The NHS had a go at an all-singing, all-dancing system twenty years ago, and it crashed and burned. Sadly for me because just before I retired I was offered 6 months retirement 'work' in Bangalore ma… (View Post)

DWP and HMRC are understaffed. (View Post)

I hesitate to sit in Hartlepool 'Spoons and argue with Barry but who is going to clean said streets? Or work in the hospitals . (View Post)

I'm not sure what policies should be ditched. The 'only' one that's been REALLY badly handled is Winter Fuel and the problem with that was that it was going to a lot of people who didn't need it, and… (View Post)

Hmm. I changed at 50+. Yes there was a difference, which it took me a while to get used to. And as a youth I worked in a sea-front stall selling candy floss, and lodged in a plasterers house in an in… (View Post)