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[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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This is why the Government are playing hardball with the strikers. They know (as it was predicted) that inflation will start falling quickly once the gas price increase works it way out of the 12-month cycle - so they want to be in a position where they can say 'your 10% pay demand is 3x inflation' and gain the support of more of the public.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan for extra maths lessons – cartoon
The prime minister used his first speech of 2023 to announce plans for all pupils in England to study maths up to the age of 18
www.theguardian.com
Yup. And no doubt the regulator will allow retail prices to stay higher for longer than needed to "give the surviving companies a chance to recover what they lost" at the start of the crisis when the retail cap was lower than wholsesale costs.
Ha!
I actually thought there was a huge overreaction to this footage.
Why can’t a homeless person have a background or interest in finances or aspirations to be part of the industry?
Quite. There is never a “how”.
Absolutely no reason why not. But he has been out on the streets all night so interrogate the poor chap once he has had his scoff.
(I learnt decades ago never to judge a homeless person. Chap in Southampton who was a sub-editor on one of the big daily newspapers. His wife and two kids wiped out in a car accident and he just gave up on everything. Polite and well spoken - never asked for anything. Never judge just because someone is on the streets. It is rarely through choice)
Mark my words the tories have and continue to deliberately run down our public service’s and currently their aim is on the NHS which is at a total crisis point.
soon you will be hearing backbenchers saying we can no longer afford to run the NHS and they only way forward will be to privatise certain elements
Always remember the Tories voted against the setting up of the NHS they never wanted it but so popular was it with the voting public they had no option than to try and out spend the other political parties for fear of political oblivion, but the perfect storm has rolled over the nation for Tories to consider the question if you wanted change in the NHS now is the time.
soon you will be hearing backbenchers saying we can no longer afford to run the NHS and they only way forward will be to privatise certain elements
Always remember the Tories voted against the setting up of the NHS they never wanted it but so popular was it with the voting public they had no option than to try and out spend the other political parties for fear of political oblivion, but the perfect storm has rolled over the nation for Tories to consider the question if you wanted change in the NHS now is the time.
I worked before retirement for 37 years in the NHS and in all that time only twice was it funded, staffed and correctly infrastructured and that was the first two terms of Tony Blair during that time 4 new hospitals were built and funding found to progress the start of the RSCH project
Tory minister on the radio now putting an audacious spin on the NHS crisis. Claiming that healthcare systems worldwide are in crisis and it's because of Covid.
Next step? "Covid broke the NHS and now we have to privatise to fix it. We don't want to do this but we have no choice" ?? Maybe. Maybe not.
As an aside, are the people who phone into the Jeremy Vine (dreadful man) show pulled from some sort of home for the permanently bewildered?
Next step? "Covid broke the NHS and now we have to privatise to fix it. We don't want to do this but we have no choice" ?? Maybe. Maybe not.
As an aside, are the people who phone into the Jeremy Vine (dreadful man) show pulled from some sort of home for the permanently bewildered?
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Just finished my call on there actually.
It really wouldn't surprise me.
nicko31
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Many on the Tory right dream about NHS privatisation, especially if they and their mates can get in on the action. Get another term of the Tories and we can kiss goodbye to a free at point of use health system.
Good read here: https://www.ft.com/content/b593116d-f948-4757-b2fa-c74adadc8b42
Especially the "Long-term underfunding" section with accompanying graphs.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan for extra maths lessons – cartoon
The prime minister used his first speech of 2023 to announce plans for all pupils in England to study maths up to the age of 18
I think we will see “priority waiting rooms” in NHS hospitals and suchlike en route to total privatisation. Reserved for those with private health insurance held with insurance companies owned by the Tory’s and their chums.
They really do think we are idiots.
Machiavelli
Well-known member
If you follow some of the more political threads on here, that's precisely what's happening, and it coincides with much of our oligarch-owned, off-shore press barons turning their attention to questioning the status of the NHS, as a result of its current drained predicament.
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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stanley johnson told us precisely that!