know how to operate ventilators/CPAP machines & deal with critical illness). Worked through the 1st surge, incl. resident night shifts despite my age. VERY happy to sit this second wave out at home for 80% salary.

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@LozzaFox How would you feel about an endotracheal tube, urinary catheter, arterial line, central line, prone ventilation or ECMO? My colleagues & I Just want to be clear in case it should come to that.

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@sophielouisecc I’d have been more than happy to take the 20% pay cut & swap places with those enjoying the fabulous 2020 spring weather, instead of working on the NHS frontline in out of date PPE.

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Well @BorisJohnson since you chose to mention Jimmy Savile, let’s just remember which party he was “in bed with”! @Conservatives

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@pritipatel @BorisJohnson Awkward…

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@_HappyFunBall @akoz33 @christogrozev Start with this:

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5 years

@storey7 @theonlywayisup @WestminsterWAG Would that be a £19.99 Kenwood toaster purchased at the taxpayers’ expense ? ⬇️

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1 year

Maths question for @RishiSunak : If med students incur interest charges of RPI + 3% on student debt, & once qualified their pay falls behind CPI by 25% over 12 yrs; how much will Australian tax payers save on the cost of training drs to staff their hospitals? #JuniorDoctorsStike

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@MattHancock @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @TheBMA @HCSANews Clapping doesn’t pay the bills or provide a secure retirement while we’re young & healthy enough to enjoy it.

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5 years

@MattHancock As SoS for Health, how would you feel if drs went ahead with an operation based on a consent form signed 3yrs ago when the patient had not been appropriately counselled and it subsequently turned out their signature had been forged? That is what you are attempting to do!

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@ByDonkeys Meanwhile this @Conservatives government have problem paying jnr drs more than £14/hr. What say you, @SteveBarclay & @RishiSunak ? @BMA_JuniorDocs

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@mancunianmedic I’m delighted neither of my daughters are studying / planning on studying medicine. They’re both smart (eldest reading chemistry at Oxford) & would have been an asset to the NHS, but their welfare must come first & currently the NHS is an “abusive” employer.

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3 years

@doctor_oxford @MattHancock As a Consultant Anaesthetist I can confirm this article is correct. We have trainees in my own department adversely affected by exactly this situation. @vaughangething @WGHealthandCare @Channel4News @BBCNews @itvnews

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@EmergencyBod @DrNeenaJha This ⬇️ is where my GP wife has gone; now running her own private aesthetic clinic at the bottom of our garden. After 20+ yrs of being an over worked & under appreciated inner city GP she decided enough was enough. @DailyMailUK

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@RobertJenrick Will you also be distributing this helpful leaflet?

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@bbchealth Because we’ve lost the most over the past 13yrs, doh! @NickTriggle

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@mjohnstonx If you think it’s all sweetness & light working in the public sector why not retrain? We’re short of 1000s or nurses in the NHS.

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5 years

@JamesTitcombe @doctor_oxford @Jeremy_Hunt @BorisJohnson Nope, completely valid comparison.

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3 years

@johnredwood The BBC was only able to secure a maximum of 2 free-to-air live-streams after Discovery Channel bought the rights for 2018-24 for £900m. Try doing some homework for once before running your mouth off!

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@ONS If only we knew the cause…

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@ThomasTellsIT @Steven_Swinford I expect @trussliz will announce that they’ve been modified to burn books instead.

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1 year

@Telegraph There are 2 ways to look at this: 1. If you genuinely believe your own headline, then you have just demonstrated that these drs are crucial for the health of the nation, & they should therefore be paid generously to end the industrial action & stem the overseas exodus. Or >>

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@caitlinmoran @danohagan Important to remember which party was in bed with Savile:

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1 year

@BigHammo @bbcnickrobinson @Conservatives If you’re referring to immigration, in my experience as a Consultant Anaesthetist for the past 20 yrs I’m far more likely to be working alongside drs & nurses from overseas than I am to be treating someone from overseas. Without these key staff we’d be even more buggered.

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@dotcom_nufc @EdConwaySky @bankofengland Well this isn’t news for long serving senior NHS drs like me; successive Conservative Chancellors have been destroying our pensions for the past 12 yrs. Welcome to the club, everyone!

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@SiobhanBenita @Conservatives spend an additional 8hrs / wk out riding my bike. Of course this outcome probably hasn’t been great for those on NHS waiting lists, but the @TheBMA have vociferously highlighted this problem & the public kept voting Tory, so I can only conclude this is what the public want.

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@HMRCgovuk Lads, you’re targeting the wrong chap with this ad; I’m a PAYE NHS Consultant with no private practice. Instead, why don’t you go have a chat with Sajid Javid about his time at Deutsche Bank?

UK's Labour calls for investigation into finance minister Javid over Deutsche role

Britain's opposition Labour Party on Monday called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to investigate his finance minister Sajid Javid's role in financial misconduct during his previous career as a...

www.reuters.com

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@drphilhammond It’s all pointless purgatory. The module my employer has added on is how to spot patients at risk of falls. I’m an anaesthetist; ALL my patients are at risk of falling after I’ve finished with them, that’s why I send them ➡️ wards on a trolley rather than letting them walk! FFS!

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@AllisonPearson @JamesWard73 @LucyGoBag Hmmm, who to believe: mathematician or Telegraph columnist…? Bearing in mind the Telegraph’s employment record:

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1 year

@THEJamesWhale Leaving is precisely what they are doing! Why do you think the waiting lists are rising inexorably?

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@Parody_RCGP I really don’t know how GPs put up with this shit, day after day after day…

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@SiobhanBenita My work-life balance. I’m an NHS Consultant Anaesthetist who used to work 12 PAs / week, but thanks to successive @Conservatives Chancellor’s’ punitive tax on the notional growth in a pension I may never receive, I was forced to significantly reduce my clinical activity & now >>

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@rkathryn_goode @MattHancock @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @TheBMA @HCSANews No, because once this is over everyone will forget what we put ourselves through for them.

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4 years

@Nigel_Farage When we were part of the EU there was some compulsion on the French Government to prevent their further progress. Now we’ve left, partly thanks to your misguided efforts, the French will just wave them through and out of the EU! You didn’t really think that through, did you?

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@julianhartley1 Julian, how’s the pay for the role of CEO of NHS Providers fared wrt inflation over the past 12 yrs?

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@BelindadeLucy @DavidGHFrost “...an irrational machine driven by ideology above anything else...” I couldn’t have defined the Tory party under @BorisJohnson better myself. Well done!

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@EthersonKevin @BMA_JuniorDocs Sounds like you need to introduce a more robust policy in your dept regarding Consultant leave. Who has authorised 60% of the Consultants to be on annual leave simultaneously? I’d have a word with the Clinical Director if I were you.

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@AmyWool_ Yes, & if all goes to plan by the end of next week you’ll have been convinced to drop £5k on an “entry level” carbon racing bike!

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@Iromg Who needs them? Well, based on my 20 yrs experience as a Consultant Anaesthetist, I’d say overweight men well into their 60s need them more than most!

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@Francis36258734 Having done 28yrs in the NHS & also worked in the private sector for 15 of those yrs, let me tell you something. Private medical insurance is like a surgical gown: you only think your arse is covered!

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@NadineDorries @DailyMailUK As a nursing student in the 1970s you would have surely received a full bursary, yet apparently you worked as a trained nurse in the NHS for only 3 yrs before quitting to work in the private sector as a sales rep. Did you return the bursary?

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@DrSelvarajah @chriscraigCCC And what are you good-for-nothing GPs going to do about the train strike?

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3 years

Schrödinger's NHS staff: simultaneously so vital to the nation that they are to be exempted from self isolation if identified as a C19 contact, yet so undervalued that they are worthy only of pay deflation & denuded pensions! @TheBMA @theRCN @ShaunLintern @BBCNews @BorisJohnson

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@cjsnowdon Well I’m convinced…

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7 months

@glanyrafonwales You’d better start reading then…

Miller's Anesthesia, 2-Volume Set, 8e

www.amazon.co.uk

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@LozzaFox Speaking as a medic who works in both the NHS & Private sector, I’d like to give you this advice: private healthcare is like a surgical gown; you only think your arse is covered. Private medicine won’t be there for you in a true medical emergency, but the NHS is.

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@MattHancock Funny thing is, in the 25yrs I've been an NHS dr I've never experienced a problem with a fax, but the rest of the IT system falls over on an almost daily basis. Perhaps there's a reason we still rely on fax machines?

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@ESHTNHS “A Physician Associate is a generalist healthcare specialist trained to a medical model.” Meaningless word salad designed to obfuscate & mislead the public / patients.

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@drphiliplee1 I think it’s time (late) middle aged medics started reciprocating with ill-informed opinions / advice on subjects such as: which fake tan to choose, is mauve the new taupe for soft furnishings this season, this year’s Love Island winner’s preferred brand of worming tablets, etc..

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@LanceForman @RishiSunak BTW, my salary has already fallen about 20-30% in real terms, relative to equivalents in the private sector since about 2010. Who should I speak to about that?

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@NadineDorries @DailyMailUK I see you’re about as knowledgeable on medical workforce training as you were on Channel4’s financial arrangements. That £500k figure includes their salaries whilst in training grades, during which time they provide a massive amount of service commitment.

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@armyemdoc @BryanGlezerson Ridiculously unnecessary & highly likely to add a load of naso-pharyngeal bleeding to further complicate your second attempt at intubation!

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@BMA_JuniorDocs Solidarity from this Consultant Anaesthetist. 💪 Further donation to your strike fund incoming this evening.

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@alastairmiller3 I presume you’ll therefore forego any uplift to your own salary which would have resulted from the industrial action? To do otherwise would be hypocritical.

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2 years

@nickreeves9876 @campbellclaret Now I’m confused, @sajidjavid ; did you or didn’t you take part in this scheme?

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3 years

@JimBethell Jim, looks like you’ve got a new iPhone. I switched from an iPhone 8 to a 12 last week, & guess what? ALL my old WhatsApps & other messages migrated across automatically. So you’ll be able to supply @JolyonMaugham & @GoodLawProject with the missing Covid contracts info after all!

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@ShaunLintern It has run out of intensive care beds: we no longer have 1:1 nursing with fully trained intensive care nurses, so by definition that’s no longer intensive care.

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@JonJHilton @bu22uk How about this one?

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@isitsleepytime 1. HipPopoTamUs oAf. 2. wE spEnt £2 gAziLLion TrAinIng yoU - pAY It BaCk! 3. yOu All nEw whAt YoU wHeRe GettIng iNto wHen U fIniSHEd skOOL eLeVenty yeARs aGo. 4. GoLD pLATEed pEnSioNs. 5. YOu’ll bE ricHer thAn ELMo MusK wHen yOur A ConsuLtant. 6. LEave if YOu Dont liKe iT hEar.

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@BreesAnna No Anna, I’ll be busy with this stuff at work.

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@DavidDavisMP How’s your maths, David?

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@itvpeston @VictoriaAtkins @ITV The government need to reflect on the nation’s real priorities.

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@tomelleryrees An attempt to scorch the earth ahead of an incoming @UKLabour government. @Keir_Starmer could scupper this fire sale by stating any assets sold off in this way will be repossessed if / when Labour take office.

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1 year

@SteveBarclay If 31% was affordable for MPs since 2010, then it damn well is affordable for drs.

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@NHSBartsHealth @BMA_JuniorDocs Too late; the cat’s out of the bag now. You’re going to have to provide the exact same working conditions / perks in the exact same proportions to the number of eligible employees, for all clinical staff.

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@andreajenkyns “🇪🇺 Starmer backed Remain 🗳️ Starmer backed a second referendum ⚓ Starmer backs "closer ties with Europe"” Sounds like a very pragmatic approach: in which case he’ll certainly get my vote. Thanks for the tip, Andrea!

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@agw1437 @MyGineration “Bloated , inefficient NHS” Consultant Anaesthetist here. Spent most of last night getting an elderly lady through major lifesaving surgery. 🤔 I don’t recall the private sector being keen to get involved in this kind of work. Just remember that & be careful what you wish for.

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@ChrisGiles_ With no-deal Brexshit yet to come!

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. @campbellclaret absolutely on fire on @bbcquestiontime tonight #bbcqt . Described @BorisJohnson ‘s shortcomings perfectly and also well done for sticking up for GPs.

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@FaisalMajid3 I’ve been a Consultant for 20 yrs. I stopped funding @RCoANews almost a decade ago. It’s made no difference to my working life.. apart from meaning I can afford an extra cycling holiday every few years.

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@John_for_hope @vinniemcdermott @DrNeenaJha And you have an overinflated opinion of your own expertise in this area. If you wish to socially engineer the composition of medical school applicants (without downgrading the NHS with Noctors) try reintroducing FULL grants for tuition fees / living expenses.

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@MrJonNewton @JohnWest_JAWS @trussliz

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@SteveBarclay @TheBMA @BMA_JuniorDocs Here’s an Australia’s healthcare provider actively recruiting at the site of a U.K. jnr dr picket line today. #BrainDrainBarclay #braindrainbarclay

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@LeeAndersonMP_ Taking on a second job for £100,000 p.a. whilst also being paid £86,584 plus expenses to do what is supposed to be a FULL TIME job representing your constituents as an MP.

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@PickardJE The provision of (relatively) safe anaesthesia, in all its forms.

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@paullewismoney Ultimately Dyson contributed f’all to the UK Covid response yet sought & received tax concessions from @BorisJohnson & @RishiSunak . Meanwhile 1000s of NHS workers (incl. me) worked their balls off at personal risk last year & still we were required to pay tax in the normal way.

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@MattHancock So grateful you still make them pay for their own “training”.

How the new student nurse grants compare to before the bursaries were abolished

The change has been dubbed a 'victory' by nurses after years of student nurse numbers following the removal of the bursary

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@inglesongrey Therese “thick-as-the-shit-I-allowed-into-your-rivers” Coffey strikes again! I can see why Liz Truss liked having her around; Coffey made Lizzie seem slightly less thick!

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@psychotherapuss By way of contrast I offer this: We live in Wales but my daughters both go to a private school over the border in England. Both were vaccinated by the Welsh NHS weeks before the school was doing so.

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@RoshanaMN @EmergMedDr @mancunianmedic @bykatewomersley Absolutely. “Jam tomorrow” is a confidence trick. When my “tomorrow” arrived it turned out that “jam” had been devalued by ~ 30%.

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@MattHancock My wife leaves General Practice in March, she’s 46 and has had enough of the workload, escalating patient demands, falling salary (despite being a senior partner) and political interference. Have you ever thought about asking someone like her what it would take to make her stay?

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@batanball @LiamFox @michaelgove @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @BorisJohnson I dare any of you shysters to comment on this thread.

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@nikkijfox Funny how bankers & CEOs must be paid high salary due to “market forces” but the same logic is eschewed when it come to addressing staff shortages in the health & social care sector. This is the inevitable result of 12 yrs of sub inflation pay in this sector. Stop voting Tory!

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@grantshapps Tory Space Cadet no.1 reporting for duty!

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@davidrvetter @MartinRemains Oops, @Conservatives , @BorisJohnson & @RishiSunak ; it would seem that according to your own preferred metric you have failed dismally. Time to pack you bags & go!

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@johnredwood Sorry, mate, this anaesthetist won’t help you out with extra clinical activity until you reverse a decade of sub-inflation pay & remove AA & LTA taxes from my 1995 NHS pension. Tell @RishiSunak to let me know when he’s ready. Until then I’ve plenty to do in my spare time…

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@LordAshcroft Hi Mike. Just checking, are you still a U.K. non-dom for tax purposes?

Ashcroft stayed non-dom despite pledges - BBC News

Conservative donor continued to retain status despite assurances by the party.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@MattHancock We don’t want your “thanks”, we want our salaries to keep pace with inflation and our pensions free of Annual Allowance taxation. #scrapthetaper @BMA_Consultants @TheBMA @HCSANews

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