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What is harder is when someone is elderly and they have to wait on a trolley and they perhaps have dementia. They are already confused as they have been taken from their normal living space and they don’t have a buzzer to tell the nurse if they need the toilet. Nurses are excellent at making sure these people are looked after but it is disorientating for these patients and it’s wrong when they have paid for the NHS their entire lives.
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I live in fear that I will miss a seriously ill patient in that queue and they will die waiting for a space. I fear that I will end up in court and lose my job. But what I worry most about is how on earth I would live knowing a patient died who we could have helped. We are firefighting on a daily basis. Everyone is doing extra, staying hours late after shifts to help.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society...d-they-will-die?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook
 
Dobba said:
Tim clearly just needs to head out to the gay clubs and get his frustration out.
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712 said:
Momentum gained control of Labour's National Executive today, allegedly.
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No need to make if sound like a take over. Momentum backed the elected candidates is all.

Not that it matters now that the rest of the party have made peace with Corbyn.
 
Anyone see the stuff on Henry Bolton's (now) ex-girlfriend? UKIP were already in the dumps but feels like they're pretty much completely falling into oblivion now. Thankfully.
 
Cheesy said:
Anyone see the stuff on Henry Bolton's (now) ex-girlfriend? UKIP were already in the dumps but feels like they're pretty much completely falling into oblivion now. Thankfully.
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I didn't even know they'd chosen a leader until this story came out.
 
DiseaseOfTheAge said:
I didn't even know they'd chosen a leader until this story came out.
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:lol:

He's been rather unimportant with the party's decline, aye. But their continuing implosion and ability to sink to deeper depths is fun to watch.
 
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Seriously bad deflection from May over Carillion. When it was put to her the government has a duty to ensure the supplier was properly managed her get out? We're only a customer.

That'll go under the radar but for me its worrying and shows how easily they're willing to pass the buck on key services
 
Well, if his brief was to reach out to young voters, he's certainly meeting that. Barely been in the job a week and he's been all over social media twice.

The New Tory Vice Chair For Youth Said Public Sector Workers "Don't Know They're Born"
Ben Bradley, who is already under fire for suggesting unemployed men should have vasectomies, also launched a scathing attack on workers protesting public sector cuts.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the-new-tory-vice-chair-for-youth-said-public-sector
 
DenisIrwin said:
What was that crap from May about the Conservatives not really being a nasty party? Here's another skeleton from their closet...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence...loyed-people?utm_term=.cr8JQMPebY#.tynkQRnDOV
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Extreme, hyperbolic, and for an issue which ultimately has a relatively small impact financially. He should be able to raise the topic of child benefit or what the state should expect of parents without reaching for such moronic language. Had he not been an MP during those years, he could well have been a click-bait columnist somewhere.


Dobba said:
Well, if his brief was to reach out to young voters, he's certainly meeting that. Barely been in the job a week and he's been all over social media twice.

The New Tory Vice Chair For Youth Said Public Sector Workers "Don't Know They're Born"
Ben Bradley, who is already under fire for suggesting unemployed men should have vasectomies, also launched a scathing attack on workers protesting public sector cuts.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the-new-tory-vice-chair-for-youth-said-public-sector
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Back in 2011 when austerity was still its infancy, that is not a particularly outlandish PoV. Workers in the private sector had been taking a worse hit when compared to their state-employed counterparts, nor was such offset by a superior pension. He also selected those on higher pay in particular.
 
Smores said:
Seriously bad deflection from May over Carillion. When it was put to her the government has a duty to ensure the supplier was properly managed her get out? We're only a customer
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Labour need to hammer that point with regards to the NHS, how can you trust a government who let's a supplier do whatever they want with your health?
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
Back in 2011 when austerity was still its infancy, that is not a particularly outlandish PoV. Workers in the private sector had been taking a worse hit when compared to their state-employed counterparts, nor was such offset by a superior pension. He also selected those on higher pay in particular.
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Only in Tory land was this not outlandish, we are paying for it now withthe recruitment crisis in the public sector
 
Mozza said:
Only in Tory land was this not outlandish, we are paying for it now withthe recruitment crisis in the public sector
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What is outlandish in suggesting that public sector workers had been having an easier time of it than those in private industry? We're talking about the specific issue of pay in that context of that time period, not every aspect of austerity enacted or their eventual duration.
In practice, you're defending the circumstances of workers on high salaries agaisnt the JAMs, simply because one group happen to be employed by the state.
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
What is outlandish in suggesting that public sector workers had been having an easier time of it than those in private industry? We're talking about the specific issue of pay in that context of that time period, not every aspect of austerity enacted or their eventual duration.
In practice, you're defending the circumstances of workers on high salaries agaisnt the JAMs, simply because one group happen to be employed by the state.
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Public sector workers weren't having a great deal more pay that private sector, just hyped up stats to justify austerity
 
Largely irrelevant but fun, nonetheless.

UKIP leader Henry Bolton has said the party's national executive committee (NEC) has no right to sit in judgement on his personal life.

And he warned that UKIP faced extinction if the NEC voted to get rid of him as leader when it meets later.

Mr Bolton has faced repeated calls to quit over offensive texts sent by his former girlfriend.

He told the BBC's Pienaar's Politics the NEC was "not a court of moral judgement".

He said he had ended the "romantic element" of his relationship with Jo Marney after she sent texts saying Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle would "taint" the Royal Family.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42764822
 
Pretty much a dead party at this point. Chance Farage may come back but he's probably better off just being a cnut on his own.
 


Genuine crisis for TMay (out of the blue) this time?

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