The moderator in the STV Scottish debate has just prefaced his first question to Ruth Davidson by mentioning Thatcher. Not sure what somebody who was PM 25 years ago has to do with this election
Cook reported the Telegraph story and then reported the Sturgeon and French denials. That is not smearing, it is reporting. Do you have any proof that the document that the Telegraph reported on does not exist? No, you don't. In fact, it seems that all sides accept it does exist. Given that, Cook did exactly what he should have done. It's juyst that what he did was discomfiting for the SNP. Tough. That's democracy.
It's not my job to fact check for the Telegraph. It's not my logical position to disprove a negative. It is for a journalist to demonstrate that any story they run is fact checked and accurately reflects the truth (it was an article not an editorial).
Cook actually did the fact checking that the Telegraph failed to do. He had, by 11.30pm established from conversation with the French Consul that the story was not true. Despite this, despite his own good initial journalism, he then repeated the smear over and over. The claim should not have been mentioned without the caveat of "unsubstatiated" or "factually inaccurate". That's basic standards in journalism.
He got the criticism he deserved for poor journalism.
So a journalist is required to take any official at their word?
A Telegraph journo took an official at their word when reporting on the memo.
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
It might help if politicians attended to most people's experience on the NHS; GP services and the other day by day services. Most people have little or no experience of A&E.
GP appointments harder to get is most people's experience on the NHS in Chesterfield apparently
Public satisfaction with the NHS has increased over the last 5 years. But don't let that fact worry you.
No it hasn't. Satisfaction levels with A&E and GP access both down on 2010
Cook reported the Telegraph story and then reported the Sturgeon and French denials. That is not smearing, it is reporting. Do you have any proof that the document that the Telegraph reported on does not exist? No, you don't. In fact, it seems that all sides accept it does exist. Given that, Cook did exactly what he should have done. It's juyst that what he did was discomfiting for the SNP. Tough. That's democracy.
It's not my job to fact check for the Telegraph. It's not my logical position to disprove a negative. It is for a journalist to demonstrate that any story they run is fact checked and accurately reflects the truth (it was an article not an editorial).
Cook actually did the fact checking that the Telegraph failed to do. He had, by 11.30pm established from conversation with the French Consul that the story was not true. Despite this, despite his own good initial journalism, he then repeated the smear over and over. The claim should not have been mentioned without the caveat of "unsubstatiated" or "factually inaccurate". That's basic standards in journalism.
He got the criticism he deserved for poor journalism.
So a journalist is required to take any official at their word?
A Telegraph journo took an official at their word when reporting on the memo.
Do you believe an official when they are writing it down in the first instance, or denying it in the second? And not to mention the fact that the memo was intended to be secret.
@JGForsyth: Tory Central Office will be loving this Sturgeon performance as she declares that SNP MPs will ensure that Labour increase, not cut spending
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
It might help if politicians attended to most people's experience on the NHS; GP services and the other day by day services. Most people have little or no experience of A&E.
GP appointments harder to get is most people's experience on the NHS in Chesterfield apparently
Public satisfaction with the NHS has increased over the last 5 years. But don't let that fact worry you.
No it hasn't. Satisfaction levels with A&E and GP access both down on 2010
That's not satisfaction with the NHS, is it? It's satisfaction with two bits of it, carefully chosen by yourself to support your argument.
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
It might help if politicians attended to most people's experience on the NHS; GP services and the other day by day services. Most people have little or no experience of A&E.
GP appointments harder to get is most people's experience on the NHS in Chesterfield apparently
Where are the 8000 extra GPs that Ed has promised going to come from? At the moment local practices struggle to find anyone suitable.
From the magic fairy tree that'll produce 24/7 hour care too.
Off topic, but my area of Hungary has a bout of by-election fever. Hard on the heels of a by-election defeat in Veszprém, the large town about ten miles north east from me, that cost Fidesz its supermajority in parliament, there is now a by-election in Tapolca, a rural constituency that starts about five miles to the west of me. There are posters everywhere and all the parties seem to be going for it (to my surprise, because I would have thought this prosperous rural area was a Fidesz stronghold even in very poor times).
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
Hang on! NHS budgets have been ringfenced by the Coalition (sometbing Brown would not agree to) the 30% tariff dates from before the 2010 election and the BCT fund is just the sort of health and social care integration that Burnham espouses!
But never let the truth get in the way of weaponising the NHS...
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
So before debating policy we get an argument about who they will work with in a hung parliament. Really? Don't we want to hear why we should vote for them first.
Cook reported the Telegraph story and then reported the Sturgeon and French denials. That is not smearing, it is reporting. Do you have any proof that the document that the Telegraph reported on does not exist? No, you don't. In fact, it seems that all sides accept it does exist. Given that, Cook did exactly what he should have done. It's juyst that what he did was discomfiting for the SNP. Tough. That's democracy.
It's not my job to fact check for the Telegraph. It's not my logical position to disprove a negative. It is for a journalist to demonstrate that any story they run is fact checked and accurately reflects the truth (it was an article not an editorial).
Cook actually did the fact checking that the Telegraph failed to do. He had, by 11.30pm established from conversation with the French Consul that the story was not true. Despite this, despite his own good initial journalism, he then repeated the smear over and over. The claim should not have been mentioned without the caveat of "unsubstatiated" or "factually inaccurate". That's basic standards in journalism.
He got the criticism he deserved for poor journalism.
So a journalist is required to take any official at their word?
A Telegraph journo took an official at their word when reporting on the memo.
Do you believe an official when they are writing it down in the first instance, or denying it in the second? And not to mention the fact that the memo was intended to be secret.
You've gone all Vicky Pollard. Yehbut nobut yebut.
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
That's linked to political bias. Read the analysis by Natcen properly.
Cook reported the Telegraph story and then reported the Sturgeon and French denials. That is not smearing, it is reporting. Do you have any proof that the document that the Telegraph reported on does not exist? No, you don't. In fact, it seems that all sides accept it does exist. Given that, Cook did exactly what he should have done. It's juyst that what he did was discomfiting for the SNP. Tough. That's democracy.
It's not my job to fact check for the Telegraph. It's not my logical position to disprove a negative. It is for a journalist to demonstrate that any story they run is fact checked and accurately reflects the truth (it was an article not an editorial).
Cook actually did the fact checking that the Telegraph failed to do. He had, by 11.30pm established from conversation with the French Consul that the story was not true. Despite this, despite his own good initial journalism, he then repeated the smear over and over. The claim should not have been mentioned without the caveat of "unsubstatiated" or "factually inaccurate". That's basic standards in journalism.
He got the criticism he deserved for poor journalism.
So a journalist is required to take any official at their word?
A Telegraph journo took an official at their word when reporting on the memo.
Do you believe an official when they are writing it down in the first instance, or denying it in the second? And not to mention the fact that the memo was intended to be secret.
You've gone all Vicky Pollard. Yehbut nobut yebut.
I'm sure officials are much more candid when they think the minutes of their meetings are to be kept secret. Hence why they are kept secret!
''But they put out leaflets claiming the opposite.''
It is up to the conservatives to call labour out on this. Not the rest of us
No - it is all of our responsibility to ensure those seeking our votes are not lying so obviously
We have to hold candidates to account for the leaflets put out in their name.
No lies in my piece. Struggled to keep it to 200 words TBH.
Think you are overlooking the big NHS no top down reorganisation lie from Dave
I still find it completely incomprehensible that the Tories even considered this reform of healthcare. The PCT's were working relatively well- they were pretty much a continuation of Tory reforms anyway, and provided a local accountability. And regional health authorities could lean on PCT's if things weren't going well. IE There was accountability up the line.
Out of all the things the Tories have done- and some have been very stupid (i.e. killing badgers and the bedroom tax), the healthcare act was mind bogglingly stupid. No gain, only pain and electorally disadvantageous.
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
Hang on! NHS budgets have been ringfenced by the Coalition (sometbing Brown would not agree to) the 30% tariff dates from before the 2010 election and the BCT fund is just the sort of health and social care integration that Burnham espouses!
But never let the truth get in the way of weaponising the NHS...
You work in an Acute Trust if you do not know how your finances have faired since 2010 I suggest you go speak to your DOF.
The BCF is not ring fenced I had a council commissioner openly bragging they were regard it as the "pot hole fund" and telling us they taking 25% of it to spend outside of H&SC
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
It might help if politicians attended to most people's experience on the NHS; GP services and the other day by day services. Most people have little or no experience of A&E.
GP appointments harder to get is most people's experience on the NHS in Chesterfield apparently
Maybe too many Labour voters in chesterfield is why GPs don't like to work there?
''But they put out leaflets claiming the opposite.''
It is up to the conservatives to call labour out on this. Not the rest of us
No - it is all of our responsibility to ensure those seeking our votes are not lying so obviously
We have to hold candidates to account for the leaflets put out in their name.
No lies in my piece. Struggled to keep it to 200 words TBH.
Think you are overlooking the big NHS no top down reorganisation lie from Dave
I still find it completely incomprehensible that the Tories even considered this reform of healthcare. The PCT's were working relatively well- they were pretty much a continuation of Tory reforms anyway, and provided a local accountability. And regional health authorities could lean on PCT's if things weren't going well. IE There was accountability up the line.
Out of all the things the Tories have done- and some have been very stupid (i.e. killing badgers and the bedroom tax), the healthcare act was mind bogglingly stupid. No gain, only pain and electorally disadvantageous.
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
That's linked to political bias. Read the analysis by Natcen properly.
Overall satisfaction was 70% it has now recovered to 65% in March 2015
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
That's linked to political bias. Read the analysis by Natcen properly.
Overall satisfaction was 70% it has now recovered to 65% in March 2015
GP access satisfaction getting worse though.
Source Kings Fund
Hope your Mum was among the satisfied. Hope she is on the mend!
@EdwardDebi: Davidson: I will fight head heart body and soul to honour #indyref vote and will not do any deal with a party that wants to break the Union
@EdwardDebi: Davidson: I will fight head heart body and soul to honour #indyref vote and will not do any deal with a party that wants to break the Union
Typical unionist. Fighting indyref all over again when we have a Westminster general election.
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
... and dropped by 12 points in the first year after the election that will have more to do with the policies of the old government than the new.
How about figures on satisfaction with service and outcomes, the two things I am interested in as a patient, rather than "the way it is run"?
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
That's linked to political bias. Read the analysis by Natcen properly.
Overall satisfaction was 70% it has now recovered to 65% in March 2015
GP access satisfaction getting worse though.
Source Kings Fund
Hope your Mum was among the satisfied. Hope she is on the mend!
Thanks Rob she was indeed satisfied although she got VIP treatment as I was at her side!
I have taken her for her stitches out today back to fracture clinic next week and hopefully well enough to go home end of next week.
Oxfordsimon - Yet another do as I say not as I do from Labour
Then 2010 - Labour "Current levels of spending are sufficient, and spending not protected" Now 2015 - "spending has been insufficient even though it has increased"
In government - mid staffs crisis Out of government - record satisfaction with NHS
Labour's weaponisation of the NHS would be sad if it were not so blantantly dishonest.
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines: CON ahead! CON cert to win popular vote! LAB gaining in London but not much else! LD holding on in key seats! SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14! CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection: CON 310 LAB 262 LD 32 SNP 23 PC 3 GRN 1 UKIP 1 NI 18
Overall, satisfaction with the way the NHS across Britain runs nowadays fell by 12 percentage points from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per in 2011 and back up to 65% two weeks ago.
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
That's linked to political bias. Read the analysis by Natcen properly.
Overall satisfaction was 70% it has now recovered to 65% in March 2015
GP access satisfaction getting worse though.
Source Kings Fund
Hope your Mum was among the satisfied. Hope she is on the mend!
Thanks Rob she was indeed satisfied although she got VIP treatment as I was at her side!
I have taken her for her stitches out today back to fracture clinic next week and hopefully well enough to go home end of next week.
I have always been a dissenter! I do know a few on the list. Some are the usual suspects (Allyson Pollack wrote NHS Plc about the privatisation of the NHS under the last Labour Government) others I have great respect for including Clare Gerada and Raymond Tallis (probably the most intelligent doctor on the planet).
But Doctors are a very diverse bunch. I thought the Lansley reforms could have been done better, and the BCT fund sorted a few years back, but on the other hand putting Doctors rather than pen pushers on the Commissioning boards is a definite improvement. To be honest, I do not think there is much difference between the parties on the NHS. Both Labour and Tories use it as a political football.
They have also run a 'not working' style poster attacking the tories over the NHS. Pathetic the way they weaponise the NHS. You would never believe that in the last election Labour under Brown were saying in their manifesto that the level of NHS spending was good enough and that the NHS could afford a £20 billion efficiency drive. And that it was OK if some of that was achieved by contracting out to private companies. That level of real spending has been maintained under the tories. Labour are cheap and nasty.
Agreed. It is outrageous that the Labour party should seek to make the NHS an issue in this election.
The NHS must be an Election issue my MP has asked me to do a piece on NHS finances since 2010 for his next leaflet drop.
Lansley is a gift to LAB. 80% of Acute Hospitals in deficit. Hospitals only paid 30% of cost for additional A&E attendances. Better Care Fund syphoning £3.8 bn away from hospitals etc etc etc
It might help if politicians attended to most people's experience on the NHS; GP services and the other day by day services. Most people have little or no experience of A&E.
GP appointments harder to get is most people's experience on the NHS in Chesterfield apparently
Maybe too many Labour voters in chesterfield is why GPs don't like to work there?
Well, there are fewer labour voters in Stafford now. The bankruptcy of Labour's position is shown by Burnham's view that details of the poor care (to say the least) at Stafford should not have been published. He obviously thinks the NHS should be run for the benefit of someone other than the taxpayer and the patient.
Britain's recovery "moved up a gear" in March, as the UK's dominant services sector shook off uncertainty about the general election to expand at a "rip-roaring" pace. The pound rose by almost a cent against the euro, to €1.3717, after Markit said a boom in new orders put Britain on course to grow by 0.7pc in the first three months of the year, following growth of 0.6pc in the final quarter of 2014.
Oxfordsimon - Yet another do as I say not as I do from Labour
Then 2010 - Labour "Current levels of spending are sufficient, and spending not protected" Now 2015 - "spending has been insufficient even though it has increased"
In government - mid staffs crisis Out of government - record satisfaction with NHS
Labour's weaponisation of the NHS would be sad if it were not so blantantly dishonest.
Why do you think 80% of Acute Trusts are in deficit compared to 1% in 2010?
Clue Lansley reforms are a conflict of interest. Providers who commission do not belong to the Acute Sector
Big fail by STV it looks like, folk are hitting the remotes or the off buttons already. Audience of clapping seals applauding Jim Murphy. Nauseating stitch up, STV in SLABs pocket by the look of it.
The Scottish debate is quite civilised. Davidson is pretty good. Murphy is sympathetic in his ordinary man way. Audience missing the point: nhs questions to Davidson despite nhs being devolved; Trident and unemployment in Helensburgh question to Murphy although SLAB not planning to scrap it.
Big fail by STV it looks like, folk are hitting the remotes or the off buttons already. Audience of clapping seals applauding Jim Murphy. Nauseating stitch up, STV in SLABs pocket by the look of it.
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines: CON ahead! CON cert to win popular vote! LAB gaining in London but not much else! LD holding on in key seats! SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14! CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection: CON 310 LAB 262 LD 32 SNP 23 PC 3 GRN 1 UKIP 1 NI 18
Big fail by STV it looks like, folk are hitting the remotes or the off buttons already. Audience of clapping seals applauding Jim Murphy. Nauseating stitch up, STV in SLABs pocket by the look of it.
What? About half the audience applauded the question on trident and half applauded Murphy's answer. Fairly representative of the Scottish public's view on the subject I would say. But the whole program has been very low-key so far which will lead to people switching off.
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines: CON ahead! CON cert to win popular vote! LAB gaining in London but not much else! LD holding on in key seats! SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14! CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection: CON 310 LAB 262 LD 32 SNP 23 PC 3 GRN 1 UKIP 1 NI 18
CON short by 15!
#aveit #cheerioed #lolsturgeon
Are you copying JackW?
All independently determined by Ave it. But great minds think alike!
Why can SLAB not address the real challenge they face in this or any other election? They just can't find a way to attack the SNP. It is all about keeping the Tories out. It is just absurd.
@blairmcdougall: Nicola Sturgeon started her campaign promising full fiscal autonomy. as her central General Election policy. No mention of it in her pitch.
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines: CON ahead! CON cert to win popular vote! LAB gaining in London but not much else! LD holding on in key seats! SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14! CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection: CON 310 LAB 262 LD 32 SNP 23 PC 3 GRN 1 UKIP 1 NI 18
@Markfergusonuk: SNP argument is offensive to all who have ever been elected Scottish MPs in the past. Implies Cook, Brown or Dewar didn’t represent Scotland
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines: CON ahead! CON cert to win popular vote! LAB gaining in London but not much else! LD holding on in key seats! SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14! CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection: CON 310 LAB 262 LD 32 SNP 23 PC 3 GRN 1 UKIP 1 NI 18
@Markfergusonuk: SNP argument is offensive to all who have ever been elected Scottish MPs in the past. Implies Cook, Brown or Dewar didn’t represent Scotland
@iainmartin1: Fascinating. Sturgeon under pressure on 2nd #indyref. It's almost as though 55% of audience/Scotland voted No to independence? #ScotDebates
@Markfergusonuk: SNP argument is offensive to all who have ever been elected Scottish MPs in the past. Implies Cook, Brown or Dewar didn’t represent Scotland
@Markfergusonuk: SNP argument is offensive to all who have ever been elected Scottish MPs in the past. Implies Cook, Brown or Dewar didn’t represent Scotland
Never knew you were the PB voice of Labour list Scott
@Markfergusonuk: SNP argument is offensive to all who have ever been elected Scottish MPs in the past. Implies Cook, Brown or Dewar didn’t represent Scotland
They didn't.
Lol. What an idea.
They despised and destroyed Scotland and Scots with every breath in their bodies.
That you need to vote SNP to get a Scottish voice at Westminster
It's hardly offensive to argue that someone who is a senior member of a UK-wide political party might support policies that are judged to be best for the UK as a whole, not for Scotland in isolation. In fact it's almost certainly true.
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The government is leaving nothing to chance:
http://www.politics.hu/20150406/govt-promises-billions-for-tapolca-hospital-days-before-local-by-election/
Pork barrel is an international language spoken by more politicians than Esperanto.
But never let the truth get in the way of weaponising the NHS...
Record high satisfaction 2010 under Lab
@EdwardDebi: Applause for Davidson as she asks Sturgeon how long her shopping list will get before May 7th and if it will contravene #indyref vote
Out of all the things the Tories have done- and some have been very stupid (i.e. killing badgers and the bedroom tax), the healthcare act was mind bogglingly stupid. No gain, only pain and electorally disadvantageous.
Not in the upper leagues, or just a dissenter?
"NHS
More than 100 top doctors attack government record on NHS "
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/07/more-than-100-top-doctors-attack-government-record-on-nhs
The BCF is not ring fenced I had a council commissioner openly bragging they were regard it as the "pot hole fund" and telling us they taking 25% of it to spend outside of H&SC
Actually just that the audience is not 100% Nats. Large round of applause for audience member criticising Nicola for talking over other candidates
What a gal!
GP access satisfaction getting worse though.
Source Kings Fund
Its Brigadoon.....its Briga -bloody - doon....
How about figures on satisfaction with service and outcomes, the two things I am interested in as a patient, rather than "the way it is run"?
I have taken her for her stitches out today back to fracture clinic next week and hopefully well enough to go home end of next week.
Then 2010 - Labour "Current levels of spending are sufficient, and spending not protected"
Now 2015 - "spending has been insufficient even though it has increased"
In government - mid staffs crisis
Out of government - record satisfaction with NHS
Labour's weaponisation of the NHS would be sad if it were not so blantantly dishonest.
Comical audience selection. STV overcompensating for criticism at Indyref?
Now that it is one month to go, Ave It provides the first of his regular projections as we head to GE2015!
Headlines:
CON ahead!
CON cert to win popular vote!
LAB gaining in London but not much else!
LD holding on in key seats!
SNP heading for more disappointment after #indyref14!
CAMO soon to be pals with attention seeking minor parties again!
The projection:
CON 310
LAB 262
LD 32
SNP 23
PC 3
GRN 1
UKIP 1
NI 18
CON short by 15!
#aveit #cheerioed #lolsturgeon
But Doctors are a very diverse bunch. I thought the Lansley reforms could have been done better, and the BCT fund sorted a few years back, but on the other hand putting Doctors rather than pen pushers on the Commissioning boards is a definite improvement. To be honest, I do not think there is much difference between the parties on the NHS. Both Labour and Tories use it as a political football.
Britain's recovery "moved up a gear" in March, as the UK's dominant services sector shook off uncertainty about the general election to expand at a "rip-roaring" pace.
The pound rose by almost a cent against the euro, to €1.3717, after Markit said a boom in new orders put Britain on course to grow by 0.7pc in the first three months of the year, following growth of 0.6pc in the final quarter of 2014.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11518987/UK-recovery-powers-ahead-as-services-sector-booms.html
But I just don't think his delivery/charisma is good enough.
It is repeating the source - Natcen, who conduct The Study of British Social Attitudes and have done for 34 years.
Clue Lansley reforms are a conflict of interest.
Providers who commission do not belong to the Acute Sector
This is hilarious.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/07/tories-party-ethnic-diversity-labour-bame-mps-race?CMP=share_btn_tw
Not working for the SNP... Nicola not getting the wild applause and adoration she is used to.
But the whole program has been very low-key so far which will lead to people switching off.
Audience in Edinburgh not with her.
#scotdebates
James Forsyth @JGForsyth
Sturgeon refuses to rule out putting a referendum commitment in the SNP’s 2016 Scottish Parliament Election manifesto
Sturgeon struggling on this.
Lol. What an idea.
They despised and destroyed Scotland and Scots with every breath in their bodies.