NHS nurse on my facebook just changed her profile picture to this

[welcometothepartyyy]

Inappropriate, much?

It's not a "reasonable political statement." It's a spectacularly half-witted meme.

And she's still entitled to post it. It doesn't impinge on her professionalism in the slightest.

If you are reporting someone to their employer because you don't like their personal opinions, whatever they may be, you're weak and pathetic.

How could you know that? I could be earning mega bucks in the growth industry profiteering by the reclassification of a drug used to treat prostate cancer and to medically castrate paedophiles to stunt gender none conforming kids?

What??

Bloody hell! If you’re offended by that don’t look on Twitter to see what nurses and other HCPs are saying about the Tories!

@Brokendaughter

Please- you can't seriously be equating this! She posted a transphobic/anti-Tories meme on her SM account, and you're putting her in the same category as Lucy Letby? Since when does having an opinion make someone equivalent to a killer?😕

@Brokendaughter

And what makes her evil? 🙄

Multiple nurse colleagues of mine have reposted this plus more. Some part of the LGBTQ community and some not. Management haven't mentioned anything

So you think the UK should be like North Korean and sensor peoples opinions based because of their line of work.

You may not agree with it, but its not unprofessional.

@Guavafish1 agreed.

You realize you've been very indiscreet with her personal information. We now know she has an 8-year-old trans child, is a senior paediatric nurse, you've shown us her profile picture, need I go on?

Please ask to have those posts and the photo removed before you find yourself in a lawsuit. It would be fairly easy for someone to find her. In fact, withdraw the thread. You may not have done so with deliberate malice (although your dislike of her is very hard to miss- puffed up?) but you are opening her up to harm and ridicule because you dislike her opinion.

It’s a bad rule though.

The public should be allowed to know when the public sector workers hate the public.

Not being allowed to express themselves doesn’t make the views go away.

If anything does happen the it’s better for everyone except the Government that’s the prejudices can be demonstrated.

When they support policies, the public should be entitled to know where that is coming from too.

I work with all kinds of clients. I don't squack about who I prefer.

The post is talking about being a patient on a ward not the nurse preferring who she’d treat. If you’re going to repost something from someone’s SM and bring it to a discussion forum then at least get it right

However, conservatives politicians are trying to distract people from the disastrous economic impact of the past three years by abusing trans people.

Your contact should be entitled to object.

If she had to break rules in order to object then it demonstrates bravery.

The duty to protest and break bad laws or guidelines is one that we in this nation don’t acknowledge enough.

No. It isn’t. It’s about her hatred for half the population in general terms. And she works for the population as a whole.

If Govt staff hate half the public, the public should know.

In this case, it’s prompted by a very un conservative personal attack on her family by the Govt. She should definitely be able to protest.

Expressing it as hating half the population is weird but possibly helpful to prompt more Tories to say “not in my name”

Could you imagine being a conservative voter after 13 years of failure and corruption that has lead to a overwhelming poverty and inequality. A party so without policies or ideas they've turned to racism and xenophobia to win votes.

The country is falling to pieces in every area, they're destroying our future economic outlook with regressive ideas and people are worried about what a nurse thinks about trans.

Honestly, it's pitiful. We can't complain when things get worse when people tolerate and even embolden this nonsense.

Problem is that the Tories are in power because a good chunk of the population have voted them in. This means it’s likely that a good chunk of patients voted Tory (or their parents as it’s paediatrics) and it does read as though if this nurse found out their political preference, they would be treated differently. Plus, it’s using the trans debate which tends to be a contentious topic, to really drive home the level of hatred towards the tories whilst also being offensive towards trans people at the same time. She’s an idiot for posting this and it wouldn’t surprise me to see it reported.

Yeah I didn’t get that from the post at all. It seems others on the thread also read it from the viewpoint that the nurse was talking about sharing a ward as a patient and not a professional

At what point in the post did it say "Tory voter"? I suppose if you vote Tory you could class yourself as a Tory if you vote for them but IMO that's a bit weird, treating politics like a football team and being wedded to it regardless of what the party says or does.

To me, it read as a criticism of the government and not "half the population".

Also, only 27% of the population voted Tory at the last election so it's very, very far from half of the population.

This! People can vote how they want. I’ve a colleague who loudly goes on about ‘tories’ being awful people and is completely oblivious that about half her colleagues probably vote Tory. People who vote Tory aren’t as a whole evil, they aren’t fascia’s or murderous dictators. It’s acceptable to have different views on how to manage the economy and prioritise spending,

Don't be so ridiculous. Of course NHS staff can express a political preference on SM
and thousands do, me included.

OP if they have a trans child then their view will be completely skewed. But, it's endemic in the NHS. I have a manager who is utterly brilliant but has been completely captured. It comes from a good place but I daydream about slapping him sometimes when he tries to show how "inclusive" he is!

I would mute/block and move on. Probably just a thick handmaid who has no empathy for her women patients.

What about the lady that was raped by a trans while both were patients in hospital?

Oh wait, the hospital tried to claim she couldn't have been rapaed because the penis was a transwoman's. GMAFB! Took them over a year to finally admit it and still buckled down that she wasn't raped by a man but by a woman. I guess women with penises that are patients need to be kept away from women patients without that "trait".

Just going to leave this here.

Exactly!

That is a good question. How would it being worded that way go over with TRAs and the extreme left-leaning groups?

Genuine question: If Labour were to win the next election, how do they plan to fix the NHS? Raise taxes? If so, by how much? Cut down on benefits? How will they put more money into the budget if the budget is already stretched? Take from something the Tories waste money on?
I am from across the pond, and this is a true question. On this side of the pond, they all make promises but rarely get much done, on either side. Both parties suck, imho.

Fucking hell I work in industry, making sofas and armchairs and we still have a social media policy.
I'm going to guess you dont work or you've never seen your workplace soc med policy.
There are many many things you cannot say as a medical professional, including sarcastic things, but definitely political things.