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Conservative Minister Lord Bethell says nurses are “well paid”
The ministerial salary for Lords is £70,969, slightly less than the combined pay of three newly qualified nurses. Lords are also entitled to £305 in allowances every day that they attend the Houses of Parliament.
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Utter garbage. These lazy attempts to paint ‘taking the knee’ as being motivated by a hidden Marxism are disgraceful and must stop.
1603
The Tory leadership contest has been going on for weeks, odd they didn’t find time to go into detail on which protections they don’t want UK workers to have. twitter.com/thetimes/statu…
1604
We mourn your losses as we would our own
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The Manchester Arena and 2005 London bombings, the Grenfell and Kings Cross fires, the Munich air, Clutha, Aberfan and Hillsborough disasters.
If each of these tragedies occurred daily, the death toll would not match the number of lives lost to covid in the UK until 7th December twitter.com/BBCBreaking/st…
1606
Just a senior Tory MP accusing the government of blackmailing people including threatening to withhold public funding from places that need it. Operation Big Dog is going splendidly. twitter.com/joepike/status…
1608
Reset the counter. Again. twitter.com/BWallaceMP/sta…
1609
Wir betrauern eure Verluste wie unsere eigenen
1610
Someone tell Sue Gray she needs to add another chapter… twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/s…
1611
The mask slips… twitter.com/PoliticalPics/…
1612
Everywhere has been impacted by the pandemic. Everywhere has been impacted by Putin’s war. What do you think makes the UK different? twitter.com/EdConwaySky/st…
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@bbceurovision I’m willing to be the UK’s entry next year, if you’d like to actually try and win this thing
1615
Not like there’s a shortage of ministers or anything… twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/…
1616
That TV statement put a right downer on tonight’s Downing Street pub quiz… #BorisJohnson
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Going, going... twitter.com/justin_ng/stat…
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This new version of Worzel Gummidge is rubbish.
#DowningStreetBriefing
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“What is safe to say is that there is no rational basis for the adulation the NHS is currently receiving, and no reason to be ‘grateful’ for the fact that we have it." - @iealondon
Do me a favour and RT if you’re grateful for the NHS and the work its staff do
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Conservative Crime Commissioner campaigned last year to "Make Notts Safe" and promised to "reduce crime with action, not words". Today she’s been banned from driving for repeatedly making people unsafe by breaking the law. Remarkably she has yet to resign. twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
1621
They must be furious with the governments that have caused this cycle of stagnation and the incompetent ministers that formed them… twitter.com/Telegraph/stat…
1622
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me, 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 Lords a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids a-milking, 7 swans a-swimming, 6 geese a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 collie birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree…
1623
All good things come to an end… twitter.com/PippaCrerar/st…
1624
Clarkson enters the tricky “find out” period. twitter.com/manori_r/statu…
1625
Conservative MP Owen Paterson has been caught breaking the rules on accepting money. Rather than serve his punishment he and Tory colleagues have seemingly decided it must be the rules that are wrong. What do you think? twitter.com/AdamBienkov/st…
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 15 year old tabby. Living with my fifth Prime Minister. Unofficial. A subpar odyssey.