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Post by James E on Jul 5, 2023 14:40:25 GMT
Here's the byelection breakdown King's Hedges (Cambridge) Council By-Election Result: CON: 34.9% (+3.0) LAB: 33.6% (-5.6) LDM: 23.5% (+8.5) GRN: 8.0% (-6.0) Conservative GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023. It really doesn't look like a lib dems block does it? Labour vote falls. Can't read much into a local but very remain Cambridge maybe isn't enamoured of Starmer's make Brexit work bollocks. Steve- King's Hedges was Cambridge's least Remain-supporting ward, dividing 55% Remain, 45% Leave. Quite different to the 74% Remain vote for Cambridge as a whole , let alone the 88% Remain vote in the central Cambridge Market ward. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/revealed-cambridge-ward-highest-pro-12563866But this result is consistent with both the Local Elections and polling findings showing Labour doing less well in their safe (or very Remainy) areas, and very much better where they lost in 2019. In particular, YouGov and others show much higher Con to Lab swings among Leave voters then Remainers, albeit that the Tories still have a small lead with Leavers (they led by 74/14 in GE2019). |
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Post by Danny on Jul 5, 2023 14:41:48 GMT
When prescription charges were re introduced in 1968 they were 12 pence If it went up with inflation it would be £1.74. In reality it is now £9.65 are you sure that wasn't meant to be one shilling, 12d or 5p? 12 pence would be two shillings and 2/5 of a shilling which does not come out as a round number of old pence (24/5), so seems an unlikely amount. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2023 14:42:24 GMT
We are going to pay more anyway-why does it have to be via direct taxation all the time? Because if its determined by personal wealth, then the rich get a first class sercvice, the middle a second class service and the poor a third class service. Maybe you think that would be fair, maybe you don't? Maybe you should have a look at continental systems of health care to see if they exhibit those issues before you claim that they do. Table 2 on Page 25 of this report is a good starting point:- www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/nhs-compare-health-care-systems-other-countries |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 14:46:46 GMT
Yes, there are a number of issues with the idea of holding back in terms of policy on the grounds that inheriting a difficult situation: - The point (made by graham I think?) that even after WW2, when things were really difficult, Labour were still able to put quite an extensive plan together, quite a good one as it happens - the point you make, that shevii also made I think, that there are some things that might be offered that don’t necessarily involve a great deal of expenditure - the point that some things may cost, but might more than pay for themselves in increased growth/income or reduced costs, and some investments might also bear down on inflation The only possible excuse for not stating policy is that the other side might copy it but I've highlighted part of my reply that covers the benefit of your ideas being copied (ie your ideas are copied and implemented) Obvs1: it is HMG that presents legislation* to HoC and has to make the actual decisions (which muppets like Shapps seem incapable of doing) but the position of LOTO and opposition parties is an important 'influence' as if your ideas get copied then surely you'd be very happy about that? (EG UKIP led to 'Get Brexit Done') I appreciate that if the roles were reversed then CON would be saying LAB HMG are shit and making a mess of things but I would hope that CON would be 'back seat driving' by coming up with policies and ideas that LAB might then copy. At the moment then plenty of CON 'factions' are coming up with ideas - some of which CON HMG might 'copy'. Obvs2: not every idea is a 'good' idea: some need a bit of tweaking; and some (usually from the 'nutter' extremes on either side) are stoopid ideas that should be ignored. However, the point is parliament is sovereign and the ideas need to come into HoC - ideally by the govt currently in power but 'factions' and opposition parties have an important role. At the moment it feels like we have a Zombie HMG and an AWOL opposition. I'm not looking for radical** changes but FFS there is a lot of 'low hanging fruit' that LAB can go after and CON need to crack on with delivery of their 'Strategy'/Plan/Priorities/Missions or whatever they are calling it this week. * Some stuff doesn't need new legislation and can be covered in a budget or by other methods. ** EG With the NHS then that can be called 'evolving' (see leftieliberal post showing it has been 'evolving' since it was born - a process that needs to get going again IMO) Yes, if they copy your ideas, then it has the merit of giving you credit amongst some at least, though many may not be aware. But it also shifts the Overton window your way, your kind of policies become more acceptable. Thus, if the Tories start moving left and doing more state intervention like energy subsidies, then it validates the idea of more Leftie state intervention. This in turn means Labour be able to move further left, to offer things Tories might not feel able to do. UNLESS… you are quite right wing still, still closer to Thatcherite economics and don’t want to move further left. Then having your policies nicked is a bigger deal. A problem for Tories - and possibly Labour at the moment, and LDs - is that many in the populace - including quite a lot of Tories now - are more ready for some nationalisation than the main parties. |
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Post by alurqa on Jul 5, 2023 14:47:02 GMT
So two-thirds of voters want a congestion charge and one-third don’t, and the ‘don’t’ group ‘wins’ the representative? That brings a whole new meaning to “imperfect”. Somewhat reminiscent of the referendum result. 1/3 for membership. 1/3 against membership. 1/3 didnt vote. And yet we left. And five million were told they couldn't vote. Democracy in action. |
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Post by neilj on Jul 5, 2023 14:47:35 GMT
When prescription charges were re introduced in 1968 they were 12 pence If it went up with inflation it would be £1.74. In reality it is now £9.65 are you sure that wasn't meant to be one shilling, 12d or 5p? 12 pence would be two shillings and 2/5 of a shilling which does not come out as a round number of old pence (24/5), so seems an unlikely amount. It was 2 shillings and six pence, 12p was the nearest whole number |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 14:55:26 GMT
Some of us have been doing it on here for years. A decade ago, when there weren’t many wind turbines, and some thought that it might take a long time for them to take off, I pointed out that it was exponential growth and was likely to take off. Same thing happened with EVs. Someone pointed out to me they only had 1% of the market, but I pointed out again it was exponential growth so likely to start taking off*. Pandemic and the war have skewed things a bit but there have still been big gains compared to before. I did it with AI recently. Pointed out that a key limiting aspect is the access to high quality info., highlighted the data that showed there is possibly an order of magnitude improvement available in quality info. out there, before it gets exhausted, which could have quite the impact, whereupon it slows down to the rate of providing new info., about 10% a year (plus improvement in algorithms etc.). It’s not guaranteed but wise to plan for the case it’ll take off quite rapidly for a few years before possibly slowing down the growth a bit. I posted a list of careers possibly more immune to AI the other day. My profile pic concerns High Entropy alloys - a tutor at Oxford was a pioneer in the field, and as they get more developed they could be rather useful for a range of applications esp. concerning hydrogen, the prospects for which which some of us are into. * citing Kurzweil’s maxim that with exponential growth, when you reach one percent, you are most of the way there. Some things like fusion are really hard to even get your head around, and the challenges are immense - good to go way out of my comfort zone at times, but breakthroughs are starting to happen now. However, one new approach in the nearer term seems to afford the ability to make medical isotopes rather more easily and cheaply, which will be of use in your realm. Others do it too: somerjohn and the gas price prediction. Mr Poppy was on about gigastacks ages ago. I think alec is onto summat with the airborne infection thing, alurqa and the potential for reusable space flight, leftieliberal is on the ball with various things etc. (In politics, been talking about the pressure to move leftwards for a good while too, and the problems with leaving essentials to the market, becoming rather more evident by the day now. But politically the complaint is that it is rather harder to plan or predict if they keep policy under wraps or keep retracting it). Govts are in the position of being able to make 'predictions' into reality. EG UK has a hydrogen strategy* (and targets for wind, solar, nuclear, etc) which can be considered a 'prediction' of what will happen by 2030 (or whatever date is specified). However, policy and decisions are needed in order for govts to make their predictions come true. Of course unexpected stuff (like Brexit sucking all the political bandwidth out of HoC from 2017-19, Covid, Ukraine war, etc) might occur but "all excuses are equal" and "where there's a will, there's a way". A good govt can "walk and chew gum" at the same time and gets kicked out if they don't deliver on the people's priorities. LAB can win GE'24 on the ABCON vote but if they want to keep winning then they will need to do 'predictions' (ie have a detailed plan, not U-turns) and then policy and decision making to make those predictions come true. Since LAB's plan is 'continuity CON' in most cases then hopefully they'll be better at making the decisions to action their plan than the likes of Shapps. I'll predict LAB will be less bad at making decisions on stuff like SMR nuclear sites, gigastacks, etc. The New Model Tory plan is OK but CON are too easily sucked into "excuses" for not getting stuff done. By purging his nutter wing** then Starmer is hopefully ensuring he avoids 'rats in the sack'. * I dunno if people still think CON don't have a 'plan'. Happy to agree they aren't enabling their own plan due to 'dither and delay' on decision making. However, the plan ('prediction') is there. EG Hydrogen www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-hydrogen-strategy** Possibly overdoing it. As stated before then 'factions' can be OK if they provide ideas and are prepared to compromise. Of course in a few occasions then I've personally been glad the 'nutters' won but ERG needed the help of Remain MPs to get rid of May and then enable Boris to "Get Brexit Done" - wasting 2yrs+ to do what we should have done 2yrs to day after EURef'16. Yes, a plan is one thing, making it happen is another. Sure, some situations are more difficult, but again it was really quite difficult after WW2 and yet they still delivered quite a lot of the plan. Part of the point of the plans is to be able to cope with difficult situations. Make the right investments/interventions in a crisis and it becomes easier to deal with and you can prepare better for future crises. You can argue we don’t tend to get governments who think that way very well these days. Or we would have been better prepared for a pandemic, banking crash, inflation surge etc., none of which are unknowns. (Another problem is that when someone does set up something useful, it gets trashed. NHS Direct might have been quite useful in the pandemic? Or for helping with preventative healthcare? They sold off the vaccine innovation centre too). |
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Post by Danny on Jul 5, 2023 14:59:26 GMT
Because if its determined by personal wealth, then the rich get a first class sercvice, the middle a second class service and the poor a third class service. Maybe you think that would be fair, maybe you don't? Maybe you should have a look at continental systems of health care to see if they exhibit those issues before you claim that they do. Table 2 on Page 25 of this report is a good starting point:- www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/nhs-compare-health-care-systems-other-countriesThank you for both a link and a page reference. Unfortunately table two says nothing whatever about equity of health care outcomes by wealth. As an example of what might go wrong with a payment system. In the Uk there might be a 1 million waiting list and approximately 1 million procedures a year (ie waiting list stable, which it approximately is). In country x where significant personal contribution is required, there might be no waiting list at all but only 500,000 procedures a year. Because the poor never bother asking for one. No queue of course, because care isnt being rationed via a queue system but delivered as soon as you pay. Alternatively country x could have no queue (get it as soon as you pay), but have 1.2 million procedures a year. because the worried well who can afford procedures pay even though they do not really need one, and who are doctors to turn them away? Meanwhile there are still 500,000 a year who really do need that procedure but dont get it. No doubt outcomes of procedures in this system would be excellent, because half the people didnt need one anyway. And yes, this sort of thing really already happens in the Uk where private companies offer to sell you things like body scans, which throw up anomalies requiring further investigation, but a big proportion turn out to be harmless. Its tricky, how well does the report disentangle this sort of thing? |
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Post by Danny on Jul 5, 2023 15:01:49 GMT
are you sure that wasn't meant to be one shilling, 12d or 5p? 12 pence would be two shillings and 2/5 of a shilling which does not come out as a round number of old pence (24/5), so seems an unlikely amount. It was 2 shillings and six pence, 12p was the nearest whole number Ah, so half a crown. Handy denominated coin amount. |
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Thank you for both a lionk and a page reference. Unfortunately table two says nothing whatever about equity of health care outcomes by wealth. I said its a starting point ! It tells you about the main models and which countries use them. So you now need to go & do some research to establish whether your assertions about inequality of provision are founded or not. The report provides comparative healthcare outcomes and other stats and comments. |
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are you sure that wasn't meant to be one shilling, 12d or 5p? 12 pence would be two shillings and 2/5 of a shilling which does not come out as a round number of old pence (24/5), so seems an unlikely amount. It was 2 shillings and six pence, 12p was the nearest whole number Half a crown in 1968. That was several weeks pocket money for me then! For comparison, I think a dog licence then cost 7/6. I remember at the time, colour television was just being introduced and there was a joke that a man had bought a black and white dog because he thought the licence was cheaper. |
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Post by Danny on Jul 5, 2023 15:07:06 GMT
Thank you for both a lionk and a page reference. Unfortunately table two says nothing whatever about equity of health care outcomes by wealth. I said its a starting point ! It tells you about the main models and which countries use them. So you now need to go & do some research to establish whether your assertions about inequality of provision are founded or not. The report provides comparative healthcare outcomes and other stats and comments. You seem to be saying however that there is no place it actually addresses the question of equity of outcomes? otherwise you could have said see page xx? |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 15:14:48 GMT
Well the point is that we know that gaming things happens, and there are incentives to do so, and that if they do try and game they will likely try and confuse things and make it difficult to monitor, so having state actors in the market gives us actual market info. about what costs what, and lets us set more realistic prices if the private sector try and take the mick. It can also be useful to have it available if private sector screw up, and to pioneer useful improvements the private sector might not take on. You've headed off down one of your usual rabbit holes. I'm not opposed to UK state run business in UK sectors but not for reasons of 'market info' as we can already get that. TBC on Thames Water but I would have been fine with keeping Bulb Energy as a state run business for longer. You have to be careful when looking a 'gift horses in the mouth' though as it might be full of Greek soldiers (trade unions) that go on to hold the country to ransom or simply exploit the tax payer via poor management and lack of 'share price' accountability (see the amount of taxpayer money spent in some polities on stuff like rail, energy, etc). Anyway, state v private is a separate issue. The state sector, notably when controlled by trade unions, is quite capable of ripping off consumers and 'taking the mick' although I'm not opposed to a mix of state and private (where it makes sense and when an opportunity is 'gifted' rather than having to be paid ££billions for - noting BoE chopped down the Magic Money Tree). It wasn’t intended to be a rabbit hole but to save you from continuing to argue the point concerning how some business actions can be opaque, given I already agreed. I thought you were ok with a state player in the market so thought it might conclude the matter. Regarding the concern over the unions, it’s possible just having a state player in the market among many other private firms isn’t necessarily going to result in a general strike or something. In the special case of water, which is a more natural monopoly, and can’t necessarily just have one state player in the market, the problems of leaving it in the private sector are especially evident, and are workers really going to strike and leave everyone to dehydrate? If so you might have backup measures. They can strike in the private sector anyway, or impose burdensome conditions. Meanwhile workers aren’t striking in the private water sector, but the employers are chucking loads of shit into the water, failing to invest and wrecking the business financially so the state may have to step in anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2023 15:25:52 GMT
I said its a starting point ! It tells you about the main models and which countries use them. So you now need to go & do some research to establish whether your assertions about inequality of provision are founded or not. The report provides comparative healthcare outcomes and other stats and comments. You seem to be saying however that there is no place it actually addresses the question of equity of outcomes? otherwise you could have said see page xx? You are free to read the KF report like I did. You may find what you need there,( Section 11 possibly ) but I pointed you to the description of continental models/user countries so you could go do your own research on them to see if the problems you envisage are present. |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 15:25:55 GMT
They were pretty happy with the Cameron/Clegg coalition as well (which stance did apparently cause some arguments in the newsroom) and as all who read it at the time will know, 80-90% of Guardian comment pieces were hostile to Corbyn - Owen Jones being the major exception. My recollection is that they started happy but gradually turned far more critical towards the end (including towards Lib Dems). Some of this turnaround perhaps came from their readership not being happy, but I think also as they discovered that austerity hadn't worked the way it was supposed to. One of the Guardian journos told us that there had been quite a split in the staff when they found out the paper was going to support austerity, and there was quite a rather unhappy meeting about it. (I don’t know that John Harris was too happy about it, he had a brief exchange with me once). Regarding the comment section, below the line people who were openly Lib Dem pretty much vanished in the comment section immediately following the GE in 2010. (As we now know of course, no one actually voted Lib Dem in 2010). |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 16:12:02 GMT
Just thought I would post this bit, from the Telegraph, of all places:
“So many of the problems that ministers want to be seen to be suddenly tackling are problems that have been long in the making, and indeed in part are of their own making.
And yet, the truly tragic part of this whole sorry saga is that even now, the Government is largely clueless about what action to take. The “solutions” – if you can call them that – are risible, bordering on the laughable.
With the banks, the best that the big brains of No11 could come up with was a “mortgage charter” that contained a pledge on six-month interest-only mortgages and 12 months grace for those facing repossession.
Such steps will help but only around the edges. They do nothing to address the underlying problems inherent in the mortgage market such as the growing number of first-time buyers looking to get onto the housing ladder or the millions faced with having to remortgage in the coming months and years at vastly higher rates.
Meanwhile, the measures are voluntary so it remains to be seen to what extent any of this is enforceable. It’s yet another example of the Government bringing a pea-shooter to a gunfight.
The response to petrol price profiteering has been even more abject. Yes, there has been a fairly in-depth Competition and Markets Authority investigation, which concluded that motorists had been ripped off to the tune of nearly £1bn at a time when household budgets have been under severe pressure but if there is no retrospective action then what’s the point of the whole exercise in the first place?
Fuel bad-boy Asda, which tripled its profit margin target between 2019 before Covid erupted and 2023, has been fined just £60,000. Meanwhile, the CMA wants to see a pump price comparison website set up - a terrifying deterrent if ever there was one.
And the best that a Tory Government has come up with as a possible answer to lingering suspicions of excess profits on supermarket food is a price cap on basic food items, at which point amateur hour truly is upon us.
Its solutions to the cost of living squeeze range from the laughably weak to crazily interventionist, and yet every time the underlying issue goes unaddressed. The country needs grown-up answers, not policies reminiscent of John Major’s traffic cone hotline.
It’s not only our supine and clueless political masters that are to blame. The country has undoubtedly been let down by a near-broken regulatory regime.”
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Post by alec on Jul 5, 2023 16:29:34 GMT
c-a-r-f-r-e-w - isn't it funny how the arch free market neolibs get all angsty about market regulation when a f@cking great electoral defeat for their lot heaves into view?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2023 16:30:08 GMT
UK 10-year gilt yield now just a sliver under 4.5%, and perilously close to 'peak Truss' level of 4.643%. Last August, it stood at 1.7%, so now more than 2.5 times that level. The 2-year gilt yield, influential for mortgage pricing, is now 5.374%. Last August, it was 1.56%. Yikes. www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmbmkgb-10y?countrycode=bx |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 16:30:51 GMT
Will Hutton is always worth a read and yesterday he wrote about a way of making privately owned public utility companies operate much more in line with the common good without spending the vast sums required to re-nationalise them. With the dire state of public finances likely to be bequeathed to an incoming Labour Government, I think these models of public/private partnerships are worth exploring. It appears that Starmer does too. It's where dogma gives way to expediency, and maybe realism too. It's disappointing for some, but politics has always been the art of the possible. Labour would be silly to make pledges as if they were about to inherit a land of milk and honey. Instead, I suspect they're going to acquire a legacy from hell when they walk into the corridors of power:- www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/02/now-water-bosses-you-must-show-how-capitalism-must-work-for-the-common-goodWill Hutton seems to be suggesting that public/private partnerships can be manged successfully to the benefit of both parties. I'd suggest otherwise as had been witnessed to many times (Virgin healthcare suing the NHS, Virgin trains fighting legal battles over the franchises and now water companies). When you have a history of failure on public/private partnerships involving monopolies it seems to be stupidity to repeat this just in the belief that this time we can get it right, especially when you are in partnership with a company who has the mission of maximising profit and suing over the smallprint. Same thing in France, where Macron makes the majority state-owned private energy company do cut-price energy, and the company threatens to sue the state |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Jul 5, 2023 16:36:27 GMT
c-a-r-f-r-e-w - isn't it funny how the arch free market neolibs get all angsty about market regulation when a f@cking great electoral defeat for their lot heaves into view? Howard was complaining about it as well, without considering the possibility that maybe if it keeps messing up, in sector after sector, under differebt regimes, maybe there are more fundamental issues with regulation. At any rate the writer in the Telegraph doesn’t think this government are up to dealing with it: “ But there’s a serious question to be asked about whether Rishi Sunak’s Government even has the mandate, never mind the will, to oversee such profound shifts in the way the economy is run.
It’s fine to talk boldly about introducing new priorities for the big regulators, but that would require new laws – and this is a Government that has been rendered so weak by infighting and turmoil that it is incapable of legislating.” |
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Scotland Westminster VI (1-2 July):
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Labour 32% (+4)
Conservative 21% (+1)
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Green 2% (-1)
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Labour 30% (+1)
Conservative 21% (–)
Lib Dem 10% (+2)
Green 2% (–)
Reform 2% (–)
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Conservatives 19% (–)
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Green 8% (-6)
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Post by alec on Jul 5, 2023 16:56:49 GMT
Anyone know what Ollie's meant to have done? He's obviously upset a lot of folk as I'm seeing all these protestors waving 'Just Stop Ollie' banners, and I'm starting to feel a touch sorry for him.
Had my optician's appointment today. That was interesting.
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Post by graham on Jul 5, 2023 16:59:26 GMT
Re NHS, lots of talk about alternative funding models, but not much in the way of specifics Obviously I'm talking about England as the RUK will have different systems If they are talking about an extra insurance will there be exemptions If so one imagines it will be in line with prescriptions for England. Worth remembering 90% are free due to exemptions So if we have similar exemptions then we will be introducing a whole new layer of bureaucracy and charges which the people who use the NHS 90% of the time won't pay Or are we talking about paying a fee to use it each time, if so again I would assume similar exemptions to prescriptions The other thing about prescriptions, for the relatively small number who pay it, initially it was a modest charge, but it has risen way above inflation.When prescription charges were re introduced in 1968 they were 12 pence If it went up with inflation it would be £1.74. In reality it is now £9.65 When the Tories left office in 1964 prescription charges were 10p - or 2 shillings in £sd. Labour abolished the charges in early 1965 but proceeded to re-introduce them in early 1968 at 12 1/2 p- or half a crown in £sd terms. |
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Post by shevii on Jul 5, 2023 17:08:37 GMT
although what they have against Coca-Cola is beyond me. Well Coca Cola have the biggest plastics footprint in the world: www.statista.com/chart/23744/branded-plastic-waste-found-in-global-cleanups/Whether you can entirely blame Coca Cola rather than their consumers for this is debatable I guess. If they sell more drinks using plastics than anyone else you could say that's not their fault (and it wouldn't make any difference if you bought Co-Op value or Coca Coca in terms of plastics pollution), but I can well imagine that a multinational like them are unlikely to be bothered about researching alternatives and anything they did would just be for greenwashing purposes. Often protest is as much about flagging up an issue as it is about a specific company, but Pride seems a reasonable event to flag this up at and perhaps the organisers more likely to be receptive to not promoting fizzy drinks than your average organisation. The LGBT awards protest seems to have resulted in a change of heart from their acceptance of big oil sponsors, just as protests against museum sponsorship seem to be having an effect. |
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Post by Danny on Jul 5, 2023 17:15:24 GMT
News said there was some chanting of 'not our king' along the procession route. They had to make a new sword for the ceremony because of the poor condition of the old one, the swordsmith said it was because they had originally used too much lead in the silver work. News also said he wouldnt be literally crowned because the crown of Scotland is too small. I get a sense this ceremony hasnt been much performed in recent centuries. Are we expecting a prince of wales investiture or dont the Welsh need buying off this time? |
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Post by alec on Jul 5, 2023 17:17:59 GMT
While accepting that it's not possible to link an individuals symptoms to a prior covid infection in the absence of detailed medical tests, this is what we are going to see much more of. Two links here - www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fiona-phillips-not-alone-battling-22258591and www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/04/tv-presenter-fiona-phillips-reveals-she-has-alzheimers-at-age-of-62There appears to be a family history of Alzheimers, so likely a genetic predisposition, but that doesn't mean a certainty. What is interesting here is that Phillips describes the anxiety that eventually led to the dementia diagnosis as being an after effect of a heavy covid infection in summer 2020. It is now known that covid accelerates dementia, and it is strongly suspected that it actually causes it too. Anxiety and brain fog are some of the classic early signs of dementia, and also among the most common symptoms post acute covid, with brain biomarkers similar to precursor dementia biomarkers found in covid patients, even the young and the asymptomatic. Latency and post acute symptoms are two of the key covid issues we are completely ignoring, despite having knowledge of multiple other pathogens that initially produce a mild cold in the acute phase, before going on the generate severe outcomes often many years later. |
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Post by steve on Jul 5, 2023 17:19:47 GMT
Extraordinary video Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is the leader of the Rwanda opposition , like many opposition politicians she has faced illegal imprisonment a political friend as recently as 2019 was found strangled to death. Umuhoza, a lawyer, points out that over 1000 Rwandans have been granted asylum status in the U.K. because the U.K. Home office deems Rwanda unsafe for their return! But apparently safe for anyone else according to our racist Home Secretary It's la la land xenophobia. youtu.be/J-fNVu2VRd4 |
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Post by James E on Jul 5, 2023 17:27:00 GMT
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