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Don’t get me wrong, insurance based systems aren’t perfect but we’re already in a two-tier system. If you can afford PHI, you get to skip the waiting lists. It’s wrong and people and the workers in the NHS deserve better. Exactly, and if a nation chooses to fund its healthcare via taxation, as...

There’s a few conclusions to draw, namely that the French system is better able to allocate funds because the budget isn’t centralised. The idea of ring fencing certain taxes seems like tinkering around the edges - ‘sin taxes’ doesn’t drive that much tax revenue. It’s worth noting that their...

You should, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The service we’re getting is one of the worst in developed world - with only the US faring worst. You’re making the mistake of equating SHI systems with full privatisation when it’s the same. Universal and equal access to healthcare can be achieved using insurance based models. This provides...

I’ve not said anywhere that the public sector never works. The statement was that the private sector is more efficient than the public sector. Which is uncontroversial and backed up by data Are you getting a better service from public services? That’s the point here because right now, our...

I’ve never said anywhere the public sector can never work. You can’t just do away with it. Saying the private sector is more efficient isn’t a radical thing to say. When you measure productivity/output the private sector is ahead of the public sector. One statistic to give you an idea is that...

Most clubs, including our own, are using stats to guide our recruitment policy. Do you reckon one our scouts fancied a game of footy in Turkey whilst on their trip for a hair transplant and stumbled across Haji Wright?

Now compare that to your wife’s Hen do! They are much more civilised than us brutes! That’s like a blast, perhaps you could plan one day! 😂

I’m not the first first to be in the @shmmeee firing line this week. I’m sure he’s a decent person in the real world, well meaning. Quick to make assumptions though.

Are you calling me far right? 😂 For god’s sake you need to learn what far right actually is. Spoiler: it’s not a term to weaponise when someone disagrees with you. The way you’re making far too many assumptions about people you don’t know or their background is a sign of ignorance. I’ve said...

Some of us grow up 😂

Exactly. Karl Marx also had some views on race that would give David Duke a run for his money. Even by the standards of the time. Unfortunately, I used to proudly own a Che Guevara T-shirt and proudly posed with it on stood next to a Karl Marx statue in Berlin years ago. We all make mistakes...

Do you think Republican/Trump supporters will view things that way? They roughly make up half of the electorate.

With impunity… I’m sure you’d take a different view if this happened to the Democrat presumptive presidential nominee under a Republican administration. Trump joked that he’d send Clinton to jail before the 2016 election, he didn’t try to prosecute the Clintons. The cat is out the bag and...

Exactly - it’s not a good either way. I don’t think they should’ve went after Trump, especially in an election year and likewise with Hunter Biden. Both sides of the political spectrum have accused the other of ‘stealing’ the elections in 2016 and 2020. It undermines and polarises the...

I disagree and the one area of politics that’s genuinely interesting to me is election, how they’re fought and so on. Disunited political parties rarely win general elections in Europe and in the USA. This could be an issue that blows over in a week but as the policies start to be announced and...

Ok, we’ll see how this plays out in the election… 😊 No need for quite a nasty response tbh. Do you go round telling people they’ve OD’d on drugs in person or only when you’re behind your smartphone or keyboard?

Exactly and the party then wasn’t fit for office. Factional infighting is not befitting of a government. The Tories are infighting because they’ve been in government for so long and not achieved a whole lot. Labour really ought to bury all hatchets and get the election over and done. One week...

No, they’ll react by vindictively trying to prosecute Democrats whenever and wherever they get the chance. Put aside any personal feelings towards Trump and this is a truly worrying precedent to set. A can of worms has been opened. The political environment is far more polarised in the USA and...

Back to the UK election now, I just find it miraculous that Labour is deciding to have petty ‘civil war’ over Diane Abbott at the start of a general election campaign. Rayner (and others) undermining Starmer is ridiculous. You’re on the cusp of forming the next government if you don’t fuck it...