He's so happy he got that quotation right.
Question Time & This Week
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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.
Widdecombe is comfortably the most irritating person.
Spotty oik remembered a quote
She has the voice someone parodying the Queen would have.
Her hymen is made of Sheffield steel.I'm not an Owen Smith fan but people booing him for saying that Brexit will damage the economy
Widdecombe is fecking obsessed with abortion. All the things the Chinese governments have done and she immediately goes to that.
If we disbanded the Trident programme i would give a goodly portion of the proceeds to the MoD anyway, and the remainder to scientific research. The refurb of the parliament and Buckingham Palace wouldn't even amount to a quarter of the necessary funds for healthcare.
In Sweden there are fees for certain types of appointments and consultations; in other countries there is a nominal charge to see a GP; who else has our funding model?
I just got to the bit with the a level student misusing Mill. Hopefully he'll grow out of it
I laughed at that when she said that.
This Week has had a good discussion on house building. Portillo called to bring in the public sector, I almost fainted!
Every little helps, right? I mean plenty will be calling for the relative pittance that is the foreign aid budget to be at least severely reduced if not scrapped so why not privatise the lot? Or, as 'the will of the people' is all the rage with these Brexiteers, you can turn democracy up to 11 and show the power of the free market by scrapping government funded programmes in their entirety. Make the monarchy a subscription service like Netflix with a company like Lootcrate sending a box of royal tat to subscribers' doors for an extra £10 a month, Trident can have its own Children in Need of Being Boiled Alive fundraiser while the Tory MPs and Lords can safely go on Bake Off now it's free from the shackles of the biased, fake news, snowflake ***** at the BBC.
In the same week that the people who stood in front of £350m for the NHS posters and buses couldn't be bothered to even make the token gesture of voting for that amendment, I refuse to believe anybody trusts this bunch to 'reform' it into anything other than a way to make their mates a ton of money. People who think they actually give a toss about the NHS as a service are far beyond misinformed. But then again they're sick of experts, if not immigrants, in the first place so why would they need doctors?
I really picked up on that. He was absolutely spot on, and as he said, to appease the Tories, the homes would still be there to be sold later.
Yes I agree. The way in which planning permission being granted is far far outstripping new housing builds stinks, it has all the whiffs of a cartel between the big house builders and big City players working to keep house prices high.
As an aside I know it's pretty much the same set of gags with topical stuff inserted in, but I do like a chuckle at Andrew Neil's links and sign-off.
Re: Housing
I think the Government needs to do more to promote self-building, as opposed to the assumption that Barratts or the like must profit.
Okaaaay then.
But do you disagree with the funding systems in other European countries, be it less centralised or not solely through NI?
I think the Government needs to do more to promote self-building, as opposed to the assumption that Barratts or the like must profit.
Okaaaay then.
But do you disagree with the funding systems in other European countries, be it less centralised or not solely through NI?
In France they have that too, but I think they're scrapping it soon. It still puts people off from seeing a GP if they have a low income, which just leads to more serious problems not being diagnosed early enough.
On an unrelated point (and because it annoys me and I want to rant about it
) in France if you're ill for even a single day you have to provide a doctors note. This is fecking stupid, and makes me very cross. I'll make it easy for you. You could name the greatest concept for NHS funding ever imagined, with little increase in a tax entirely going to fund the service or actually chasing the full tax bill from the companies currently on the 'well it's better than nothing' tariff. I wouldn't trust any of the people in Westminster today, tomorrow or in the next decade to implement it, unless it massively benefited one or more of the private health companies they have money in, especially after the genius that was Lansley's 'no top down reorganisation of the NHS' reorganisation of the NHS. That has just worked wonders hasn't it?
You should really include a NSFW warning with things like this, there could be Tories reading this who will be nursing a semi right now. They're already having to avoid Twitter and Facebook just incase someone has posted this nugget.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...allow-patients-pay-jump-the-queue-bournemouth
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Is there no means testing component?
I think they probably have a provision for unemployed people (I'm guessing) but I think if you're in full time work the fee is just the fee. Bear in mind I could be wrong here, I'm only going off my own situation and things I've chatted with my doctor about.
Three of tomorrow's panel have been announced:
John Swinney - SNP
Shami Chakrabarti - Labour
Val McDermid - Novelist and broadcaster.
If there's a member of the armed forces in the audience it is possible that Chakrabarti will be asked about disgraced lawyer, Paul Shiner. Perhaps whether he should be prosecuted.
John Swinney - SNP
Shami Chakrabarti - Labour
Val McDermid - Novelist and broadcaster.
If there's a member of the armed forces in the audience it is possible that Chakrabarti will be asked about disgraced lawyer, Paul Shiner. Perhaps whether he should be prosecuted.
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Been interesting to watch Chakrabarti since she became a peer, her adaptation to spin and obfuscation has been rapid.
I can't understand anything these people are saying.
Ah, the SNP have a 20-year plan on education.
Forgot this was on.
Good luck with that
It's a foreign language transmission tonight
If the government wishes to subsidise supplements or push bilberrys, that's fine, but interfering with food at source...dunno.
"Put it in the Irn Bru"
The film after is quite good, saw it on a Transatlantic flight a few years ago.
You watched in on a Plane, Colin.
Horribly pro indy panel. The willful ignorance and delusion in the room is scary.
Aye, with Europa and Premier League Darts, I'm missing it too. The BBC needs to invest in a +1 channel.
When will the SNP just admit that their sole aim is for independence regardless of being a member of the EU?
I can usually find it on YouTube by now, but going by this thread I think it can wait until tomorrow
I went to watch Question Time live once many years ago and Chakrabarti was on the panel. She's insanely cute in person.
*Weekly groan of despair*
If Carswell has sources on the ground in Stoke, the news is good for Labour.
It's always struck me as a rather awkward relationship btw. Whilst Carswell agrees with the strength of their Euroscepticism, there must also be that sense that he's surrounded by a pack of amateurs/idiots.
It's always struck me as a rather awkward relationship btw. Whilst Carswell agrees with the strength of their Euroscepticism, there must also be that sense that he's surrounded by a pack of amateurs/idiots.
He's an honest man, a sincere man. He has integrity. He's honest.
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