'Opportunistic, dishonest, callous, cruel, disingenuous, deceitful, uncaring, contemptuous and gross.' A fuming James O'Brien destroys Health Secretary Steve Barclay over his 'disgusting' claims about striking healthcare workers as the NHS is 'on its knees'. James O'Brien

@mrjamesob V sharp summary of the misery this Tory government creates, as they pit their “support for the idiocy of Brexit, their self-interest, arrogance, cynicism and contempt for the people of this country” against the compassion and hard work of our health workers. Utterly loathsome.

@mrjamesob Remember when MPs argued that they needed to be rewarded with higher salaries, otherwise no one would do the job. Strange, when public services are struggling with recruitment and people are leaving in droves. They don’t seem to believe the same argument applies.

@mrjamesob Isn't this the same James O'Brien who adamantly opposed the only politician who wanted to give NHS workers a pay rise and better conditions?

@mrjamesob He has to go. #SteveBarclay and his hideaway boss Sunak are responsible for putting lives at risk yesterday, today and tomorrow. #BarclayOut.

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@mrjamesob I listened to this in my car with my jaw on the floor.. never heard him quite so angry but totally justified. Keep up the good work.

@mrjamesob As I tweet this, my Mum is on an ambulance outside A&E and has been since around 8:30m. The crew are great and doing everything they can though, but there's also signs up saying "no more than 6 patients to a corridor". The NHS has broken under the Tories!

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@mrjamesob Superb in @mrjamesob inimitable fashion. Wonder if there is any way to get a list of money paid to MPs by big pharma for ‘consultancy fees’. Tories push the envelope towards privatisation at every opportunity. We must not let it happen.

@mrjamesob 100% with that caller who missed arrogant and belligerent and a tad misogynistic from their appraisal