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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 23:15 15 Nov 2024
I'm not a leftie. I didn't vote Labour.
I'm a bang on centrist with realistic expectations. I'm not defending anyone.
Reform's manifesto said they were going to spend an extra £17 billion on the NHS. The NHS alone. They didn't say where it was going to come from but it doesn't take a genius to realise we don't have that money.
If, and that's a big Daily Mail/GBNews claim, Labour need to borrow £32 billion to sort out the situation the UK is currently in without that £17 billion for the NHS then where the hell were Reform getting the cash from? |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 16:00 15 Nov 2024
Just two weeks really. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 15:45 15 Nov 2024
But in nowhere near the quantities that we do in the west. China for example historically use very little dairy, it's recently gaining in popularity due to students studying in the UK taking their tastes back home.
My point is it's popular in countries that use intensive, almost industrial scale agriculture. It's a filthy industry which forces down the cost of food to artificially low levels to satisfy demand. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 10:09 15 Nov 2024
Specifically all of it.
Immigration:-
Freeze non-essential immigration (except some health care)! Goodbye economy, who'll work in social care? Etc.
Return immigratnts crossing the channel to France! Impossible once they've left.
NHS.
Spend an extra £17 billion. Where is that going to come from? Eradicate waiting lists within 2 years. How is that going to happen? All the while letting private health companies claim tax relief.
Ban Transgenerd ideology in schools - that's not hard becasue it doesn't actually exist.
It's popular, and I get that, because it's wonderful if you don't need or want to think about it. If you do it's totally unworkable on every level. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 09:58 15 Nov 2024
Not necessarily. No government in British history has inherited a self made mess of this magnitude.
The only way out of it is to raise cash. Asking people for cash isn't popular. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 09:22 15 Nov 2024
We want to consume too much food that uses too many resources to produce.
It's mental that we'd happily pay £5 for what is basically water, malt, hops and barley heated up a bit and chucked in a barrel but expect to pay less than £1 for milk and all the resources needed to produce that.
There's a very good reason why most of the world doesn't use much dairy produce. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 09:16 15 Nov 2024
They were always going to be unpopular, they need to be. If they weren't they'd be doing something wrong.
Whether they serve another term or not depends on the results they get and the public understanding how long improvement will take to filter down to them. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 08:19 15 Nov 2024
Small farms don't really make money anyway. In fact I'm aware of a farm that milks a herd of many thousands of Holstein's and is significantly in debt.
That's down to what we're prepared to pay. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 08:05 15 Nov 2024
I've said before this IHT on farmers is largely closing a tax loophole. The irony being that people like Dyson and Clarkson buying farmland inflates its value, probably pulling more real farmers under the IHT threshold. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 18:27 14 Nov 2024
I'm pretty certain the cash for the NHS is ring fenced, I don't think it can even be spent on social care.
It could definitely be spent better, my wife and I should not be able to get a free prescription for things like paracetamol or anything for that matter.
The bottom line is that the NHS hasn't had enough cash for years and it'll take years to get back to where it needs to be.
I'll be honest it needs substantial reform something like the German model. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 18:19 14 Nov 2024
Farmers don't have much choice really, but we want too much. I honestly don't think we'd be prepared to pay for sustainably produced food. |
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Reply | 2 weeks for a call back from my Doc
at 14:23 14 Nov 2024
Those in power at that time have been held accountable. The country is an absolute mess and they caused it. All of it. There is nobody else to blame.
I know we've had Labour in the Senedd for years, they've largely been crap, and health is devolved but the amount we have to spend on it is controlled by Westminster.
Let's see what happens over the next five years, but I've said before the state the country is in will take many years to fix.
One thing that is crystal clear is that Reform are not the answer. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 11:46 14 Nov 2024
Water quality probably hasn't improved massively on the whole in that last 20 years, but has improved massively on the 40 years before that. It's hugely dependant on weather. I wouldn't want ot go for a swim off the coast of valencia at the moment.
Blue flags aren't the best comparison, they are as much about facilities on the beach as water quality. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 08:07 14 Nov 2024
I agree. Privatising the water companies was absolute madness. Nobody should be able to make a profit of any description from water. It's a good job oxygen can't be privatised.
I agree regarding ultaprocessed food too. But we need to stump up for some of the fault here, I think a burger from McDonalds should cost around £5 (a regular burger, not big Mac), 6 eggs a similar amont and a pint of milk should cost more than a pint of beer. Companies are putting pressure on the farmers and hitting their profits becasue we want them to. The farmers cut corners, mass produce stuff and destroy the planet.
We want things too cheap and easily available. We're basically fat and lazy. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 15:49 13 Nov 2024
More plastics (which also impact Climate change) but less sewage and generally cleaner. At least around Europe.
The illegal releases are human, but at least now they're illegal. It's not so long ago that they weren't.
The problem lies with our victorian sewage system and times of very heavy rain - it's not designed to cope with the number of people using it and periods of heavy rain. It'll cost billions to put right, arguably the biggest infrastructre project the Uk will have seen.
Ironically it's us not paying enough for food is the main source of river pollution nowadays becasue the majority comes from intensive agriculture. |
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Reply | Cop 29
at 11:34 13 Nov 2024
The sea is much cleaner now than it was 20 or more years ago. The rivers also have a lot less human shit in them, it's just been replaced by cow and chicken shit. |
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Reply | James mcclean .and the team
at 17:01 11 Nov 2024
No, I think he should respect those who pay has wages it is massive double standards on his part too. I'd expect the same of anyone, doing any job, anywhere.
He'd have a dogs life if he were a Muslim. |
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