The 2017 Election Thread

Consider how they have treated the most vulnerable over the last 7 years and you’ll have your answer.

P. S I noticed that your last 2 questions end in evil cunts. Your subconscious is trying to tell you something.

Just playing devils advocate, but do you have evidence that the amount of money spent on the NHS by the Government has gone down over the years in power?

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For a floating voteryou make a good job of sounding like you have nailed your colours to Theresa’s mast Duckster. Or should I say the chick who runs the Tory Party? :lou_wink: Which cuts am I on about? Wages have been capped (ie cut in real terms) over a number of years. The ambulance service where I live is in special measures because of underfunding. And if you spent £1200 on beer last year and £1205 this year but the same amount of beer now costs £1300, you have bought less beer. Ask anyone invloved in the NHS and you will hear stories of underfunding. Underfuning = cuts in real terms.

And what is a snap dragon?

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I googled and the first link was This One

I don’t know if it is gd source, but it seems to be claim that NHS spending is go up every yr, even after you adjust for Inflation.

What occurred to me tho, is every yr you have an extra 250K immigrants & like a million more babies to look after, and I don’t suppose the old people is die off quick enough. NHS is prob victim of own success in that regard! I dunno if they is factor that in.

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From The kings fund.

But public funding for health care as a proportion of GDP is now forecast to fall in the UK from 7.6 per cent in 2009/10 to 6.8 percent by 2019/20. NHS spending per person is also forecast to fall in real terms by 0.9 per cent over the four years to 2019/20 as the population increases.

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OK, so finding isn’t being cut, but inflation and population is causing a real term decrease.

As I have said many times previously, I think there are two main options I’d be in favour of:

  1. All people over a certain income have to obtain private healthcare (through company benefits or payment) for all non-emergency care.

  2. A separate NHS tax. 1p in the pound or similar.

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This

Wow, that was a long read.

So in summary, British Military Psy Ops has been commercialised and linked with Big Data.

I knew the story about Cambridge Analytics and Trump & how the Polish dude set it all up and got sideways’d.

But the insinuation in this article that the Military Industrial Continuum is now actively operating in “influencing elections” globally is insane.

Forget wimpish right wingers like Le Pen, this is a level past that.

Obviously nobody who posts on here would ever be stupid enough to be taken in and take part in one of those FB “Take the Test” quizzes, and obviously, Soggy for example will not be influenced by targetted Spam emails or sponsored posts on his social media.

But clearly it had an impact in the US and Brexit.

#scarestheshitoutofme

#democracynotfitforpurpose

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Two words

  1. aging population

  2. over worked

  3. under paid

nurses go through a lot of training and then have to work 16/18 hour days then treat themselves to some food from a food bank.

Yes there are NHS cuts, closing of walk ins and talks of closing A&E’s

but even worse than this is the current state of the education system! My sister-in-law is a nursery school teacher and her classes are nearly doubling as state school have to slash the equivalent of an average of 18 jobs! This of course will not happen but those sort of savings need to be made.

My wife’s school has had their colour photocopying facilities taken away because of costs and now she prints all her resources at home!

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Or mandatory euthanasia for all over 80s?

Or, and as seems to be the underlying, unspoken policy of the Tories, increase death rates by making the poorest so poor that infant mortality rises, thus effectively cancelling out the increases in birth rate. And force seriously disabled people into work and cut their benefits so some of them die, thus reducing the population. Oh, and underfund mental health so that more people commit suicide, thus reducing the population.

All these helpful measures should help curb population increases and thus reduce the stress on the NHS, right?

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We could also do with a decent war to cull some of the young working class.

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Yes, ok, that would solve all of our Problems, but I don’t think it’s right. You’ve got to give them a fighting chance! Some kind of geriatric hungar games would a lot more better.

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I read that yesterday Phil. I can thoroughly recommend it. Very worrying!

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Now that’s something I can vote for, however how do they stop people who aren’t visiting the hospital using the car parks?

There are a max number of children per adult in nurseries though aren’t there?

I’m not sure how nurseries don’t make more money in all honesty, I pay £70 per day for 1 child.

Is there not a disease we could spread? Perhaps we could put something in Gregg’s pasties?

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“Hitler liked Beethoven. You like Beethoven, therefore you are Hitler.”

Logic of some on the left at the moment, it seems.

“Corbyn doesn’t like Jews. Labour supporters are voting for Corbyn. Therefore Labour supporters hate Jews.”

Is that accurate?

“Corbyn doesn’t like Jews. Labour supporters are voting for Corbyn. Therefore Labour supporters hate Jews.”

Is that accurate?

Oh Gawd. Here we go again.

Macron played Beethoven’s Ode to Joy at his victory rally. Therefore, Macron must be even more right wing than Le Pen.

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