Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
You can get £4800 a year for a £35k investment?
Thats a gross yield, before your costs are taken in to account, and is based on the assumption that the rent is actually paid on time.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
You can get £4800 a year for a £35k investment?
Thats a gross yield, before your costs are taken in to account, and is based on the assumption that the rent is actually paid.
"Supermodel Linda Evangelista has said she has been left "permanently deformed" due to an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure. The 56-year-old revealed she had experienced a rare cosmetic side effect of the treatment five years ago which actually increased her fat cells. "I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable'," she told her 900,000 Instagram followers. Evangelista explained it was the reason she'd disappeared from the public eye."
"Supermodel Linda Evangelista has said she has been left "permanently deformed" due to an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure. The 56-year-old revealed she had experienced a rare cosmetic side effect of the treatment five years ago which actually increased her fat cells. "I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable'," she told her 900,000 Instagram followers. Evangelista explained it was the reason she'd disappeared from the public eye."
And in a totally unrelated story, said supermodel has just filed a lawsuit against a cosmetic surgery clinic. Getting her own version of events in the media first.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
Actually given the forthcoming epc rules you probably need another 10k on top to add external insulation to the outer wall. Mid terraces are better there as there is less you need to insulate.
"Supermodel Linda Evangelista has said she has been left "permanently deformed" due to an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure. The 56-year-old revealed she had experienced a rare cosmetic side effect of the treatment five years ago which actually increased her fat cells. "I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable'," she told her 900,000 Instagram followers. Evangelista explained it was the reason she'd disappeared from the public eye."
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
Actually given the forthcoming epc rules you probably need another 10k on top to add external insulation to the outer wall. Mid terraces are better there as there is less you need to insulate.
So you’re up to £80k or £90k by the time it’s rentable, a lot of which needs to be in cash rather than mortgage, and then it’s £400 or £500 a month in income. That’s more marginal than the headline figures might suggest!
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
Yep, see my point below. That house needs £35k of work on it to meet the long term requirements (external insulation would be the only way to get there)
Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid. Should be billed for the full, true cost. Its not like giving up a decades long smoking or drink addiction. Heck it's not like developing healthy eating and exercise habits or asking someone to give up motorcycles or horse riding. It's going to the clinic, taking an hour out of a couple of days and getting an injection. Its so so so easy compared to the rest of life
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Indeed and of course it is devolved to the Welsh government, so in Wales it is their problem but also ours
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
Actually given the forthcoming epc rules you probably need another 10k on top to add external insulation to the outer wall. Mid terraces are better there as there is less you need to insulate.
So you’re up to £80k or £90k by the time it’s rentable, a lot of which needs to be in cash rather than mortgage, and then it’s £400 or £500 a month in income. That’s more marginal than the headline figures might suggest!
You may have just proved my initial point as to why landlords are giving up thus leaving a shortage of available housing in the private rented sector. However I think the renovation/investment is not quite at the level imagined, for instance there is a cap at £3500 for improvements towards improving the EPC rating.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you jeopordise those two issues summarised above.
Can you go through point 1 slowly for me ?
I've been round this before on here. So people present themselves as homeless. The Council have a duty to house them. There is no Council Housing. So the Council need private landlords. If there are no landlords, then there is nowhere to house these people.
If landlords sell up because Council Tax has been replaced with a £150 per annum tax (on your numbers) then who would they have sold their homes to?
Or do you expect the homes to be demolished?
Council houses were sold off via right to buy so people could own their own home, not so that people could buy other people's homes.
I don't know who came up with 'abolish council tax' idea, but it is a total non starter. Such taxes are merely paying for services provided by the Council. If they aren't funded by Council tax, they need to be funded some other way. How?
None of this changes the problem that you need a private rented sector; rents are increasing because landlords are quitting the private rented sector, amongst other things. Supply and demand etc.
Council tax should be scrapped because its regressive, expensive and inefficient to collect, and based on valuations from the dark ages.
Property tax should pay for council services.
Better still a land tax, a property tax is a disincentive to improve the property.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
"The cost cap: you will never be required to spend more than £3,500 (including VAT) on energy efficiency improvements."
If you're double glazing anyway, you're probably at £3500 just with that.
You would be over paying for double glazing then. The issue is that once you spend £3500 you need to apply for an exemption and that exemption may be removed at any point.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid. Should be billed for the full, true cost. Its not like giving up a decades long smoking or drink addiction. Heck it's not like developing healthy eating and exercise habits or asking someone to give up motorcycles or horse riding. It's going to the clinic, taking an hour out of a couple of days and getting an injection. Its so so so easy compared to the rest of life
I'm close to the end of my tether with the anti-vaxxers. It's contrary to all my normal opinions, but I'm beginning to come to the view that if they don't want to take advantage of modern medical science by taking the vaccine that we should make that an all-or-nothing sort of choice, reopen the nightingale hospitals, and have the anti-vaxxers treated for Covid there with only the medical science available to Florence in the 19th century.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
OK. This article on the future of the Quad is worth resetting my password yet again for, to enable me to share with you. Very interesting insights and predictions, which intuitively feel right, especially the idea that it will be China's own actions that are the glue to strengthen the Quad and be an impediment to China's own ambitions.
The other thing that this article does is demonstrate with glaring clarity just how in reverse Japan's economy has been for a while.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you jeopordise those two issues summarised above.
Can you go through point 1 slowly for me ?
I've been round this before on here. So people present themselves as homeless. The Council have a duty to house them. There is no Council Housing. So the Council need private landlords. If there are no landlords, then there is nowhere to house these people.
If landlords sell up because Council Tax has been replaced with a £150 per annum tax (on your numbers) then who would they have sold their homes to?
Or do you expect the homes to be demolished?
Council houses were sold off via right to buy so people could own their own home, not so that people could buy other people's homes.
I don't know who came up with 'abolish council tax' idea, but it is a total non starter. Such taxes are merely paying for services provided by the Council. If they aren't funded by Council tax, they need to be funded some other way. How?
None of this changes the problem that you need a private rented sector; rents are increasing because landlords are quitting the private rented sector, amongst other things. Supply and demand etc.
Council tax should be scrapped because its regressive, expensive and inefficient to collect, and based on valuations from the dark ages.
Property tax should pay for council services.
Better still a land tax, a property tax is a disincentive to improve the property.
Agreed.
I don't see any reason why building an extension should lead to an increase in taxes, its the same land being used.
Similarly I don't see why buying land and "banking" it should lead to a reduction in taxes.
As they should. Because GB-NI trade is collapsing.
Remind me who signed that deal.
The sad thing, if it happens, is that it will no doubt be marketed as evidence of Boris's machismo.
I do not think it would do Boris any harm in the red wall seats
They wont notice when the UC cut hits them right between the eyes.
Looks like that is under consideration in the budget
As I said it is a big moment for Rishi and I will be looking for fairness and help for the lower paid and impoverished pensioners
And if you see none of those things, then what?
I am not pre judging his budget but those are the areas that need attention and there was some talk today that those on UC are to keep more of their earnings
Looking like this winter is going to the worst as far as crisis, economic turmoil, inflation, shortages and general shit goes in at least 40 years.
Is Boris the right man to guide us through?
We shall soon see.
Don't count Sir K out just yet would be my prediction.
It won’t be worse than last winter when people were banned from having Christmas dinner with their families
Slightly different, though.
Christmas 2020 was a fiasco. And that sudden fall down the cliff edge from "It'll be lovely" to "It'll be limited but fine" to "REMAIN INDOORS" should have led to heads rolling. My memory of that time was having half done gift shopping at the moment when London was reconfined to barracks. And that's before we get onto schools.
But there was some legitimate slack to be cut. It was a mismanagement of the virus, but the virus was a substantial foe. If Christmas 2021 is rubbish, let alone the rest of winter 2021/2, it will be much more because of distinctive decisions that the UK government has taken. And if the plan is to say "this is a consequence of what the voters asked the government to do" (which is a line they seem to be trying)... good luck with that. They'll need it.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Looking like this winter is going to the worst as far as crisis, economic turmoil, inflation, shortages and general shit goes in at least 40 years.
Is Boris the right man to guide us through?
We shall soon see.
Don't count Sir K out just yet would be my prediction.
It won’t be worse than last winter when people were banned from having Christmas dinner with their families
Slightly different, though.
Christmas 2020 was a fiasco. And that sudden fall down the cliff edge from "It'll be lovely" to "It'll be limited but fine" to "REMAIN INDOORS" should have led to heads rolling. My memory of that time was having half done gift shopping at the moment when London was reconfined to barracks. And that's before we get onto schools.
But there was some legitimate slack to be cut. It was a mismanagement of the virus, but the virus was a substantial foe. If Christmas 2021 is rubbish, let alone the rest of winter 2021/2, it will be much more because of distinctive decisions that the UK government has taken. And if the plan is to say "this is a consequence of what the voters asked the government to do" (which is a line they seem to be trying)... good luck with that. They'll need it.
Well of course - when the govt ‘gets away’ with a forecast disaster, the forecaster with nothing to lose has to say the next one will be worse
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
Looking like this winter is going to the worst as far as crisis, economic turmoil, inflation, shortages and general shit goes in at least 40 years.
Is Boris the right man to guide us through?
We shall soon see.
Don't count Sir K out just yet would be my prediction.
It won’t be worse than last winter when people were banned from having Christmas dinner with their families
It seems like a dream meeting my sister in a car park to exchange presents I wonder whether people will recall that time and say well at least we can all meet up now ain't life great. Or whether it will be a "that was then" experience and people will find new things to worry/complain about.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
CORRECTION - at least one result the exit poll did NOT predict, indeed was way off:
Rushen (2)
Juan Watterson (I - current Speaker HoK) 2,384 - elected Michelle Haywood 1,386 - elected Mark Kemp 1,163 Andrew Langan-Newton 1,109
Exit poll said winners were #1 Watterson, #2 Langan-Newton, who ran for the Manx Green Party; note only one incumbent in this constituency as one seat was vacant
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
As they should. Because GB-NI trade is collapsing.
Remind me who signed that deal.
The sad thing, if it happens, is that it will no doubt be marketed as evidence of Boris's machismo.
I do not think it would do Boris any harm in the red wall seats
They wont notice when the UC cut hits them right between the eyes.
Looks like that is under consideration in the budget
As I said it is a big moment for Rishi and I will be looking for fairness and help for the lower paid and impoverished pensioners
And if you see none of those things, then what?
I am not pre judging his budget but those are the areas that need attention and there was some talk today that those on UC are to keep more of their earnings
That's a lot of words for "then nothing"
With respect there is little I could say to you that would not be criticised so be it
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
As they should. Because GB-NI trade is collapsing.
Remind me who signed that deal.
The sad thing, if it happens, is that it will no doubt be marketed as evidence of Boris's machismo.
I do not think it would do Boris any harm in the red wall seats
They wont notice when the UC cut hits them right between the eyes.
Looks like that is under consideration in the budget
As I said it is a big moment for Rishi and I will be looking for fairness and help for the lower paid and impoverished pensioners
And if you see none of those things, then what?
I am not pre judging his budget but those are the areas that need attention and there was some talk today that those on UC are to keep more of their earnings
That's a lot of words for "then nothing"
With respect there is little I could say to you that would not be criticised so be it
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
That'll need 30-40k spending.
And I'd say the "offers over" price is probably a flash of the knickers.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
I'm just saying that there have been such headlines for years (that famous montage of Graun front pages) and here we are.
So we as a nation must be content to put up with it.
Well, that belief will be tested severely these next few months.
Do you not get the feeling that things are spiralling out of control?
Yes. When ambulances are stuck outside A&E departments because they can't offload patients, so their aren't enough ambulances to go out to answer emergency calls, the system has become dysfunctional and people will die unnecessarily. That seems out of control to my simple mind.
I worked for many years in Councils, and the reality on the ground is that you need a private rented sector for two reasons:
1) housing of vulnerable people as the state do not do it, most of the time, for good reasons. 2) Inward investment, people doing up properties promotes economic activity in the area.
If you kill the private rented sector through punitive wealth taxes, then you run in to those two problems summarised above.
Switzerland has a wealth tax. So does New York (ie a property tax)
Do they have a rental sector? Oh, they do.
You cannot compare Darlington with Zurich or New York.
Why not?
Because houses cost nothing in Darlington. You can buy a house there for £30,000. Go in to the rural hinterlands of County Durham, and houses are being given away for next to nothing to first time buyers, if they do the place up.
Landlords coming in, buying the properties, doing them up and renting them out to people who have issues in their lives that mean that home ownership isn't right for them can only be regarded as a social good. They take the burden away from the state and generate economic activity.
Love to know where in Darlington you wou;d buy a house for £30k. £60k will get you a 2 up, 2 down Terrance in the Denes, prices little different since 2004
Equally I wouldn’t want that sort of hassle for £400 or so a month, there are far too many things that could go wrong
Doesn't take too long to do a search on rightmove, but there you go.
You are absolutely correct. Why go in to such hassle for £400 a month. There is too much regulation and responsibility, which is another reason that landlords are quitting the sector.
An advert with one photo, of the outside front of the property. One can obviously assume, that ‘requires modernisation’ means it’s completely gutted and unlivable inside, until you spend £20k more than the £35k asking price?
No ch, no double glazing, bottom energy rating, and so on.
On the energy rating, any prospective PB-landlords should be aware of MEES:
"The cost cap: you will never be required to spend more than £3,500 (including VAT) on energy efficiency improvements."
If you're double glazing anyway, you're probably at £3500 just with that.
Proposals to increase it to £10k were consulted on last January. Sensible.
And to bring forward the EPC level C requirement to 2025 - which is too soon as the staff to renovate are not sufficiently available. We talked about this earlier.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
The NHS has had more funding increase than any other govt department though. What do you suggest ?
I don't think it primarily about funding. The problem is shortness of capacity, staff vacancies, inadequate bed numbers, atrophy of postgraduate training, demoralisation.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
I'm just saying that there have been such headlines for years (that famous montage of Graun front pages) and here we are.
So we as a nation must be content to put up with it.
Well, that belief will be tested severely these next few months.
Do you not get the feeling that things are spiralling out of control?
I think the govt is certainly losing it (control).
But the NHS has pretty well been ringfenced spending wise. That's not to say I am at all a fan of the NHS model as you may be aware from my various posts about my experiences (and the anecdotal experiences of just about everyone I know) with it.
Another NHS in crisis headline won't I believe gain traction.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
Interesting story that one. One moral, the one often drawn, is to not cry wolf prematurely, in case you aren't believed. The other is that you have to be careful about discounting wolf-crying just because it has turned out wrong in the past.
Even if there hasn't been a wolf in the past, there might still be one this time. You have to judge the evidence and the risk/benefit on its merits...
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
The NHS has had more funding increase than any other govt department though. What do you suggest ?
I don't think it primarily about funding. The problem is shortness of capacity, staff vacancies, inadequate bed numbers, atrophy of postgraduate training, demoralisation.
Money cannot fix a broken system.
Is my point. The model needs reforming but no govt dares to do so.
Maybe ReformUK need to think of a new name, one that actually makes them sound like the populist party they are. The word "reform" arguably sounds too bland.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
Interesting story that one. One moral, the one often drawn, is to not cry wolf prematurely, in case you aren't believed. The other is that you have to be careful about discounting wolf-crying just because it has turned out wrong in the past.
Even if there hasn't been a wolf in the past, there might still be one this time. You have to judge the evidence and the risk/benefit on its merits...
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
Interesting story that one. One moral, the one often drawn, is to not cry wolf prematurely, in case you aren't believed. The other is that you have to be careful about discounting wolf-crying just because it has turned out wrong in the past.
Even if there hasn't been a wolf in the past, there might still be one this time. You have to judge the evidence and the risk/benefit on its merits...
I’ve heard it used as an example of how “the moral of the story” and “the ending of the story” are different concepts.
The 4 hour target for seeing and treating in ED is a very imperfect measure, but probably the single easiest measure of strain on the NHS. August's was the worst figure on record, worse than the peaks of both the initial wave and last winters one.
Maybe ReformUK need to think of a new name, one that actually makes them sound like the populist party they are. The word "reform" arguably sounds too bland.
We've known for decades that the percentage of older people would be much higher than it used to be, and therefore the NHS would come under pressure in a way it didn't before. Did we adequately prepare for that over the last 20 or 30 years? Probably not.
Rising taxes Rising interest rates Rising prices Food, energy and petrol shortages.
Could be a fun old winter, eh?
Rising hospital waiting lists too.
Just as well I still have last years Christmas Dinner in the freezer. At least until the power cuts hit.
ITV Wales was so depressing over Wales NHS which has the longest A & E waiting times and waiting lists ever, and the second worst ambulance response times
V bleak article in this week's New Statesman from a GP. NHS totally at its limits and only September.
Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
Wow, it is a bleak article, but sadly my view from the hospital ain't very different. This resonated with me:
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
Not to minimise the problem but there have been NHS at breaking point headlines and articles every year for the past 20 years.
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
Sure, everything is fine. There is no wolf.
Interesting story that one. One moral, the one often drawn, is to not cry wolf prematurely, in case you aren't believed. The other is that you have to be careful about discounting wolf-crying just because it has turned out wrong in the past.
Even if there hasn't been a wolf in the past, there might still be one this time. You have to judge the evidence and the risk/benefit on its merits...
I’ve heard it used as an example of how “the moral of the story” and “the ending of the story” are different concepts.
Ooh. Intriguing- can you point me towards some more?
One of the things I'm thinking about in a different context is the way that really good stories- the sort that a community like a nation or faith get built around- have different, complementary but all healthy interpretations. Really effective politicians can do the same...
Maybe ReformUK need to think of a new name, one that actually makes them sound like the populist party they are. The word "reform" arguably sounds too bland.
I think it should start with New.
How about these?
UK Alternative New Citizen UK Forward UK Advance The Civic Rally Reform For Freedom
Maybe ReformUK need to think of a new name, one that actually makes them sound like the populist party they are. The word "reform" arguably sounds too bland.
I think it should start with New.
How about these?
UK Alternative New Citizen UK Forward UK Advance The Civic Rally Reform For Freedom
Vox (Not Vax!) Pop Proud Blokes True British Voice Britain Unwoke!
Maybe ReformUK need to think of a new name, one that actually makes them sound like the populist party they are. The word "reform" arguably sounds too bland.
I think it should start with New.
How about these?
UK Alternative New Citizen UK Forward UK Advance The Civic Rally Reform For Freedom
Vox (Not Vax!) Pop Proud Blokes True British Voice Britain Unwoke!
I don't count myelf as a great reader of the tea leaves, but I'm pretty sure the Tories would rip both of your arms off now of you offered Anglea R as their opponent at the next election.
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Even on-call doctors are struggling to get an ambulance out to emergencies on their hotlines - sometimes takes hours. Bed blockers filling hospitals because so few care staff so no places for them to be discharged. Precious critical beds taken up by the unvaxxed with covid.
"Supermodel Linda Evangelista has said she has been left "permanently deformed" due to an adverse reaction to a fat reduction procedure. The 56-year-old revealed she had experienced a rare cosmetic side effect of the treatment five years ago which actually increased her fat cells. "I have been left, as the media has described, 'unrecognisable'," she told her 900,000 Instagram followers. Evangelista explained it was the reason she'd disappeared from the public eye."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58662756
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1441128928953909248?s=20
Getting her own version of events in the media first.
Is Boris the right man to guide us through?
We shall soon see.
Don't count Sir K out just yet would be my prediction.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-private-rented-property-minimum-energy-efficiency-standard-landlord-guidance
Because GB-NI trade is collapsing.
Remind me who signed that deal.
Should be billed for the full, true cost. Its not like giving up a decades long smoking or drink addiction. Heck it's not like developing healthy eating and exercise habits or asking someone to give up motorcycles or horse riding. It's going to the clinic, taking an hour out of a couple of days and getting an injection. Its so so so easy compared to the rest of life
(Times)
If you're double glazing anyway, you're probably at £3500 just with that.
https://www.murdermap.co.uk/statistics/london-murders-2021-latest-total/
PB should buy the house, and we can settle these discussions with reality.
(The description mentions a boiler in the bathroom, so it seems it does have central heating.)
As I said it is a big moment for Rishi and I will be looking for fairness and help for the lower paid and impoverished pensioners
The other thing that this article does is demonstrate with glaring clarity just how in reverse Japan's economy has been for a while.
https://www.cnbc.com/quad-summit-and-china-game-theory-predictions-for-the-future-of-the-quad/
For anyone interested in geopolitics, I'd say this is a must read.
I don't see any reason why building an extension should lead to an increase in taxes, its the same land being used.
Similarly I don't see why buying land and "banking" it should lead to a reduction in taxes.
https://www.iomelections.com/2021/results/
Christmas 2020 was a fiasco. And that sudden fall down the cliff edge from "It'll be lovely" to "It'll be limited but fine" to "REMAIN INDOORS" should have led to heads rolling. My memory of that time was having half done gift shopping at the moment when London was reconfined to barracks. And that's before we get onto schools.
But there was some legitimate slack to be cut. It was a mismanagement of the virus, but the virus was a substantial foe. If Christmas 2021 is rubbish, let alone the rest of winter 2021/2, it will be much more because of distinctive decisions that the UK government has taken. And if the plan is to say "this is a consequence of what the voters asked the government to do" (which is a line they seem to be trying)... good luck with that. They'll need it.
"Steadily eroding pay and conditions are significant reasons why staff quit. But survey evidence suggests these are less important than the demoralising inability to provide the standard of care they trained for, in a system that has been progressively starved of resources relative to need. And ill-health is compounding these retention problems."
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2021/09/state-of-a-covid-nation-why-this-winter-could-push-the-nhs-to-breaking-point
We as a country evidently are happy to put up with it.
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Juan Watterson (I - current Speaker HoK) 2,384 - elected
Michelle Haywood 1,386 - elected
Mark Kemp 1,163
Andrew Langan-Newton 1,109
Exit poll said winners were #1 Watterson, #2 Langan-Newton, who ran for the Manx Green Party; note only one incumbent in this constituency as one seat was vacant
So we as a nation must be content to put up with it.
Add in social care and climate change and it is fair to ask just how is it all going to be financed
Do you not get the feeling that things are spiralling out of control?
And I'd say the "offers over" price is probably a flash of the knickers.
And to bring forward the EPC level C requirement to 2025 - which is too soon as the staff to renovate are not sufficiently available. We talked about this earlier.
Money cannot fix a broken system.
But the NHS has pretty well been ringfenced spending wise. That's not to say I am at all a fan of the NHS model as you may be aware from my various posts about my experiences (and the anecdotal experiences of just about everyone I know) with it.
Another NHS in crisis headline won't I believe gain traction.
Even if there hasn't been a wolf in the past, there might still be one this time. You have to judge the evidence and the risk/benefit on its merits...
‘Johnson Variant’ 🙄
The data are here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
But when I see things spiralling out of control, I don't just mean the NHS.
One of the things I'm thinking about in a different context is the way that really good stories- the sort that a community like a nation or faith get built around- have different, complementary but all healthy interpretations. Really effective politicians can do the same...
UK Alternative
New Citizen
UK Forward
UK Advance
The Civic Rally
Reform For Freedom
Proud Blokes
True British Voice
Britain Unwoke!