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[Politics] Are Labour going to turn this country around?

Is Labour going to turn the country around

  • Yes

    Votes: 128 25.8%
  • No

    Votes: 303 61.1%
  • Fence

    Votes: 65 13.1%

  • Total voters
    496


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
20,987
Eastbourne
Obviously some lower population states, but it’s effectively the size of Europe and 340m folk. California alone has getting on for the population of Spain, almost double the land area of the UK.

To all intents it’s a continent.
The USA also has local govt and state law which we do not have, I am sure the number of politicians is not that different per 100,000 to here.
 






Weststander

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Aug 25, 2011
71,029
Withdean area
The USA also has local govt and state law which we do not have, I am sure the number of politicians is not that different per 100,000 to here.

Well loads of yanks hate 'big government', simply government and taxes, it's in their DNA. They're not going to bankroll layers and layers of highly paid politicians do little for a low capita population in terms of a state.
 




Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
26,318
Sussex by the Sea
Government finances in surplus but miss forecasts

"However, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which monitors the government's spending plans and performance, had predicted that the surplus would be higher at £20.5bn.

The smaller figure has added to growing speculation that Reeves will either have to cut public spending or raise taxes further to meet her self-imposed rules for the economy."
 




A1X

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 1, 2017
21,636
Deepest, darkest Sussex


Is it PotG?

Thrifty non-licker
Feb 20, 2017
26,318
Sussex by the Sea
Regarding the old gnashers:

"Government pledges to get NHS dentistry back on its feet will mean just two extra slots a month for each dentist, experts have said.

Ministers have started the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent appointments pledged in the Labour manifesto, seven months after being elected.

It comes just a week after Sir Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, said the previous Government’s dental recovery plan had “clearly failed” to create more appointments.

Meanwhile, data published last week showed as many as six in 10 children in some areas have rotting teeth by the age of five, with clear differences between poorer regions of England and the more affluent.

The British Dental Association (BDA) claims the extra appointments would translate into each of the 24,200 dentists recorded as carrying out NHS services last year seeing the equivalent of a little over two extra urgent cases a month"
 


Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
15,573
Cumbria
Regarding the old gnashers:

"Government pledges to get NHS dentistry back on its feet will mean just two extra slots a month for each dentist, experts have said.

Ministers have started the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent appointments pledged in the Labour manifesto, seven months after being elected.

It comes just a week after Sir Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, said the previous Government’s dental recovery plan had “clearly failed” to create more appointments.

Meanwhile, data published last week showed as many as six in 10 children in some areas have rotting teeth by the age of five, with clear differences between poorer regions of England and the more affluent.

The British Dental Association (BDA) claims the extra appointments would translate into each of the 24,200 dentists recorded as carrying out NHS services last year seeing the equivalent of a little over two extra urgent cases a month"
Presumably to get more money to flow towards the NHS dentists to increase the number and the appointments it would involve higher tax levels. Something I think you're not keen on?
 




BLOCK F

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,817
Presumably to get more money to flow towards the NHS dentists to increase the number and the appointments it would involve higher tax levels. Something I think you're not keen on?
I think the ‘Gnasher bird ‘ has flown and I really cannot see NHS dentistry making a marked comeback.
 


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