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If Labour are elected I hope they go after everyone who made huge amounts of money out of this, by loading the company with debt.

The sad thing is that some pension schemes, including the universities one, USS, will lose money along with customers.

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surprised you gave that frost article the light of day HB

Long been the case that no further evidence of his wing-nutishness needed.

Heck he even railed against the rubbish grate deal he largely created

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1 hour ago, honeybee13 said:

If Labour are elected I hope they go after everyone who made huge amounts of money out of this, by loading the company with debt.

The sad thing is that some pension schemes, including the universities one, USS, will lose money along with customers.

I agree HB, but there were no laws broken - its perfectly legal to fleece the UK and its infrastructure - and labour were little better than the Tories

Perhaps an option would be to ban the aussie investment fund from the UKs markets

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That's an idea on Maquarie. On being accountable, you also have to blame Ofwat and possibly the Environment Agency although they've been badly defunded.

I put the Frost article up for balance. :D

 

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Speaking of Frost and Johnson the corrupt liars' grate deal they forced through

 

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‘The medicines supply chain is broken at every level,’ warns Dr Leyla Hannbeck

 

"Professor Tamara Hervey, of the City Law School, said: “There is nothing inevitable about this ‘new normal’ where Great Britain is isolated in efforts to manage fragilities in global supply of the products and people we need to run the NHS. It is the consequence of policy choices and those could be different.”

 

 

Mind you, the private sector is making hays while the NHS is burned.

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Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover

 

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Now I dont agree with some of the detail, and its a bit light on showing detailed analysis, but worth a two minute peruse

 

Tory wipeout and opposition until 2037 – the future facing a disunited right

 

https://link.news.inews.co.uk/view/61fb0feaaf01060b825d0999kwaja.7ca/e75bba7e

 

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and more immediate issues

WT* is the UK doing. Ukraine needs these funds and weapons NOW

Lets sincerely hope this isnt another Tory VIPal skimming issue.

 

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Delays mean just £404m of the money donated by nine countries has been committed or spent

 

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On 18/04/2024 at 19:26, honeybee13 said:

Possibly some good news for young people in the UK and Europe, plus universities and employers either side of the Channel.

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European Commission to seek approval from leaders to start talks with UK on visa-free exchanges for 18- to 30-year-olds

 

and as expected

 

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Labour also rejected the possibility of an EU-wide scheme for young people

a Government spokesperson said there was no interest from the UK side, adding that “free movement (for UK plebs) within the EU was ended”.

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Nope

But lets not forget that labor has been a Brexit Party since at least Corbyn - just with a more competent and meaningful  agenda

 

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The Tories election campaign is basically whatever the Daily Mail and Express write about as concerns of the 'British people'. 

The latest speech by Sunak about sick note Britain is the latest.

Perhaps there needs to be a discussion on the mental health crisis that is stopping a large number of people from working.  When people are having to wait for months for a Mental Health assessment and then a very long time for any therapy treatment, then that is not going to help.

The problem with many politicians speeches is that they identify problems, but when it comes to solutions that are going to cost billions, plus take many years to put into place, they shy away from the practical actions that would be required. Instead they will come up with some slight tinkering actions at a cheaper cost, that won't make much difference. 

There are probably  hundreds of thousands of disabled people who would like to work, but many employers won't offer them employment as they are not willing to make the reasonable adjustments to make it happen. If the Government pledged to support employers financially with the costs that would be incurred, then I am sure we would see many more disabled people in workplaces.

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Well, we know it seems that the poops and others just use there MP position mainly to generate funds from their 'outside' lol interests

Lets hope labor BAN second jobs for Mps - all second jobs - then create a truly independent expenses 'police' with real powers

Tip of the iceberg:

"A cohort of Conservative MPs standing down before the next election have netted jobs worth millions of pounds and have taken dozens of all-expenses-paid trips funded by foreign governments and lobbyists, the Observer can reveal."

so far - "top of the list was former justice secretary Brandon Lewis, who has taken on five new part-time roles worth £410,000 a year alongside his commitments as an MP.

 

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"Lowest CON % ever recorded in 45 years of Ipsos polling,

- a record last broken in the previous poll."

 

as Truss bemoans only 10 years to save her hair and makeup - she already lost the UK its shirt and vest

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This is, objectively, very funny: No matter how bad you thought Liz Truss' new book would be, it somehow appears to be worse.

 

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Really interesting video on 'growth' from someone who used to be a top city trader.

 

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Did you manage to watch it - without falling asleep?

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Liz Truss says Tories are part of a Blairite attempt to silence her. Reform UK leader Richard Tice said the Conservative Party is 'socialist' and suggested Rishi Sunak is not a 'real conservative'.
 

.. says the definitely NOT real Conservatives

 

Lets also hope that Starmer implements a clause where bringing the UK into disrepute, or breaching the requirements of ex UK PMs results in the permanent withdrawal of ALL UK taxpayer funding of them

 

 

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Sunak wants to use a new system to issue sick notes, rather than GPs doing it. He seems to think GPs don't understand their patients.

But over the weekend there were articles about stopping the 'sick note culture'. I would have thought this would make it easier. Don't people self-certify for the first few days anyway?

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Another one. Sunak wants more disabled people to work - and closes the scheme that has been helping them. Hardly contradictory at all.

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Still, he's not likely to be around to implement it...

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So

1. Doctors examine their patients and find them unfit for work

2. A whole new level of administration and examination is added to redo the doctors job on top of the doctors job - probably MORE THAN doubling the cost (to the taxpayer) of the process - with all the extra money for all the extra processes no doubt going to the private sector ie Crapita rather than giving extra funding to GPs - and probably actually coming out of a reduced GP budget

3. With the tories no doubt lying claiming this is extra money to the NHS to reduce waiting lists and take the burden off GPs

 

It is of course just another dogwhistle - although I'm sure they would be happy to shunt more taxpayer money to hunts pals if they get away with it

 

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So why are they not respecting the quite clear current voter desires and just s*d off?

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So why are they not respecting the quite clear current voter desires and just s*d off? call a general election?

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Good Law Project are trying to force HMG to release details of how Sunak's hedge fund made large profits from Moderna.

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Good Law Project has won a battle with the Treasury after it tried to suppress emails between Rishi Sunak and the hedge fund he founded.

 

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