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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs ... -and-cuts/

Vote looms on health bill that would subject English NHS to cronyism and cuts

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@willow - hope your daughter is clear soon 🤞🤞 Thanks. She's stuck in her room for half term, unfortunately, but is supposed to be revising for her year 11 mocks anyway so maybe not such a bad thing and she's got the internet. I worry about older people with so many cases around, though, as many of ...

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Just in case anyone doubts the above chart, I can confirm that everyone round here in NE Somerset are going down with Covid at the moment. The schools are rife with it. The vaccine for 12-15 year olds came too late. My daughter had her vaccine last Thursday but tested positive on Monday. Luckily she...

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https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/1451986255022108677 Someone made a decision to use these unaccredited labs. Given the very clear negative consequences of this decision, I think the public deserve to know which minister signed off on using labs that haven't yet received the accredita...

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frog222 wrote: ↑Wed 20 Oct, 2021 9:58 am I'm looking forward to the 'opposing views' on God and patriotism, for a start.

I'm sure the legislation was careful to establish that God is not a controversial historical, cultural or political topic. This is Texas we're talking about, after all.

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The UK now has one of the highest weekly rates of new reported cases in the world https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/19/implement-plan-b-winter-measures-now-or-risk-nhs-crisis-johnson-warned The rest of the world is going to learn a lot from us about how effective vaccines are after 6 month...

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gilsey wrote: ↑Wed 13 Oct, 2021 10:33 am Also Cummings:

I think Remain = the risky option & getting riskier as €zone stagnates/fails
They're going to stagnate/fail faster than the UK? Anyone taking bets?

But we weren't part of the Eurozone.

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Our land-line has been down for the last 3 hours. I didn't realise Brexit meant a literal return to the 70s. Seems to be an issue at the local exchange, affecting quite a large area as far as I can tell. So no broadband :(. I'm stuck with barely there 4G on my mobile for now. I did manage to read ab...

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Talking of the environment, with the UK hosting Cop26 in November, shouldn't Tory MPs be just a little bit more on message? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10074107/Britain-reconsider-ban-fracking-exploit-North-Sea-oil-MPs-urge.html Britain should reconsider its ban on fracking and exploit ...

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/09/eco-wood-stoves-emit-pollution-hgv-ecodesign ‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows We almost succumbed to the wood burning stove fad a few years back but eventually decided on the slightly less middle class choice...

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/id-like-to-get-my-daughter-vaccinated-soon-i-fear-she-will-be-next-to-get-covid ‘I’d like to get my daughter vaccinated soon – I fear she will be next to get Covid’ I don't know about elsewhere, but here I'm pretty certain school vaccinations are run by ...

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So what was Sunak's "optimistic" message?: he has dialled up the rhetoric, and today he set out a vision for how the UK could become “the most exciting place on the planet” Actually he said "in the planet", rather than on, which conjured up an image of the entire island plummetin...

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From the G live blog: At the Labour conference last week a strategist who helped to mastermind the New Zealand Labour party’s landslide win last year said that “relentless positivity” was at the heart of Jacinda Ahern’s electoral success. It is a message that the Labour party (which often sounds lik...

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So while people were struggling to fill up their cars just to pop to the shops, Johnson was announcing "Galactic Britain". Not the most sensitive timing, I would suggest: https://www.indy100.com/politics/boris-johnson-galactic-britain-twitter-reaction-b1928371 Boris Johnson promises to cre...

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I can't get any petrol

What kind of shit government allows the pumps to run dry? (rhetorical question)

If people put up with this without so much of a squeak of disapproval of those running the country they're bloody morons.

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I'm also not entirely convinced that boomers mostly care about "sticking it to brown people, furriners and "yoof snowflakes". These are themes they are encouraged to get riled up about by the papers. Stuff they get riled up about all on their own tend to be things like new housing dev...

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What I am really saying here is that those obsessing about what Labour are doing are missing the wood for the trees. I think it's more that some of us are worried that while Labour are failing to win people over with what the Tories are already giving them they're losing the few voters they do have...

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And do boomers really get what they want? Did they really want all the libraries to shut, bus services gutted, GP surgeries overwhelmed, social care on its knees and nursing homes with an annual cost equivalent to a small cottage in Cornwall? (OK, that last one might not be true yet, but we're getti...

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Because most who voted for Brexit still see the slightest criticism of it as a mortal insult against their own identity? (which ties in with what I said above, they tend to be older voters and once enough of them die perhaps change on this will be possible) Bollocks. The exact same thing was being ...

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I'm not sure how offering more of the same will win votes when people inevitably get fed up of the status quo. Promising to match the Tories like for like on austerity didn't work so why will parroting them on Brexit?

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Angela Rayner seems to be getting quite a bit of mileage out of her "scum" comment. Glass houses and all that. I did think Tory MPs attacking someone for being rude and insulting was somewhat dangerous territory for them. James Heappey telling a schoolkid to "fuck off back to Scotland...

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I just happened to catch Nick Robinson interviewing Rachel Reeves on BBC News and she was actually not bad, came across quite well. The format seemed to suit her as it was a lengthy chat rather than an interrogation and some of the things she talked about, such as the long period of low interest ra...

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refitman wrote: ↑Sun 26 Sep, 2021 2:02 pm So, Starmer's ruled out any renationalisation then?

Just a few days after Ed Miliband appeared to be saying quite the opposite....

Basically Starmer's appearance this morning was a textbook example of trying to please everyone and ending up pleasing no one.

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I just happened to catch Nick Robinson interviewing Rachel Reeves on BBC News and she was actually not bad, came across quite well. The format seemed to suit her as it was a lengthy chat rather than an interrogation and some of the things she talked about, such as the long period of low interest rat...

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Only because British voters don't like hung parliaments. Going to the country to get a working majority is one thing but what do you need an election for when you have the majority to do whatever you want? People didn't respond well to May dicking around with an election when there was Brexit to be ...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 20 Sep, 2021 12:17 pm Someone on Twitter is loudly putting forward that a GE in November is "inevitable".

Because an early election went so well for Theresa May?!

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I've been largely or totally vegetarian since the age of about 7. I can't eat dead animals or things that are like them (including some mushrooms because of the texture). At the same time I have long disliked "professional" vegetarians who go on about being vegetarian as if it's some kind...

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There are so many things wrong with it it's hard to know what's most important, but imo it's what I said the day before, that this is no time to be raising taxes. Not a great fan of Sentance but he's dead right here. https://twitter.com/asentance/status/1435185208685367302 You have to wonder if ham...

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Also, having raised NI to "pay" for some social care costs, are they going to keep the pot bigger or will it just be offset by pre-election tax cuts elsewhere? Is this really a backtrack from Cameron/Osborne's small state policy or merely a reshuffle of the deckchairs?

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Even the BBC can't hide the fact that the government's new social care plan has nothing to do with improving social care and will still require many people to spend all their assets as now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58442991.amp Why the cap on care costs is not all it seems Has anyone seen a...

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https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-02/car ... news-finds

Care sector facing its worst ever staffing crisis, survey for ITV News finds

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Just in case the tweet from yesterday gave a false impression that only foods preferred by middle class, remoaner, metropolitan elite types were being affected by Brexit, I feel it necessary to point out that our local Tesco is almost completely out of all frozen vegetables. It's not really acceptab...

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/26/doctors-in-england-ration-blood-tests-due-to-sample-bottle-shortage GPs and hospitals to limit blood tests in England due to bottle shortage Directly due to the government's disastrous handling of Brexit. It didn't have to be like this. There were othe...

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It's understandable, though. The Queen is the head of the Church of England after all. He's wasting his time, of course, Wales being traditionally more inclined to the Methodist and Baptist strains of the Christian faith than the monarchy endorsed version.

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Re the latest push to privatise the NHS as posted by RoT yesterday, it's very telling that the bit of the "NHS" people are currently most complaining about - primary care and problems with accessing GPs and referrals on to specialist care - is the bit that was always run by the private sec...

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Latin! Seriously?! I never did Latin and yet was still able to study Ancient and Medieval History at university. You only need it for Classics really. If you've already done Latin, it makes German easier for sure, but if you want to learn German it would be far more beneficial to start earlier rathe...

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ir-starmer

Dawn Butler was right to call Boris Johnson a liar, says Keir Starmer

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I'm really sorry to hear about your wife RoT x

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57986217 Covid-19: Caution urged despite fall in cases and turning down jab 'selfish' The number of new Covid cases reported in the UK has fallen for the seventh day in a row, with a further 23,511 cases reported on Tuesday. That is a fall of 23,047 from the same day la...

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/26/labour-pledges-same-rights-for-all-workers-from-day-one-of-jobs Labour pledges same rights for all workers from day one of jobs I think it's a pretty sad indictment of where we are that such a modest pledge actually represents an improvement. Still, t...

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Its always been a bit silly that you can't accuse another member of "falsehoods" in parliament. [/b] The convention is the other half of the convention that members don't lie to parliament, of course, which isn't silly at all if it's stuck to, but of course it's being flaunted to the poin...

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Finally. There's no point sticking to traditional rules and precedents when the other side routinely ignore them.

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Peak Cage

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Did anyone see PMQs? Were the exchanges really that confused or is Sparrow struggling to write them up because of the heat? I also recently read a thread on social media discussing whether Boris is addicted to prescription drugs, which could be another explanation for the lack of sense, I suppose. E...

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Surely shops, similar to bars etc are private property and they can decide who comes in ? I think the point is that none of the mainstream stores are in a rush to encourage mask-free shoppers, because a free for all will put off more customers than it attracts. People don't feel safe enough to disp...

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So far I've had an e-mail from Tescos to say masks and other covid measures are staying and a text from my GP surgery saying the same thing. So much for "freedom day". Not so much freedom from restrictions for individuals as freedom from responsibility for the government, as they run away ...

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I wonder if polling suggesting that a free for all on July 19th isn't that popular has influenced this change of emphasis? Or maybe the realisation that the public was going to blame them for the rise in hospitalizations and deaths that would inevitably follow such a big rise in cases rather than e...

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With the level of spread we're seeing with the delta variant even a "limited effect" could prove quite significant. If it does anything at all it seems an odd time to lose it as it's not a great deal to ask of people, although personally I would have preferred mask-wearing to have been a t...

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From the G: Sturgeon says masks likely to remain compulsory in Scotland on public transport and in shops after other restrictions lifted Up until now where Scotland has led, England has shortly been forced to follow by the sheer weight of reality. This could be the first test of Boris' ridiculous pl...

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