Dan Poulter was elected as a Conservative MP in 2010, was a Conservative councillor for years before that. Getting on for 20 years as an elected member of the party.

That's a pretty broad definition of 'opportunism'.

Symptomatic of splintering of Johnson's 2019 electoral coalition. Two Conservative MPs have defected in 2024; one to the Reform Party, the other to the Labour Party.

Dan Poulter was an ex junior dr of mine and literally brought in every policy that has destroyed the NHS

He is joining the Labour Party so that post election he can be a medical advisor to the next Labour government.

It worries me what advice he will give

Keir Starmer if…

Let me maybe make a summary thread about cancer deaths in the 15-44 in England and Wales

There is NO signal of excess in 2022: All the signals that you may see in charts shared elsewhere are the result of inadequate analyses

THREAD

Dan Poulter is not standing at the next election. For any party. He will dedicate more time to his work as an NHS doctor specialising in mental health. I've already seen a dozen tweets claiming he's defected to somehow save his (23,000 majority) seat.

Anyone else find that really disturbing??

How many complaints do the BBC get because interviewers don’t push back against every blatant lie told by the Tories.

And yet they never remove the entire episode and delete all tweets featuring it?

🚨 ONS Winter Coronavirus Infection Study‼️

111,816 children (3-17) are now experiencing #LongCovidKids
Of which nearly 21,000 have their daily activities 'limited a lot'!

NOTE these are approx double the rates of March 2023 when the previous survey was stopped
#CovidIsNotOver

Dear june mcallister I look Fucken fabulous in my swimsuit - tell Margot thanks for grabbing my photo and posting it to Twitter to mock a woman living with terminal cancer but living her best life - I wish you all the best on your day

An example of the absolute brain rot that has infected the anti-trans cult. ‘Feminism’ now apparently means assuming all female perpetrators might be trans, because women don’t do crime.

(Never mind the teenage girl who was recently convicted of stabbing Brianna Ghey to death.)

ONS LONG COVID DATA:

I’m still working through the raw data released yesterday by ONS revealing the prevalence of Long Covid in England & Scotland.

Some interesting (& concerning) data points are emerging so I wanted to do a quick thread on what it reveals for CHILDREN…

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“The fact we had to change the law to declare Rwanda a safe country, when the courts had looked at the evidence and concluded otherwise”

Labour’s Wes Streeting believes the amount of time and public money spent on this bill is a “disgrace”

#bbcqt bbc.in/3WdMnks

With less than a week to go until the 2024 Local Elections, Labour lead by exactly 20%:

LAB: 43.3% (+10.4)
CON: 23.3% (-21.4)
RFM: 12.0% (+9.9)
LDM: 9.6% (-2.2)
GRN: 6.3% (+3.6)
SNP: 2.8% (-1.2)

electionmaps.uk/polling

They died because the Tories wouldn’t allow them to apply for asylum from a place of safety.

This psychopathic government insisted they had to make their own way here before they could apply.

They then blocked all other routes, effectively forcing the victims into the boats.

In my medical career I have easily spent more time treating patients with complications from the private sector than treating asylum seekers.

Don’t believe the haters!

Habib's remarks aren't surprising, shocking, but not surprising. More to the point, they achieved what he wanted. We are now discussing the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of letting people drown in the channel. Once again the Overton Window shifts ever rightwards.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Cllr. Matthew Goodwin-Freeman Susan Hall AM #ToryLiars gonna keep on lying and lying and lying 👇👇👇

🚨BREAKING NEWS: A few minutes ago Marco Gill, a Tommy Robinson and Britain First supporter, was jailed for four years for harassing me, sending bomb threats to hotels housing asylum seekers and buying a gun from the US. hopenothate.org.uk/2024/04/26/mar…

Ah, that’ll be the Rwanda bounce then! 🤣🤣🤣

Bring on a #GeneralElectionN0W

They get very annoyed when people refer to them as GBeebies, but on occasion it would be a step UP. ~AA

For someone so obsessed with AI, he really doesn’t seem to understand the most basic functions available.

I mean, after the whiteboard and the flip chart backfired, you may as well put out meme templates. ~AA