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It has been a pleasure to meet so many members on the campaign trail and I'm grateful for all their support. pic.twitter.com/aaBDlYaOmH
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Whatever I choose, and I'll sing the blues if I want
I'm free to say whatever I
Whatever I like, if it's wrong or right, it's alright
The tories are still in a very dangerous position. Not quite as existential as it was several months ago, but they're nowhere near out of the woods. The last thing the party needs are members like casino & hyufd shrugging their shoulders and quietly walking away. They've got to rebuild from something. Anything.
He's doing the tory party a great service, here.
The Tories need to rediscover what they are for rather than raging against everything for oppositions sake and cheap headlines.
A staple complaint on pb.com has been that Johnson missed an opportunity during the pandemic to encourage the country to get into shape, and that a bit of money spent on prevention would be a lot cheaper than a fortune spent later on treatment.
I've no idea if what is proposed is the right way to go about things (sounds like it is a screening questionnaire, rather than physical appointments) but it's evidence that someone is asking the right questions and trying something new.
It's one of the better signs in the early days of Keir.
Looking forward to my tax rebate for having low body fat. Huzzah for Sir Keir's Lipid Inquisition!
Aw, bless. We cant have his little feelings hurtied, can we? I wonder what else he'll find 'unsettling'?
He really is going to be a poor PM.
It’s voluntary . The Times I’ve found over the last year seems to do a lot headlines which seek to mislead .
They have to give the left something.
We have a real problem with reducing healthy life expectancy in this country:
"For the three aggregated years 2020–22, although male life expectancy was 78.8 years, average healthy male life expectancy was only 62.4 years – ie, 16.4 of those years (21%) would have been spent in poor health. Female life expectancy was 82.8 years, of which 20.1 years (24%) would have been spent in poor health. Although females live an average of four years longer than males, they spend a higher proportion and more years of their lives in poor health.
Moreover, healthy life expectancy in England in 2020–22 was lower than in 2011–13, when the data series began, falling by 0.8 years in males and 1.2 years in females during that time. So not only has life expectancy stalled, but males and females spend more years in poor health. "
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/whats-happening-life-expectancy-england
Or alternatively, hang it at the bottom of the Kola Borehole, to represent the hole she left the country in...
As most of you know I have had nearly a year of a health crisis including a large dvt, an aneurism, and in February a pacemaker implanted
It follows that I have had a long and extensive engagement with the NHS, a haematologist, a cardiologist, a vascular surgeon , as well as numerous visits to my GP practice which will continue indefinitely and on most occasions I have my blood, pulse, and oxygen readings taken as routine
I expect there will be an outcry over testing in work environments but I do think these simple, possibly life saving, tests should be taken at every available opportunity even in the workplace
What's not for the leftists to like?
I read that as voluntary at the employer level. Kid Starver teams up with the head capitalists to fat shame The Workers. He really is hilariously useless.
Meanwhile you're moaning about a picture.
https://x.com/RTodKelly/status/1829158005700735314
That means-testing is a little too tight, in my view, but you can hardly argue that universal benefits is a what is important to Conservatives. Politically, you're right about public sector pay, but we know from the polling that public services are important to people and a series of strikes into the winter would have sunk any government.
He is PM. He will, sadly, have to make really important decisions; sometimes life-and-death decisions. He needs to be tough, as do all PMs. Yet he finds a portrait of a massively successful (although controversial) predecessor 'unsettling'.
He needs to get a grip.
We know that sickness is one of the things causing our economy to slow and our public spending to build, so this is exactly the kind of intervention the government needs to make.
"More than 16 million people are eligible for an NHS health check, but data shows that only about 40% of those invited complete one."
Reaching people via their workplace - inviting them to complete a voluntary health questionnaire on company time - might be a way of improving that sort of response rate, and help to head off health problems at an earlier stage.
It's not going to be forcing people up on stage to face the calipers in front of all their colleagues. Some of the reactions to this very modest trial scheme are completely unhinged.
The pensioners' fuel cut will hurt many pensioners, regardless of means-testing. Starmer's Labour have made their priorities very clear: public sector workers can look forward to good times; whilst others can go hang. It was predictable, but Starmer probably thinks his supermajority protects him from the public for a while. He might be right.
It's still early days, and I'm open to the possibility that Starmer's government(s) will be good for the country. It'll almost certainly be better than the two previous Conservative ones; but that is a low base, and much lower than we need. But these early signs are not good IMV.
It juices up parts of the Tory party, but it’s something they can all unite behind
It paints Starmer as petty and vindictive (it is the “Thatcher Room” so of course there should be a picture of Thatcher in it!)
It sets the frame that he is focused on small things that aren’t important rather than tackling big issues
(Edit: autocorrect wants to change “Tory party” to “Tory pity” 😂)
And the focus will be on blood pressure, not weight.
Etc.
IMV if we had not had an EU referendum in 2016 we would have either had one by now, or have a very right-wing government that would make Sunak's look like Corbyn's.
The issue of EU membership was a can that could only be kicked down the road so far.
It's definitely you that needs to get a grip, he's only taken a picture off a wall in a room that none of us will ever see, he's not thrown the statue of Churchill into the Thames.
But Cameron did it to head off the right-wing given his small majority. And I don't think there is any evidence that the country would suddenly swing to the right on the back of not having one, simply because we've had absolutely massive non-EU migration since then and just elected Labour.
And I have to repeat myself: it's not just about building houses; it's about building communities. And also note that build quality also needs to be addressed: something I've been harping on about on here for years.
That's why the outrage over this is a bit silly.
If I were to get a letter inviting me for "an NHS health check", I'd probably just bin it because it strikes me as a waste of time when I know it takes literally months to get an appointment when I want one.
Starmer needs to be a bit more positive. People will put up with hard times if they see some purpose and better times ahead. It's too negative to keep blaming the previous government, even when completely correct as to the run down finances, failing public services and lacklustre economy that they have inherited.
In the long-run probably the right kind of thing to do.
Every week I see new patient with established complications of diabetes due to late diagnosis, often because of no symptoms. Some of them will be permanently disabled as a result.
Tory cheerleaders on here like to focus on productivity as a means to generate growth. Surely having a full attendance, healthy workforce could achieve just that.
I don't hold that much enthusiasm for Starmer-Labour and I believe they have a thankless task ahead. But those in the media and on here shouting foul, loudest and in unison ("the herd"as Casino might call them) are those who were opposed to Starmer-Labour before the election. Where were the cries over Hunt's absurd NI cuts with nothing to replace it at the bottom on the economic cycle, or Sunak's rolling ban on the sale of cigarettes? Of course those bellyaching now were telling us in earnest that Johnson got all the big calls right and Truss's budget was the best, most conservative budget ever
What was actually announced just comes across as a soundbite, that sounds good in a speech but changes nothing in reality.
Brexit will be blamed for our turgid economy, and the red tape with Europe will be increasingly frustrating.
Cutting those barriers by rejoining the SM would be the quickest spur to growth. The surviving Brexiteers could even get their WFA back as a result.
Also, can we place 'is doing a lot of heavy lifting' on the banned PB cliche list, please.
I'd get rid of the awful curtains and carpet too - but that would cost money. The armchairs by the fireplace are pretty hideous too.
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/take-a-tour-through-the-historic-rooms-of-10-downing-street/twXxuEIPr4FZJA
See, it's not petty and it's not vindictive.
Let's see what happens.
I had my dvt in October last year and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency and underwent an immediate ultra sound
That ultrasound found a massive dvt in my left thigh but also an undetected aneurysm that can often be fatal
As a result my aneurysm is monitored yearly and if necessary the surgeon will operate
Blood pressure, pulse and oxygen tests can be lifesavers and to be honest there is no need to fat shame anyone
https://x.com/vicderbyshire/status/1829256503393460313
Every Senate Republican — except Collins and Murkowksi — voted against a bill to mandate insurance coverage for IVF in June.
https://x.com/stephen_neukam/status/1829327475706384402
Does 'him' refer to Gladstone or the guy you brought back?
Jenrick and Tugenhat for the members ballot, with Jenrick winning the poisoned chalice.
I'll explain why the 'if' is doing heavy lifting. Firstly, that entire sentence was wrong. Its not a case of getting house building restarted, as f-loads of houses are being built, as I can see after a few minutes of walking. It is a case of building *more* houses. Secondly, I have my doubts that he will be able to increase the rate of build so that it is *enough*, given the massive demand. Are houses like roads; the more we build, the more we need? Thirdly, we want good houses, not shite poorly-built ones that barely qualify as 'houses'.
Perhaps the reason why the PM's over the last three decades have not been able to tackle the problem is that the problem is fairly intractable, especially given the demand?
He needs to lay off the politics a bit when it comes to day to day government, but contrarily he needs to get better at narrative so he brings people with him as he makes his not always popular choices.
If high blood pressure is detected or further tests diagnosed diabetes, then treatment will commence and monitored including year on year reviews
Prevention is better than a funeral
He doesn't get that choice. He might have to make the decision whilst on holiday; or on a foreign visit, or at three o'clock in the morning. Or whilst on the toilet, if it is urgent enough.
It's fairly pathetic of him. Although I do wonder if it is an utterly deliberate move on his part, as an easy piece of red meat thrown to the left.
The fact is the country is way too obese and it’s making the population unhealthy and unproductive. British diets are shit and we don’t do enough exercise. If people are fat they should be told so.
Yet there seems to be more fear of eating disorders than of the epochal health challenge that is obesity.
The removal of Thatcher's portrait from No.10 certainly seems a goid start, I must sy.
Most of Downing St belongs in a skip.
It's essentially a late silly season story, with added anti-Starmer press edge.
If people cant/won't lose weight you can still mitigate the damage with cheap pharmaceuticals.