There's no such thing as a 'sick note culture' - but there is a broken NHS, a meteoric rise in food banks, falling life expectancy, rising infant mortality, kids too hungry to learn, endemic poverty.

Thanks Matt Frei for having me on to discuss this vindictive tripe from Sunak.

A 71yo millionnaire coke addict who lives in Buckinghamshire and the US , well that’s me convinced

Perhaps the stupidest, most toe-curling and provincial interpretation yet of the European Commission’s youth mobility offer. The Telegraph never misses an opportunity to show how debased and frankly insane much of its journalism now is.

This is why it is essential that people need to be adept at logical and critical thinking. Otherwise absolute nonsense like this from the Telegraph, which poses as a serious paper, but spouts utter BS, can be believed.

More revelations re: #UK government’s #FutureFund .

👓 #Guardian story by Rowena Mason▫️theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

Story references #CatamaranVentures . Worth noting that #Sunak was a director until 2015.

👓 our February 2020 tweet> x.com/charterhousesq…

↪️ see also April tweet

Annette Dittert  Nigel Driffield Added | from the archive

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

By Jen Nelles - impossible to overstate the importance of this linkedin.com/pulse/how-fecs…

British workers are LESS likely to take sick leave than in any other rich developed country. #FactsMatter , thank you Ben Page

Last year, Study Hall, an education technology business in which Catamaran has a stake, a start up Murty Sunak had set up, was given a government grant of £349,976 via Innovate UK, the arm’s-length state body.

But Angela Rayner...

thetimes.co.uk/article/akshat…

'We can't allow fraudsters to exploit the British people' says the leader of the Party that brought you the corrupt and unlawful VIP lane. And the man who won't answer questions about his own interests in Moderna.

But, of course, his wealthy friends get to play by different

So to summarise, at the same time as the Conservative party was loudly demanding a police investigation into the sale of Angela Rayner's council house, they were deliberately sitting on serious allegations of fraud against one of their own MPs

This is where we insist we see the legal advice right ?

You have to be joking ……. I can immediately think of 20 people in my contacts better qualified than the usual collection of no nothing brexiters

Exclusive: Tories received legal advice that Mark Menzies's alleged misuse of campaign funds amounted to fraud but decided they weren't obliged to tell the police because it was donors' rather than party money, whistleblower claims. thetimes.co.uk/article/mark-m…

A desperate attempt to cling on to a few votes by convincing people working two min wage jobs that they are poor because of sick people

This is quite the read- a new academic framework to characterise the descent of Britain’s national policy style to the “omnishambolic” - frenetic, impositional & idiosyncratic.

A good, if slightly sobering, piece Patrick Diamond LSE Impact Blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

The fake empathy of a man who ‘ personally intervened to stop the scrapping of a contract providing VIP helicopter 🚁 transport for himself & senior ministers’ . #Sunak ’s campaign slogan should be Your Pain is my Gain ..what an absolute shell of a human .

But, but, Angela Rayner’s house…

I’ve thought long and hard about a suitable response to this, but I’m speechless