Yes they can, given they run the Medical Ethics Committee, which puts the state in their crosshairs Case in point, here's the BMA calling out Sajid Javid for telling porkies about Covid infection rates last year https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/health-secretary-out-of-touch-with-gps-reality Similarly, here's them calling out Coffey for talking ****e last month https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-calls-for-health-secretary-to-lay-out-nhs-emergency-plan
But what they specifically can't do is stop her practising which is what the tweet you posted asked them to do. A) Because she isn't a medical practitioner and B) because that's the role of the GMC.
She's in violation The Human Medicines Regulations Act 2012 on two counts Also, the tweet was not calling for her to stop practising, it was calling into question her fitness
Yes, I know. But someone's fitness to practice is only a matter for the BMA if they are a member of the BMA. Since Coffey's doctorate is in Chemistry, she isn't. This is a matter for the police and the Prime Minister as a serving minister has admitted to breaking the law. I won't hold my breath
Which would put her in the crosshairs of the Medical Ethics Committee, due to her advising people to hand out antibiotics like Tic-Tacs in her role as Health Secretary
In case ppl have missed this. From the Telegraph no less... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/10/15/project-fear-right-along/ Behind a paywall but the intro says enough.
This article nails it for me... https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-back-control-brexit-humiliation-britain-suez ...this part, in particular... "Brexit broke the link between governance and reason, between policy and evidence. Until Brexit, politicians only rarely got away with defying the empirical facts or elementary logic. But in 2016 they pretended that a country could weaken its trading ties to its nearest neighbours and get richer, which is like saying you can step in a bath of ice and get warmer. Once the taboo on magical thinking was broken, once fantasy became a Conservative habit, Trussonomics became inevitable – smilingly insisting that you could cut taxes for the richest, make “absolutely” no cuts to public services and control borrowing, all at the same time." The magical thinking is debunked after the last few weeks. Brexit is about paying a dreadful price for Suella Braverman and nothing more...and like her reign as Witchfinder General, it won't last.
I just looked back on this thread c. June 2016 (pages 14-30) and it makes interesting reading, particularly with the sudden acceptance that Project Fear was actually Project Fact. There was a fair degree of foresightful commentary at the time, although to most of us I think it seemed bleeding obvious. In particular, NSIS (wherever he be) should take a bow!
Some ****ing horrific takes in there, too! I'm going to guess that very few minds have been changed. I made a few comments about Britannia Unchained and the fruitcakes that wrote it. Painfully relevant over six years later, unfortunately.
The BMA MEC doesn't have cross hairs though....it isn't any sort of disciplinary committee. It debates ethical concerns. There is absolutely no doubt that what Coffey did is both illegal and unethical so nothing for the BMA to do other than to point out Coffey's many failings in its role as the doctors' trade union.
Mine hasn't, that's for sure! Although I do wonder if the 'at least we're not being told what to do by the EU' proponents on the thread then may be feeling a little less chipper!
