Therese Coffey should resign or be sacked

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www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/16/therese-coffey-criticised-for-giving-leftover-antibiotics-to-a-friend

The law, science and medical guidelines don’t apply to her apparently.

I've been both a giver and receiver of antibiotics for UTIs. And bloody grateful I've been.

Many things done by Boris Johnson during the pandemic were against the law, similarly drug taking admitted by many minsters is against the law. Yes I agree this sharing of prescription drugs is not good but it is not more bad than the other points. I am not a fan of TC at all but I do feel that a lot of the negative opinions seem to be based upon her image which I think is wrong. She is not media savvy not does she try and court the media.

This is absolutely right! So two people on an incomplete course of antibiotics could be contributing to antibiotic resistance, never mind the other person could have allergies. How would she know that the drug is the appropriate treatment? Sack her anyway, she’s worse than useless.

She's also displayed monumental stupidity in telling our nurses they can fuck off when the NHS has a shortage of nurses.🤯

You think that's bad? I'm still waiting for the crap to hit the fan when people realise she spent £6 million on getting an office balcony built so she didn't have to go too far to smoke.

Anyway I’m sure once Liz goes tomorrow morning, Therese won’t be long in post. I doubt Penny, Rishi! or whoever else replaces Liz will want to keep Truss appointees around.

Quite. I seem to remember a health secretary being forced to resign for fucking his aide. I know which I think is worse.

The reason Coffey mentioned doing this was because she was suggesting that antibiotics should be prescribed by pharmacists and available over the counter.
I think that is a ridiculous and alarming suggestion for a health secretary to make and demonstrates woeful ignorance of the risks of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics

She's not media savvy? 😂 She's

the deputy PM, it's literally her job to be able to speak to the country including the media. She's also broken the law which on its own should result in her going.

She's an idiot. She obviously fails to grasp the concept of antibiotic resistance and she was disgusting saying that nurses should just leave if they're not happy. What an awful woman.

In less than 6 weeks? What are the names of her builders? Do you have their phone number?

It's illegal. Of course it's a sacking offence!

@MarshaMelrose this was in her previous role not the current one. She was happy to spend this money whilst cutting the benefits of the poorest and hiding just how many people on benefits had died.

I thought the whole ‘finishing a course of antibiotics’ had been debunked?

but, yes, Coffee beyond awful

I can kinda understand the sharing of some medicine in extreme situations e.g.painkiller for toothache. Risky but I can understand it if someone you love is in lots of pain and you have what you think might help.

But antibiotics makes no sense - you need a full course so you should not have any leftover and if you did the person you are sharing with should be getting a full course so leftovers are not appropriate.

Having a PhD in Chemistry does that mean that she's also qualified to practice as a pharmacist?
Because it also needs reporting to the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Council

"Raging alcoholic" was the description I heard. She certainly seems neither sensible or clever.

Well even though Boris famously watered down the Ministerial Code to serve his own apalling lack of standards… As the Secretary of State for Health, Therese Coffey’s broken what’s left of the Ministerial Code, surely?:

Ministers must ensure no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests

Link to Code (with Nolan Standards on public life in the appendix)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1079310/Ministerial_Code.pdf

Boris’ watering down:
amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches

She’s anti abortion but thinks it’s fine for parents to smoke with their kids in the car so is clearly not bothered what happens to babies once they’re born.

Absolutely resign or be sacked

I've got a PhD. Realistically you can't be "thick" and a have a PhD but you don't need to be particularly intelligent either, if you're persistent. She doesn't strike me as particularly sharp though.

I think breaking the law should be a sackable offence. But I’m more concerned about whether she is corrupt. She is on record as having accepted gifts and hospitality from the tobacco industry and is also strangely unable to say whether smoking in cars with children is harmful to the children (hint: it is). I wonder if the two are connected.
She appears to be a thoroughly nasty piece of work (trapped in the body of a 70-year-old alcoholic).

What did she say about nurses?

there are different types of intelligence. Academic intelligence is just one type of intelligence. Regardless it feels wrong to call someone thick, it’s feels a slur on people who aren’t naturally able

Another person to put in the stocks and throw rocks at. Progression looks an awful lot like regression to me.

I think breaking the law should be a sackable offence.

You'd be happy to be sacked if you got a speeding fine?

Realistically you can't be "thick" and a have a PhD but you don't need to be particularly intelligent either,

What is the point of our higher education system if you can get qualifications without being intelligent?