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This sounds interesting ...
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1613055409962590208?s=20&t=GjnrCUMstKIj_NfFSDPuUw
It's like MPs not allowing to be rich or use private services, which is also ridiculous.
Sure, but the problem is they focus most of their efforts (and too much public money) to support their own interests, for example >
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1613035779965521921
EDIT
This is so on the money from Allan B'stard ...
https://twitter.com/tiffy201/status/1612378402153009158?s=20&t=jHTseEcYQnTF7Iitiv_prg
This is an excellent 1 minute BBC QT edit on the strikes ...
https://twitter.com/AngryScotland/status/1611825487705251840
https://twitter.com/archeryjessica/status/1613253231970230274?t=3MbvoP0iFXJXENzQ03HsAw&s=19
I found this shocking. I didn't realise just how little Junior Doctors earn. ?
@arthurfowler ... sheesh ... that is poor. 🙁
And from that thread, I only found out last week that : The term junior doctor covers all doctors except consultants. Even senior registrars are still classed as junior doctors. There are brain surgeons with 10 years experience who are still junior doctors on £28 an hour.
And all the disbelieving tweeps (men) in that thread ... smh
This will be the last post I'll ever respond to you hounding and bullying, bye stalker boy.
You've already been told (and not just by me) why your above insults are nonsense.
A stalker is someone who follows another, often secretively. It is not someone who merely responds to idiotic and inaccurate posts on an internet forum.
Correcting nonsensical posts is not hounding. Do you think that you should be allowed to continue to post obsessively and, often, mendaciously, but only corrected once and then allowed to continue posting unchallenged?
As for bullying, that is really a far more an appropriate description of your behaviour. You don't like being corrected or contradicted, so you try and shut down opposition by incorrectly (and often mendaciously) calling you opposition unpleasant names.
Come on guys - please play nice - there's not many of us left these days.
As annoying as basegreen could be on TDF, it was a loss when he left as he was one of the few ToryBoy voices on there.
@driver8 As a start at reducing some of the strife, may I suggest shutting down the JK Rowling thread. There has been no real debate there for a long, long, time, and repetitively posting negative material targeting one group is rather distasteful. I'm sure it wouldn't be allowed if someone started posting links to reports of crimes where all the perpetrators were black!
Basegreen was an interesting poster, not shy about being a Tory supporter. I agreed with him as much as I disagreed. Jez claims to be fairly centric, yet any time the current Government are criticised he whatabouts to Labour, even if Labour are included in the negative story (a la the second jobs story). He doesn't engage or answer a direct question, just tries to find another story to throw defend the Tories (again, see the second jobs where the potential for not focussing on their main job and potentially being compromised by lobbying for their second employer got turned into a question about how rich did you have to be before you couldn't be a politician). It's like discussing with a bot that never actually listens to what you reply with. If he'd actually engage and argue his points, it'd be a lot more interesting and fun. You never know, we might convince each other to take another viewpoint.
you're kidding yourself if you're not going to see similar dodge politicians
No one is kidding anyone, Jez - this specific point must have been mentioned 10 times already - Blair/war, plus Brown/financial crash. Doesn't change the fact that a whole generation has grown up knowing nothing but Tory rule, and knowing they can't get a secure job or decent housing, and god help them if they need an ambulance.
By talking about the UK strikes, we're not saying that the whole of the EU is free of strikes and problems ! You're building a classic straw man. The UK strikes are the worst they've ever been in the UK.
And as for Biden - US politics has not been discussed on here much, if at all. But yes, it's incredibly embarrassing and damaging for the Dems, as superficially it looks the same as Trump, even though it's only 10% of what he did.
Excellent episode yesterday, covering all the hot topics -
Sunak on the ropes in Scotland, Leaky Sue's "will not apologise", Biden's document stash, and more!
https://pca.st/episode/e894d213-4b7f-431d-9783-6afe731ac643
See where your MP is getting their money
Anyway, here's some encouraging news ... foreigners to the rescue! (Note to Jez: Brexit is only partly to blame)
In mid-2020, in preparation for the end of the Brexit “transition period”, the UK government introduced the “NHS visa” to make it easier for health and social care workers to move to the UK. Initially, the numbers of visas being issued were modest, but in 2022, the number of started to grow quickly from just over 30,000 to over 45,000 in the third quarter.
There will be a lag between visas being issued and the workers starting to work in the UK, but this addition to the health workforce should start to ease workforce pressures and hopefully reduce NHS vacancies. Crucially, the visa also covers workers in social care, where workforce shortages are responsible for some of the backlogs into hospitals and emergency care.
Another positive workforce trend is the growth in student nurses that we’ve seen since the onset of the pandemic. While they have dipped again in the most recent data, the numbers entering nursing courses is still substantially higher than before the pandemic.
https://theconversation.com/nhs-crisis-underlying-problems-are-starting-to-be-addressed-197358
Although the rich are still getting richer (note to Jez: this is happening globally, and is a symptom of the increasingly capitalist world we live in) ...
