Remarkable unity on the Tory side, the whips are doing their jobs impressively well all things considered. This was the amendment I assumed had the highest chance of passing, which means this bill is now likely to go through to Third Reading and then the Lords unamended.
Does anyone think any other proposed amendment has any chance of passing after tonight's vote?
It's interesting to look back to the election of 2000.
The good news for the Democrats:-
Oregon has gone from level- pegging to 10% Dem, Virginia has gone from 8% Rep to 5% Dem, Colorado has gone from 8% Rep to 5% Dem, New Mexico has gone from level-pegging to 8% Dem, North Carolina has gone from 13% Rep to 4% Rep, Texas has gone 21% Rep to 9% Rep
But:-
W Virginia has gone 5% Rep to 41% Rep Pennsylvania has gone 4% Dem to 1% Rep Michigan has gone 5% Dem to 0.3% Rep Iowa 1% Dem to 9% Rep Ohio 3% Rep to 9% Rep Missouri 2% Rep to 18% Rep
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling things is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think the NHS is badly run and inefficient and doesn't need more money.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Why mind boggling and why idiots. The NHS and social care is hugely complex and not helped by abusing 50% of voters. The most recent poll had Theresa May more trusted than Corbyn on the NHS
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
Oh, well in that case all the extra doctors can just work for free! After all what's the point of being middle class if you can't whinge until everything goes your way?
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
Oh, well in that case all the extra doctors can just work for free! After all what's the point of being middle class if you can't whinge until everything goes your way?
The problems with the NHS are far broader than money alone. I go to hospitals far too often for my liking and regularly find myself wondering "why the f*ck is everything so disorganised and outdated". The NHS never feels very modern to me, a lot of the practices and systems seem to be several decades behind the times.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
Oh, well in that case all the extra doctors can just work for free! After all what's the point of being middle class if you can't whinge until everything goes your way?
Or maybe we could spend a higher proportion of already taken taxes on the NHS?
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
These 'idiots' look at the other far more efficient businesses they encounter and wonder why the NHS keeps asking for more and more money yet remains in perpetual "crisis".
Education tends to do that for people. They stop accepting, "Give us more money" as the answer to everything.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
Oh, well in that case all the extra doctors can just work for free! After all what's the point of being middle class if you can't whinge until everything goes your way?
The problems with the NHS are far broader than money alone. I go to hospitals far too often for my liking and regularly find myself wondering "why the f*ck is everything so disorganised and outdated". The NHS never feels very modern to me, a lot of the practices and systems seem to be several decades behind the times.
- consultants having all the bargaining power and wanting their own fiefdoms - IT being demonized and little understood - likewise management - political interference - lack of money for long term strategic developments rather than locum staff
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
These 'idiots' look at the other far more efficient businesses they encounter and wonder why the NHS keeps asking for more and more money yet remains in perpetual "crisis".
Education tends to do that for people. They stop accepting, "Give us more money" as the answer to everything.
Healthcare is completely different to trains or widgets or websites. It works well, people live longer, costs go up. You implement new technology and specialise, costs go up. Look at international comparator and tell me why we can't spend as much as broken socialist France under Hollande
How can a country with the West Bank under occupation and unable to vote be described as a democracy?
There are Arabs in the Israeli Parliament
That's not what I said. The West Bank is controlled by Israel yet the 2.7 million Arabs who live there cannot vote in the country that controls it. But that's just the tip of the iceberg...
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
These 'idiots' look at the other far more efficient businesses they encounter and wonder why the NHS keeps asking for more and more money yet remains in perpetual "crisis".
Education tends to do that for people. They stop accepting, "Give us more money" as the answer to everything.
Healthcare is completely different to trains or widgets or websites. It works well, people live longer, costs go up. You implement new technology and specialise, costs go up. Look at international comparator and tell me why we can't spend as much as broken socialist France under Hollande
The predominant problem in British health is poor lifestyle, particularly a diet of sugar salt and fat, too little exercise, too much smoking, alcohol, and marital breakdown
The reason that Britain scores so poorly on health indicators is far more basic than health care spending. It is the way that most of us live.
Healthcare is completely different to trains or widgets or websites.
The medical bit of the NHS is, but the way the NHS does purchasing, handles inventory, communicates internally and externally, manages itself, budgets, manages staff and so on, those things aren't very different. The NHS seems to do everything non-medical very poorly indeed.
They are in deep trouble. Trump's IMF bailout veto is a tank on their lawn.
Like Bercow today Germany and the EU are losing their marbles over Trump. They are playing the man when the real power lies with the Republican's who they should be cultivating and playing a longer term game. The only person so far to understand this is Theresa May and she will see the dividends in the course of time.
The EU is not going to survive warfare against the US as they risk the US withdrawing their troops and equipment from Europe and starting a full on trade and financial war
GOP Congressman Joe Wilson calls Bercow's decision 'a slap in the face of the Republican Party' especially after Churchill's bust was returned to the Oval Office and the positive meeting between May and Trump. Time to dump Bercow for the Moggster I think!
I can't help feeling that the pledge would be more effective if engraved on a big lump of granite - especially given the constituency.
I can't help feeling the pledge would be more effective if it didn't just list every communication and transport device she's come across. Or just cut to the chase and say "government spending money is good".
How can a country with the West Bank under occupation and unable to vote be described as a democracy?
There are Arabs in the Israeli Parliament
That's not what I said. The West Bank is controlled by Israel yet the 2.7 million Arabs who live there cannot vote in the country that controls it. But that's just the tip of the iceberg...
Isn't there an existing EU-Israel trade deal under the Euromed agreements?
There may well be but post Brexit the UK will likely negotiate its own deal as it will do elsewhere as well
And this deal would be different, how?
It would be focused specifically on the UK and its economic relationship with Israel
And how - exactly - would that be different? Would we no longer take Jaffa oranges duty free, perhaps?
A better deal for banks, Rolls Royce, Unilever, defence manufacturers etc who all export to Israel but obviously once we leave the EU we will negotiate our own trade deals with a whole range of nations
They are in deep trouble. Trump's IMF bailout veto is a tank on their lawn.
Like Bercow today Germany and the EU are losing their marbles over Trump. They are playing the man when the real power lies with the Republican's who they should be cultivating and playing a longer term game. The only person so far to understand this is Theresa May and she will see the dividends in the course of time.
The EU is not going to survive warfare against the US as they risk the US withdrawing their troops and equipment from Europe and starting a full on trade and financial war
It's probably unwise to treat both the US and Russia as enemies.
I can't help feeling the pledge would be more effective if it didn't just list every communication and transport device she's come across. Or just cut to the chase and say "government spending money is good".
I can't help feeling that the pledge would be more effective if engraved on a big lump of granite - especially given the constituency.
I can't help feeling the pledge would be more effective if it didn't just list every communication and transport device she's come across. Or just cut to the chase and say "government spending money is good".
Copeland has a good local candidate running on local issues, with a history of putting in the effort on the doorsteps. 2.98 is excellent value.
Report on Vote2012 website from a LD deliverer today . He delivered a leaflet and personal addressed leter on the outskirts of the seat . Little sign of activity from other parties except one group of Labour canvassers . Very few posters and billboards . Total seen 4 Labour 3 Lib Dem Zero UKIP/Con
How can a country with the West Bank under occupation and unable to vote be described as a democracy?
Britain ruled a huge Empire, pre 1950, but was a democracy.
We occupied a portion of Iraq only a couple of years ago [with the US occupying the bulk of the nation] while we and the US were both still democracies.
"Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure."
I love "brute and choleric man" and I do hope it is how a real German thinks you say that in English, not just a machine translation. But my main reaction is that I now realise that hitherto when I have said Trump scares me, I didn't really mean it. Now I do.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling things is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think the NHS is badly run and inefficient and doesn't need more money.
59% of them said that it was Shortage of or overworked healthcare prof / medical students / Govt cuts /Level or lack of funding for NHS / lack of resources
If they want to treat the US as an enemy, they'd better beef up military spending.
It took decades and tens of millions dead to convert Germany from an excruciatingly proficient martial nation to a peaceful law-abiding capitalist trading and manufacturing state. It's probably not a good idea to go backwards on that one...
Report on Vote2012 website from a LD deliverer today . He delivered a leaflet and personal addressed leter on the outskirts of the seat . Little sign of activity from other parties except one group of Labour canvassers . Very few posters and billboards . Total seen 4 Labour 3 Lib Dem Zero UKIP/Con
Reckon the conservatives will be using social media, e mails and concentrating on the postal votes which will be very important in a by election at this time of year
I can't help feeling that the pledge would be more effective if engraved on a big lump of granite - especially given the constituency.
I can't help feeling the pledge would be more effective if it didn't just list every communication and transport device she's come across. Or just cut to the chase and say "government spending money is good".
Copeland has a good local candidate running on local issues, with a history of putting in the effort on the doorsteps. 2.98 is excellent value.
Perhaps. The pledge is, to put it mildly, a scattergun whinge.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
So Sean I fail to understand. The average person in England pays £2,057 towards their healthcare. Your objection is solely that you pay this in income tax and you would have no qualms in paying this to a private company, or even £2,500 (to bring us up to the European average) or even £3,000 as it becomes less efficient? Or even £10,000 if you have a long term condition. Which is it?
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling things is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think the NHS is badly run and inefficient and doesn't need more money.
59% of them said that it was Shortage of or overworked healthcare prof / medical students / Govt cuts /Level or lack of funding for NHS / lack of resources
Isn't there an existing EU-Israel trade deal under the Euromed agreements?
There may well be but post Brexit the UK will likely negotiate its own deal as it will do elsewhere as well
And this deal would be different, how?
It would be focused specifically on the UK and its economic relationship with Israel
And how - exactly - would that be different? Would we no longer take Jaffa oranges duty free, perhaps?
A better deal for banks, Rolls Royce, Unilever, defence manufacturers etc who all export to Israel but obviously once we leave the EU we will negotiate our own trade deals with a whole range of nations
What might that better deal be for, let's take one of your examples, R-R?
Isn't there an existing EU-Israel trade deal under the Euromed agreements?
There may well be but post Brexit the UK will likely negotiate its own deal as it will do elsewhere as well
And this deal would be different, how?
It would be focused specifically on the UK and its economic relationship with Israel
And how - exactly - would that be different? Would we no longer take Jaffa oranges duty free, perhaps?
A better deal for banks, Rolls Royce, Unilever, defence manufacturers etc who all export to Israel but obviously once we leave the EU we will negotiate our own trade deals with a whole range of nations
British banks are not prohibited from operating in Israel. There are no tariffs on exports from BAe or Rolls Royce into Israel.
I'm still trying to work out which products we'll now be able to sell tariff free into Israel that are currently subject to tariffs.
How can a country with the West Bank under occupation and unable to vote be described as a democracy?
There are Arabs in the Israeli Parliament
That's not what I said. The West Bank is controlled by Israel yet the 2.7 million Arabs who live there cannot vote in the country that controls it. But that's just the tip of the iceberg...
GOP Congressman Joe Wilson calls Bercow's decision 'a slap in the face of the Republican Party' especially after Churchill's bust was returned to the Oval Office and the positive meeting between May and Trump. Time to dump Bercow for the Moggster I think!
Bercow has to go immediately.If the Commons sticks by him there will have to be a General Election in April.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think they pay sufficient taxes already.
So Sean I fail to understand. The average person in England pays £2,057 towards their healthcare. Your objection is solely that you pay this in income tax and you would have no qualms in paying this to a private company, or even £2,500 (to bring us up to the European average) or even £3,000 as it becomes less efficient? Or even £10,000 if you have a long term condition. Which is it?
I think I pay sufficient in tax for the government to make do.
Report on Vote2012 website from a LD deliverer today . He delivered a leaflet and personal addressed leter on the outskirts of the seat . Little sign of activity from other parties except one group of Labour canvassers . Very few posters and billboards . Total seen 4 Labour 3 Lib Dem Zero UKIP/Con
Reckon the conservatives will be using social media, e mails and concentrating on the postal votes which will be very important in a by election at this time of year
I can't help feeling that the pledge would be more effective if engraved on a big lump of granite - especially given the constituency.
I can't help feeling the pledge would be more effective if it didn't just list every communication and transport device she's come across. Or just cut to the chase and say "government spending money is good".
Copeland has a good local candidate running on local issues, with a history of putting in the effort on the doorsteps. 2.98 is excellent value.
Britain certainly knows how to pick the pariahs! Pity Pinochet and PW Botha are dead. or May could have had them join the party
Oh for pity's sake. Israel is not an international pariah, Trump is not the Antichrist, a state visit is not a portent of the Rapture. This site badly needs a sense of proportion.
"Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure."
I love "brute and choleric man" and I do hope it is how a real German thinks you say that in English, not just a machine translation. But my main reaction is that I now realise that hitherto when I have said Trump scares me, I didn't really mean it. Now I do.
Trump certainly scares them.
He's calling them out for an undervalued currency - which is true. He's calling them out for underspending on european defence - which is true.
The thing is that major politicians in the UK, France and Italy are all calling them on one or the other, as well.
GOP Congressman Joe Wilson calls Bercow's decision 'a slap in the face of the Republican Party' especially after Churchill's bust was returned to the Oval Office and the positive meeting between May and Trump. Time to dump Bercow for the Moggster I think!
It's obvious that May is desperate for a US trade deal and is willing to pay the price of cosying up to Trump to get it. Other people are free to be honest about their opinions of him and frankly I don't give a toss that some GOP congressman is offended that some people don't like the President his party has landed us with.
Report on Vote2012 website from a LD deliverer today . He delivered a leaflet and personal addressed leter on the outskirts of the seat . Little sign of activity from other parties except one group of Labour canvassers . Very few posters and billboards . Total seen 4 Labour 3 Lib Dem Zero UKIP/Con
Reckon the conservatives will be using social media, e mails and concentrating on the postal votes which will be very important in a by election at this time of year
There is phoning from CCHQ and regional centres every weekday evening in Copeland now with the results co-ordinated with the local association. All I will say from my phoning is it will be close between the Tories and Labour, there is certainly little enthusiasm for Corbyn and plenty for Brexit
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Why mind boggling and why idiots. The NHS and social care is hugely complex and not helped by abusing 50% of voters. The most recent poll had Theresa May more trusted than Corbyn on the NHS
Because 59% of the very same sample said that the problems were caused by lack of funding. If we want a better health service we will have to pay for it. The Mid Staffs report was published 4 years ago today. Lots of people on here were up in arms about it and using it against the Labour government, but at least Labour increased the funding for health towards what it should be. With the current government's cuts then Mid Staffs will happen again.
Report on Vote2012 website from a LD deliverer today . He delivered a leaflet and personal addressed leter on the outskirts of the seat . Little sign of activity from other parties except one group of Labour canvassers . Very few posters and billboards . Total seen 4 Labour 3 Lib Dem Zero UKIP/Con
Reckon the conservatives will be using social media, e mails and concentrating on the postal votes which will be very important in a by election at this time of year
The Conservatives will be 4th in Stoke .
To be fair I was refering to Copeland. No way will they win Stoke
GOP Congressman Joe Wilson calls Bercow's decision 'a slap in the face of the Republican Party' especially after Churchill's bust was returned to the Oval Office and the positive meeting between May and Trump. Time to dump Bercow for the Moggster I think!
So we dump our Speaker cos of criticism from a lawmaker of a foreign power. How patriotic! That's truly taking back control.
"Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure."
I love "brute and choleric man" and I do hope it is how a real German thinks you say that in English, not just a machine translation. But my main reaction is that I now realise that hitherto when I have said Trump scares me, I didn't really mean it. Now I do.
NATO is not going to survive much more of this .The Germans have taken leave of their senses.
Britain certainly knows how to pick the pariahs! Pity Pinochet and PW Botha are dead. or May could have had them join the party
Err - try reading some history about South Africa or people might think you are a prejudiced clueless left leaning drone
"Thatcher could not stand Botha, whom she knew to have been a German sympathiser during the Second World War. When she met him at Chequers in June 1984, the notes taken by Botha’s foreign minister show that she told him “very firmly” that “apartheid had to be dismantled, Mandela and other prisoners released” and the “forcible removal of urban blacks had to stop”.
This message received the unlikely praise of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, then president of the anti-apartheid movement, who wrote to Thatcher to say that her demands to Botha were “truly all I could have wished for”.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Why mind boggling and why idiots. The NHS and social care is hugely complex and not helped by abusing 50% of voters. The most recent poll had Theresa May more trusted than Corbyn on the NHS
Because 59% of the very same sample said that the problems were caused by lack of funding. If we want a better health service we will have to pay for it. The Mid Staffs report was published 4 years ago today. Lots of people on here were up in arms about it and using it against the Labour government, but at least Labour increased the funding for health towards what it should be. With the current government's cuts then Mid Staffs will happen again.
I bet for all that Jeremy Hunt bangs on about duty of candour and support for whistle blowers that Kevin McGee has been crossed off his Christmas card list after tonight's BBC news report.
The mind boggling things is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Maybe they think the NHS is badly run and inefficient and doesn't need more money.
59% of them said that it was Shortage of or overworked healthcare prof / medical students / Govt cuts /Level or lack of funding for NHS / lack of resources
I don't suppose the average respondent really has any idea how something as large and complicated as the NHS operates, or what the problems really are caused by. Those sorts of polls are close to worthless in my opinion.
We have this collective cognitive dissonance in Britain that the NHS is both the "envy of the world" and permanently in crisis. Until we honestly and accurately appraise the NHS we will never fix it.
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(Apart from a global outpouring of thanks and admiration)
EDIT: first like Donald Trump when he's inside you.
What does it mean? It doesn't seem to have a message or punchline.
Bragging about bagging Hamilton tickets is so 2015
And if he has the power re who addresses Parliament, then MPs need to realise that he can use that power.
So, when MPs elect a Speaker, they need to take account of how candidates are likely to operate in all aspects of the role - including this aspect.
Remarkable unity on the Tory side, the whips are doing their jobs impressively well all things considered. This was the amendment I assumed had the highest chance of passing, which means this bill is now likely to go through to Third Reading and then the Lords unamended.
Does anyone think any other proposed amendment has any chance of passing after tonight's vote?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zAT15vaFk
Which means the morning thread will be written in the morning.
The good news for the Democrats:-
Oregon has gone from level- pegging to 10% Dem,
Virginia has gone from 8% Rep to 5% Dem,
Colorado has gone from 8% Rep to 5% Dem,
New Mexico has gone from level-pegging to 8% Dem,
North Carolina has gone from 13% Rep to 4% Rep,
Texas has gone 21% Rep to 9% Rep
But:-
W Virginia has gone 5% Rep to 41% Rep
Pennsylvania has gone 4% Dem to 1% Rep
Michigan has gone 5% Dem to 0.3% Rep
Iowa 1% Dem to 9% Rep
Ohio 3% Rep to 9% Rep
Missouri 2% Rep to 18% Rep
The mind boggling thing is that 50% think that raising income tax to fund the NHS sufficiently is not appropriate. Where the hell do these idiots think the money is coming from?
Woof woof
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2017/02/eric-pickles-netanyahus-visit-it-would-be-fitting-were-britain-later-to-sign-its-first-free-trade-deal-with-the-middle-easts-only-true-democracy.html
This editorial in @SPIEGEL_English is jaw-dropping. It calls for a German-led international alliance against Trump. https://t.co/rvoSDz2t4R
Hmm
Education tends to do that for people. They stop accepting, "Give us more money" as the answer to everything.
- IT being demonized and little understood
- likewise management
- political interference
- lack of money for long term strategic developments rather than locum staff
Because the nations that attacked Israel and from whom it took the land in self defence don't want the land back?
Because the occupied populace are able to elect their own leaders who refuse to agree a peace deal with Israel?
Look at international comparator and tell me why we can't spend as much as broken socialist France under Hollande
The reason that Britain scores so poorly on health indicators is far more basic than health care spending. It is the way that most of us live.
The EU is not going to survive warfare against the US as they risk the US withdrawing their troops and equipment from Europe and starting a full on trade and financial war
"Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure."
I love "brute and choleric man" and I do hope it is how a real German thinks you say that in English, not just a machine translation. But my main reaction is that I now realise that hitherto when I have said Trump scares me, I didn't really mean it. Now I do.
students / Govt cuts /Level or lack of funding for NHS / lack of resources
I'm still trying to work out which products we'll now be able to sell tariff free into Israel that are currently subject to tariffs.
https://www.facebook.com/Copeland-Conservatives-Campaign-page-661109930660808/
He's calling them out for an undervalued currency - which is true.
He's calling them out for underspending on european defence - which is true.
The thing is that major politicians in the UK, France and Italy are all calling them on one or the other, as well.
This message received the unlikely praise of Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, then president of the anti-apartheid movement, who wrote to Thatcher to say that her demands to Botha were “truly all I could have wished for”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/11403728/Margaret-Thatchers-secret-campaign-to-end-apartheid.html
We have this collective cognitive dissonance in Britain that the NHS is both the "envy of the world" and permanently in crisis. Until we honestly and accurately appraise the NHS we will never fix it.