patthepublican2
@patthepublican2.bsky.social
Sweary lefty who opposes Neoliberalism the Tories and so called centrists who are really just more Tories
Proud socialist
Therefore not a member of Starmer's fraudulent Labour party
Proud socialist
Therefore not a member of Starmer's fraudulent Labour party
There is no difference between finding money for war, or bank bailouts, or corporate subsidies, and, we have spent a fortune on bank bailouts in 2008 and corporate subsidies during COVID, but we still claim we can't find money for hospitals, homes, and care. We could, it's just down to choice;
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
There is no difference between finding money for war, or bank bailouts, or corporate subsidies, and, we have spent a fortune on bank bailouts in 2008 and corporate subsidies during COVID, but we still claim we can't find money for hospitals, homes, and care. We could, it's just down to choice;
If we can always find money for war, bank bailouts, and corporate subsidies, why can't we find money for hospitals, homes, and care?
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If we can always find money for war, bank bailouts, and corporate subsidies, why can't we find money for hospitals, homes, and care?
Should government support people’s health, education, social care, transport, energy and water needs, or subsidise the City of London Derivative Gambling Den?
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Should government support people’s health, education, social care, transport, energy and water needs, or subsidise the City of London Derivative Gambling Den?
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
Tough question? Well Reeves couldn't answer it
12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
12 questions about modern money
Modern Monetary Theory — or modern money as I prefer to call it — simply describes the truth about how money works in the real economy.
Governments create new money every time they spend. Taxation re...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
total benefit costs are not spiralling: non-pensioner benefits have stayed at 4-5% of GDP for the past 40 years.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
total benefit costs are not spiralling: non-pensioner benefits have stayed at 4-5% of GDP for the past 40 years.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
Three-quarters of children in poverty now come from working families. Jobs don’t guarantee escape from poverty – a word the Tories never used, preferring the description “low-income”.
We still have 4 million poor children living without the basics. That still makes us among the most unequal and most poverty-stricken of similar European countries. This is a major factor in why British five-year-olds have now become up to 7cms shorter than children of the same age in Europe.
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We still have 4 million poor children living without the basics. That still makes us among the most unequal and most poverty-stricken of similar European countries. This is a major factor in why British five-year-olds have now become up to 7cms shorter than children of the same age in Europe.
It's the cross-contamination that literally brings the system down. And what I'm getting time and time and time again out of this Bank of England report is that the cross-contamination now is so high that they can't work out what the scale of the risk is, but the BOE is petrified of it.
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It's the cross-contamination that literally brings the system down. And what I'm getting time and time and time again out of this Bank of England report is that the cross-contamination now is so high that they can't work out what the scale of the risk is, but the BOE is petrified of it.
£100 billion is at present being gambled in UK gilt markets by hedge funds simply to try to make short-term profit. But if there was a sudden movement in the value of these funds as a consequence of an AI meltdown, they have no idea what might happen as a result, that market could melt down too.
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
£100 billion is at present being gambled in UK gilt markets by hedge funds simply to try to make short-term profit. But if there was a sudden movement in the value of these funds as a consequence of an AI meltdown, they have no idea what might happen as a result, that market could melt down too.
the Bank of England knows there's a risk, even they have not appraised the possibility that it is the private equity shadow banking sector that will bring markets down now and effectively, they're admitting that in the face of this potential crisis, they are flying blind. That is not reassuring.
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
the Bank of England knows there's a risk, even they have not appraised the possibility that it is the private equity shadow banking sector that will bring markets down now and effectively, they're admitting that in the face of this potential crisis, they are flying blind. That is not reassuring.
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
The Bank of England is warning a financial crash is coming
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report — and beneath the cautious language lies a clear message: the global risk environment has deteriorated sharply. From AI bubble val...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Bank of England has issued a stark new Financial Stability Report
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
From AI bubble valuations to fragile shadow banking systems, from overstretched credit markets to potential contagion across sovereign debt, a crisis now looks more like “when” than “if”.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
Wes Streeting, saying, "We'll have to wait to train new doctors," he's talking utter nonsense. We don't need to train new doctors at this moment in this country to get more doctors to work. There are thousands of them looking for work who can't get it
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Wes Streeting, saying, "We'll have to wait to train new doctors," he's talking utter nonsense. We don't need to train new doctors at this moment in this country to get more doctors to work. There are thousands of them looking for work who can't get it
This is not made up. This is fact. This is documented.
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is not made up. This is fact. This is documented.
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
There are GPs who have no work.
There are hospital trainees who are being sacked.
There are resident doctors who cannot make career progression and so are going abroad.
This is all as a consequence of choice, by a fucking Labour government
Young doctors are not being given the training posts that they need to further their careers and are instead being made redundant in their thousands because the government has decided it will not fund their development in hospitals or in GP practices, even though there are people crying out for care
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Young doctors are not being given the training posts that they need to further their careers and are instead being made redundant in their thousands because the government has decided it will not fund their development in hospitals or in GP practices, even though there are people crying out for care
You may not know this because our government and media don't want you to know
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they're unnecessary. Not because there's no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they're unnecessary. Not because there's no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
You may not know this because our government and media don't want you to know
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they're unnecessary. Not because there's no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they're unnecessary. Not because there's no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.
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The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
If Streeting “knows” the problem is over-diagnosis, why bother setting up enquiry? Any different answer won’t be acceptable.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
Clinicians in deprived areas are overwhelmed by generational ill health and poverty
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If Streeting “knows” the problem is over-diagnosis, why bother setting up enquiry? Any different answer won’t be acceptable.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A study last year by the Royal College of General Practitioners found that GPs in deprived areas were responsible for a staggering 2,450 patients each on average, 300 more than in affluent areas of England. When patients struggle to get a GP appointment, they often end up in A&E.
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A study last year by the Royal College of General Practitioners found that GPs in deprived areas were responsible for a staggering 2,450 patients each on average, 300 more than in affluent areas of England. When patients struggle to get a GP appointment, they often end up in A&E.
Hospitals in poorer areas are flooded with people who have chronic health problems, including higher rates of depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory conditions worsened by living in damp homes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
Clinicians in deprived areas are overwhelmed by generational ill health and poverty
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hospitals in poorer areas are flooded with people who have chronic health problems, including higher rates of depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory conditions worsened by living in damp homes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Anybody think austerity doesn't kill people
Clinicians in places such as Blackpool are overwhelmed by generational ill health and entrenched poverty, a crisis that is deepening in many parts of the country. Their ability to respond is often hampered by their struggle to attract the best staff.
Clinicians in places such as Blackpool are overwhelmed by generational ill health and entrenched poverty, a crisis that is deepening in many parts of the country. Their ability to respond is often hampered by their struggle to attract the best staff.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Anybody think austerity doesn't kill people
Clinicians in places such as Blackpool are overwhelmed by generational ill health and entrenched poverty, a crisis that is deepening in many parts of the country. Their ability to respond is often hampered by their struggle to attract the best staff.
Clinicians in places such as Blackpool are overwhelmed by generational ill health and entrenched poverty, a crisis that is deepening in many parts of the country. Their ability to respond is often hampered by their struggle to attract the best staff.
The findings of the report into Blackpool Victoria hospital are as shocking as they are damning: a culture of bullying, racial discrimination and harassment that has contributed to a staff exodus with a direct impact on patients.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?
Clinicians in deprived areas are overwhelmed by generational ill health and poverty
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The findings of the report into Blackpool Victoria hospital are as shocking as they are damning: a culture of bullying, racial discrimination and harassment that has contributed to a staff exodus with a direct impact on patients.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wes Streeting
Just a few ideas behind the rise of mental health diagnosis
Poverty
Insecurity
Poor housing.
Inability to have other medical conditions treated.
The impossibility of meeting children's needs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just a few ideas behind the rise of mental health diagnosis
Poverty
Insecurity
Poor housing.
Inability to have other medical conditions treated.
The impossibility of meeting children's needs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Wes Streeting
Just a few ideas behind the rise of mental health diagnosis
Poverty
Insecurity
Poor housing.
Inability to have other medical conditions treated.
The impossibility of meeting children's needs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just a few ideas behind the rise of mental health diagnosis
Poverty
Insecurity
Poor housing.
Inability to have other medical conditions treated.
The impossibility of meeting children's needs.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The fact that there are doctors unemployed, even made redundant, is an economic crime in my book. Against a background of millions untreated or patients waiting for weeks to be seen, it is also tragic.
The answer is staring the gov in the face:
spend the money and start the long road back to 2010
The answer is staring the gov in the face:
spend the money and start the long road back to 2010
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The fact that there are doctors unemployed, even made redundant, is an economic crime in my book. Against a background of millions untreated or patients waiting for weeks to be seen, it is also tragic.
The answer is staring the gov in the face:
spend the money and start the long road back to 2010
The answer is staring the gov in the face:
spend the money and start the long road back to 2010
By the end of New Labour we had one of the very best performing health systems in the world. The Commonwealth Fund, a recognised authority on comparative data had the NHS at or near the top across a range of criteria, especially value for money.
I write this to demonstrate that Streeting is a cunt
I write this to demonstrate that Streeting is a cunt
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
By the end of New Labour we had one of the very best performing health systems in the world. The Commonwealth Fund, a recognised authority on comparative data had the NHS at or near the top across a range of criteria, especially value for money.
I write this to demonstrate that Streeting is a cunt
I write this to demonstrate that Streeting is a cunt
We ran the UK economy for centuries without an OBR. We survived World Wars; we created the NHS, the welfare state was delivered and all without an Office for Budget Responsibility
So why did we suddenly need one in 2010 when George Osborne, an incoming Tory chancellor at that time, created it?
So why did we suddenly need one in 2010 when George Osborne, an incoming Tory chancellor at that time, created it?
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We ran the UK economy for centuries without an OBR. We survived World Wars; we created the NHS, the welfare state was delivered and all without an Office for Budget Responsibility
So why did we suddenly need one in 2010 when George Osborne, an incoming Tory chancellor at that time, created it?
So why did we suddenly need one in 2010 when George Osborne, an incoming Tory chancellor at that time, created it?
Was the OBR was designed to remove democratic control over fiscal policy, block investment, and prioritise City interests over public wellbeing. In that case, it's time to get rid of it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6i...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6i...
Do we really need the Office for Budget Responsibility?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Was the OBR was designed to remove democratic control over fiscal policy, block investment, and prioritise City interests over public wellbeing. In that case, it's time to get rid of it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6i...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6i...