How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
What would you say to the Mosul Christians or the Copts of Egypt and how do you define a heretic?
The Coptic Christians in Egypt are, for the moment, outwith the Islamic State. Christians are People of the Book, not heretics. As for the Christians of Mosul, they chose, understandably, to flee to Kurdish territory, rather than to accept dhimmi status and to pay the jizya. Certainly, the contemporary Islamic State is relatively tolerant compared with the Almohad Caliphate, for example.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead up one to two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%
Con poll above their July average. Kippers below theirs...
The average position would look very different if the weekly outlier Labour lead of 5-7 we tend to see at the beginning of the week was discounted.
Re 11 I was commenting this morning on Facebook about 2 young Hungarian ladies I placed in hospitality jobs on the Isle of Harris. Their boss is delighted with them. I placed an advert in a UK jobs board and didn't get a single British applicant. I got lots of Central and Eastern European ones and the 2 girls from Hungary were sourced by one of my Hungarian agents.
In my experience too few British unemployed are that bothered about getting work.
@foxinsoxuk They could have tried locating the ones that they were interested in by using seismic soundings, then collapsed them in and empty spot in "no mans land"?
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
Obviously you have never been to Gaza or experienced being among a terrorist organisation and its activities.
Lol.
Er, no, I've never been among a terrorist organisation. Not even the Israeli Government!
The only existential threat Israel faces is its own behaviour. And they just can't go on like this.
With such a blinkered view, your thinking and solution generation ability is so, so limited.
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
@foxinsoxuk They could have tried locating the ones that they were interested in by using seismic soundings, then collapsed them in and empty spot in "no mans land"?
They could've just bricked them up, instead of killing a few thousand civilians and kids in schools and hospitals.
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead up one to two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%
Con poll above their July average. Kippers below theirs...
The average position would look very different if the weekly outlier Labour lead of 5-7 we tend to see at the beginning of the week was discounted.
Re 11 I was commenting this morning on Facebook about 2 young Hungarian ladies I placed in hospitality jobs on the Isle of Harris. Their boss is delighted with them. I placed an advert in a UK jobs board and didn't get a single British applicant. I got lots of Central and Eastern European ones and the 2 girls from Hungary were sourced by one of my Hungarian agents.
In my experience too few British unemployed are that bothered about getting work.
I think that not many even know of the Isle of Harris existence (like me).
@Easterross It is a crap low paid job, and the Hungarian ladies can account for that by improving their English before returning home. You see them all over the highlands in the hotels. (some, shock horror, do some work on the side, or possibly back)
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
Obviously you have never been to Gaza or experienced being among a terrorist organisation and its activities.
Lol.
Er, no, I've never been among a terrorist organisation. Not even the Israeli Government!
The only existential threat Israel faces is its own behaviour. And they just can't go on like this.
With such a blinkered view, your thinking and solution generation ability is so, so limited.
I don't pretend to have a solution, because the only one that would work - Israel joining the civilised world or being forced to by the rest of the world as per SeanT's suggestion - will not happen.
What would you say to the Mosul Christians or the Copts of Egypt and how do you define a heretic?
The Coptic Christians in Egypt are, for the moment, outwith the Islamic State. Christians are People of the Book, not heretics. As for the Christians of Mosul, they chose, understandably, to flee to Kurdish territory, rather than to accept dhimmi status and to pay the jizya. Certainly, the contemporary Islamic State is relatively tolerant compared with the Almohad Caliphate, for example.
I hope that you are kidding. ISIS is only more tolerant in the same way that the Spanish Inquisition was more tolerant than the Anti Cathar crusaders!
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
Obviously you have never been to Gaza or experienced being among a terrorist organisation and its activities.
Lol.
Er, no, I've never been among a terrorist organisation. Not even the Israeli Government!
The only existential threat Israel faces is its own behaviour. And they just can't go on like this.
With such a blinkered view, your thinking and solution generation ability is so, so limited.
I don't pretend to have a solution, because the only one that would work - Israel joining the civilised world or being forced to by the rest of the world as per SeanT's suggestion - will not happen.
Dare I suggest that you add Hamas to your list of people who should join the civilised world? Or should they be granted sub-civilised barbarian status?
'Dare I suggest that you add Hamas to your list of people who should join the civilised world? Or should they be granted sub-civilised barbarian status?'
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
The Germans worked out how to deal with tunnels in the POW camps, you use sound waves to locate them, then collapse them at the last moment. Saps morale better that way.
How would you deal with states or movements within states (Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah etc) whose stated objective/ideology is the complete elimination of a neighbouring state and the annihilation of that state's people?
Would you not agree that the leaders of armed movements are cowards when they use other people to be suicide bombers on their behalf and they use schools, hospitals etc as human shields?
We have seen how ISIS eliminates all people who do not subject themselves to the wishes/culture/beliefs of ISIS and so like totalitarian regimes eliminate both freedom of movement and thought. How would you deal with them and their backers?
BTW I have travelled probably as widely than you and have spoken with both the leaders and the people of the countries under discussion.
Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.
Nuclear bombs, hah! We've got tunnels! Apparently. They're dead good ones, though. Better than the ones in the Great Escape, much more deadly.
How can Israel get rid of these infiltration tunnels otherwise than land involvement by military engineers?
And for those who cry for sanctions, do you agree that the sanctions should apply to both sides? Perhaps a ban on weapons and parts for weapons would be a good place to start. The Enforcement would require destruction or closing of the Hamas tunnels.
I hope that you are kidding. ISIS is only more tolerant in the same way that the Spanish Inquisition was more tolerant than the Anti Cathar crusaders!
It is alleged that the papal legate at Béziers in 1209 instructed the Albigensian crusaders to "[k]ill them all. God will know his own." The Islamic State did not put all the inhabitants of Mosul to the sword upon the town's conquest. In that sense, the Caliph Ibrahim is more tolerant than the opponents of Catharism.
'Dare I suggest that you add Hamas to your list of people who should join the civilised world? Or should they be granted sub-civilised barbarian status?'
ISIS is about their level.
I haven't seen Hamas execute people because they are not sunnis, or even crucify anyone. I believe they are at the same level as the muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
'Dare I suggest that you add Hamas to your list of people who should join the civilised world? Or should they be granted sub-civilised barbarian status?'
ISIS is about their level.
I haven't seen Hamas execute people because they are not sunnis, or even crucify anyone. I believe they are at the same level as the muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
I would very much like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to "join the civilised world" and stop forced conversions of Christians.
regarding point 12 above - would Romney win a rerun -
what little political antennae I have tends to listen to my 2 'focus groups'. One is my fellow Rotarians, who tend to be (but not all) Republicans, and the other is my daughter's friends at the restaurant she used to work at for mad money when she was at college. A friend of mine owns a restaurant where I lunch regularly, (didn't know lunch was a verb, huh?), so I chat with their staff too. Food industry workers tend to be (but again not all) Democratic.
When Obama was elected, the restaurant folks were pretty excited about the prospect of Obamacare. They could have cared less about TARP. They also tend to follow politics less closely than the Rotary folks.
As time has gone on, they have become more and more dismayed with Obama, particularly over the economy, immigration and -above all - Obamacare.
It was sold as being better, cheaper, and universal. Most of the restaurant folks have had to sign up for Obamacare, and several have got really good deals - premiums for $30-$50 per month. The problem is not everyone got these subsidies, and some paid over $100 per month. This is an irritant to those who have to count every penny.
It didn't take long before kids or adults needed medical procedures, and the real bad news set in. The premiums might be low, but the deductibles and copays are massive. Even a simple day surgery procedure can give you a bill for $3-$4k, which they are all too well aware, with pre-Obamacare insurance would not have happened.
An explanation - Obamacare made great play of lower premiums (over 80% who signed up get subsisized premiums). To keep costs low, they have very low reimbursement rates to providers. This in turn means that under Obamacare you have few options. For example, under Obamacare in the county where I live, if you need a gall bladder removal you have only one doctor who will do it. Under my policy there are over 35.
So these unfortunate folks have realized the truth about Obamacare at last, and feel cheated: yes, it gives you health insurance, at the cost of huge deductibles, but severely limits access to healthcare. As more and more folks find this out they are angry.
The other is immigration - merely because these folks are low paid doesn't make them stupid. They are almost all angry at the current influx of young folks across our borders, and know it is a manufactured crisis. Like most low paid workers they know that mass immigration is a threat to their jobs.
The are almost all annoyed - it doesn't make them vote Republican but they feel used.
The Rotary folks - they're comparatively easy - they predicted it and are in 'told you so' mode.
regarding point 12 above - would Romney win a rerun -
[snipped for space] ... A friend of mine owns a restaurant where I lunch regularly, (didn't know lunch was a verb, huh?), so I chat with their staff too. Food industry workers tend to be (but again not all) Democratic.
When Obama was elected, the restaurant folks were pretty excited about the prospect of Obamacare. They could have cared less about TARP. They also tend to follow politics less closely than the Rotary folks.
As time has gone on, they have become more and more dismayed with Obama, particularly over the economy, immigration and -above all - Obamacare.
It was sold as being better, cheaper, and universal. Most of the restaurant folks have had to sign up for Obamacare, and several have got really good deals - premiums for $30-$50 per month. The problem is not everyone got these subsidies, and some paid over $100 per month. This is an irritant to those who have to count every penny.
It didn't take long before kids or adults needed medical procedures, and the real bad news set in. The premiums might be low, but the deductibles and copays are massive. Even a simple day surgery procedure can give you a bill for $3-$4k, which they are all too well aware, with pre-Obamacare insurance would not have happened.
An explanation - Obamacare made great play of lower premiums (over 80% who signed up get subsisized premiums). To keep costs low, they have very low reimbursement rates to providers. This in turn means that under Obamacare you have few options. For example, under Obamacare in the county where I live, if you need a gall bladder removal you have only one doctor who will do it. Under my policy there are over 35.
So these unfortunate folks have realized the truth about Obamacare at last, and feel cheated: yes, it gives you health insurance, at the cost of huge deductibles, but severely limits access to healthcare. As more and more folks find this out they are angry.
The other is immigration - merely because these folks are low paid doesn't make them stupid. They are almost all angry at the current influx of young folks across our borders, and know it is a manufactured crisis. Like most low paid workers they know that mass immigration is a threat to their jobs.
The are almost all annoyed - it doesn't make them vote Republican but they feel used.
The Rotary folks - they're comparatively easy - they predicted it and are in 'told you so' mode.
A very interesting post, Mr. B. I wonder what chance these newly disillusioned people will vote other than Democrat next time.
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
regarding point 12 above - would Romney win a rerun -
[snipped for space] ... A friend of mine owns a restaurant where I lunch regularly, (didn't know lunch was a verb, huh?), so I chat with their staff too. Food industry workers tend to be (but again not all) Democratic.
When Obama was elected, the restaurant folks were pretty excited about the prospect of Obamacare. They could have cared less about TARP. They also tend to follow politics less closely than the Rotary folks.
As time has gone on, they have become more and more dismayed with Obama, particularly over the economy, immigration and -above all - Obamacare.
It was sold as being better, cheaper, and universal. Most of the restaurant folks have had to sign up for Obamacare, and several have got really good deals - premiums for $30-$50 per month. The problem is not everyone got these subsidies, and some paid over $100 per month. This is an irritant to those who have to count every penny.
It didn't take long before kids or adults needed medical procedures, and the real bad news set in. The premiums might be low, but the deductibles and copays are massive. Even a simple day surgery procedure can give you a bill for $3-$4k, which they are all too well aware, with pre-Obamacare insurance would not have happened.
An explanation - Obamacare made great play of lower premiums (over 80% who signed up get subsisized premiums). To keep costs low, they have very low reimbursement rates to providers. This in turn means that under Obamacare you have few options. For example, under Obamacare in the county where I live, if you need a gall bladder removal you have only one doctor who will do it. Under my policy there are over 35.
So these unfortunate folks have realized the truth about Obamacare at last, and feel cheated: yes, it gives you health insurance, at the cost of huge deductibles, but severely limits access to healthcare. As more and more folks find this out they are angry.
The other is immigration - merely because these folks are low paid doesn't make them stupid. They are almost all angry at the current influx of young folks across our borders, and know it is a manufactured crisis. Like most low paid workers they know that mass immigration is a threat to their jobs.
The are almost all annoyed - it doesn't make them vote Republican but they feel used. .
A very interesting post, Mr. B. I wonder what chance these newly disillusioned people will vote other than Democrat next time.
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
I doubt many will boldly go (Americanism alert) downtown, see it thru and vote Republican, but some could just stay home. It's early days yet.
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
In America, every noun can be verbed.
and amongst them, burglarised is one of the ghastliest
Team Scotland’s success in the Commonwealth Games is not translating into increased support for independence. According to Mike Smithson, a leading betting analyst, trading at Betfair suggests just a 14.2 per cent chance of a “yes” vote in September’s referendum.
The findings will disappoint Alex Salmond and the nationalists who will have hoped that the feelgood factor around Glasgow 2014 would provide a boost for their campaign.
More than a quarter of Wales' four and five-year-olds are overweight - with more than one-in-10 classed as obese, say public health officials.
Merthyr Tydfil tops the league for weight issues in young children, with 34% regarded as overweight.
Public Health Wales looked at the Body Mass Index (BMI) of just over 1,000 children starting primary school - with a BMI over 25 considered unhealthy.
Across Wales, 26% were over that BMI - while in England it was just 22%.
The average figures for Wales are also higher than the worst region of England - which is the north-east, where 24% of four and five-year-olds have slipped into the overweight BMI zone.
This state of affairs is really horrific and shows a mixture of ignorance, laziness or just don't-care by their parents.
Methyr Tydfil is an unemployment hot-spot and is there a link between unemployment and lack of willingness/ability by parents to involve themselves with their children in meaningful physical activities and games, and also to eat the right foods?
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
In America, every noun can be verbed.
And all the way back again; I believe I read the abomination 'taskings' somewhere recently.
What Israel is doing is disgusting and outrageous. That's the only way to describe it.
Hamas although seem intent in throwing Palestine into hell to combat Israel. Both sides have the power to end this, but both sides seem that they don't want to.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Mr. Slackbladder, really? It takes two to make peace, and one to make war. Both sides can unilaterally keep the conflict going, but some degree of agreement is needed to end it.
Mr. Pubgoer, I bet they're now regretting not funding a space cannon to fire senior Labour politicians into the heart of the sun.
BBC -"Argentina has defaulted on its debt - for the second time in 13 years - after last-minute talks in New York with a group of bond-holders ended in failure."
No doubt blowhard de Kirchner will play her distraction card and demand the return of the Channel Isles....
What Israel is doing is disgusting and outrageous. That's the only way to describe it.
Hamas although seem intent in throwing Palestine into hell to combat Israel. Both sides have the power to end this, but both sides seem that they don't want to.
No only Israel has the power, Hamas are the victims confined to their modern day Gulag. This was a premeditated invasion utilising a trumped up excuse to destroy the Palestinian unity government as well as kill as many Muslim and Christian Palestinians as possible.
Team Scotland’s success in the Commonwealth Games is not translating into increased support for independence. According to Mike Smithson, a leading betting analyst, trading at Betfair suggests just a 14.2 per cent chance of a “yes” vote in September’s referendum.
The findings will disappoint Alex Salmond and the nationalists who will have hoped that the feelgood factor around Glasgow 2014 would provide a boost for their campaign.
A very senior nurse in the NHS on 1 April 2010 earned £27,534
That same nurse on 31 March 2015 will earn £27,901
An increase of 1.33% over 5 years or 0.2% pa
Agency rates over the same period have approximately doubled.
The trickle of permanent Nurses making the decision to ditch NHS contracts and move to providing an Agency Nurse service on much more favorable terms is turning into a flood.
The cost of living crisis is a fact of life for NHS nurses.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Poor management .
Bloody hell, I used to get Time Off In Lieu, plus admittedly an annual allowance for being preapred to do them, which amounted to raising me one salary level And I had to to be prepared to do any of them. And a weekend every so often.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Poor management .
Bloody hell, I used to get Time Off In Lieu, plus admittedly an annual allowance for being preapred to do them, which amounted to raising me one salary level And I had to to be prepared to do any of them. And a weekend every so often.
So Cameron's bribe on the 40p tax threshold will net someone on £44k a whole £425 a year (44000-41875)*0.2. Pretty slim pickings compared to the tax cut someone on £200k got when the rate when down to 45p
Team Scotland’s success in the Commonwealth Games is not translating into increased support for independence. According to Mike Smithson, a leading betting analyst, trading at Betfair suggests just a 14.2 per cent chance of a “yes” vote in September’s referendum.
The findings will disappoint Alex Salmond and the nationalists who will have hoped that the feelgood factor around Glasgow 2014 would provide a boost for their campaign.
Team Scotland’s success in the Commonwealth Games is not translating into increased support for independence. According to Mike Smithson, a leading betting analyst, trading at Betfair suggests just a 14.2 per cent chance of a “yes” vote in September’s referendum.
The findings will disappoint Alex Salmond and the nationalists who will have hoped that the feelgood factor around Glasgow 2014 would provide a boost for their campaign.
Team Scotland’s success in the Commonwealth Games is not translating into increased support for independence. According to Mike Smithson, a leading betting analyst, trading at Betfair suggests just a 14.2 per cent chance of a “yes” vote in September’s referendum.
The findings will disappoint Alex Salmond and the nationalists who will have hoped that the feelgood factor around Glasgow 2014 would provide a boost for their campaign.
Does the Times mention the lack of polling since the Games started, and also that Shadsy has reported increased support for Yes?
The Times has lost the plot , London centric crap. Yesterday they were lying about what Bolt said , today they publish that absolute bilge. Desperate unionists clutching at straws. Using Betfair as a measure makes voodoo polls 100% accurate.
You could as easily say that due to 60% of all bets being for YES that they are certain to win , if you were as stupid as some of the frothers on here of course.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Poor management .
Bloody hell, I used to get Time Off In Lieu, plus admittedly an annual allowance for being preapred to do them, which amounted to raising me one salary level And I had to to be prepared to do any of them. And a weekend every so often.
Lack of imaginative management
Plus, I suggest, staff demoralisation, at least partly due to the sort of salary rises cited by Mr Owls.
Please can we have a new thread? This nighthawks chat is wandering around like a drunk.
Ed is crap Neverendum UKIP something or other Polling something or other Do we HAVE to have the LibDEms in a coalition in 2015? Which UK politician is most in need of a good hard punch? Anything
So Cameron's bribe on the 40p tax threshold will net someone on £44k a whole £425 a year (44000-41875)*0.2. Pretty slim pickings compared to the tax cut someone on £200k got when the rate when down to 45p
its a myth that people paying 45p tax are rich, at the lower end of the 45p bracket that is
Please can we have a new thread? This nighthawks chat is wandering around like a drunk.
Ed is crap Neverendum UKIP something or other Polling something or other Do we HAVE to have the LibDEms in a coalition in 2015? Which UK politician is most in need of a good hard punch? Anything
Out of curiosity, why the animosity towards Hannibal in point 15? Yes, he made mistakes and he was well beaten by Scipio using better tactics, but that hardly makes him 'vastly overrated'. Winning three battles against the Romans in Italy was a major military achievement that led to dramatic changes in Roman law and culture,and he might well have conquered the entire Republic barring political intriguing by his enemies in Carthage.
If you want a really over-rated general, try Napoleon Bonaparte - a man who had a tendency to buy victory at the cost of enormous losses among his troops.
Do we HAVE to have the LibDEms in a coalition in 2015?
If the LibDems stay at around 8%, they're not likely to be in a coalition; in fact, I'd be very surprised if they had more than a dozen seats in that scenario.
Mr. Doethur, new thread so I'll post here and copy and paste the answer there as well.
There's a long-running conflict between the forces of enlightenment, wisdom and reason (me) and those of silly sausages and historically illiterate obdurate types (Mr. Eagles) regarding whether Hannibal or Caesar was the better general. The answer, of course, is that Hannibal was better, by miles.
What Israel is doing is disgusting and outrageous. That's the only way to describe it.
Hamas although seem intent in throwing Palestine into hell to combat Israel. Both sides have the power to end this, but both sides seem that they don't want to.
Yes - all one big game for Hamas and Likud, sadly.
Please can we have a new thread? This nighthawks chat is wandering around like a drunk.
Ed is crap Neverendum UKIP something or other Polling something or other Do we HAVE to have the LibDEms in a coalition in 2015? Which UK politician is most in need of a good hard punch? Anything
Not just this night thread. While there are new media stories to discuss, new polls and new betting odds, there is always a daily repeat of the same old stuff. I think judging by some of the comments that some have broken keyboards, as they seem to keep typing the same comments every day, so must have limited letters to use.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
Poor management .
Just sent an FOI to your favourite Trust will let you know how poor their management is within 20 days.
Comments
Are they like infiltration tanks and infiltration cruise missiles, only with more spades involved?
Re 11 I was commenting this morning on Facebook about 2 young Hungarian ladies I placed in hospitality jobs on the Isle of Harris. Their boss is delighted with them. I placed an advert in a UK jobs board and didn't get a single British applicant. I got lots of Central and Eastern European ones and the 2 girls from Hungary were sourced by one of my Hungarian agents.
In my experience too few British unemployed are that bothered about getting work.
They could have tried locating the ones that they were interested in by using seismic soundings, then collapsed them in and empty spot in "no mans land"?
It is a crap low paid job, and the Hungarian ladies can account for that by improving their English before returning home.
You see them all over the highlands in the hotels. (some, shock horror, do some work on the side, or possibly back)
'Oh jeeez, yeah, Gazan terrorist cowards are using their children on beaches and UN schools as human shields.'
That comment says it all.
But if there are to be sanctions, then these should be cultural and sporting rather than economic.
It also needs to get stop running itself in a quasi-apartheid manner - particularly the West bank settlements and Gaza blockade.
And Hamas needs to swallow some humble pie and place the Palestinians of the Gaza strip's interests above it's own.
Khaled Mashal and Netanyahu need to stop trying to kill each other and get round a table. Sadly it seems pigs will fly before this happens right now.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uEr2h7vIzfU
This is a political issue, reason has nothing to do with it.
'Dare I suggest that you add Hamas to your list of people who should join the civilised world? Or should they be granted sub-civilised barbarian status?'
ISIS is about their level.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/tunnel-infiltration-thwarted-near-kibbutz-sufa/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pJrETLqFOI
I believe they are at the same level as the muslim brotherhood in Egypt.
Do us a favour and watch Children of Syria,might give you some understanding of the psyche of your pals in Hamas.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c34bv
Lyse Doucet follows the lives of six Syrian children as they cope with the war.
http://barnabasfund.org/US/Beleaguered-Christians-in-Gaza-protest-over-conversions.html
It is hypocritical to call for Israel to join the civilised world while turning a blind eye to Hamas barbarism.
what little political antennae I have tends to listen to my 2 'focus groups'. One is my fellow Rotarians, who tend to be (but not all) Republicans, and the other is my daughter's friends at the restaurant she used to work at for mad money when she was at college. A friend of mine owns a restaurant where I lunch regularly, (didn't know lunch was a verb, huh?), so I chat with their staff too. Food industry workers tend to be (but again not all) Democratic.
When Obama was elected, the restaurant folks were pretty excited about the prospect of Obamacare. They could have cared less about TARP. They also tend to follow politics less closely than the Rotary folks.
As time has gone on, they have become more and more dismayed with Obama, particularly over the economy, immigration and -above all - Obamacare.
It was sold as being better, cheaper, and universal. Most of the restaurant folks have had to sign up for Obamacare, and several have got really good deals - premiums for $30-$50 per month. The problem is not everyone got these subsidies, and some paid over $100 per month. This is an irritant to those who have to count every penny.
It didn't take long before kids or adults needed medical procedures, and the real bad news set in. The premiums might be low, but the deductibles and copays are massive. Even a simple day surgery procedure can give you a bill for $3-$4k, which they are all too well aware, with pre-Obamacare insurance would not have happened.
An explanation - Obamacare made great play of lower premiums (over 80% who signed up get subsisized premiums). To keep costs low, they have very low reimbursement rates to providers. This in turn means that under Obamacare you have few options. For example, under Obamacare in the county where I live, if you need a gall bladder removal you have only one doctor who will do it. Under my policy there are over 35.
So these unfortunate folks have realized the truth about Obamacare at last, and feel cheated: yes, it gives you health insurance, at the cost of huge deductibles, but severely limits access to healthcare. As more and more folks find this out they are angry.
The other is immigration - merely because these folks are low paid doesn't make them stupid. They are almost all angry at the current influx of young folks across our borders, and know it is a manufactured crisis. Like most low paid workers they know that mass immigration is a threat to their jobs.
The are almost all annoyed - it doesn't make them vote Republican but they feel used.
The Rotary folks - they're comparatively easy - they predicted it and are in 'told you so' mode.
P.S. The use of the word "Lunch" as a verb has been quite commonplace over here for quite some time. Its deplorable but, like so many other ghastly Americanisms, there seems nothing to be done about it.
I'm impressed ;-)
Mr. Speedy, on Hamas winning an election (in Gaza): they did, but later they completely wiped out (throwing some from rooftops) Fatah in Gaza.
More than a quarter of Wales' four and five-year-olds are overweight - with more than one-in-10 classed as obese, say public health officials.
Merthyr Tydfil tops the league for weight issues in young children, with 34% regarded as overweight.
Public Health Wales looked at the Body Mass Index (BMI) of just over 1,000 children starting primary school - with a BMI over 25 considered unhealthy.
Across Wales, 26% were over that BMI - while in England it was just 22%.
The average figures for Wales are also higher than the worst region of England - which is the north-east, where 24% of four and five-year-olds have slipped into the overweight BMI zone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-28567638
This state of affairs is really horrific and shows a mixture of ignorance, laziness or just don't-care by their parents.
Methyr Tydfil is an unemployment hot-spot and is there a link between unemployment and lack of willingness/ability by parents to involve themselves with their children in meaningful physical activities and games, and also to eat the right foods?
Hmmm with a Tory lead of 14% on the economy, 8% on taxation, and 5% on employment (gasp), not sure if the summer Labour slogan of
"The Choice: The Labour Future / The Tory Threat.”
rings true.
Hamas although seem intent in throwing Palestine into hell to combat Israel. Both sides have the power to end this, but both sides seem that they don't want to.
Seem to remember PB Tories saying comedy gold when I talked about agency rates of 5 times NHS rates. Well an NHS Bank Holiday shift including on costs is £300
So rates of up to six times according to Torygraph
(For the avoidance of doubt, this is a joke)
Mr. Pubgoer, I bet they're now regretting not funding a space cannon to fire senior Labour politicians into the heart of the sun.
No doubt blowhard de Kirchner will play her distraction card and demand the return of the Channel Isles....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28578179
http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-right-or-wrong/
Does the Times mention the lack of polling since the Games started, and also that Shadsy has reported increased support for Yes?
That same nurse on 31 March 2015 will earn £27,901
An increase of 1.33% over 5 years or 0.2% pa
Agency rates over the same period have approximately doubled.
The trickle of permanent Nurses making the decision to ditch NHS contracts and move to providing an Agency Nurse service on much more favorable terms is turning into a flood.
The cost of living crisis is a fact of life for NHS nurses.
Awaits responses from COLC deniers.
Joking aside, I'm rather concerned, - hope the old boy is just having a lay in.
The Times has lost the plot , London centric crap. Yesterday they were lying about what Bolt said , today they publish that absolute bilge. Desperate unionists clutching at straws. Using Betfair as a measure makes voodoo polls 100% accurate.
You could as easily say that due to 60% of all bets being for YES that they are certain to win , if you were as stupid as some of the frothers on here of course.
Ed is crap
Neverendum
UKIP something or other
Polling something or other
Do we HAVE to have the LibDEms in a coalition in 2015?
Which UK politician is most in need of a good hard punch?
Anything
http://moneyweek.com/merryns-blog/why-britain-has-the-nastiest-new-homes-in-europe/
If you want a really over-rated general, try Napoleon Bonaparte - a man who had a tendency to buy victory at the cost of enormous losses among his troops.
And where oh where is t*m when we need him on his special subject?
There's a long-running conflict between the forces of enlightenment, wisdom and reason (me) and those of silly sausages and historically illiterate obdurate types (Mr. Eagles) regarding whether Hannibal or Caesar was the better general. The answer, of course, is that Hannibal was better, by miles.
Not just this night thread. While there are new media stories to discuss, new polls and new betting odds, there is always a daily repeat of the same old stuff. I think judging by some of the comments that some have broken keyboards, as they seem to keep typing the same comments every day, so must have limited letters to use.