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A few weeks ago at PMQs Jeremy Corbyn reminded the PM that in the 1947/48 period when the NHS legislation was going through parliament it had been opposed by the Tories. That such a line can still resonate 70 years on is really quite remarkable and highlights the ongoing vulnerability that the Conservatives have on the National Health Service.
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Rather than just wearing his NHS badge Hunt should be pushing real reform of the health system in this country, including charges for minor ailments and Australian style levies on high income earners if they do not have private health
Wing backs, Alexander Arnold is again inexperienced and makes mistakes or the very dull Trippier and left back, it is either out of form Rose or Ashley Young who isn't a left back
You simply can't trust the Tories with the NHS, and the electorate knows it.
Under the right leader/Health Secretary and policies the Tories can lead on the NHS.
I can think of other c-words people use to describe him.
As we saw at Stafford, where that low piece of scum Andy Burnham puts the reputation of the NHS over the welfare of patients.
The Conservatives will not dismantle the NHS. But Labour's love affair with the ideology, rather than outcomes, means that the NHS may well be safer in Conservative hands.
Although not if the likes of JRM become leader ...
Parallels with the railways, really.
Apparently, according to him, he objected because he felt the government was using backbenchers time to sneak in the bill. He actually totally supports the bill.
What a transparent arsehole. Incidentally all you peeps trying to defend him using the "he thought it was a bad law, he's so experienced how can you doubt his masterly insight into the law" have been hung out to dry.
Twas ever thus.
We need cross party agreement on deeper changes to cope with the decades ahead, but there's too much political loss and gain to be had for that.
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1008329329179332608
As Ken would say: Another German who lost in Russia was....
At Stafford, what mattered for some was the NHS, not patients.
To make it clear: the NHS is there to help people, and the thing that matters is the people. And the people are patients as well as staff, not just the staff.
For me, the key to the NHS is 'free at the point of delivery'. I don't care a dingo's kidney *how* it is delivered, as long as that key precept is met. As it happens, I don't think a fully privatised NHS would meet it. But a fully nationalised one has issues as well.
It might well have disappeared into the long grass otherwise.
He has of course stopped plenty of other bills - including efforts to prevent harm coming to animals. But unless it affects the White liberal middle class women of London the media doesn't tend to make a fuss.
1. Simply, she has finally become a true Brexiteer and is shouting it from the rooftops.
2. She is preparing for an early GE and is attempting to outflank Labour on its one huge area of political advantage .... doubtful.
3. She has finally decided to sock it to those nasty Europeans and is prepared to opt for a "no deal" outcome if necessary, rather than be bullied into submission and the inevitable political political abyss which would follow .... this would be my guess.
I think he should play Rashford and go with Dier over Henderson.
My team would be: Pickford, Trippier, Rose, Walker, Stones, Cahill, Dier, Deli, Rashford, Kane, Stirling
Mind, I can't guarantee that means I get better answers ...
Pickford , Trippier , Rose , Walker , Stones , Maquire, Henderson, Alli, Lingard , Stirling , Kane.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19407451
Of course, it could just be that all the shoppers headed to Tesco instead, where there is a far greater choice of strawberries on sale.
The dishonours list: Two top awards went to people sitting on the very committees which hand them out
Three of awards went to clients of literary agent who sits on honours committee
Those included the historian Simon Schama and author Jeanette Winterson
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5841591/The-dishonours-list-tainted-honours-dock-again.html
At least Lloyd George boosted GDP by selling K's. Maybe RCS can do a video on it.
https://twitter.com/PJTheEconomist/status/1008256589051170818
Oh, sorry, that was all a massive coincidence...
I read the first line of your post and thought, blimey have England already been knocked out?
3:24PM
European countries have so far been involved in 7 contests and remain unbeaten ... that's some feat in a World Cup tournament. (It's actually 8 times unbeaten in as many games if you classify Russia as being European.)"
I only posted this on the previous thread in order to tempt fate and guess what folks ... it worked ... Germany 0 - 1 Mexico. Haha, haha,haha!
Anyway, time for me to be off.
In any event unless I am mistaken, if Germany finish second in their group and Brazil win theirs, it might pay England to come second in our group. (Though such calculations usually go out the window once the forst match doesn't go to plan!)
I agree the NHS *could* perform better with more funding, but I'm far from sure there will ever be 'enough' funding. And in that case, what is the correct level?
We should continually seek ways to make the health service more efficient.
We should also do all we can to reduce demands on it (e.g. 'nudge' taxation to reduce obesity).
But we should also fund it sufficiently so that patients are not waiting unduly for operations, nor struggling to see a GP etc.
Neither has the Queen agreed that the award is "well deserved". She has made no such comment and would never make a public announcement about an award to a politician.
On Friday there was a segment on (?R4?) about how a healthcare worker had looked at the most frequent visitors to A&E and intervened with them, allowing them to phone him up if they needed help. The result was a 90% cut in A&E visits by those people.
(All from memory). Perhaps there is much that can be done within the existing NHS structure, with a little out-of-the-box thinking and flexibility.
Edit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2018/05/paramedics-brainwave-eases-ae-pressures-by-keeping-frequent-callers-away/
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/1008336784378531841?s=21
Also some are connecting declining fertility rates with suicide:
https://twitter.com/jeffgiesea/status/1008345369288282113?s=21
Wonder what PB thinks....
They do and they have an out of hours GP practice round the corner.
They enforce this very strongly. I have been three times in the last 18 months with my father and the place is empty.
On the second I don't have the data to see if such a connection is valid, but at the risk of angering parents by speaking as a non parent, while kids can be a joy, I don't really see that people have no space for nihilism because they have kids. I know some couples who have chosen not to have kids, and they feel like they are constantly judged for that choice. They are needed for civilization health though and no doubt bring most people a lot of meaning.
Meaning and purpose is important for life and I know having a child gave me that, but I have a moral issue with creating life for the benefit of the parent. There must be other ways to create a life with meaning and purpose.