Unfortunately large numbers of the British (English) public are just as stupid and bigoted as their MAGA counterparts in the US. That's the working class AND the middle class. They have zero clue about the Libertarian agenda behind the flag flapping and "freedom of speech" for bigots, and zero desire to find out, just as long as they can keep being racist. Nevertheless, we fight on.
If wanting to stop the boats and 9 million a day they are costing in luxury hotels , fed, and warm whi!e people are dying who were born here makes people racist , then I must be oneas that is one thing we need, but they say what they think people want to hear to get votes.
The NHS would disappear under reform , private healthcare would become the norm, as to paying no tax for three years , that would make them really popular with the rest of the taxpayers.
I do not trust politicians from any party , They have let me down whoever gets to be in government .
Voting against their own best interests and for their own oppression has long been a peculiarly English sickness. As has the lazy, casual bigotry, which is seemingly an abdication of all individual responsibility to think critically {for themselves} about anything other than football or celebrity trivia. “Education has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading: an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.” - George Macaulay Trevelyan. Not wrong was he!? Just look at 'em go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ptxWsadI&t=4s
Nigel of course fails to recognise that UK private provision is not a separate stand-alone service in any meaningful manner. Its staff are part time and NHS based, very often but not exclusively. He's well known to be antimigrant and so that means NHS staff are in his sights, if not now, in the future and especially those with overseas spouses and dependents. He will chose to remove the black and brown people, the non-Christians and anyone not in his book of acceptables, first, including LGBTQIA+people. Let's also not forget he's courting large well funded agencies that will erode reproductive choices including IVF. His financial planning fails to recognise the circularity of the tax and wage system. Removing deductions from NHS staff is a vote winner but then in turn removes large sums from the coffers. Will he tax the wealthy to recoup? Why would he do that to his buddies.
We're learned enough to see him for what he is, many voters are not! Grassroots is a powerful tool, but a multipronged approach is better as it'll mean challenge from multiple shifting quarters that they will not be able to counter.
He is about Snake oil, false dreams, self-agrandissement and fascist sentiment. Little else. Rant over, apologies.
I do. It will be facillitated by the usual channels and agencies which effect the desires of the Crown establishment. UKIP just appeared overnight, as a fully funded self-sufficient entity, as did Reform UK. All secret handshakes and strange rituals...
Corruption is rife throughout the world and these 2 jokers are completely corrupt, but the crazy thing is people like them!
They are nasty people with nasty reputations and it's only going to get worse.
I really admire your devotion to the NHS cause Julia and I hope that the meetings with the MPs bears fruit, because I am fed up of the dire situation the NHS is in.
A surprising number of people probably have no idea of Farage's racist and fascist background. Challenge someone on that and see where the holes lie. He's done a good job of denying his past.
Another point Farage and Streeting fail to grasp is that private healthcare creams off the most profitable and least expensive treatments. It leaves the difficult, complicated and costly ones to the NHS because there's no profit in them. Universal healthcare is fundamental to democracy. At the risk of repeating myself, the US healthcare system is the least effective and most expensive in the world. How could anyone advocate to adopt such a disastrous system unless it's for personal profit? Avarice, in other words. The NHS on the other hand is one of the most cost effective (i.e. cheapest) healthcare system and was also one of the best before the Tories deliberately sabotaged and undermined it during their fourteen years of misrule and corruption. They hid their underfunding with disingenuous claims of “record investment” and created the staffing crisis through Brexit. Record investment may technically have been true, but the cost of healthcare rises year on year. Wages and salaries increase (albeit insufficiently, nevertheless it's still an increased cost) and new treatments and drugs are expensive, so of course NHS funding reaches record levels every year. The rich and privileged just cannot bear the thought that their wealth doesn't give them yet another advantage when it comes to healthcare. The blind faith in market forces and competition to bring down costs is just not applicable to healthcare systems. Let's ignore the fact that if ‘the market’ were the solution to everything then why does it need so much regulation? For market forces to be effective requires many small, competing entities, the more the merrier. A healthcare system just couldn't operate (🙄 sorry, no pun intended) under such conditions. Hospitals aren't small or even medium sized entities. CAT scanners would be beyond the reach of small providers, to give just one example. Healthcare systems are one case where a monopoly is desirable. Having a single healthcare provider gives it the clout to negotiate the best prices from the suppliers of pharmaceuticals and technology. It avoids competing for scarce resources which leads to increased prices (supply and demand: low supply, high demand = prices ↑, high supply, low demand = prices ↓). It's conducive to a single goal: to provide the best possible service for everyone and anyone, each according to their needs. And it avoids the pitfalls of numerous agencies working at cross-purposes or needlessly duplicating research, development and/or resources. The only effect such artificially introduced market forces would have in cutting costs is by cutting corners, a race to the bottom. Private healthcare's principal objective is profit, public healthcare's is health. Isn't that as obvious a no-brainer as you've come across? And I haven't even mentioned that profiteering or even just profitting from the suffering and misfortune of others is just plain immoral.
Firstly, I'd like to applaud your campaign and your efforts in trying to save the NHS from the catastrophic state it's been left in after 14 years of deliberate underfunding by the Tories. I've worked in the NHS 33 years this month and have watched the decline from it being a pleasant environment, with everything working, when Labour were last in, to literally nothing working at this current time. Working in the NHS currently is depressing, frustrating, demoralising and soul destroying; it simply can't continue as it is, it's almost at the point of no return. The only aspect of the NHS that seems to have flourished exponentially is the management structure; there are senior managers, with managers under them, who have support managers, and support support managers, none of whom seem to actually be interested in the efficient and safe delivery of the service, and seem only to be interested in hitting targets; whatever it may take to achieve their objective. I now come to my original point, which is that I respectfully disagree that patients who fail to attend for their appointments are not charged; this is a HUGE problem in the NHS and unfortunately patients often are very blase about not attending for their outpatient appointment, and then get very abusive if they then discover that they have been discharged. Unfortunately, it appears, that many people do not appreciate the pressures on the NHS and feel entitled to attend their appointments only when it suits them. Obviously this does not apply to all patients who fail to attend for their appointments, there can be, and are, valid reasons on occasion, but unfortunately it does apply for the majority of patients. For example, in a clinic of 7 new patients, it very common for 2-3 patients not to turn up, which means you have a consultant, CNS, and S/N standing around twiddling their thumbs. This is on the same day that I have had patients crying on the phone when I tell them how much longer they will have to wait for their outpatient appointment. If you take the lower figure of 2 DNA's (Did Not Attend) per clinic and multiply it by 3 (if there are 3 clinics a week) you can see the magnitude of the problem. I'm not sure what other deterrent, other than charging for a missed appointment, could be implemented, but I do believe that some sort of deterrent needs to be introduced.
Unfortunately large numbers of the British (English) public are just as stupid and bigoted as their MAGA counterparts in the US. That's the working class AND the middle class. They have zero clue about the Libertarian agenda behind the flag flapping and "freedom of speech" for bigots, and zero desire to find out, just as long as they can keep being racist. Nevertheless, we fight on.
It’s really scary to see these ideas on the rise here and elsewhere
If wanting to stop the boats and 9 million a day they are costing in luxury hotels , fed, and warm whi!e people are dying who were born here makes people racist , then I must be oneas that is one thing we need, but they say what they think people want to hear to get votes.
The NHS would disappear under reform , private healthcare would become the norm, as to paying no tax for three years , that would make them really popular with the rest of the taxpayers.
I do not trust politicians from any party , They have let me down whoever gets to be in government .
Voting against their own best interests and for their own oppression has long been a peculiarly English sickness. As has the lazy, casual bigotry, which is seemingly an abdication of all individual responsibility to think critically {for themselves} about anything other than football or celebrity trivia. “Education has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading: an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.” - George Macaulay Trevelyan. Not wrong was he!? Just look at 'em go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ptxWsadI&t=4s
Nigel of course fails to recognise that UK private provision is not a separate stand-alone service in any meaningful manner. Its staff are part time and NHS based, very often but not exclusively. He's well known to be antimigrant and so that means NHS staff are in his sights, if not now, in the future and especially those with overseas spouses and dependents. He will chose to remove the black and brown people, the non-Christians and anyone not in his book of acceptables, first, including LGBTQIA+people. Let's also not forget he's courting large well funded agencies that will erode reproductive choices including IVF. His financial planning fails to recognise the circularity of the tax and wage system. Removing deductions from NHS staff is a vote winner but then in turn removes large sums from the coffers. Will he tax the wealthy to recoup? Why would he do that to his buddies.
We're learned enough to see him for what he is, many voters are not! Grassroots is a powerful tool, but a multipronged approach is better as it'll mean challenge from multiple shifting quarters that they will not be able to counter.
He is about Snake oil, false dreams, self-agrandissement and fascist sentiment. Little else. Rant over, apologies.
It’s really concerning isn’t it. Do you think Musk will get away with giving this donation?
Only by a lack of rigorous opposition
I do. It will be facillitated by the usual channels and agencies which effect the desires of the Crown establishment. UKIP just appeared overnight, as a fully funded self-sufficient entity, as did Reform UK. All secret handshakes and strange rituals...
Corruption is rife throughout the world and these 2 jokers are completely corrupt, but the crazy thing is people like them!
They are nasty people with nasty reputations and it's only going to get worse.
I really admire your devotion to the NHS cause Julia and I hope that the meetings with the MPs bears fruit, because I am fed up of the dire situation the NHS is in.
A surprising number of people probably have no idea of Farage's racist and fascist background. Challenge someone on that and see where the holes lie. He's done a good job of denying his past.
Another point Farage and Streeting fail to grasp is that private healthcare creams off the most profitable and least expensive treatments. It leaves the difficult, complicated and costly ones to the NHS because there's no profit in them. Universal healthcare is fundamental to democracy. At the risk of repeating myself, the US healthcare system is the least effective and most expensive in the world. How could anyone advocate to adopt such a disastrous system unless it's for personal profit? Avarice, in other words. The NHS on the other hand is one of the most cost effective (i.e. cheapest) healthcare system and was also one of the best before the Tories deliberately sabotaged and undermined it during their fourteen years of misrule and corruption. They hid their underfunding with disingenuous claims of “record investment” and created the staffing crisis through Brexit. Record investment may technically have been true, but the cost of healthcare rises year on year. Wages and salaries increase (albeit insufficiently, nevertheless it's still an increased cost) and new treatments and drugs are expensive, so of course NHS funding reaches record levels every year. The rich and privileged just cannot bear the thought that their wealth doesn't give them yet another advantage when it comes to healthcare. The blind faith in market forces and competition to bring down costs is just not applicable to healthcare systems. Let's ignore the fact that if ‘the market’ were the solution to everything then why does it need so much regulation? For market forces to be effective requires many small, competing entities, the more the merrier. A healthcare system just couldn't operate (🙄 sorry, no pun intended) under such conditions. Hospitals aren't small or even medium sized entities. CAT scanners would be beyond the reach of small providers, to give just one example. Healthcare systems are one case where a monopoly is desirable. Having a single healthcare provider gives it the clout to negotiate the best prices from the suppliers of pharmaceuticals and technology. It avoids competing for scarce resources which leads to increased prices (supply and demand: low supply, high demand = prices ↑, high supply, low demand = prices ↓). It's conducive to a single goal: to provide the best possible service for everyone and anyone, each according to their needs. And it avoids the pitfalls of numerous agencies working at cross-purposes or needlessly duplicating research, development and/or resources. The only effect such artificially introduced market forces would have in cutting costs is by cutting corners, a race to the bottom. Private healthcare's principal objective is profit, public healthcare's is health. Isn't that as obvious a no-brainer as you've come across? And I haven't even mentioned that profiteering or even just profitting from the suffering and misfortune of others is just plain immoral.
Firstly, I'd like to applaud your campaign and your efforts in trying to save the NHS from the catastrophic state it's been left in after 14 years of deliberate underfunding by the Tories. I've worked in the NHS 33 years this month and have watched the decline from it being a pleasant environment, with everything working, when Labour were last in, to literally nothing working at this current time. Working in the NHS currently is depressing, frustrating, demoralising and soul destroying; it simply can't continue as it is, it's almost at the point of no return. The only aspect of the NHS that seems to have flourished exponentially is the management structure; there are senior managers, with managers under them, who have support managers, and support support managers, none of whom seem to actually be interested in the efficient and safe delivery of the service, and seem only to be interested in hitting targets; whatever it may take to achieve their objective. I now come to my original point, which is that I respectfully disagree that patients who fail to attend for their appointments are not charged; this is a HUGE problem in the NHS and unfortunately patients often are very blase about not attending for their outpatient appointment, and then get very abusive if they then discover that they have been discharged. Unfortunately, it appears, that many people do not appreciate the pressures on the NHS and feel entitled to attend their appointments only when it suits them. Obviously this does not apply to all patients who fail to attend for their appointments, there can be, and are, valid reasons on occasion, but unfortunately it does apply for the majority of patients. For example, in a clinic of 7 new patients, it very common for 2-3 patients not to turn up, which means you have a consultant, CNS, and S/N standing around twiddling their thumbs. This is on the same day that I have had patients crying on the phone when I tell them how much longer they will have to wait for their outpatient appointment. If you take the lower figure of 2 DNA's (Did Not Attend) per clinic and multiply it by 3 (if there are 3 clinics a week) you can see the magnitude of the problem. I'm not sure what other deterrent, other than charging for a missed appointment, could be implemented, but I do believe that some sort of deterrent needs to be introduced.