Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

But his values remain intact.

 

Some gut wrenchers here. Top quality gut wrenchers, mind...

 

Mental health issues and eating disorder...very sad

 

I didn’t know, that’s a terrible shame.

 

I think we could learn a lot from Argentina.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...irchner-argentina-sentenced-prison-fraud-case

 

I think the Americans could learn a lot from Peru, too!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/peru-president-detained-pedro-castillo-coup

 

"five cabinets, more than 80 ministers, six criminal investigations" - I'd never have guessed that Peru was a training ground for Tories.

 

www.borderlandbeat.com for those who care to see how messed up México is.

 

we knew it was bad but...

 

Do read the link, anybody who skimmed over this.

 

Due to a lack of an available ambulance, an 89 year-old veteran of Suez, with a broken hip and shoulder, is taken to hospital strapped to a plank in the back of a van.

“The Welsh Ambulance Service said Mr Ryan's experience was below the service it aimed to offer.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63948640

Not a one-off though, is it?

 

This is third world stuff, but we shouldn't be surprised. Yesterday a government report showed how the NHS has been starved of decent funding for a decade, and it will be unable to make any real improvements without major changes. To ask medical staff to take real term pay cuts to bail out the government is cynical to say the least, especially after what they have gone through with covid.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...nhs-unable-to-tackle-care-backlog-report-says

 

There was a professor of Economics on the radio this morning saying that the public sector should not be used as if to control inflation. That’s the Bank of England’s job. If you raise tax to pay for public sector pay rises, Demand is not increased so won’t lead to inflation. It’s just a redistribution, I suppose. Most of the public sector have had pay rises frozen or been given next to nothing for over ten years, leading to about 20% pay cuts in real terms. And we wonder why we have 10000 doctors’ shortage, one in seven nurses’ jobs vacant, and trouble recruiting in caring (which is at the heart of the ambulance crisis), and teaching. What a khazi we’ve become.

Still, on the bright side, most ministers won’t use the NHS or state care or state education. Not that that makes a difference to the choices they make, of course.

 

100% agree.... at least what I understand i do... any pay increases will flow around in the economy any way.....

 

Sounds a little like Richard Murphy...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601525205461250052.html

 

Yet the government repeatedly claim in parliament that funding for the NHS is at record levels.

What they conveniently forget to mention is that the funding for Test & Trace and the dodgy PPE contracts was allocated to the NHS budget.

 

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This looks like a copy of voter suppression that Trump tried on in the USA. When asked about it today, the government minister was unable to explain why there was a difference.

 

Jonathan Pie. On point. Again.

 

Keeping the pressure on Michelle Mone.