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Ludo Friend posted:
9 month wait for a referral, denied, told to try again after waiting another 12 months, then find out that NHS clinics have waiting lists between 3 and 5 years. What alternatives are left?
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Guavanaut posted:Who the gently caress is Shahrar Ali anyway and why are they so concerned about what gender children have when they claim we're in the middle of a climate emergency more important than anything else? He's the former deputy leader of the Green Party, who decided that rallying a TERF army against the current incumbents was his path to power when the most recent leadership election rolled around. It failed miserably (he went from a close competitor for first place to finishing in a distant third), but it did secure him a place as King of the Shitheads in the party. So he doesn't represent the policy of the party as a whole, but he's the present head of their vocal minority rear end in a top hat faction.
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Mar 5, 2021 19:16
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It's sad that I can see why someone might think that's a viable strategy in the current environment. gently caress them for trying it too, but it's a sad indictment of normal island in general.
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Mar 5, 2021 19:36
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I just read that apparently BoD is now on the 'anti-semitism advisory board' of the labour party. FFS. What a joke.
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Mar 5, 2021 19:45
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I just read that apparently BoD is now on the 'anti-semitism advisory board' of the labour party. its supposed to be independent yet has dave evans on it
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Mar 5, 2021 19:48
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Oh yeah, if anyone here used to watch the secret life of machines, the author has started up a new series on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN0PBBzEHw
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Oh dear me posted:But he came last in the leadership election, and the Greens then made a GenderGP Advisor head of their women's section. There's clearly a tussle going on, but so far it looks like he's losing. Co-chair, alongside a TERF. There’s been a serious influx of this bullshit into the greens, especially from the ones we got kicked out of Labour
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Mar 5, 2021 19:50
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Kieth Starmer to Rachel Reeves is surely the optimal route in a Complete Electoral Irrelevancy Any% Speedrun, right? Replacing the default character in my Neolib Politic Human character creator with the female default to make the Blue Ticks go wild #girlboss
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LordVorbis posted:9 month wait for a referral, denied, told to try again after waiting another 12 months, then find out that NHS clinics have waiting lists between 3 and 5 years. Who denied the referral? It’s as easy as clicking two boxes on the Prism system by your GP. I’ve never had any of my referrals returned or bounced back. The waiting list is ridiculous for people who should be getting help and support now. It’s the same issue In some ways as to personality disorder services in my area. The waiting list is over a thousand people, and the wait time is three years for people who struggle with impulsivity and labile emotional states. I do not send them to someone without qualifications or expertise in this area to get help though, as it can make things worse. I know it’s not the answer you want, but I’m not defending the current system, I just think the alternative is not up to scratch either. The answer is obviously better funding and more clinical staff so we can reduce waiting times and get people what they need. Need full blown space communism to get that it feels like though. (Edit for poo poo grammar and spellings mistakes, it’s been a long day) Ludo Friend fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Pencils R Cool posted:Kieth Starmer to Rachel Reeves is surely the optimal route in a Complete Electoral Irrelevancy Any% Speedrun, right? Replacing the default character in my Neolib Politic Human character creator with the female default to make the Blue Ticks go wild #girlboss i can't imagine the membership voting for reeves. she's extremely unpopular even for the PLP and has no presence at al. THe original rumour was she got the role she has because starmer was waiting for dodds to gently caress up to give him the excuse to make the swap. Then dodds was anonymous while starmer hosed everything up instead
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Mar 5, 2021 19:57
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jessflaps will do the needful and turn labour into the SDP
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His Divine Shadow posted:Oh yeah, if anyone here used to watch the secret life of machines, the author has started up a new series on youtube. Thanks for this, great vid!
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Bobby Deluxe posted:gently caress, that's great. I've been saying for years papers should have to print their corrections in the same font size and position as the initial lie. I've definitely seen this proposed before (outside of UKMT). Wasn't it one of the recommendations from Leveson 2 or something?
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big scary monsters posted:I've definitely seen this proposed before (outside of UKMT). Wasn't it one of the recommendations from Leveson 2 or something? It's been proposed for about as long as there's been newspapers, and weirdly never seems to happen unless the court specifically orders it.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Oh yeah, if anyone here used to watch the secret life of machines, the author has started up a new series on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6yL0_sDnX0
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I think what usually happens is that if you're rich enough to be able to take a newspaper to court for libel in the first place, they'll meet you on the steps of the courthouse with a suitcase full of money. At which point most people choose the certain outcome of cash in hand rather than the uncertain outcome and astronomic cost of stepping into the courthouse. Unfortunately for the Mail on Sunday, they've finally picked a fight with someone who is wealthier than their owner.
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Mar 5, 2021 22:05
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hasn’t every phone hacking case been “settled” rather than gone to court? i still think the tabloids have technically not admitted any guilt
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Comrade Fakename posted:BTW, I hope this finally puts to bed the discussion about whether or not Glenn Greenwald is a fascist now: While that is a particularly loving stupid take 'Greenwald does dumb poo poo along with the awesome poo poo' is already baked into the pie of liking Greenwald, like we're gonna keep reading his articles your constant hateboner demanding we be evil for doing so is a bit wierd. It does kind of match that 'socialist' is being used by both the right and left to mean anything vaguely suggesting workers living standards matter. I honestly blame my own people, the succ dems, for being so useless and irrelevant that our space is functionally a meaningless vacuam anyone can just fill with phantasms and spooks. Also that video noticeably cuts off right when Glenn was obviously about to say 'but', cutting context out is scummy. Jose posted:Not sure this is a great slogan AAAAHH gently caress i hate them so much i loving hate them maybe im a loving idiot but considering that its against a corporation tax rise at a threshold that only corporations which did okay out the pandemic ie tapers to profits up to quater mil a year profit and only then kicks in with the biggest, in fact only, tax increase on these scumfuck profiteers in fifty years that will raise Very Significant sums why the gently caress would you describe this budget as an attack on nurses (average salary ~26k), teachers (27k) or police (33k) when (to my stupid brain) the only deduction they'll face is an increase on their personal income tax allowance level of a whopping 70 quid taxable so like, they're paying an extra £14? I think they'll cope and against the money raised by corporation tax increasing from 19% to 25%? it's loving bizarre to even consider it relevant much less for someone in a nominally leftwing party to use it as a loving stump line Vitamin P fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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Mar 5, 2021 22:48
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Hourly reminder at how poo poo labour are https://twitter.com/graceblakeley/status/1367881129936687104
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Mar 5, 2021 23:30
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That tweet someone posted earlier about Starker doing a Stalin is not entirely off the mark
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Mar 6, 2021 00:07
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Hey now Stalin has a track record of addressing fascism in his country (hell and famously internationally!) with determination and the seriousness it needs so he's ahead of Starmer.
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My mum has taken 10 days to tell us but told my sister this evening, the guy (son of the next door neighbour - he is over 50) who she pays to do her garden exposed his fully erect member to her when she made him a cup of tea. Then had the nerve to call round a week later to say can he still do her gardening. She told someone in an organisation she belongs to and they treated it as a safeguarding issue (she is over 80 so 'vulnerable') and reported it to the local police who phoned her this afternoon when she was away from the phone so I hope they phone back as she didn't manage to get their phone number (somewhat hard of hearing though she denies it). It could have been much worse if he'd raped her or attacked her - she lives in the countryside, there's no mobile phone signal for 3km radius, and if he cut the phone line she'd have no means of contacting anyone. It's made her feel very vulnerable (until now she's been doing the 'I survived the blitz' thing.) I've never met the guy but my sister has. "He seems like such a nice guy, friendly, interesting conversation, gentle, married". me: "it's a myth that sex offenders are gurning, bottle-glass specs, loner lech, many are 'happily married nice guys'" Thing is - my sister and I have seen her maybe 4 times in the last 10 days (she turns up unannounced) and there was NOTHING in her demeanour to suggest anything wrong but now tonight you can tell how upset she is. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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namesake posted:Hey now Stalin has a track record of addressing fascism in his country (hell and famously internationally!) with determination and the seriousness it needs so he's ahead of Starmer. yeah i mean, say what you will about stalin, at least he did... something like, anything at all kieth is trying to purge but probs won't even get that done e: oh jeez Jaeluni I'm so sorry to hear that, hope the plod will also actually do something
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Jose posted:ok so you admit you're a big torture fan And you, a person whose knee jerk reaction to a know bad faith troll calling a transwoman aggressive was to join in on attacking the trans woman without going to check to see if the comments were even warranted, are once again going to bat for a transphobe
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Thing is - my sister and I have seen her maybe 4 times in the last 10 days (she turns up unannounced) and there was NOTHING in her demeanour to suggest anything wrong but now tonight you can tell how upset she is. That doesn't seem super relevant honestly, people pretending everything is okay but then unloading how grim it was/actually expressing vulnerability all in one go once they've gotten over the big hump of Talking About It In The First Place is normal. It seems like you're already being a caregiver in an intelligent way and the odds of some idiot on this forum being able to give you useful advice is negligible, keep being kind you're doing good. Vitamin P fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Ludo Friend posted:Who denied the referral? It’s as easy as clicking two boxes on the Prism system by your GP. I’ve never had any of my referrals returned or bounced back. The waiting list is ridiculous for people who should be getting help and support now.
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Vitamin P posted:That doesn't seem super relevant honestly, people pretending everything is okay but then unloading how grim it was/actually expressing vulnerability all in one go once they've gotten over the big hump of Talking About It In The First Place is normal. Thanks. I wasn't really looking for advice, just felt the need to 'say' but can't do it on facebook because of lack of anonymity!
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In my case it took two referrals from two different GP practices to even get the Leeds GIDS clinic to recognise that I had been referred and even then only just received confirmation that it has been accepted. I had the first appointment where I told a doctor I was Trans the beginning of February last year, it took until August for me to get concerned that I had heard nothing and phone them up finding out they had no record of the referral, end of August beginning of September I got re-referred teh letter I received yesterday was dated the 4th of November. The GIDS clinics do not need more money and more professionals teh entire system is emblematic of the institutional transphobia in the NHS and is 100% pure gatekeeping with no actual concern for patient welfare and not fit for purpose. This is aside from NHS England forcing me to be misgendered on every GP record because they can't have no title and they can't use Ms. while the record is still male.
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peanut- posted:We are through the clapping looking glass. Politics in Britain is now a war of themed claps. I would prefer to go on strike. If there is one thing the whole Covid thing has taught nurses- It is how to provide only emergency and urgent cancer services to the public. Nurses have been training for this strike for a year. The strike will not happen before the formal pay rise has been confirmed- May at the earliest. Then there is the two week strike ballot. So a nurses strike when lock down ends will gently caress the government up. Dogatron fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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LordVorbis posted:9 month wait for a referral, denied, told to try again after waiting another 12 months, then find out that NHS clinics have waiting lists between 3 and 5 years. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laurieoconnel/lichcraft-an-rpg-about-trans-necromancers
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Thanks. I'm gonna be honest I'm astounded at the audacity of this bastard pulling that move and then coming around later being like "I can still do the gardening" as if they hadn't just done A Bad Crime That's Horrible. Some people are loving terrible. Many of them are cis men.
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Tesseraction posted:I'm gonna be honest I'm astounded at the audacity of this bastard pulling that move and then coming around later being like "I can still do the gardening" as if they hadn't just done A Bad Crime That's Horrible. A lot of people are loving terrible but a lot more cis men are not.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I just read that apparently BoD is now on the 'anti-semitism advisory board' of the labour party. BoD? He was a terrific centre but I didn’t know he knew much about antisemitism. I guess appearances can be deceptive. (Brian O’Driscoll. Top former rugby player, known as BoD).
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therattle posted:BoD? I thought you were referring to Odd BoD out of Carry on Screaming.
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Dogatron posted:A lot of people are loving terrible but a lot more cis men are not. An honest-to-god Not All Men is maybe not the sentiment to go for in this context.
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MikeCrotch posted:Also the Lib Dems are loving proven losers, if you can brownnose your way up the Labour ranks you're much more likely to be able to get a safe seat I read an interesting article about the lib dems being second in a lot of constituencies and how Labour will need to work together with them to get rid of the tories. Prospect posted:Labour now needs a swing of 1997 landslide proportions simply to become the largest party. To gain a majority of one it needs to add 123 MPs, which would mean increasing its parliamentary representation by 60 per cent—something that no major party has ever done in the post-war era. It must deliver these results in a context in which it has only one MP in Scotland, and any fight back there must start from third place, behind both the SNP and the Conservatives. Worse, Labour has to put a lot of energy into defence: 58 of its current seats being vulnerable to a small swing to the Tories. A Labour majority next time, then, may not be impossible but nor is it even remotely likely.
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Dogatron posted:A lot of people are loving terrible but a lot more cis men are not. I was originally going to say "men are terrible" but chose to be more nuanced. Which of my caveats pissed you off?
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