comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Sir Anthony Seldon's new biography claims that Liz Truss considered stopping cancer treatment on the NHS to fill the financial blackhole

Christ
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Details?

There are some new and developing treatments for specific cancers and diagnoses which are insanely expensive, and there are good arguments that the NHS shouldn’t really be offering them.

If she was weighing up whether the NHS should be providing certain, specific cancer treatments, then there’s an argument to be made.

Its Arab

comment by #4zA (U22472)
posted 3 minutes ago
Its Arab
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But it’s also about Liz Truss, so…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/27/right-playbook-boris-johnson-farage-truss-money

Grifters, shysters, spivs and crooks. Remove their passports.

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 20 seconds ago
Demonstrating my point that you’re a bunch of immature morons not worthy of my time.




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Lucky for me I don't fit that demographic.
I'm a mature moron.
How ya doin'?
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Mr SoQ - I’m good thanks bro, glad you’re still around. I got worried a few weeks ago as hadn’t seen you here for quite a while.

Hope you & everyone around you is well 👍🏻❤️ 🇨🇦 🍁

Don’t be such a stranger you old caaaaant x

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 20 seconds ago
Demonstrating my point that you’re a bunch of immature morons not worthy of my time.




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Lucky for me I don't fit that demographic.
I'm a mature moron.
How ya doin'?
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Mr SoQ - I’m good thanks bro, glad you’re still around. I got worried a few weeks ago as hadn’t seen you here for quite a while.

Hope you & everyone around you is well 👍🏻❤️ 🇨🇦 🍁

Don’t be such a stranger you old caaaaant x
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Was away in the country for a couple of weeks, then Mrs SoQ broke her arm and I've been nursing cooking cleaning shopping laundering etc.etc.
Never realized how much she does. And I'm perma knackered these days. 👍 Good to see you still on here.

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 20 seconds ago
Demonstrating my point that you’re a bunch of immature morons not worthy of my time.




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Lucky for me I don't fit that demographic.
I'm a mature moron.
How ya doin'?
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Mr SoQ - I’m good thanks bro, glad you’re still around. I got worried a few weeks ago as hadn’t seen you here for quite a while.

Hope you & everyone around you is well 👍🏻❤️ 🇨🇦 🍁

Don’t be such a stranger you old caaaaant x
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Was away in the country for a couple of weeks, then Mrs SoQ broke her arm and I've been nursing cooking cleaning shopping laundering etc.etc.
Never realized how much she does. And I'm perma knackered these days. 👍 Good to see you still on here.
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Women really are impressive mate. We’re lazy male lions 🤣

Voters also now seem to be somewhat sceptical about Starmer's country before party pledge, with 63% of the country and a quarter of those who voted Labour saying the Government is most interested in helping themselves and their allies rather than ordinary people

https://x.com/luketryl/status/1828467594313031708?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Keith taking an absolute hammering in the polls already, didn’t expect it to be this early though

Can’t imagine polling on that question would be that much different before the election.

comment by Sydney Sweeney (U11781)
posted 35 minutes ago
Voters also now seem to be somewhat sceptical about Starmer's country before party pledge, with 63% of the country and a quarter of those who voted Labour saying the Government is most interested in helping themselves and their allies rather than ordinary people

https://x.com/luketryl/status/1828467594313031708?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Keith taking an absolute hammering in the polls already, didn’t expect it to be this early though
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A hammering from whom?

The stats for Tory and Reform voters skews the 'all' category. How did you expect Tory and Reform voters to respond?

Wait until after the Budget 😹

Tory press in denial of the situation working overtime trying to discredit the Starmer GVT before it has ecen started atm.

Big day for the UK as Starmer starts his reversal of the nonesense of Brexit with the Germans. Good luck PM, we are rooting for you.

Relax, everything is cushty, everything is world leading or world beating, that Starmer is just a doomster and gloomster for naively telling the truth about our finances and the medicine its gonna take to cure them...boo!
We want lies, we're too immature to deal with reality, down with Labour...boo!

They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.

The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 11 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.

The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
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It’ll be because of the deep state and woke economics if that happens.

There was some gluebag Tory MP on the radio saying cancelling the £40m helicopter contract was "performative hairshirt-ism". No surprise the national debt doubled in their 14 years when they used it to live the life of Reilly and enrich their chums at our expense.

No doubt Starmer and Reeves will get slaughtered for boringly trying to do what's required and the childish amongst us will throw their tantrums.

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.

The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
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And in that time they've given way above wage increases to the railways and junior doctors with no return on improvement other than the guarantee of further strikes 9I suppose someone might call that an improvement) , whilst depriving all but the very poorest of pensioners of a paltry heating allowance which means everything to the vast majority of them.

The savings on the fuel allowance are some £1.5bn reportedly whilst the cost of the increased wages are some £10bn. All to prevent the cost and disruption caused by strikes which they have spectacularly failed at.

All capped off with the gloomiest prediction of significant austerity and taxation to come in a couple of months because of the black hole which half comprises the results of their own political choices.

An auspicious 8 weeks indeed.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.

The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
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And in that time they've given way above wage increases to the railways and junior doctors with no return on improvement other than the guarantee of further strikes 9I suppose someone might call that an improvement) , whilst depriving all but the very poorest of pensioners of a paltry heating allowance which means everything to the vast majority of them.

The savings on the fuel allowance are some £1.5bn reportedly whilst the cost of the increased wages are some £10bn. All to prevent the cost and disruption caused by strikes which they have spectacularly failed at.

All capped off with the gloomiest prediction of significant austerity and taxation to come in a couple of months because of the black hole which half comprises the results of their own political choices.

An auspicious 8 weeks indeed.
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Anyone who voted Tory over the last 14 years hasn't got a leg to stand on here. Why are we in this mess?

I didn’t realise train drivers’ salaries came out of the public purse

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
They've been in power for what, 8 weeks? and parliament hasn't even sat for half of that due to summer recess. I don't get what people expect them to have done in this timeframe.

The budget will be the one where we can finally issue some judgement but even then, it's their first one with 4.5 more years to go so writing them off solely on that seems silly, well unless it's a Truss V2 that crashes the economy
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And in that time they've given way above wage increases to the railways and junior doctors with no return on improvement other than the guarantee of further strikes 9I suppose someone might call that an improvement) , whilst depriving all but the very poorest of pensioners of a paltry heating allowance which means everything to the vast majority of them.

The savings on the fuel allowance are some £1.5bn reportedly whilst the cost of the increased wages are some £10bn. All to prevent the cost and disruption caused by strikes which they have spectacularly failed at.

All capped off with the gloomiest prediction of significant austerity and taxation to come in a couple of months because of the black hole which half comprises the results of their own political choices.

An auspicious 8 weeks indeed.
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Anyone who voted Tory over the last 14 years hasn't got a leg to stand on here. Why are we in this mess?
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Everyone has a right to comment however they wish.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I didn’t realise train drivers’ salaries came out of the public purse
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The DoT settled the dispute with the unions from government (public) funds; so whilst the companies themselves pay over the funds; it wouldn’t happen without public funding.

But I suspect you know that

If Starmer was after popularity he could have just rehashed some Trussnomics and promised us the World in the space of the current Parliament

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted less than a minute ago
If Starmer was after popularity he could have just rehashed some Trussnomics and promised us the World in the space of the current Parliament
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He wouldn’t have got into power with that.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I didn’t realise train drivers’ salaries came out of the public purse
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The DoT settled the dispute with the unions from government (public) funds; so whilst the companies themselves pay over the funds; it wouldn’t happen without public funding.

But I suspect you know that
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Are you saying the trains aren’t actually owned by private, mainly foreign companies?

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 7 minutes ago
I didn’t realise train drivers’ salaries came out of the public purse
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The DoT settled the dispute with the unions from government (public) funds; so whilst the companies themselves pay over the funds; it wouldn’t happen without public funding.

But I suspect you know that
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Are you saying the trains aren’t actually owned by private, mainly foreign companies?
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Where on earth do you get that quantum leap from?