"So you agree that the policy differences are negligible and Labours lead is based on perception rather than reality?"
The difference is HUGE.
Labour give a shit and that's a massive difference.
I'm having some very expensive treatment at the moment so I asked the hospital whether it was any use to them that I was in BUPA. I didn't want any different or private treatment just that they as a charitable trust they might be able to use the money. In no uncertain terms they said they don't touch private medicine but I would be welcome to go to the local BUPA hospital if I wanted.
I really like the NHS their employees and Labour's part in it.
How is it performing in Wales, or are you a coward as well?
George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt should both catch Newsnight Scotland tonight. And as for chasing housing bubbles, what housing bubbles as house prices have been stagnating and continue to do so in Scotland.
I have just been reading up about the old Labour pilot from years ago on Hansard, and it would suggest that there is such a thing as a 'spare room subsidy'. Notice how Labour's language on this policy has changed now they are in Opposition criticising another Government for trying to tackle the same issue, now its a 'bedroom tax'? Parliament.UK "The under-occupation pilot encourages housing benefit recipients living in under- occupied social housing to move to smaller and cheaper accommodation in order to make more efficient use of housing stock. The pilot is expected to run until 2003"
OldLabour/Carlotta Please could we not keep referring to it as the bedroom 'tax' since when has removal of a handout in the form of a spare room subsidy constituted a tax?
"So you agree that the policy differences are negligible and Labours lead is based on perception rather than reality?"
The difference is HUGE.
Labour give a shit and that's a massive difference.
I'm having some very expensive treatment at the moment so I asked the hospital whether it was any use to them that I was in BUPA. I didn't want any different or private treatment just that they as a charitable trust they might be able to use the money. In no uncertain terms they said they don't touch private medicine but I would be welcome to go to the local BUPA hospital if I wanted.
I really like the NHS their employees and Labour's part in it.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
"So you agree that the policy differences are negligible and Labours lead is based on perception rather than reality?"
The difference is HUGE.
Labour give a shit and that's a massive difference.
I'm having some very expensive treatment at the moment so I asked the hospital whether it was any use to them that I was in BUPA. I didn't want any different or private treatment just that they as a charitable trust they might be able to use the money. In no uncertain terms they said they don't touch private medicine but I would be welcome to go to the local BUPA hospital if I wanted.
I really like the NHS their employees and Labour's part in it.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
I have just been reading up about the old Labour pilot from years ago on Hansard, and it would suggest that there is such a thing as a 'spare room subsidy'. Notice how Labour's language on this policy has changed now they are in Opposition criticising another Government for trying to tackle the same issue, now its a 'bedroom tax'? Parliament.UK "The under-occupation pilot encourages housing benefit recipients living in under- occupied social housing to move to smaller and cheaper accommodation in order to make more efficient use of housing stock. The pilot is expected to run until 2003"
OldLabour/Carlotta Please could we not keep referring to it as the bedroom 'tax' since when has removal of a handout in the form of a spare room subsidy constituted a tax?
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
No Nigel. This is a betting site. There are no bets about who is better at running the NHS. There are bets on who wins elections. I am simply making my point to the many Tories on here that are trying to argue that their points are irrelevant. The public has already made up their mind.
When you are arguing the details you are losing. On the NHS, the Tories have lost.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
Don't tell me Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman.....they are all stupid also?
Councils paying people, in this case a grand, for a tenant to move from an under occupied property to one that is more suitable. How can this be, according to the know all posters on here there are not any properties to move into and it is impossible to move to smaller accommodation. It is also cruel and abhorrent and anyone who agrees with it needs to be shot. By he way it was Labour who introduced these tenants incentive schemes to make better use of the housing stock. Clearly a good policy when in government, but a cruel nasty policy when in opposition.
No Nigel. This is a betting site. There are no bets about who is better at running the NHS. There are bets on who wins elections. I am simply making my point to the many Tories on here that are trying to argue that their points are irrelevant. The public has already made up their mind.
When you are arguing the details you are losing. On the NHS, the Tories have lost.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
So what was Omnishambles then......a revised political victory?
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
So what was Omnishambles then......a revised political victory?
So how is the economy doing today, say compared to France?
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
Don't get me wrong I want him to stay as Chancellor until the election and I want the Conservative Party to keep trumping how brilliant the economy is doing. This will highlight the problem in their economic policy which is tilted towards a small section of society. The vast majority will realise that the upturn in the economy is only benefiting this small section of society whilst the rest continue to struggle as their income continually is outstripped by inflation....Go Gideon!!
Politics with FPTP is all about winning. You want discussion. Vote for PR.
Like I said, winning is all you care about, not making things better
You should be ashamed of yourself but you are probably too stupid for that as well
Nigel, there is a common theme to your posting. Anyone who you do not agree with you class as stupid. Do you do this in real life?
So far this evening I have asked IOS how the NHS and education in Wales are performing and I have asked Roger why he doesn't opt out of Bupa?
Answers came their none, which leads me to believe they should not have raised the issues in the first place, and are stupid to have done so.
In your case you have refuted how well the Economy is doing by stating, quite hilariously, that Osborne will flatline the economy in the months leading up to the election because he has only ever had two jobs. The sort of childish comment I would expect from a fifth form crusader, and as such you win the prize for most stupid post this evening.
Its interesting that the worst chancellor in history, that incompetent fop who will lead this country to financial ruin and 5 million unemployed is no longer the topic of discussion anymore on this site. Could it be inflation at 2.2%, excellent growth figures, falling unemployment, record employment ,a buoyant economy and a falling deficit have led to this. Its amazing with Osborne being so incompetent that such things are happening. As well all know Balls, Miliband and Blanchflower are always right.
You do realise the Osborne will fuck it up before the election, don't you? He will somehow flatline the economy in the last few months of the parliament. You do remember for all the hundreds and thousands of pound daddy invested in his education and one of the only two real jobs he could get was folding returned towels at Selfridges. Lucky for him daddy got him a job in the Conservative Party.
OMG there are some extremely thick lefties on here but that post wins you first prize,
What? You do know the only two jobs Osborne has ever had, not counting daddy getting him his Conservative Party one, don't you?
I don't care how many jobs he has had, though if he only had one that would be one more than Miliband.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
Don't tell me Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman.....they are all stupid also?
Why don't you publish on here all the quotes they made about how Osborne was handling the economy and let people make their own minds up.
at first glance, I spot the following Lab MPs missing
Ed Balls (he's in USA) Douglas Alexander Jim Murphy Umunna (he's in Palestine) Frank Field Diane Abbott David Blunkett Shawn Woodward Alan Johnson Gordon Brown Tessa Jowell Debbie Abrahams Hugh Bayley McKechin Donohe Doran Ruddock Pamela Nash Sarwar Jonathan Ashworth Ann Coffey De Piero Clive Efford Paul Flynn Mike Gapes David Hamilton Hood Sian James Kaufman Lammy McDonagh Alan Meale Meg Munn Geoffrey Robinson Spellar Sutcliffe Joan Walley Watts Whitehead
Way back when all the credible Republican contenders were one by one announcing they would not be throwing their hats in the ring last time around. I was particularly struck by a comment I read somewhere supposedly from one of them which I will have to adlib on now. But the general gist was about the fact that no serious Republican candidate was going to be able to live up to the expectations of the Republican base in that contest. We had a lot of fun with those candidates who did run, but it was always far more telling who decided to sit that one out.
Now take the most powerful vested interest and protest group that Ed Miliband and his party are strongly aligned too, and then stick a Tea Party cosy on top of Len McCluskey's heid.
I do not need to defend any Labour policies on the NHS because the public doesn't want us to. They Trust Labour with an institution that they love. They do not Trust the Tories.
This is all David Cameron's fault. Don't complain at me. Complain at the guy that tried to neutralise the NHS but then turned on his word.
at first glance, I spot the following Lab MPs missing
Ed Balls (he's in USA) Douglas Alexander Jim Murphy Umunna (he's in Palestine) Frank Field Diane Abbott David Blunkett Shawn Woodward Alan Johnson Gordon Brown Tessa Jowell Debbie Abrahams Hugh Bayley McKechin Donohe Doran Ruddock Pamela Nash Sarwar Jonathan Ashworth Ann Coffey De Piero Clive Efford Paul Flynn Mike Gapes David Hamilton Hood Sian James Kaufman Lammy McDonagh Alan Meale Meg Munn Geoffrey Robinson Spellar Sutcliffe Joan Walley Watts Whitehead
2006 No. 213 SOCIAL SECURITY The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006
Determination of a maximum rent (social sector)
B13.—(1) The maximum rent (social sector) is determined in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4). (2) The relevant authority must determine a limited rent by– (a) determining the amount that the claimant’s eligible rent would be in accordance with regulation 12B(2) without applying regulation 12B(4) and (6); (b) where the number of bedrooms in the dwelling exceeds the number of bedrooms to which the claimant is entitled in accordance with paragraph (5) to (7), reducing that amount by the appropriate percentage set out in paragraph (3);
"So far this evening I have asked IOS how the NHS and education in Wales are performing and I have asked Roger why he doesn't opt out of Bupa?"
The rather prosaic answer is that I have an occasional atrial fibrillation and with BUPA I can call my heart specialist instantly who gives me a relatively instant cardioversion which saves me about ten days if I did it on the NHS. As my work involves a lot of travel abroad saving these ten days makes it worth the cost.
"So far this evening I have asked IOS how the NHS and education in Wales are performing and I have asked Roger why he doesn't opt out of Bupa?"
The rather prosaic answer is that I have an occasional atrial fibrillation and with BUPA I can call my heart specialist instantly who gives me a relatively instant cardioversion which saves me about ten days if I did it on the NHS. As my work involves a lot of travel abroad saving these ten days makes it worth the cost.
So you agree that private is better than the NHS then!
Interesting, particularly in light of you earlier post.
I withdraw my remark about you being stupid, just a hypocrite
Its like comparing a private tutor with a school class. Its silly. They both can have a place but whereas the NHS could fulfil everyone's needs without BUPA -and does- BUPA couldn't scratch the surface.
The latest Times article on Falkirk/Unite/Labour scandal looks interesting.
Do you not find it strange that the Labour lead has increased in the polls since Falkirk? Totally unrelated of course and a pure coincidence....but long may this unrelated coincidence last. Nice graph don't you think?
It just takes one spark for the cover up in a scandal to blow up, but it helps if you have a group of like minded folk who think that the way rules and democracy have been abused in this case absolutely stink. The hypocrisy and silence of Labour politicians who would be all over this scandal like a rash if it involved anyone but the Labour party and its biggest donor Unite. I feel really sorry for the long serving and hard working local Labour party members, activists and politicians in Falkirk, as well as all those Unite workers at Grangemouth who deserved so much better from their party and their Union.
Just maybe these MP's remember the decade of the last Labour Government trying and failing to find a solution to this problem, and they then decided they didn't want to be total hypocrites in Opposition?
Its like comparing a private tutor with a school class. Its silly. They both can have a place but whereas the NHS could fulfil everyone's needs without BUPA -and does- BUPA couldn't scratch the surface.
Healthcare's a funny thing, seems to bring out the most ridiculous arguments from all sides.
While Brits (rightly) poke fun at Tea Partiers' apocalyptic visions of a failed NHS and its gruesome death panels, I suspect few of us are aware of the mechanisms by which our health care is inevitably rationed unless it affects us personally or professionally.
On the flip side, many people have a view of health care provision in the USA as avaricious butchery, a grotesque distortion of the truth as bizarre and incorrect as the Tea Party vision of the UK. Not helped by the substantial variation in policy between states, and the important kernel of truth that on the whole the USA is a worse place to be chronically sick, and particularly (as often the case) both sick and poor, than western Europe.
Plenty of British armchair free-marketeers proclaim they could cure the woes of the NHS by flogging it to BUPA and AXA, without noticing that they are competing in a completely different market and are not good analogues to private sector providers elsewhere. They also seem blissfully unaware of the poor record on costs and competition of the British private healthcare sector, which is hardly a glowing advertisement for it to take over the NHS.
And those who say the private sector or an insurance-based system could simply never deliver the scale and quality of care that the NHS does, fail to grasp how how distinctive and unusual the monolithic NHS model is. Yet many of them manage to do so, within a sentence of drawing unfavourable comparisons to to a (privately-provided, insurance funded) continental neighbour.
The quality of British public debate on lots of issues is reassuringly complex and nuanced - on health and social care it's risible. On few topics (notably criminal rehabilitation/reoffending) is it lower.
Healthcare's a funny thing, seems to bring out the most ridiculous arguments from all sides.
While Brits (rightly) poke fun at Tea Partiers' apocalyptic visions of a failed NHS and its gruesome death panels, I suspect few of us are aware of the mechanisms by which our health care is inevitably rationed unless it affects us personally or professionally.
On the flip side, many people have a view of health care provision in the USA as avaricious butchery, a grotesque distortion of the truth as bizarre and incorrect as the Tea Party vision of the UK. Not helped by the substantial variation in policy between states, and the important kernel of truth that on the whole the USA is a worse place to be chronically sick, and particularly (as often the case) both sick and poor, than western Europe.
Plenty of British armchair free-marketeers proclaim they could cure the woes of the NHS by flogging it to BUPA and AXA, without noticing that they are competing in a completely different market and are not good analogues to private sector providers elsewhere. They also seem blissfully unaware of the poor record on costs and competition of the British private healthcare sector, which is hardly a glowing advertisement for it to take over the NHS.
And those who say the private sector or an insurance-based system could simply never deliver the scale and quality of care that the NHS does, fail to grasp how how distinctive and unusual the monolithic NHS model is. Yet many of them manage to do so, within a sentence of drawing unfavourable comparisons to to a (privately-provided, insurance funded) continental neighbour.
The quality of British public debate on lots of issues is reassuringly complex and nuanced - on health and social care it's risible. On few topics (notably criminal rehabilitation/reoffending) is it lower.
I suggest, Mr Ears, that in any discussion of health care it's becoming increasing necessary to draw a distinction between the systems existing in the four parts of the United Kingdom. Policies and procedures in primary care at least are becoming, I'm assured, significantly more patient friendly in Scotland. However when it is suggested that some similar policies are introduced in England, hands are held up in horror with protestions that such changes can only be introduced on a Commissioning Group basis.
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http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/369/
Darling voted. No show for Dougie.
Curious since Darling abstained on such votes before if memory serves.
The Iain Martin book has gone up to £9.99 now on Amazon.
Blears voted.
Sooner or later Labour will be back in power as either a majority or minority government. I expect it to be a dishonest disappointment again.
It is all about deceiving the public. Post election NHS policy will be indistinguishable from today, apart from some minor cosmesis.
It is the cynicism that gets me. Fool enough of the people enough of the time.
I believe the use of the phrase "community charge" probably died with Margaret Thatcher.
"The under-occupation pilot encourages housing benefit recipients living in under- occupied social housing to move to smaller and cheaper accommodation in order to make more efficient use of housing stock. The pilot is expected to run until 2003"
Donohe from Central Ayrshire
Hood from Lanark and Hamilton East
McKechin
Pamela Nash from Airdrie and Shotts
A couple of them have been MP for decades without people noticing it....
I do not have private health insurance, why do you roger?
Politics with FPTP is all about winning. You want discussion. Vote for PR.
You should be ashamed of yourself but you are probably too stupid for that as well
When you are arguing the details you are losing. On the NHS, the Tories have lost.
He has done a great job of turning the economy around without causing mass unemployment, any halfwit can see that.
Balls, Miliband, Blanchflower, Krugman, all of them completely wrong, all of the time
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=23142
Councils paying people, in this case a grand, for a tenant to move from an under occupied property to one that is more suitable. How can this be, according to the know all posters on here there are not any properties to move into and it is impossible to move to smaller accommodation. It is also cruel and abhorrent and anyone who agrees with it needs to be shot. By he way it was Labour who introduced these tenants incentive schemes to make better use of the housing stock. Clearly a good policy when in government, but a cruel nasty policy when in opposition.
David Hamilton from Midlothian absent too
Answers came their none, which leads me to believe they should not have raised the issues in the first place, and are stupid to have done so.
In your case you have refuted how well the Economy is doing by stating, quite hilariously, that Osborne will flatline the economy in the months leading up to the election because he has only ever had two jobs. The sort of childish comment I would expect from a fifth form crusader, and as such you win the prize for most stupid post this evening.
Ed Balls (he's in USA)
Douglas Alexander
Jim Murphy
Umunna (he's in Palestine)
Frank Field
Diane Abbott
David Blunkett
Shawn Woodward
Alan Johnson
Gordon Brown
Tessa Jowell
Debbie Abrahams
Hugh Bayley
McKechin
Donohe
Doran
Ruddock
Pamela Nash
Sarwar
Jonathan Ashworth
Ann Coffey
De Piero
Clive Efford
Paul Flynn
Mike Gapes
David Hamilton
Hood
Sian James
Kaufman
Lammy
McDonagh
Alan Meale
Meg Munn
Geoffrey Robinson
Spellar
Sutcliffe
Joan Walley
Watts
Whitehead
Now take the most powerful vested interest and protest group that Ed Miliband and his party are strongly aligned too, and then stick a Tea Party cosy on top of Len McCluskey's heid.
The nation’s leading heart organizations, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, released new guidelines Tuesday that will fundamentally reshape the use of cholesterol-lowering statin medicines ...
I guess some of them voted for it then...
"So far this evening I have asked IOS how the NHS and education in Wales are performing and I have asked Roger why he doesn't opt out of Bupa?"
The rather prosaic answer is that I have an occasional atrial fibrillation and with BUPA I can call my heart specialist instantly who gives me a relatively instant cardioversion which saves me about ten days if I did it on the NHS. As my work involves a lot of travel abroad saving these ten days makes it worth the cost.
"at first glance, I spot the following Lab MPs missing"
No wonder Michael Crick thinks you're such a phenomenon!
Interesting, particularly in light of you earlier post.
I withdraw my remark about you being stupid, just a hypocrite
Its like comparing a private tutor with a school class. Its silly. They both can have a place but whereas the NHS could fulfil everyone's needs without BUPA -and does- BUPA couldn't scratch the surface.
I'm just struggling to think what it could be...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/UK_opinion_polling_2010-2015.png
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9596396/This-House-National-Theatre-review.html
While Brits (rightly) poke fun at Tea Partiers' apocalyptic visions of a failed NHS and its gruesome death panels, I suspect few of us are aware of the mechanisms by which our health care is inevitably rationed unless it affects us personally or professionally.
On the flip side, many people have a view of health care provision in the USA as avaricious butchery, a grotesque distortion of the truth as bizarre and incorrect as the Tea Party vision of the UK. Not helped by the substantial variation in policy between states, and the important kernel of truth that on the whole the USA is a worse place to be chronically sick, and particularly (as often the case) both sick and poor, than western Europe.
Plenty of British armchair free-marketeers proclaim they could cure the woes of the NHS by flogging it to BUPA and AXA, without noticing that they are competing in a completely different market and are not good analogues to private sector providers elsewhere. They also seem blissfully unaware of the poor record on costs and competition of the British private healthcare sector, which is hardly a glowing advertisement for it to take over the NHS.
And those who say the private sector or an insurance-based system could simply never deliver the scale and quality of care that the NHS does, fail to grasp how how distinctive and unusual the monolithic NHS model is. Yet many of them manage to do so, within a sentence of drawing unfavourable comparisons to to a (privately-provided, insurance funded) continental neighbour.
The quality of British public debate on lots of issues is reassuringly complex and nuanced - on health and social care it's risible. On few topics (notably criminal rehabilitation/reoffending) is it lower.
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