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Re: Patriotic Brits reject the monarchy – politicalbetting.com
No, it wasn’t. Read the victim testimony.Call me old fashioned but calling Epstein 'best pal' is quite permissible. Epstein'd business model was strictly female so nothing to interest MandyBBC provides your missing detailsI can't see what he's done wrong? A ride on a boat in swimwear with his mate ....what am I missing?Daily Mail piling in on Mandelson.He certainly shouldn't survive this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15080217/Relaxing-bathrobe-best-pal-Jeffrey-Epstein-Britains-ambassador-Washington-Lord-Mandelson-youve-never-seen-before.html
He can’t survive this. These images even worse than pictures that destroyed Prince Andrew.
BBC News - Mandelson called Epstein 'best pal' in birthday message
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy9dwe50leo
Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
Metaphor for the day.
Tweet 'we have to start listening' then turn off replies to that tweet.
https://x.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1964628680602464747
Tweet 'we have to start listening' then turn off replies to that tweet.
https://x.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1964628680602464747
Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
1) Sorry to hear that Nick - customary understatement there but even a minor stroke isn't minor! Hope you're on the mend.I had a minor stroke a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed by the reaction and follow-up by the local hospital - detailed feedback to the GP were followed up a day later by a call from the consultant to resolve pending queries that I had. There was no sense of any hurry in my putting the questions during the call. Some aspects of the NHS are weighed down by procedural complexity abd waiting lists, but if something is urgent they really get their skates on.
Some of this occurs in all organisations. These sorts of things happen in the private sector, they happen in the third sector. Life is complicated. So, yes, put in the work streamlining processes etc. There's no magic solution here.
The immigration issue was also very starkly clear - 90% of the staff were clearly not of UK descent, and the system would instantly collapse without immigrants and the next generation of immigrants.
2) Glad the NHS treated you well. Your experience matches mine: in an emergency, the NHS is at its best. And the standard of care the NHS provides is often very good. The standard of customer service however is poor. It feels like the easier problem to solve, yet we never have.
3) The NHS would collapse without immigrants - this itself seems a bit of a flashing warning light? Ideally, we should be training our own population to do medical work - this isn't low-grade Brits-won't-do-it work, surely?
Cookie
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Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
The pitiful state of British politics in one headline
“Emily Thornberry joins deputy Labour leader race and says Gaza and wealth tax among her priorities – UK politics live”
So her priorities are
1. A faraway struggle which no one has solved for decades, which causes intense anger and division, and about which we can do precisely nothing
And
2. A new tax which will deeply damage the British economy just as such taxes have damaged every other economy, where attempted
“Emily Thornberry joins deputy Labour leader race and says Gaza and wealth tax among her priorities – UK politics live”
So her priorities are
1. A faraway struggle which no one has solved for decades, which causes intense anger and division, and about which we can do precisely nothing
And
2. A new tax which will deeply damage the British economy just as such taxes have damaged every other economy, where attempted
Leon
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Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
I had a minor stroke a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed by the reaction and follow-up by the local hospital - detailed feedback to the GP were followed up a day later by a call from the consultant to resolve pending queries that I had. There was no sense of any hurry in my putting the questions during the call. Some aspects of the NHS are weighed down by procedural complexity abd waiting lists, but if something is urgent they really get their skates on.
Some of this occurs in all organisations. These sorts of things happen in the private sector, they happen in the third sector. Life is complicated. So, yes, put in the work streamlining processes etc. There's no magic solution here.
The immigration issue was also very starkly clear - 90% of the staff were clearly not of UK descent, and the system would instantly collapse without immigrants and the next generation of immigrants.
Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
Just back from the hospital and out of my boot and off the crutches!
Only trouble is I seem to have forgotten how to walk.. or my right foot has. I can't seem to bend my foot and pick my heel up. I'm sure it'll come back to me; I've had plenty of practice
While I was in waiting area one at the fracture clinic, I noticed a very neatly handwritten notice on the noticeboard: "Water drinking machine in Waiting Area Two"
When I got to waiting area two I was most disappointed, though not at all surprised, to discover that it was just a drinking water dispenser, not a machine that drank water
Only trouble is I seem to have forgotten how to walk.. or my right foot has. I can't seem to bend my foot and pick my heel up. I'm sure it'll come back to me; I've had plenty of practice
While I was in waiting area one at the fracture clinic, I noticed a very neatly handwritten notice on the noticeboard: "Water drinking machine in Waiting Area Two"
When I got to waiting area two I was most disappointed, though not at all surprised, to discover that it was just a drinking water dispenser, not a machine that drank water
Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
I would suggest the result of the 1945 election in the aftermath of the Gestapo remark suggests his political skills were not *that* good.That's just Churchill playing politics. He was good at that.That's not how Conservatives portrayed Atlee at the time of course. Churchill accused Atlee of plotting to introduce a Gestapo in the 1945 election!Because he is doing it in the most pathetic "plastic union jack hat" manner. Which puts off his existing voters and puts off everyone else.Starmer apparently calling his party the 'Patriots' and Farage is a plastic PatriotBecause he doesn’t want to give the right total ownership of the patriot vote. It’s pretty simple really.
Why does he continue to mimic Farage and the right ?
Attlee was undeniably patriotic - as much so as Churchill - maybe take a gander at how he did that. It was policies based on inner beliefs. It wasn't by subcontracting his conscience to the Law Lords....
ydoethur
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Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
Nothing in this country will change until we scrap the OBR which has the Treasury in chains.
Remember folks, we can't afford teachers but we can afford the poor economic results of the consequences of not enough teachers. We can't afford a functional criminal justice system but we can afford crime. Rinse and repeat at both local and national level.
Remember folks, we can't afford teachers but we can afford the poor economic results of the consequences of not enough teachers. We can't afford a functional criminal justice system but we can afford crime. Rinse and repeat at both local and national level.
Re: I hope Nigel Farage bets – politicalbetting.com
As a Civil Servant myself, go to hell. I work my arse off in a background of rising abuse from the public due in no small part to the lazy pontificating of people like you.It’s really not. We are all going to experience the “fear of god” in the next few years, in regards to our careers and crafts - the civil service will and should be no exception. We should utilise the moment to make them WORKThis is the new £350m for the NHS delusion.Coz they will be terrified they’ll be the next to go in the next round of cuts. Put the fear of god in themRe. the discussion in the last thread, the Probate Officer will be employed by HM Courts and Tribunal Service i.e. the most well known under-funded part of public life in the last 20 years. It isn’t the “civil service” as is commonly understood.Isn't it? That's how I understood the "civil service"!
I was puzzled on the last thread by a complaint that a government service was slow and therefore the solution proposed was to cut staff. How is that going to make the service better?
Give them hard targets to meet and if they don’t meet them - gone
