Aintree Hospital.
20 ambulance crews in a fucking queue waiting for their patients to be seen.
And this is not unusual.
Originally posted by @Goatboy
And this is not unusual.
Donāt doubt it. Itās sickening enough looking at a room full of randoms waiting to be seen. When you consider that nearly all of those people are somebody to somebody else, or think about the treatment your own loved ones might receive (or not) itās bloody scary.
That my friends is the NHS the public voted for last year.
They had choices, they chose this route.
Originally posted by @Rallyboy
That my friends is the NHS the public voted for last year.
They had choices, they chose this route.
The public will have choices at the next election. I think thereās a fair shout to suggest that last time out, the opposition wasnāt all that inspiring and wasnāt offering much different. I left the Labour Party in 2014 after it became clear that the party wouldnāt put an EU referendum on the table. I thought it a huge blind spot, and subsequent studies have suggested that Labour could have raised its vote by up to 19 points had it pledged an EU referendum. Thatās an example of Labour failing because it wasnāt offering parity.
Where it really failed was in its duty to oppose. The focus seemed to lie exclusively on repealing the easiest to attack bits of Tory legislation, such as Bedroom Tax. Little vision was being offered, and on many points, Labour was lining up behind Tory policy because it was unable to articulate a counter-argument thatād be trusted with the public.
Iāve got Tory mates looking forward to the next election because thereās going to be a proper ideological scrap. What did people have to vote for last time? A slightly nicer form of neoliberalism headed up by a bloke unable to tackle a bacon sandwich?
Yes, but it was quite clear that the Tory plan was to attack the poor and the vulnerable, and people supported this approach via a landslide.
It tells us much about our fellow Brit.
On another note, Iāve just been reading about these changes to buy-to-let.
Regular readers will know Iāve not been a fan of this sector, especially the excess, where you see landlords ruthlessly hoovering up homes to form a slum property empire. Weāve got a couple of landlords on here, including Cherts, whoāve assured me that the government is clamping down on buy-to-let.
And so they have. Sort of. In the worst possible way. Most of this Telegraph article is paywalled, sadly.
A series of tax and regulatory changes, spearheaded by former Chancellor George Osborne, has left landlords reeling - even though the full implications are yet to be felt.
**Middle-class mortgaged landlords will be hardest hit, with the retirement plans of many thrown into disarray. **
Large-scale landlords and those operating as companies will escape largely unscathed, however.
This seems spectacularly short-sighted from a _self-serving _point of view. While Iād be reluctant to claim that buy-to-let landlords are all Tories, youāve got to figure that no matter the political leanings of the mortgaged BTL landlord, he or she will not be happy with the new arrangements.
Again, cards on the table, Iām really not a fan of private landlords (as a concept) at all. Iād sooner all rented property was under the control of a democratically controlled council. However, it seems as if the only change the Tories have made here is to stop the little guy from benefiting from the exploitation.
All those little guys vote.
These are peopleās families. Itās costing lives and needlessly generating heartache and bereavement.
It is also by no stretch of the imagination, something that should be being cut. Is it? The clue is in the fucking name. _Emergency _services. Since when did they become optional?
Very young and elderly patients are dying because of worsening delays to 999 calls, claim GPs who have in some cases had to drive patients to the hospital themselves after an ambulance failed to turn up.
The stark assessment comes in a dossier with scores of recent occurrences collected by the campaign group GP Survival, and shared with Pulse, which says patients were increasingly being put at risk due to underfunding of ambulance services.
**Cherts Prediction: **āBMA, innit?ā
Originally posted by @pap
On another note, Iāve just been reading about these changes to buy-to-let.
Regular readers will know Iāve not been a fan of this sector, especially the excess, where you see landlords ruthlessly hoovering up homes to form a slum property empire. Weāve got a couple of landlords on here, including Cherts, whoāve assured me that the government is clamping down on buy-to-let.
And so they have. Sort of. In the worst possible way. Most of this Telegraph article is paywalled, sadly.
A series of tax and regulatory changes, spearheaded by former Chancellor George Osborne, has left landlords reeling - even though the full implications are yet to be felt.
**Middle-class mortgaged landlords will be hardest hit, with the retirement plans of many thrown into disarray. **
Large-scale landlords and those operating as companies will escape largely unscathed, however.
This seems spectacularly short-sighted from a _self-serving _point of view. While Iād be reluctant to claim that buy-to-let landlords are all Tories, youāve got to figure that no matter the political leanings of the mortgaged BTL landlord, he or she will not be happy with the new arrangements.
Again, cards on the table, Iām really not a fan of private landlords (as a concept) at all. Iād sooner all rented property was under the control of a democratically controlled council. However, it seems as if the only change the Tories have made here is to stop the little guy from benefiting from the exploitation.
All those little guys vote.
I absolutely approve of the policy. Itās fucking ridiculous that the tax payer subsidises the mortgage interest of those who have BTL mortgages. They still need to go further by remove any Capital gains allowances from them.
Its one of the better things George did
Will it affect their voting? Not sure it will make that much of a difference.
Originally posted by @pap
On another note, Iāve just been reading about these changes to buy-to-let.
Regular readers will know Iāve not been a fan of this sector, especially the excess, where you see landlords ruthlessly hoovering up homes to form a slum property empire. Weāve got a couple of landlords on here, including Cherts, whoāve assured me that the government is clamping down on buy-to-let.
And so they have. Sort of. In the worst possible way. Most of this Telegraph article is paywalled, sadly.
A series of tax and regulatory changes, spearheaded by former Chancellor George Osborne, has left landlords reeling - even though the full implications are yet to be felt.
**Middle-class mortgaged landlords will be hardest hit, with the retirement plans of many thrown into disarray. **
Large-scale landlords and those operating as companies will escape largely unscathed, however.
This seems spectacularly short-sighted from a _self-serving _point of view. While Iād be reluctant to claim that buy-to-let landlords are all Tories, youāve got to figure that no matter the political leanings of the mortgaged BTL landlord, he or she will not be happy with the new arrangements.
Again, cards on the table, Iām really not a fan of private landlords (as a concept) at all. Iād sooner all rented property was under the control of a democratically controlled council. However, it seems as if the only change the Tories have made here is to stop the little guy from benefiting from the exploitation.
All those little guys vote.
Just as an FYI, my Landlord status isnāt due to buy to let (I would continue to own the property whether or not I rent it out), and I wonāt be a landlord much longer anyway.
Originally posted by @pap
These are peopleās families. Itās costing lives and needlessly generating heartache and bereavement.
It is also by no stretch of the imagination, something that should be being cut. Is it? The clue is in the fucking name. _Emergency _services. Since when did they become optional?
Very young and elderly patients are dying because of worsening delays to 999 calls, claim GPs who have in some cases had to drive patients to the hospital themselves after an ambulance failed to turn up.
The stark assessment comes in a dossier with scores of recent occurrences collected by the campaign group GP Survival, and shared with Pulse, which says patients were increasingly being put at risk due to underfunding of ambulance services.
**Cherts Prediction: **āBMA, innit?ā
Itās got nothing to do with BMA, that was a completely separate argument.
The ambulance service is massively struggling at the moment, there is no doubt, and it needs massive investment. How long will it be until we see it privatised? Either that, or perhaps it could benefit from the Brexit millions that were promised?
Mr Hammond is more trusted to shepherd the countryās finances than his Labour counterpart, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell - though it appears neither man is well known by the electorate.
Thirty-six percent would prefer Mr Hammond to run the economy, while just seven percent would choose John McDonnell - 26% answered neither and 30% answered ādonāt knowā.
Polls is shit, Cherts. When will you learn?
Mind you, is there one covering how many people think that Hammond and May are simply each other in drag?
Is no one worried about the Top Gear coincidence? Are we just a Clarkson away from doom?
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Never said polls werenāt shit, but you still post them so I thought I might.
What is the āTop Gearā coincidence?