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- Sun 08 Feb, 2015 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
This article spells out very clearly the "private sector" issue for Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust. ( Andrew George speaking - a very unusual MP!). http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/cornwall_news/11777577.Government_policy_has_left_Royal_Cornwall_Hospital_Trust____high_and_dry_____...
- Sun 08 Feb, 2015 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
I'm not sure, but I think I got this file via a link on RichardBlogger's Twitter. Just checked - it's dated 28 January 2011. It's The King's Fund "support" for Lansley's NHS Wrecking Bill (aka Health and Social Care Bill). http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/field/field_publication_...
- Sat 07 Feb, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
Came across this and couldn't resist. It's the spitting image of one of my Dad's cats .... I used to have to feed him cod in the a.m. and chicken thighs in the p.m. Scandalous, I know, but a habit I had to continue after Dad died or'se I would have been struck down by lightning from my Mam who'd gon...
- Sat 07 Feb, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
Paul - (and anyone else interested) On the old forum you'll remember we were doing some work on NHS Property Services Limited. I've since been nibbling away at the Company about the promise it made to load on its web site, in transparent view, the Asset Register. I've had e-mail correspondence and t...
- Sat 07 Feb, 2015 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
Well, I've got 10 shortcuts for articles at the G provided by FTNers ...... but I've not been there all week and I think, with the continued good links provided to other sources, I may actually have been weaned off it. Wait until tomorrow night though! :| Edited to add: It's not easy to stay away th...
- Sat 07 Feb, 2015 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
Oih Toby! That last photo needed a Health Warning!
- Sat 07 Feb, 2015 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64834
Re: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2015
Happy Birthday PK1 and I hope you enjoy that very nice cake. Have a lovely day.
- Sun 01 Feb, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015
- Replies: 305
- Views: 72228
Re: Saturday 31st January & Sunday 1st February 2015
Rushing from page 5 to page 7 to add my birthday wishes to Ephemerid and sympathetic :hug: and also to SeeingClearly - wishing you less stress on Monday and Tuesday and a safe journey home and back. :) I've removed the Guardian App, the BBC News App and the Sky News App from my mobile and of all the...
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
@TobyLatimer - thanks Toby for that news about Windows 10. Agree with others that it is unusual if I can upgrade in due course to 10 for free. Shall wait and see. In the meantime my self-built ancient desktop with XP Pro is sitting in the other room waiting for a new monitor if I decide to buy one!
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
Do you want to hear something daft? Recently I had a health scare. My immediate and only thought was regret for all the books I'd never get to read. I felt dreadful about it afterwards because family never got a look in. Thankfully the health scare was a wrong diagnoses, but it was such a powerful ...
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
Is there something particularly special about this awful Windows 8.1 which requires constant bleeding updating?
That's twice today I'm expected to re-boot.
That's twice today I'm expected to re-boot.
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
Just finished watching Elvis 68 Comeback - there is no one who can wear black leather trousers like that. Woo hoo!
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
Do you want to hear something daft? Recently I had a health scare. My immediate and only thought was regret for all the books I'd never get to read. I felt dreadful about it afterwards because family never got a look in. Thankfully the health scare was a wrong diagnoses, but it was such a powerful ...
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
- Replies: 458
- Views: 70012
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th January 2015
Do you want to hear something daft? Recently I had a health scare. My immediate and only thought was regret for all the books I'd never get to read. I felt dreadful about it afterwards because family never got a look in. Thankfully the health scare was a wrong diagnoses, but it was such a powerful ...
- Sat 24 Jan, 2015 12:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 23rd January 2015
- Replies: 237
- Views: 53262
Re: Friday, 23rd January 2015
Some lovely thoughtful posts today Here on the best online site! It's a good day, I'm starting the treatment I need today after a years wait. And on the 3rd there's a lobby in parliament to help people like me access a very cheap effective treatment at the frequent rate we need. So I'm happy for al...
- Fri 23 Jan, 2015 11:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 23rd January 2015
- Replies: 237
- Views: 53262
Re: Friday, 23rd January 2015
Good morning. Harking back to the comments on Evan Davies and Newsnight (which I didn't see) - The other night I caught Clive Myrie (sp?), one of the presenters on BBC News24, doing the newspaper review. Although he kept interspersing his comments with "I'm just playing devil's advocate here&q...
- Fri 23 Jan, 2015 11:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 23rd January 2015
- Replies: 237
- Views: 53262
Re: Friday, 23rd January 2015
I've got 13 tabs open with topics linked by FTNers to read, thanks. But won't be back until later as my 1999 Ford Focus, which a friend bought for me last spring when my beloved SAAB 93 SE died, has an MOT due early next month and its not going to pass without £££s being spent and my friends won't l...
- Fri 23 Jan, 2015 10:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 23rd January 2015
- Replies: 237
- Views: 53262
Re: Friday, 23rd January 2015
The somewhat tense mood on here reflects politics more generally at the moment. Labour loyalists need to accept that many left-leaning people are disappointed with the party - not just for its failings in government, but the fact that the move away from NuLab orthodoxy under Miliband has been more ...
- Fri 23 Jan, 2015 10:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 23rd January 2015
- Replies: 237
- Views: 53262
Re: Friday, 23rd January 2015
I am now taking the piss - quite literally - to the vets. See you later. Ahaa..I admit to being a little confused by your earlier post - the one that created the image of RR2 following a dog around a frozen garden, with a bowl....I could only think that your animal loving tendencies had got the bet...
- Thu 22 Jan, 2015 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 22nd January 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 31253
Re: Thursday 22nd January 2015
Every Friday night I used to look forward to a two pack of jam and cream doughnuts, shared naturally with my Dad's three cats. It was one for them and one for me! This was a Friday evening ritual with the highlighter pen to mark off in the TV Guide what was worth watching for the following week. Sad...
- Thu 22 Jan, 2015 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 22nd January 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 31253
Re: Thursday 22nd January 2015
Is it just me? That BBC article about the debates is almost screaming to me saying - they only really want Ed Miliband there so that they can do their bashing without interruption. There's never going to be a debate between Cameron and EM because Cameron is shit scared and knows he has no intelligen...
- Thu 22 Jan, 2015 11:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 22nd January 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 31253
Re: Thursday 22nd January 2015
I know on the old Forum we had quite a lot of links about Care Data and the many of us (PK and me anyway!) were very anti and providing loads of links on how to "opt out" of having medical records (outside of those necessary for care ....) released - released outside of the NHS. Tim Kelsey...
- Thu 22 Jan, 2015 12:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st January 2015
- Replies: 234
- Views: 49245
Re: Wednesday 21st January 2015
No, you're not!HindleA wrote:Sorry
- Wed 21 Jan, 2015 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st January 2015
- Replies: 234
- Views: 49245
Re: Wednesday 21st January 2015
And on that G article where Clegg says However, neither administrative processes nor a constant back and forth between the inquiry and witnesses criticised should frustrate an independent report so important to the country’s future from being published as soon as possible. My bold - why is it import...
- Wed 21 Jan, 2015 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st January 2015
- Replies: 234
- Views: 49245
Re: Wednesday 21st January 2015
Are there two signatures on that letter? And can anyone tell me what is scrawled above "David"? Looks like 'Iain' to me – he was very gung ho about heading into the second Iraq War, as I remember it. And is it normal practise for Downing Street letters to put the recipient's name immediat...
- Wed 21 Jan, 2015 11:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st January 2015
- Replies: 234
- Views: 49245
Re: Wednesday 21st January 2015
Morning all. I may be duplicating ... but have only just read this.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... CMP=twt_guLesson one from the Hinchingbrooke hospital scandal: beware the ‘mutual’
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
I can't watch or listen to Dermot Murnaghan without harming my health and I'm no fan at all of Chuka Umunna. MSN headline on my new laptop compelled me to watch this though. First time I have ever liked Chuka Umunna :fight: Chuka Umunna, Labour’s shadow business secretary, has stormed out of a live ...
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
And some more news locally .. Budget 2015/16: No Peterborough libraries to shut http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/community/community-news/budget-2015-16-no-peterborough-libraries-to-shut-1-6523056 I honestly have no idea yet how "staffless" hours work. Dogsthorpe Library is very sma...
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
Above, To be fair, while this is not a Labour Party supporters forum officially, un-officially it kind of is. Mainly because they are the Stop the Bastards Party. Tizme is a mostly lone Green voice and it is not surprising we sometimes annoy her. So I frankly kind of accept the point she is making....
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
Talking of the Council cuts yesterday, here's a brief article on Peterborough. Uncertain future for Peterborough cultural services as city council seek £25 million in savings http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/politics/politics-news/uncertain-future-for-peterborough-cultural-services-as-city-co...
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
Hope you're OK PorFavor.
- Mon 19 Jan, 2015 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 19th January 2015
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23980
Re: Monday 19th January 2015
Morning all. @Tizme1 I realise that this is basically a Labour Party supporters forum. I'm on a Labour Party supporters' forum and FlyTheNest is not it. Even if it were, as you try to accuse it of being, "a Labour Party supporters forum", we all listen to other views and always have. Doesn...
- Sun 18 Jan, 2015 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
- Replies: 256
- Views: 54545
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
Good afternoon. The sun is shining brightly in Yaxley, Peterborough and I'm going for a walk - well wrapped up though. I've looked at this as it was on the front page of the Peterborough Torygraph on the newspaper stand. I listened to the video in full. I loved it when she said "... 2008 when t...
- Sat 17 Jan, 2015 8:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
- Replies: 256
- Views: 54545
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
Apologies if you've read this before, but I've only just absorbed it. It's from quite a lengthy article by Richard Blogger in Open Democracy. The Tories and Liberal democrats want NHS hospitals to leave the NHS whether you believe Lambs description as mutualism being “an alternative to privatisation...
- Sat 17 Jan, 2015 11:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
- Replies: 256
- Views: 54545
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th January 2015
Morning all. Dashing off soon to have a lovely winter vegetable lunch but .. @Tizme1 - You're right. I am living in fear of votes being lost by Labour. To lose them most unfairly because of lies and propaganda from someone I hitherto had quite a bundle of respect for ..... won't say anymore on that....
- Sat 17 Jan, 2015 12:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
That poor kitten! Can you imagine how heavy that collar with its metal bits dangling must be on its tiny little neck and shoulders. Completely unnecessary and cruel.
Night all.
I HATE WINDOWS 8.1 but hope to be in a better mood if I wake up tomorrow.
Night all.
I HATE WINDOWS 8.1 but hope to be in a better mood if I wake up tomorrow.
- Sat 17 Jan, 2015 12:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
One of the first things Nik Johnson said when he arrived from work at the #SaveHinchingbrooke meeting had started was that he needed to clarify that he was there and speaking as (1) a member of the Hinchingbrooke Team, and (2) a resident of Huntingdon, and that his comments were personal in spite of...
- Sat 17 Jan, 2015 12:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
@Tizme - in respect of your "wish" to see a Green Government. I don't know how old you are but I'm 67 and I, for sure, will never see one. Right now, what respect and support I gave to "the Greens" has gone down the toilet in to the sewer. Why? Because Caroline Lucas is beginning...
- Fri 16 Jan, 2015 11:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
It's not gone too well for EmptyDave with Obama. Just look at his face. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/national/the-special-relationship-decoded-david-cameron%e2%80%99s-body-language-tells-us-plenty/ar-AA8fSi3?ocid=LENDHP Sorry if this has been put up already but I've changed my laptop as I couldn't ...
- Fri 16 Jan, 2015 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
Apologies if this has been covered here before! Former Tory leader William Hague and his wife Ffion will move to Powys when he retires from frontline politics at the general election. They have bought Cyfronydd Hall, near Welshpool, which was on offer at £2.5m. "Ffion and I are looking forward ...
- Fri 16 Jan, 2015 1:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
Dittorebeccariots2 wrote:Just to say I do appreciate these occasional mysterious self berating posts from you HindleA. I always wonder what it was you said that you then decided wasn't worth the bother ... and leave a little marker to tell us that.HindleA wrote:Deleted.Irrelevant waffling.
- Fri 16 Jan, 2015 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th January 2015
- Replies: 202
- Views: 40005
Re: Friday 16th January 2015
That meeting I went to in Huntingdon on Wednesday night to re-launch the Save Hinchingbrooke Hospital was better attended than I had expected and there's obviously a lot of concerns from local people as well as the staff, quite a few of whom were there. There's lots happening at the hospital and wit...
- Wed 14 Jan, 2015 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th January 2015
- Replies: 175
- Views: 45569
Re: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Bernard Ingham 'winning' friends in the north on behalf of the Tories. :roll: For decades local government, over-manned and under-resourced with wit and effort, has overspent. That is why Margaret Thatcher conceived the poll tax to curb their excesses through wider accountability. Council leaders h...
- Wed 14 Jan, 2015 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th January 2015
- Replies: 175
- Views: 45569
Re: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Sheffield is among a number of cities feeling the squeeze the Local Government Association has claimed, adding there could soon be a ‘tipping point’ where no money or space is left to expand the country’s schools any further. Pat Munt, Oughtibridge Primary School headteacher, said her staff are wor...
- Wed 14 Jan, 2015 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th January 2015
- Replies: 175
- Views: 45569
Re: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Morning. http://press.labour.org.uk/post/108026582214/labour-pledges-new-support-for-families-caring-for" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Labour pledges new support for families caring for elderly and disabled relatives" Note to self.It is only a press release,do ...
- Wed 14 Jan, 2015 11:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th January 2015
- Replies: 175
- Views: 45569
Re: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Morning all. As I mentioned before, I'm off to an "Emergency Public Meeting" in Huntingdon tonight, hosted by Hands Off Hinchingbrooke. My friend who lives Alconbury and who uses Hinchingbrooke regularly, together with her 96 year old mother, sent me this video this morning. It's 57 minute...
- Tue 13 Jan, 2015 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th January 2015
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43692
Re: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Bloody hell TechnicalEphemera! That post of yours at 8:29pm is going to be circulated around my friends PDQ! Terrifying.
- Tue 13 Jan, 2015 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th January 2015
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43692
Re: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Does anyone know what happened to PayGuy at the G? I know he then became PayGuy 2. https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/4152572 http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/4912/economics/does-government-debt-matter/ I remember him vanishing - it was not too long after someone BTL actually commented that th...
- Tue 13 Jan, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th January 2015
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43692
Re: Tuesday 13th January 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... t-nhs-poll
Edited to add - just look at those happy, smiling faces behind Cameron!
Edited to add - just look at those happy, smiling faces behind Cameron!
- Tue 13 Jan, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th January 2015
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43692
Re: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Sounds like it's going swimmingly for Grayling - again. Times Law @TimesLaw 5m5 minutes ago Chris Grayling forced into concessions on judicial review http://wp.me/p2iSQr-sGs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Andy Slaughter MP @hammersmithandy 5m5 minutes ago The Government'...