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New ComRes poll for ITV finds that the NHS now the main concern of voters – jumping above immigration pic.twitter.com/OfDVtXI3JA
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Don't mention Stafford, Welsh NHS , GPS contacts or AB privatising the only NHS hospital
( upsets big John)
;-)
And now back to my grapes.
Also the two main parties focusing obsessively on the deficit doesn't seem to be beneficial based on the poll. Cost of living and economic growth slightly more important.
FPT,
"Surby,
You've missed out Edward Longshanks in 1290 - he was Catholic (of sorts) and the Romans in AD70 - Italians.
So your point is that some Muslims (ISIS etc) are now behaving like other civilisations did hundreds of years ago
Are you saying that makes it alright then? Or are you saying that Islam needs to modernise?
Which is it?
Douglas Alexander batting for Europe in the Evening Standard tonight:
"The tragedy for Britain is that it doesn’t need to be like this. There is an alternative to Britain stumbling out of Europe. The right approach for Britain is not an exit from Europe, it is reform in Europe.
From day one in office, a newly elected Labour government would set about enhancing the UK’s influence in Europe and reset relations with other EU leaders after five years of Mr Cameron’s failed approach."
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/douglas-alexander-why-the-city-must-take-a-lead-in-making-the-case-for-europe-9972548.html
Ask them, "well, what would you do?" and they seem to say, "exactly the same, but we'd get you to pay more for it".
Original. Yawn...
That is to say their market researchers have been busy.
Apparently because labour and Ukip can't be beaten on them... Wise?
Just saying like.
The NHS might not be the silver bullet Labour's think it might be.
Will any other papers show it?
Apparently they have a similar plan for this time if they are re-elected in May.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/paul-ryan-wont-run-president-2016-n284481
From day one in office, a newly elected Labour government would set about enhancing the UK’s influence in Europe and reset relations with other EU leaders after five years of Mr Cameron’s failed approach.
Surely the second sentence contradicts the first? Reform in Europe was purportedly Cameron's goal as well. It probably is, regrettably, but only just.
NHS woes rising is unsurprising, but surely helpful for Labour, and with concerns stirred up now it can probably bubble away as an issue for several more months. Cameron might score ok on such things, but the Tories? They cannot win on this, and they cannot fight very hard on the economy either as it's not unqualified success on that front. Nothing else though, will have to go super negative.
It's just a cartoon of a bloke in a turban...
Not surprising that its not one of their key themes.
I particularly like the its Burnhams fault that Circle cant run an A&E department line.
Contract signed November 2011 ripped up January 2015 after disastorous CQC report requires the hospital to go into special measures.
PMQs should be fun
Given they have that cover, I am sure that Labour will keep pounding on this, as there is an issue there, albeit far more complex, nuanced and multi-faceted, and one which just "throw more money" as a solution will never solve.
Every time Miliband criticises the NHS, he criticises Welsh Labour.
Their polling number with Ashcroft was 25% in Wales on an admittedly small sample. Still..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906861/NHS-won-t-able-future-people-responsibility-health-Labour-warn.html
FREEEEEEDDOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!
Well Bibi told him it was his home.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/paul-ryan-wont-run-president-2016-n284481
What is noticeable is that there have been no new "major incidents" for some days now, nearly a week. I can't imagine the pressure that is being applied to keep that the case but I suspect that some hospital managers will feel that they are at the bottom of the Mariana Trench right now. Much depends on luck. Will there be a flu epidemic requiring the hospitalisation of thousands of oldies or will it once again pass by? The tories must be going red in the face, they are holding their breath so tightly. Where is the Spring? It seems a long way off.
"Are you saying that highlighting the NHS is a smart policy? Given Labour's past and indeed current record you are surely kidding?"
It is their No1 issue. They have been talking about nothing else for weeks and now unless there's shooting in Paris all the news stations seem to be finding medical stories of their own. It's what's known in advertising as 'having legs'.
"East of England Ambulance 999 downgrade period saw 57 patients die"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30782092
There is just no end to the bias
You think the NHS kills people?
"Yes, instead you worship the NHS which is another religion that kills people."
Tasteless but funny.
To be fair I've not noticed any differences personally say in GP services here, and it's not as if the sick and wounded are littering the streets of Pontypridd but ambulance targets here for example were an utter joke till very recently and the truth is the Welsh Govt cut other areas less at the expense of the NHS here. That's devolution folks, the power to choose differently. The price is that speaking personally I feel it would be better marginally to be ill in England but I suspect in most cases care is pretty similar.
We also need to bear in mind the Welsh populous has more long term health issues than rUK and so there's maybe more pressure here anyway.
The NHS does this in a fair, effective and inexpensive way compared to the US system you trumpet all the time.
Why don't you move there!!
Which of the following would you most trust to deliver quality NHS services?
Set aside the tribal Tories and Labour, and Miliband beat Cameron 24-15 among the Lib Dems but lost 20-15 to the bigger bloc that are the Kippers.
Pointing out the issue doesn't win the argument. You have to convince people you have the solution as well. Miliband has no answers.
Please note Scottish voters this is not a (feeble) satirical attack on Scotland or the Scots but the SNP.
It is good that Mr Cameron does not want to pass on mega public debt to the next generation. But he needs to tell George, who has doubled it
However, I am seriously concerned by the NHS being " weaponised " and put on an untouchable plinth by shroud wavers. All institutions need to reform ( if only in the case of the NHS due to changing age demographics for example compared to 30 years ago) and I fear we will lose the ability to sensibly and needfully reform if the shroud wavers make it an unreformable sacred cow. That will eventually destroy it and that would be truly awful.
Labour plan to borrow risks £170bn extra debt
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7LtK4nCYAAGFoj.jpg
Writing such nonsense says a lot more about Carswell than it does the Tories or economics.
Wee Dougie exists. Therefore Vote Tory. Its a clear answer to a deeply perplexing philosophical question.
Oh and Cameron? Why talk about something your opponents are going to bang on about?
In fact its the only inadequate hospital currently according to CQC.
It would have grown even more under Labour. There is a case for saying it might have been less than it is now, given more aggressive cutting, but it still would have gone up a hell of a lot.
A23 Streatham Hill / Telford Avenue nr bus garage - road clear.
Sigh.
Coincidence?
Its pretty sad isn't it when we are looking for Yougov to act as some sort of arbiter?
Oh bum, the liars
CON 32%, LAB 33%, LD 6%, UKIP 17%, GRN 6%
No one listens.