Labour pledge to build cancer centre that already exists!
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@PennyMordaunt is going to rip @AngelaRayner a new one! 🤣
#politics #GeneralElection2024
Line-up confirmed for first BBC election debate
Conservative Penny Mordaunt and Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner will appear alongside participants from five other parties.Ruth Comerford (BBC News)
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Oh, it's going to be one of those days, is it?
It is one of those days where you give people clear instructions, and yet they forge ahead with what they think, having clearly disregarded everything you've said to them.
I asked Admin to put some details on SAGE as I have a deal I'm hoping to close this morning for five Laptops: "Do us a favour, put it on the system, but don't send it because I haven't had the go-ahead yet. When I have then, send it, and once they've paid, I'll release the goods."
Just had an email from Admin: "Invoiced."
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#politics #ElectionDebate #generalection2024 #TVLicense
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General election 2024: Sunak and Starmer clash over tax in first debate
The Conservative and Labour leaders got scrappy at times, forcing the host of the ITV event to intervene and urge the pair to "lower your voices".Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
Well, that's made things fun.
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#politics #generalection2024 #Farage #ReformUK
Nigel Farage announcement latest: Nigel Farage announces he will stand for election in Clacton as Reform UK leader
Nigel Farage has confirmed that he will stand as an MP and take over as leader of Reform UK.The Telegraph
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He wants to destroy the Tory Party, not take it over. His style of politics is too far right for my liking, and as for his Net Zero on immigration, the man's a moron because Social Healthcare would collapse overnight, let alone devastate the NHS.
See, I blame the BBC et al. If they reported properly, the public would know that legal immigrants are being made to perform community care work if they want to extend their visas unless their employer is willing to sponsor them. If the British public knew that, they wouldn't be so anti [legal] immigrants.
I can agree that Farage is wrong, but he's also cunning. He's broken the Tories, but not quite as much as Trump broke the Republicans, yet.
Well that is one thing he and I have in common, I too would like to destroy the conservative party and definitely not have Farage take it over.
He has a very limited understanding of economics and seems to view people as a burden on an economy rather than the source of it's wealth, and so he blames too-many-people for all the problems caused by inequality and lack of government investment or controls on the ultra wealthy.
High house prices? Can't be landlord collusion, currency inflation, and failure to tax the ultra rich so they bid up house prices. Must be too many migrants, it's the poorest people who are somehow bidding up the house prices.
Poor health service? Can't be underinvestment by an austerity-crazed government, must be too many migrants using it even though they are literally half the staff.
Traffic jams? Must be too many migrants on the roads, not poor traffic planning and lack of public transport options. Migrants are the rich ones that can afford cars in his mind.
Poor schools? Oh, it's because they're full of migrants who don't speak english, not because of virtual privatization though accademisation removing all local accountability and then austerity-crazed under-investment while top management bleed them of money.
His hatred knows no bounds and his fears fill in the same answer to every question.
I really hope he loses and also ruins it for the conservative candidate and people end up with a green or something.
The Greens will never have any more power than local government.
Never mind "Taxing the rich"; we need more people to pay taxes! I wonder what socialists will do when there are no longer any rich people in the UK to squeeze? We need to create jobs and get more people back to work. See I don't mind legal immigrants; they'll work hard and pay taxes. It's the illegal and boat people that we need France to stop, but of course, they never will because the French are happy for the problem to leave their shores.
I agree with you regarding underfunding for the NHS, but only in terms of capacity and not wages, etc. We need more beds, and that doesn't necessarily mean more hospitals.
As I said to someone the other day, Farage's statements generally have an underlying truth. The NHS was created to cater for 40 million, and we currently stand at 70 million and rising, so an influx of hundreds of thousands is going to have an effect; there's no getting away from that.
Our education system was not only created for a smaller population but made worse by eradicating as many grammar schools as possible, thus reducing capacity, making ridiculous situations of classes in some areas of fifty pupils to one teacher.
In both education and the NHS, nobody wants to do the job; it's not about money; you could offer £1000 a week, and you'd still struggle to employ people willing to clean up vomit or watch someone die of cancer. There are currently one hundred and forty-four thousand vacancies in the NHS. Most pay decent wages, yet nobody in the UK wants the jobs.
I take it you know I'm a Conservative?
At least I'm willing to plant my flag in the ground, unlike some I know. 😄
When there are no longer any rich people to squeeze will will have completed the project of reclaiming the country's assets for the masses I suppose.
Stopping people risking their lives in dangerous channel crossing, and stopping the people smugglers is easy: Just offer safe passage.
80 of asylum seekers are successful and if processed efficiently could quickly be put to work, the other 20 you'd know where they came from and where they are.
An influx of hundred of thousands of them will indeed have an effect on the NHS, filling many of those vacancies ideally. Refugees are often skilled.
We have made being a doctor or nurse in England twice as badly paid working twice the hours of one in Australia. Fair pay absolutely would help with recruitment.
My flag is indeed in the green party, who would be very lucky indeed to come between those titans to take that constituency. We'll be lucky to get two, because our election system doesn't only rule out Nige, it rules out all small parties. It's a two-party fit-up.
It's dangerous to compare wages to other countries. My parents moved to the Midlands long before I did; I came up on a visit once and, just for giggles, checked out the rental prices: "Wow! Rents are cheap up here, mum." When I got back to Buckinghamshire, where I was living at the time, I made plans to move North. I soon found out why rents were cheap; the wages were diabolical. 🤣
I'll never agree to illegal immigration, no matter what the circumstances.
Oh god, don't tell me to want PR? 🤦
I won't tell you what to want, but Green Party policy is for Proportional Representation.
I'd go further myself. I don't see why I should have to wait until an election to change my democratic representation. I should be able to call up and change my representative as easily as I can change my phone company.
Keep 'em on their toes. Ensure all people actually have a representative rather than two thirds of people being served by people they didn't vote for.
I can beat that. I'd like us to go back to the medieval "Hundreds" system, but also 100 dwellings that elect a representative for said Hundred, who in turn select a representative for the county. That way you'd be truly represented otherwise you'd nip round to number 87 and put your representatives windows through. 🤣
Looks like the GAME shops are on their way out?
GAME REWARD and GAME ELITE shall be closing on 31 JULY 2024
As of 31 July 2024 (“Closure Date”) the GAME ‘Reward’ Programme (“GAME Reward”) and the GAME Elite Membership Scheme shall come to an end, after which GAME Reward and GAME Elite members will no longer be able to earn GAME Reward points on purchases made in GAME stores or online at game.co.uk or redeem any GAME Reward or GAME Elite points
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Well, that's going to ruffle some feathers.
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Tories pledge to tackle 'confusion' over legal definition of sex
Rishi Sunak says the changes would make the law around single-sex spaces clearer.Josh Parry (BBC News)
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁: ‘𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀’
I'll just decode that for you: "Damn! She's got more support than I realised!"
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Starmer on Abbott: ‘I’ve actually got more respect for Diane than she probably realises’
The veteran leftwinger is ‘not like other candidates’, and the row over her did not arise as a result of party purges, Labour’s leader tells his biographer on the campaign trailTom Baldwin (The Guardian)
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Oh, I understand fully what Starmer is up to. He most definitely is 'purging' the left in an attempt to prove to the so-called middle classes that New, NEW, Labour (we already had New Labour under Blair) is not such a terrible prospect and that the militants and loony left wing have all gone. What he fails to understand is that Abbot will win because Hackney North loves her. I predict Corbyn will retain Islington North too. So, with his hamfisted way of trying to get rid of them, he might as well have shot himself in the foot. If anything, he's made their positions even stronger.
Raynor is the anomaly. She's presentable and slightly more intelligent than some of them, yet her politics are stuck in the late 1970s—mid-80s.
For the love of The Pond Gods! Is that the best she can think of saying?
A better comment would be: "Phew! Now the rozzers are leaving me alone I'm allowed back on the bus."
#politics #labour #generalection2024
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Cancel Trident and introduce conscription.
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Every General Election, #Labour trots out the same old crutch, the #nhs
He's clearly forgotten how Labour not only retained privatisation during their last government but is also looking to outsource even more NHS services if his party wins! It's a myth that only Labour can save the NHS.
#Politics #generalelection2024
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General election: Starmer promises to cut Welsh NHS waits
Ahead of a campaign visit to Wales, Keir Starmer says he will work with Welsh ministers to ease waits.David Deans (BBC News)
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Making the jobs private won't make them better. Quite the reverse in my experience, but the health-service jobs are indeed not jobs I'd want to do even with ten times the money and half the hours, whether private or public.
Maybe we think the plan is to make the nurses shareholders and give them stock options? 😆
Keir Starmer has fired the starting gun on the next Labour civil war
It would be nice to think this was true. 😁
#politics #generalelection2024
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Keir Starmer has fired the starting gun on the next Labour civil war
Diane Abbott has been a divisive figure throughout her career, and now is no exceptionTom Harris (The Telegraph)
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Tories just 12 points behind Labour in new general election poll
Conservatives have shored up vote among over 60s with policies on national service and pensions, latest readings suggestGenevieve Holl-Allen (The Telegraph)
The problem is, there are lots of shit courses that school leavers go on that lead to nothing. Having said that, my experience and a good few other businesses that I deal with is that school leavers don't want to work; they want to be influencers or reality performers.
With regards to the blue rinse brigade, there are far more of them than young folk. That's what happens when the birthrate declines year in year out. Have you seen who the vast majority of Reform UK supporters are? The Blue Rinse Brigade. 🤣
It's a shame #Labour won't let Dianne Abbot stand as a candidate. She's such a brilliant advertisement for the #Conservatives. Who wouldn't want someone in control who doesn't know what shoe goes on what foot?
See, I told you Labour doesn't know what it's doing. 😉
I can't believe I'm about to defend Kier Starmer! 🙈
So what?
Does being part of the Labour movement mean you must dress in clothes purchased from a supermarket?
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Sir Keir Starmer meets voters while wearing £500 hoodie on same day he said understands ‘struggle with bi...
SIR Keir Starmer hit the campaign trail wearing a £500 French hoodie, The Sun can reveal. The Labour leader – who likes to mock Rishi Sunak for being super wealthy – was sporting the to…Harry Cole (The Sun)
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Is "No further action." being cleared? How many times have the rozzers let people go, only for it to all blow up in their faces?
The Tories are not looking to "Undo" anything; they're looking to secure another five years. Given that the latest poll puts them 12 points behind with another four weeks to go, I think there's every chance of a return to government. Remember, everyone thought staying in the EU was a forgone conclusion, and look at how wrong all those convinced people were. Look at that vote of no confidence; the Tories returned with an even greater majority.
Fortunately, there are a lot of people who are not quite yet in the blue rinse brigade who remember how bad labour was; I'm confident they don't want to see Starmer and his band of incompetents in power.
What started as looking like a slam dunk has now turned into an "It's all to play for." 
Another Hot Air story from the press desperate to promote their left-wing views.
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120 business. Have you seen who these 120 are? A chef, former 'FORMER' banker. Who the hell is ATOM Bank? I doubt anyone marginal seat has heard of ATOM Bank?
I wonder what ASLEF and the TUC think about Labour cosying up to businesses? Dosen't that fly in the face of what Labour stands for?
#politics #generalelection2024
"There's a sandwich bar come cafe...."
"along with being : in addition to
worked as cook-cum-dishwasher"
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so you want to write:
There's a sandwich bar-cum- cafe...
The UK population in mid-year 2022 was estimated to be 67.6 million, with approximately 54.38 million people eligible to vote. As of mid-2022, there are approximately 21 million people aged 50 and over in the UK, which leaves 33.38M.
In the last General Election, held on December 12, 2019, the Labour Party received 10,269,051 votes. Even if we say that figure could be doubled for the coming GE, 20,538,102, that still leaves over 12M votes for the 50+ age group. Of course, not everyone votes, and yes, there are all the other parties plus idiots who'll "Spoil their papers" or just not vote, but 12M is a lot of influence.
This election is going to be interesting. The Tories are predominantly targeting the 50+ age range, while Labour seems to be appealing to the young first-time voters.
Bringing back National Service is going to be very popular with the 50+ voter especially the Community Work element for those who refuse. This is already happening for people looking to stay in the UK, with work visa applicants who are looking to extend their 12-month work visa being made to do X amount of hours 'Carer' work as a pre-requisite to extension or find an employer willing to sponsor them.
Oh, and as a side benefit, it'll slash unemployment. That's nice. 🙂
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#politics #NationalService #CommunityService
Rishi Sunak says he will bring back National Service if Tories win general election
The prime minister unveils a plan that would see 18-year-olds given the choice of a full-time military placement for 12 months or a scheme to volunteer for one weekend a month for a year.Rob Powell (Sky News)
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Yep, it's pretty clever; it'll appeal to a wide range of people, not just old farts, and if it's presented in the right way, as it appears to be, people will lap it up:
"Don't worry; little Johnny won't have to fight in the front line; he can learn how to kill people with drones from the safety of Mildenhall."
"Knife crime? What knife crime? They're off the streets and in the base learning how to shoot people!"
"We've slashed unemployment! Plus, there are more jobs for middle-aged to more senior people now that all the youth have been removed from the job market. Plus, there's an unforeseen bonus: all these National Service youth will be fully trained and able to read and write when they hit the job market after leaving the forces and not head straight for the dole queue."
Fook me! I should apply to do Tory marketing. 🤣
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I think Sunak has miscalculated here. The grey voters may lap this up (I personally won't) but the young voters will vote Labour because they don't like the idea of this.
Upon hearing of this, my 21 year old son said "Well, he's royally f*cked his chances there!".
And that's the thing. The only ones it will affect are currently 14!!! And that's assuming the Tories can implement it within four years. Current 16-year-olds that Labour is chasing with their "We're going to lower the voting age." won't be affected; hell, they'll probably be 18 or 19 by the time Labour gets their insane idea implemented.
Think about it: Labour is going to give the vote to people who cannot buy alcohol, cigarettes or vapes. They cannot marry without parent's consent. The age for Homosexual consent is 18. The list just goes on and on, and yet Labour wants them to make the important decision as to who should run the country. There is only one reason why this is in the Labour policy, and that is to scrape extra votes from a class that has not even started to gain life experience.
So the two-horse race for the #generalelection2024 has started and already Rishi Sunak has made two mistakes. I have to agree with @peston's first prediction of a November election this would have given more time for interest rates to come down along with fuel and food. There would have been more time for more than just one person to enjoy the scenery of Rwanda. Secondly, why didn't he wait for 8 or 9 am this morning when there was less chance of looking like the gods were pissing all over him. #politics
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(I still don't get why he decided to do it outside in the pouring rain...)
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#Palastine #Israel #Gaza
I'm not convinced people realise just how serious this is.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-6902615… IMO, the advice is cursory at best: "Boil the water." The parasite is in the supply, which means any water out of your taps in the kitchen and bathroom, including the toilet.
Even when you do get the "ALL CLEAR," it'll take a good few days of running your taps and flushing the loo to clean the system out.
I love this: "Likely cause...." personally, I don't believe a word of it. The wording is 'get out of jail'. For starters, it gives them an opportunity later to say, "We did say likely, you know."
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The m̶a̶n̶ woman who would be king.
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Rayner Comes Out of Hiding for Pledge Card Launch – Guido Fawkes
Rayner's chosen an easy enough crowd primarily made up of Labour Party employees to grace TV screens again. Rayner says Labour is presenting "tangible,Max Young (Guido Fawkes Organisation)
Watched the Asley Maddison documentary on Netflix last night.
netflix.com/gb/title/81602884
TBH, I wasn't all that interested in the salacious side of the story and yet was also slightly disappointed at the cursory attention by the programs producers in relation to the actual hack. the two 'experts' Joel Eriksson and André Catry employed by Ashley Maddison to basically lock the door after the horse had bolted was strange. Any Security expert worth their salt would have immediately informed the customer that the data was already copied to another location and so therefore preventing release was pretty much impossible.
What wasn't explained, which was disappointing, is how the hackers managed to gain the breadth of information. Most business would have the data spread over a number of servers for the very reason of a breach. It's almost like Ashley Maddison only had one server that not only held the website backend database but also the company and staff data too!
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It seems Tory promises are pretty worthless. I suspect there are various issues with running the NHS, but driving people to private care is not the answer, unless you are earning from that.
I know it's not just a money problem.At least they ought to get less smokers with trashed lungs eventually. I'm amazed Sunak was allowed to do that by the tobacco lobby.
Please don't promote Reform as serious politics. They don't care about the country.
If you'd bothered to read what I wrote properly rather than thinking, "AHA! Another thing I can kick Cannon's bollocks for." you would see that I was, in fact, deriding that policy. The only bit I agree with is tax relief on private health care. Seems like a sensible idea to me. Taxing private healthcare is a typical Labour reaction: "Oh, we're not having anyone getting better healthcare even if they have paid for it!" that's the same mentality they have towards education. "We do not want grammar schools whereby some children have a better advantage than others; we want everyone to be equally thick!"
As I said, if we manage to reduce demand on the NHS, then Labour, especially, would probably look to cut NHS spending to help give the Train drivers a Porsche each.
I have no intention of "Promoting" Reform UK. They're too far right for me, but they do have one or two ideas in the manifesto that warrant consideration.
I'm really not out to always put you down.If one issue is with getting people to work in that industry then how does making it private help? Some people just can't afford to go private, so make the public services better.
And I'm still not a Labour guy, but I can vote tactically.
If you can afford private, you should, but the effect on NHS demand would be unnoticeable. We'd be talking about four, maybe five thousand people in terms of reduction. We're talking about ten to twenty thousand increases every year for the NHS.
I want to see a third option. We need to speed up those 40 hospitals we were promised. If I had my way, I would build NHS hotels and ship out recovering patients to them or at least those who have no immediate threat to life. Where we (in your view, the government) went wrong was to close all those nightingale hospitals. They should have said to the likes of the NEC, "Bollocks! You're not having it back until we are good and ready." They were all kitted out and ready, perfect for what I envisaged and yet we threw away £66M and the opportunity to not treat patients in corridors.
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I wonder how many doctor's phone lines are jammed this morning after seeing this on the news?
#WeightLoss
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Weight loss jab could reduce heart attack risk, study finds
The jab could reduce heart attack and stroke risks regardless of the amount of weight people lose.Thomas Mackintosh (BBC News)
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For crying out loud! I wish I'd kept my mouth shut!
So I see the binman lift the lids on our bins and walk away. It would seem obvious to me, without looking at the bins myself, that they are either empty or not worth lifting. I rang our Admin and said to make a note that they have not done a lift and to check the invoice when it comes in. Admin asks me to check the bins. "But it's obvious they're empty or not worth it; he's hardly likely to walk away from a bin that's full!" It turns out the Recycle is empty, and the General has hardly anything in it. The next thing I know, the binman is back and lifts the empty bin!
I ring our Admin. "The bloke has come all the way back and lifted an empty bin!"
The admin waffles on about paying in advance, and they have to record a lift. Do I want to reduce collections to fortnightly? I wish I hadn't bothered.
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Magna Carta case damaged by Just Stop Oil protesters at British Library
The Just Stop Oil protesters, both aged in their 80s, target the historic work at the British Library.By Harry Low (BBC News)
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#politics #GeneralElection
New Labour MP Natalie Elphicke accused of lobbying over husband's sexual assault case
The new Labour MP is accused of asking the then justice secretary to help move the date of the case.By Nick Eardley (BBC News)
There always has to be one nosey git, hasn't there? I've bought some Kopparberg cider for the misses and put it in the fridge so that they should be reasonably cold when I get home. I just had the go-for come to my door (Mr "Have you got a clipboard?) and say: "Did you want the last cider in the fridge? I like cider."
FFS
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I've read the book a couple of times before! I must have more money than sense?
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