https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... lsopp.html
Proper binmen and music they had in the old days didn't do me any harm, says cunt.
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My only, niggling reservation is that if Labour get away with this, their next move will be to ban smoking altogether, even in your own home.Remind me whose recent plan it was to steadily increase the buying age for tobacco to squeeze smoking out?
Not content with stripping pensioners of their winter fuel payments, it is now being reported that concessionary rail fares for the over-60s are also about to be cut.Reported. About to be. Hitting everyone. Followed by the usual - train drivers, public sector gold plated pensions, asylum seekers, Gordon Brown, doctors, handouts for the unworthy, the usual shit.
Train operators, which these days are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Treasury and soon to be nationalised fully, are reducing the railcard discounts of up to 35 per cent.
OAPs aren’t the only passengers affected, admittedly. The savings are also being withdrawn from the disabled, military veterans and young people.
Train operators, which these days are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Treasury and soon to be nationalised fully, are reducing the railcard discounts of up to 35 per cent.Or people without railcards will pay a lower percentage of fare income? Which includes OAP's.
OAPs aren’t the only passengers affected, admittedly. The savings are also being withdrawn from the disabled, military veterans and young people.
Killer Whale wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:14 pm Turns out the cut is a whopping 0.6 of one percent. The thieving scoundrels.I didn't get you for a second. It's quite literally that- reduction from 34 to 33.4, presumably so that it's still a third off.
Bruce Williamson of campaign group Railfuture explained that while the discount reduction only represents a very small rise in fares for some passengers, the move will be “demoralising” for rail users.
“It’s a step in the wrong direction,” he told the Big Issue. “It just sends out the wrong message, and it’s a bit demoralising. Yet again, rail fares are creeping up, and we have a cost of living crisis.”
So began what became known as the Winter of Discontent as a wave of strikes drove a coach and horses – or rather a fleet of dust-carts – through Labour’s pay restraint policy.
Rubbish piled up in the streets, dead bodies went unburied.....
...crushing defeat of Arthur Scargill’s miners and the once-powerful print unions at Rupert Murdoch’s Wapping plant...
...bad old days of unbridled union power...
...trebles-all-round pay deals in the direction of their client base.
The inflation-busting rises lavished on train drivers and junior doctors...
Eventually, like every other Labour government, this one will run out of other people’s money...TL/DR - 40 years ago people were being made redundant en masse and protested. Now working people's concerns have moved on to exploitation by employers. As far as Dickie's concerned, this is a paradox. Then it's the usual whinges about WFH - daytime TV, listening to the radio, all a big con by lazy public sector types.
Last night Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said: 'This is precisely what George Orwell warned us about.
'Banning certain words and phrases to advance a dogmatic political ideology is a hallmark of totalitarianism.'
Seriously-ill children in hospital with pneumonia responded more quickly to treatment if they were visited by ‘medical clowns’ twice a day.So, without knowing all the details, it seems to be a cost-effective way of treating patients and getting them discharged faster. But it's a bit silly, a bit wimpy, therefore it won't do.
After being entertained at their bedsides with music and laughter, they needed a third fewer antibiotics and could be discharged within 43.5 hours, compared with three days for the average pneumonia patient.
(I can only speak for the exemplary care my late mum received under the much-maligned American system, which saved her life and extended it by almost 15 years.)Paid for. She paid for it. She paid a lot for it.
Amanda Pritchard has been chief executive of NHS England since 2021. She has 32 executive and non-executive directors. What the hell have they been doing for the past three years while the ‘service’ they are paid handsomely to administer has been going even further down the gurgler?DIDO HARDING
Now that Labour is promising a new broom, can we expect all those directly responsible for the failures of the past and present, not to mention the squandering of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, to be sacked? Starting with Pritchard. What do you think?
If this was any privately run enterprise, she’d have been shown the door already
Starmer still couldn’t resist blaming the Tories, even though the last government hosed down the health service with cash, to the tune of a mind-boggling £165 billion last year.Throwing money at it isn't the answer! And don't blame the Tories - they threw money at it!
He conveniently overlooked the fact that it was Labour which gave GPs bumper pay rises and relieved them of the arduous task of working weekends and evenings. Labour also adopted European working directives which put extra pressure on NHS rotas.
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