Overnight A&E due to close at stafford hospital and be outsourced to Wolverhampton and Stoke. That is fecking mental, there's a population of around 100,000 here and the nearest A&E is about 17 miles away.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
So, the school teacher came and told off the School children.
NHS staff won't get their recommended 1% rise now. I'm loving this news.
Every dealing that David Cameron and the CP have with the NHS reduces their chances of winning the next election. He has such poor judgement where people and their welfare are concerned.
Every dealing that David Cameron and the CP have with the NHS reduces their chances of winning the next election. He has such poor judgement where people and their welfare are concerned.
Tories are slowly but surely trying to run down the NHS.
Is it still the case though that the Tories intend to ring-fence the NHS budget post 2015 with Labour not yet willing to do so?
The economy is the stumbling block for Labour, i can't imagine that Miliband and Balls expected things to pan out as they have done.
The economy is the stumbling block for Labour, i can't imagine that Miliband and Balls expected things to pan out as they have done.
The economy's something neither party can really crow about, the Tories were expecting to go into the next election with the deficit eliminated, pledging tax cuts. Instead, there's another parliament's worth of spending cuts. It's not as fatal an issue for them as it was appearing a year or so ago, but it's still not a point in their favour.
A lot of positioning from Labour and the Lib Dems recently that seem to emphasise what they agree on, and I'm coming round to that coalition being the likeliest outcome.
I don't know if they really expected that when talking amongst themselves, but either way the Tories do have a stronger card to play economically than i previously envisaged. A few years ago the Labour leadership probably saw this as little more than a waiting game before resuming majority government, whereas now the reins will have to have be seized instead of expecting them to be gifted.
The threat from UKIP remains somewhat of an unknown however i foresee Conservative HQ using the media to advantage so far as they are concerned.
Who in the world is going to vote Labour at the next election? On what possible basis?
Unreal comments from Balls today saying that it'll be difficult to govern with the deficit they will 'inherit'. How does he have the nerve?
Labour isn't a political party - it's a cult.
Unreal comments from Balls today saying that it'll be difficult to govern with the deficit they will 'inherit'. How does he have the nerve?
Labour isn't a political party - it's a cult.
Whats wrong with any of that? And why are Labour a cult? (the party or the voters?)
The same way the tories managed to fix the narrative that they inherited a deficit from Labour, despite having been against regulation whist in opposition and always pledging to match Labour's spending plans.
People will vote for Labour because they believe in some form of social democracy and the tories aren't going to provide that. I wish the choice wasn't quite so restrictive but it's the bullshit system that the tories adore.
People will vote for Labour because they believe in some form of social democracy and the tories aren't going to provide that. I wish the choice wasn't quite so restrictive but it's the bullshit system that the tories adore.
Well maybe they didn't expect the Tories to oversee the slowest recovery from a recession ever.
All three of the main parties can have a cultish element about them it seems to me.
Would that be the recovery which Labour themselves had in mind in 2010? After all was it not their intention to halve the deficit over the duration of the next parliament?
Would that be the recovery which Labour themselves had in mind in 2010? After all was it not their intention to halve the deficit over the duration of the next parliament?
Recoveries are measured on growth, rather than speed of deficit reduction are they not? Labour's precise argument was that cutting too much early on would dent the progress that had been made up to that point.
The deficit we had was partially caused by Labour's irresponsible public spending. Is this even up for debate any more?
And the reason it's a cult is because voting for them is becoming an increasingly irrational thing to do for a huge number of reasons - the principle one being that it makes very little sense as a poor person to vote for a party that actively seeks to make you poorer.
But maybe that's social democracy, I'm not sure.
That's all nonsense mate. Weve got headlines in all the papers today saying Balls had taken more responsibility for the financial crisis than any point previously, and I thought you we're making a point about labour internal politics, but your just having a go a voters for voting labour because of your own opinions
If you want to live in a 1 party system, move to China? And what are you on about with labour making poor people poorer. Where are you getting that from. What policy of theirs gives you that?
I want a ten party system. I want people to vote Green. UKIP. Whatever.
I don't criticise people voting left due to my own views. I want people to vote left. I just don't understand why anything apart from pure tribalism would make you vote for a party that routinely builds up huge debts which then negatively affects poor people the most.
The reality is that if you cock up the economy, poor people suffer. Labour always run a huge public sector overspend which usually ends in the Tories being obliged to cut. Even Labour now accept this.
And yet people will still vote for them, despite all the evidence pointing to that being immensely damaging.
I think all that is fair enough, but a vote for anyone but the big 3 is a wasted vote sadly.
Labour are the picture definition of populism, that's always going to be hard to go against.
Labour are the picture definition of populism, that's always going to be hard to go against.
New voting system needed as soon as possible, if you ask me. It is a desperate situation.
Like the one the Tories fought against 3 years ago?
Routinely build up huge debts?
Not...really. Do you actually have any research to hand to prove this theory that Labour damage the poorest?
Not...really. Do you actually have any research to hand to prove this theory that Labour damage the poorest?
Tories aren't perfect.
You're intelligent enough to know that graph isn't even close to being relevant.
It's about building up unsustainable investment in the wrong areas.
Like healthcare and pensions?
The Tories have made an absolute howler in maintaining the cost on the NHS. It's becoming the biggest burden a state has ever had to bear outside of military.
Labour's great fault was education and social security payments. Socially and economically backward.
Even the biggest cnuts on the right baulk at letting poor people die.
You can cut the NHS without letting patients down. Obviously.
Labour's great fault was relying far too heavily on an industry that tends to go pop, and can't be allowed to die.
Most of the electorate. On the basis that the Tories and the Liberals are useless and cnuts.
You don't seem to realise that so many people who vote Labour do so with great regret, for the lack of any better viable option. A cult? I don't know a single Labour voter who actually likes the party as it is today. The dissatisfaction must be far more extreme than any Tories or Liberals have with their parties, who seem to do a fair job of representing the politics of their voters (probably not as racist or homophobic as some Tory voters would like, to be fair).
I understand that people vote Labour for that reason, but when people vote for a political party out of fear of another one, then the populace have lost the battle of democracy.
The Conservative Party is not remotely racist or homophobic in the slightest, and nor are the majority of their voters. I tend to find that older or religious people can be homophobic, and you don't find many Tory priests.
Yeah, yeah. Why are they dancing to Farage's tune then?
The same Conservative Party whose majority of MPs voted against same-sex marriage barely a year ago.
And one that a referendum rejected too it must be remembered.
I think you'll find that most of the electorate haven't voted for a single governing party in many years, and we shan't see a return to such at the next election either.
Aren't you Labour types supposed to be less nasty than that?
And i think you'll find many voters of the coalition parties who have been dissatisfied with policy decisions, from tuition fees [somewhat irrationally i thought]to planning laws and the recent floods.
You believe that most if not all of those who voted against are homophobic? I disagree with their decision too however i'm not sure one can draw that conclusion necessarily.
It was a homophobic act, that much is clear.
If you're really going to criticize Labour for the banking caused financial crisis at least have the decency of not being further to the right. The deficit isn't what made people lose their homes and jobs. It's there and arguably bad, but it's not something that's going to stop joe average paying his rent.
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Farage will quit as UKIP leader if Labour gets an outright majority... because he will have "failed"
No mate, you will have succeeded. The better you do, the more likely a Labour majority is
UK effin politics. Come on UKIP, bring us PR!
No mate, you will have succeeded. The better you do, the more likely a Labour majority is
UK effin politics. Come on UKIP, bring us PR!
Corporation tax cut by 2 per cent for companies with profits over 1.5m.
Why?
Why?
Because it encourages businesses to relocate to the UK.
We plebs thank you.
Patronising Gits
Patronising Gits
We Tories say, 'You're welcome.'