Save Our NHS Rally

Below are the tweets (and retweets) I made at last nights "Save Our NHS" rally at Westminster. It was a really impressive display of the wide breath of opposition to the proposed reforms. The first tweets start on the bottom.

• "Just congratulated Mary Locke (see picture) for making great speech. She is making her way home by train to brum
• Good to see the LRC trots showing their true colours and heckling those who are trying to do something about the bill
• "If I become the next S of S for health I will repeal this Bill" Andy Burnham MP
• Last but not least Andy Burnham MP labour Shadow Sec of State for Health. "No longer one NHS"
• Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, public health physician: The NHS is in danger of becoming nothing but "a logo, a budget & a few quangos"
• "Non cooperation with evil is a duty as much as cooperating with good" MG
• Another public health professional against the bill. Dr Alex Scott-Samuel. "There will be more deaths under this new system".
• So, why are people yelling at an MP who has voted the right way every time?
• RT Lots of heckles for George. Bravo him for not giving up. A Lib Dem that gives a shit is more useful than some1 outside the party

  Dorothy Matebeni President SA nurses union DENOSA Viva NHS Viva!!!!
• "We are being ruled by a Dickensian mob who know the price of everything and the value of nothing." John Ashton

  Andrew George MP liberal democrat "better reception than I get in the Leadership office... NHS more private profit than care
• Prof. John Ashton director of public health and country medical officer, cumbria. Have big society pickle picnic in gate head
• Don't let r NHS slide into a USA model. Video of US health worker talking of their privatised health service. Steel worker union?
• Mary Locke houskeeper in a hospital has adopted over 350 peers to drop the bill. "We don't want spaghetti junction nhs"
• Michael Edwards Barts Unison contracted out patient transfer driver describes the future for many NHS staff if bill goes ahead
• Top unison hospital house keeper Mary Locke tells it as it is!
• Dr Clive Peedell who ran 190 miles to publise Save our NHS. He will be running 42 miles on Friday to Newcastle to lib cons
• epetition is at 170,000 sigs. Please sign the petition: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22670 #

  Lyn Ward, occupational therapist from UNISON and @BAOTCOT: The NHS is about teamwork, not competition
• Rehana Azam GMB National officer and head of NHS "if we had the Royal College of Surgeons we would have a full house"
• Why r people heckling speakers who are doing their best to defeat the bill? Hmmm
• Blast from the past. Lord Dr David Owen. "I have never been a Liberal" response to heckle
• David Skidmore Paramedic. People comes before profit. 10 years and I have never been political I have never talked to an audience
• Cecilia Anim clinical nurse. Fight to save r beloved NHS. Kill the bill not the NHS
• Dr Peter Carter GS RCN NHS reform "we will have people competing with each other rather than cooperating with other"

  Jo Brand - "I do have a soft spot for Nick Clegg, it's face down in a bowl of custard"
• 169k signatures for NHS risk regsiter debate but Gov still refusing to hold one Dr Kailash Chand
• Jo Brand NHS could mean "Not here soon"

  Circle vultures. The same people who left patients to look after themselves with faulty breast implants

  Dr john Lister "keep r NHS public" attack Circle owned by investment bankers and the theives who rip people off at Wonga.com
• More selfish wreckers and splitters leave with via a helping hand. One dressed as a cat? Was it george galloway?
• BMA Dr Hamish Meldrum supports his fellow health workers. A unusually dapper trade union leader
• Patient Vikki Mills pregnant with twins does not want anyone to jump que if they have money. 
• Cathy warwick GS RCM "kill the bill"
• Bunch of Monty python idiots "demanding" national strike thrown out of hall. :)

  "Its about what health service we leave our children...our NHS is not for sale"
• Dave Prentis next speaker "tories say nhs liberated"... What liberated to go bust
• In a packed Westminster Hall for the #SaveOurNHS rally- Woman who gave Lansley a piece of her mind rightly gets a standing ovation

  At packed Save our NHS rally at Westminster Central Hall. Brendan Barber speaking.
• John's Labour blog: Rally to Save Our NHS Tonight at Central Hall,
• UPDATE: Check youtube of speeches here