My little lad had a bad leukaemia when he was 20 months - in 2002. He had care at Great Ormond St - I calculated at the time (I’m an accountant) at somewhere between £250k and £500k, entirely free to us. And he lived.
The US families sometimes didn’t fare so well. After they’d drained all insurance & resources their kids often died of something entirely treatable.
Folks need to think very hard before voting for either #Tories or #Labour.
Glad to see Republicans doing everything they can to protect (white) kids from dangers like "seeing gay people be happy" and "learning racism exists," so they can be shot to pieces in school in between floor shifts in the factory. You know. Like God intended.
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“‘Today, we are coming together to restore workers’ rights, protect Michiganders on the job, and grow Michigan’s middle class,’ Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement Friday after signing the legislation.”
The Tory Party is now so unpopular with young people they assume any young person who does express an interest in supporting them must be trying to infiltrate them
David Rowland, (Centre for Health & the Public Interest) on #Labour's #NHS plans:
They're based on a 'series of misunderstandings about the role the private sector currently plays in the NHS.. [the plans] will cost the taxpayer a lot more as very large profits are being made from NHS care by private companies.
[it] also diverts income away from NHS hospitals, leaving them with less money & staff to do the complex work that the private sector won’t do'!
All 31 Labour councillors in Sheffield have defied Keir Starmer and the Labour leadership in its support for Israel by voting for a motion calling for a ceasefire.
Who did Starmer speak to before "not" threatening Speaker Hoyle?
"The President of Israel" - the obvious person to consult on matters of Parliamentary protocol.
Silly me, thinking the Clerk to the House of Commons & Erskine May would have given better advice. But no, Starmer went to the President of Israel.
Source - Sky news via Skwawkbox.
"The essay was based on a hunch. Everyone is familiar with those sort of jobs that don’t seem, to the outsider, to really do much of anything: HR consultants, communications coordinators, PR researchers, financial strategists, corporate lawyers, or the sort of people (very familiar in academic contexts) who spend their time staffing committees that discuss the problem of unnecessary committees. The list was seemingly endless. What, I wondered, if these jobs really are useless, and those who hold them are aware of it? Certainly you meet people now and then who seem to feel their jobs are pointless and unnecessary. Could there be anything more demoralizing than having to wake up in the morning five out of seven days of one’s adult life to perform a task that one secretly believed did not need to be performed—that was simply a waste of time or resources, or that even made the world worse? Would this not be a terrible psychic wound running across our society? "
The Tories are now offering emergency work visas to help fill the chronic shortage of skilled builders, plumbers, electricians etc, caused by Brexit! 😳
I thought 2016 warnings about this eventuality were merely "Project Fear"? 🤔
So Victoria Derbyshire reveals today that disciplinary proceedings against Diane Abbott ended months ago. Consequently Starmer had to come clean that they have no intention of allowing her to stand in the next GE. What a nasty piece of work he is. #Labour#ukpolitics
“EU officials have warned that this will mean signing up to Brussels rules and the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which may put at least the spirit of Labour’s red lines under pressure in the eyes of Leave backers.”
So what? Just do it.
Step 1 in rejoining.
“a Starmer government looks likely to come under pressure internally to take up the EU’s offer on youth mobility”
A Brief History of Grab in Southeast Asia: transnationality, dominance and resistance (labourreview.org)
Platform companies operate transnationally. Should labour movements respond transnationally, too? Over the next few months, we will be publishing a Special Series on Grab in Southeast Asia to understand how Grab operates in different contexts, and what forms workers' organising and resistance have taken in each context....