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I don’t think we’ve got it that wrong as the system is. The issue is a lack of investment in everything else from housing to education to the NHS. We have a lost decade under Tory rule regardless of Covid. They’ve failed and by every single measure. Which is why they use immigration as a...

The population growing is irrelevant. It can’t even maintain a stagnant population and that’s the real issue.

Heard something on the radio the other day that the NHS needs a 5% budget increase year on year just to maintain it’s budget in real terms. It’s apparently averaged 1% a year since the Tories came into power.

Of course I do. I’m just willing to look at the full picture so I can form a balanced opinion. Such as you can’t acknowledge that immigration adds to patient numbers without also acknowledging that immigrants pay tax which contributes to the NHS budget and 16.5% of NHS staff are themselves...

There is limits on immigration. You’re getting angry over fantasy.

If you’re having to invent ridiculous scenarios to make your argument you really don’t have an argument.

Who said open the borders? You’re adding your own context. Like I said, there is an adult conversation to be had about immigration and effects on the NHS. You clearly don’t want to have it though.

Like a pound shop Thanos 🤣

16.5% of NHS staff are immigrants. Similar in the care industry too. Immigrants bring more than tax pounds. They’re helping fill voids in NHS staffing requirement. You should at least be acknowledging that if you want an adult conversation about immigration.

You also have to consider a good number of doctors and nurses in the UK are immigrants. Isn’t there a scheme at the moment that nurses can come here, work 12 months in the care system (another sector heavily dependent on immigration for workers) to get their nursing qualifications recognised in...

Couple of old stories being rehashed about how the Tories “saved” money for the NHS during Hunts time as health minister. Namely he announced a shitload of redundancies aimed at reducing the wage bill although the measures cost £1.9B in redundancies, he then employed an army of agency staff to...

I’ve got a mate called Mike Sampson. He sells kitchens for a living but he can’t actually cook. A cookbook would be wasted on him. #accidentalpartridge

Apparently the government hasn’t met its own targets for employing maths teachers for a decade. Which begs the question, if we already can’t recruit enough maths teachers where are the extra teachers coming from to teach another 2 years worth of maths students?

Read something the other week that on average European countries are paying 45% more for electricity than prior to the war in Ukraine and everything that’s gone with that. Italy was the highest at around 75%, France was the lowest at around 5%. We’re apparently around 250%. Based on that other...

Trouble is the price cap isn’t fit for purpose as it’s based on the most expensive form of generation (gas) not the cheapest (renewables) so it isn’t going to bring down energy prices anytime soon. Makes you wonder why people are so anti renewables and pro fossil fuel though. There literally...

In other news. A disaster response company to deal with brexit benefits at a cost to the taxpayers of £200K a year. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/04/disaster-response-charity-enlisted-to-aid-drivers-stuck-in-uk-queues-for-channel?CMP=share_btn_tw

They could always scrap it and issue another windfall tax on the companies profiteering from it instead.

Funny how we never see the benefits of that when the prices are going up. It’s almost as if the market is loaded against the consumer.

True. Islam recognises Jesus as a prophet.

Known and approved already by the EFL. They already know and understand our ownership structure, it’s not something that they’ve had to understand in relationship to the takeover. Gillingham also wasn’t a 100% takeover, their previous owner is still a minority shareholder so that’s no different...