A very tired student is trying their best.

Quelle: Aktionsbündnis Psychotherapie via Instagram

Die Bundesregierung plant ganz tolle Dinge mit der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung, also schreibt bitte eure Abgeordneten an!

Hier eine Mail-Vorlage:

Sehr geehrter [Name],

bitte setzen Sie sich dafür ein, dass Ihr Bundesland im Bundesrat den Vermittlungsausschuss anruft und das GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz in dieser Form stoppt. Psychotherapeutinnen und Betroffene klaren seit Monaten darüber auf, dass die geplante Budgetierung psychotherapeutischer Leistungen bereits eine Katastrophe für die Versorgung ist. Sie gefährdet Therapieplätze, verlängert Wartezeiten und trifft Menschen, die dringend Hilfe brauchen. Doch jetzt wird es durch einen kurzfristig eingebrachten Anderungsantrag noch schlimmer: Die Mindestvergütung für psychotherapeutische Leistungen soll abgeschafft werden - also genau der Schutz, den das Bundessozialgericht seit 1999 entwickelt hat, damit Psychotherapie verlässlich und kostendeckend angeboten werden kann. Das darf nicht passieren. Wenn psychotherapeutische Leistungen schlechter vergütet werden, können Praxen weniger Behandlungen anbieten. Therapieplätze fallen weg, Wartezeiten werden länger und psychisch erkrankte Menschen bleiben ohne rechtzeitige Hilfe. Psychotherapie ist keine Luxusleistung. Sie ist medizinische Grundversorgung. Bitte verhindern Sie, dass dieser Schutz abgeschafft wird.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen [Name]

Hier eure Abgeordneten:

Hier ein paar Quellen:

https://www.psychotherapieverbund.de/todesstoss

Das Aktionsbündnis ruft explizit auf, (auch) die **Landes**abgeordneten anzuschreiben, weil die im Bundes**rat** sitzen: Der Bundesrat wird das Gesetz ratifizieren müssen, und entsprechend haben diese Menschen, die Macht, das Gesetz zu blockieren.

Also: Nicht (nur) die Bundestagsabgeordneten anschreiben, bitte! Es geht ja wirklich schnell, mit Copy und Paste diese Mails rauszuhauen. Bitte, bitte nimm Dir diese 10 Minuten!

Außerdem: Nimm dir vllt die Zeit, in den vorgeschriebenen Text einzufügen dass langfristig Einsparungen in der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung in der akuten und stationären Versorgung dieser Erkrankten mündet, was um ein Vielfaches teurer ist. Der Test argumentiert sonst vor allem moralisch, aber glaube auf wirtschaftliche Argumente achten Abgeordnete eher.

from the replies that simply

says, “whore”. End ID.

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Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

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