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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a version of the English nursery rhyme, "The Grand Old Duke of York" 🎶 about the man who says he isn't going to call himself it anymore ... though whether he should be taken at his word ... 🤔

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"Grand Old Duke of York" - parody of English nursery rhyme by the Marsh Family on Prince Andrew

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 2d

No, it would not surprise me at all…

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 4d

Would it surprise you to learn Farage’s partner is at the centre of a criminal probe in Belgium over alleged fraud involving EU funds at a Eurosceptic think tank she ran❓

The one who “brought” his £885K house in #Clacton without the income to fund it, possibly enabling Farage to avoid £44K in tax
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Image is from X with pic of Farage and partner with details as per my post source is Sunday Times

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 4d

Further pressure how?

Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 5d

Has someone punched him? Looks like he’s got a shiner.

Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 5d

I ignored mine and left. I was so done with being treated as a tiny dispensable cog in a huge dysfunctional machine. I never felt safe working for the NHS.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 5d

The permit was chargeable, not free, and it wasn’t cheap. Getting to work for 6.45am and leaving at 7.30pm (if we were lucky) pretty much ruled out public transport when all you have time to do is get home, eat, collapse into bed and get up again at 5.30 for your next 12.5 hour shift.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 5d

I worked in a hospital that has insufficient staff parking so I was on the waiting list for a permit. The nearby streets had restricted parking so I parked further away and walked in but a bloke threatened me for parking there. I got a ticket for parking in the overflow patient car park. I left.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 6d

I worked in a hospital with insufficient staff parking. I got threatened parking my car in a street 5 mins walk away. I parked in the patient car park and got a ticket. I left. I no longer work for the NHS.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6d

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 9d

I’m with the largest percentage who look at that list and see nobody I’d want to vote for. What an uninspiring bunch.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 10d

Also it’s a fundraiser for Palestine

Image shows Union Jill flag (inclusive colours on a Union flag) background with red text advertising Commoners Choir fundraiser gig for Palestine on 17th October at Hebden Bridge Trades Club. Yorkshire, UK

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 10d

Commoners Choir gig this Friday at Trades Club Hebden Bridge Yorkshire, UK. Tickets on sale £10 plus fee

thetradesclub.com/events/common5

@commonerschoir.bsky.social

The Trades Club - Holme Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks, HX7 8EE

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 17d

Yup. That twat doesn’t speak for me.

Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 17d

Keir Starmer says the UK stands with Israel.

I am a UK citizen, and I do not stand with Isreal, or anyone who arms it, funds it, or enables it.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 18d

There’s a list. I’d like to see them all investigated and criminal charges where they supplied junk. Manslaughter charges where their failings led to or contributed towards deaths.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 20d

This feels very suited to now

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Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Official Music Video)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 21d

This is affecting the result so worth a vote

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 22d

Yes I’d like to see her thrown out and stripped of honours. I’d like to see criminal proceedings against her and ALL the rest of the profiteers from the “VIP” scheme. Then I’d REALLY like to see Johnson’s government members facing charges for setting up such a clearly fraudulent scheme. That’ll do.

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 22d

I’m unable to walk far or drive at the mo so I’m watching more tv than usual. A British radio presenter and musician is giving evidence in the trial of a man who has been stalking her. His defence asked her if this is just publicity for her, like being stalked is somehow beneficial. WTAF?? Idiot man

Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

It is NOT the fault of individual members of staff or staff groups. I have huge respect for those swimming in that murky water without drowning.

Sorry for the essay.

Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

was spent on medical negligence cases. The whole thing is a mess.”

This is why I work independently. It is next to impossible to provide great care within the NHS at the moment. (6)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

…removing the combative approach to “fault” where staff working in a dysfunctional system are hung out to dry to protect the institution. The money saved in legal fees would fund the service properly. The last time I looked about one fifth of the total maternity budget was spent (6)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

…and actually listening to them when they say they are both fine or when they say something is wrong, reinstating a Midwifery regulator rather than the NMC, and crucially introducing a system of no-fault compensation for adverse outcomes to save the huge costs paid in legal fees by the NHS, (5)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

…caseloading with the same midwives seeing pregnant women and birthing people throughout their pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period under a continuity of care model, a return to treating the pregnant person as the best source of information about their own and their baby’s well-being (4)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

I just commented this. I imagine they’ll block me.

“The answers to the maternity crisis are well documented and evidence based: a return to smaller units rather than mass maternity units, birth centres for uncomplicated pregnancies and births, proper support for homebirth for those who want it, (3)

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Claire Harbottle @yorkshiremidwife.bsky.social · 25d

We’ve implemented nothing from previous investigations other than to hammer midwives harder.

My timeline is currently full of adverts for medical negligence firms looking for business. I get it. But I also see that they’re a huge part of the problem. (2)

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