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Jan 8, 2023 14:20
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even for Jessflaps “the sex trafficker should have put a woman in charge” is spectacularly dumb
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When I said 'end outsourcing in the NHS' I didn't mean end ALL outsourcing on the NHS!!!
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When I said I'd stop kicking you I only meant in the shin, gonna keep kicking you in the head and stomach though, we've always been doing that
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Jan 8, 2023 14:59
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As soon as Wes Streeting (which my phone keeps wanting to autocorrect to 'West Street Ingredients', by the way...) came out with his plan to use the private sector temporarily to fix the backlog and shortfalls in the NHS, I've assumed that a Starmer-led Labour government would be the one to oversee the end of the NHS in any recognisable form. They're all too steeped in neoliberalism, too terrified of the press, too devoted to pandering to the 50-year-old-man-with-a-mortgage and too in hock with various private healthcare lobbying groups to do otherwise. They're going to pitch it as some sort of Nixon In China moment - "Labour created the NHS and you can trust us to reform it so it is fit for the next 80 years" - and loads of guff about pragmatism, helping people now in any way they can, and how only their partners in the private sector can provide the investment that the NHS needs after years of Tory mismanagement. Even if they genuinely believe that they can get the private sector in temporarily to help (which I doubt) it's another example of them being really politically stupid because they're making a noose for their own neck - if they ever did try to end those temporary deals they'll get monstered for removing capacity and reckless spending. But it won't come to that - it'll be Your NHS: provided by Serco in partnership with Kaiser Permanente all the way. Probably some sort of mandatory insurance scheme paid via employers (so healthcare is now tied to your job), some sort of tiered 'NHS Essentials' for those not in work and loads of little £10-20 charges for appointments, prescriptions, on-going care, health issued deemed to be 'self-inflicted' (obesity, alcoholism, working class sports injuries etc.) which can be claimed back via some byzantine means-testing system on the .gov website. They'll never go as far as to actually privatise or fully de-socialise it - the outsourced model is too lucrative and low-risk a way to syphon money from the state to private coffers. It'll be just like the railways, the water supply, the energy sector or any of the other public services that have been neo-liberalised; the NHS brand will remain, and it will still mostly be 'free [or virtually free] at point of delivery' but there'll be a new, exciting, dynamic, modernising, profit-extracting layer in the middle - reducing service, making profit and leaving the Treasury to pick up the tab for more than it would have cost to do it 'properly'. The Tories have brought the NHS as a socialised single-payer system to the brink of destruction. NuNuLab are going to push it over the edge and ask that they get praised for doing so because it was a Tough Decision. Centrist loving love Tough Decisions because it makes them seem neutral and pragmatic and Labour administering the coup de grace to the NHS is the Toughest Decision there is.
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For all the talk of "the Tories are scared of Labour now that Starmer is in charge", it's probably the best result for the Tories. The only thing that could stop Labour winning the next GE is someone coming up with a brilliant series of policies that makes a meaningful positive difference to people's lives, and there's 1) no-one in the Tory party talented enough to do that; and 2) no-one in the Tory party interested in doing that. So Labour win the next GE and Starmer is going to be poo poo. Possibly not as poo poo as the Tories, but anyone who votes Labour at the next GE hoping that they'll be an improvement over the Tories is going to abandon Starmer at the following GE. Which should mean that the Tories get back on the gravy train at the first opportunity. And Labour get dumpstered again and nothing changes. /\ /\ /\ There's actually a trend within NHS trusts at the moment towards bringing services back in-house, because they're cheaper to run and easier to performance-manage. Compared to having to go through 17 layers of bureaucracy to request someone puts a shelf up and then getting charged £700 for the job, which means getting the budget holder to sign off on it; you just make the request and someone comes out and just, y'know, does their job. kingturnip fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 8, 2023 |
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1612029092664152065?s=20 there's no way that a government that's in any way left wing can possibly come to power so she can indulge herself
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BalloonFish posted:But it won't come to that - it'll be Your NHS: provided by Serco in partnership with Kaiser Permanente all the way. Probably some sort of mandatory insurance scheme paid via employers (so healthcare is now tied to your job), some sort of tiered 'NHS Essentials' for those not in work and loads of little £10-20 charges for appointments, prescriptions, on-going care, health issued deemed to be 'self-inflicted' (obesity, alcoholism, working class sports injuries etc.) which can be claimed back via some byzantine means-testing system on the .gov website. The pandemic has already helped push along tying healthcare to your job. Various big firms (banks etc) set up relationships with private healthcare companies that offer 24x7 virtual GP services during the pandemic "to support their staff" and began offering it as a free or paid perk of employment, so the government just needs to keep running down the health services and by default you'll need to work for a large corporate that has one of those tie-ups in order to get prompt GP level healthcare or prescriptions. But it also handily funnels you nicely into the wider world of private healthcare as well for all the things that aren't covered by your corporate perks, but they'll point you towards if you ask.
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Jan 8, 2023 15:52
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a sense of career progression not involving getting paid is what the loving girl guides are for
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A year since this classic tweet… https://twitter.com/JacobKishnevi/status/1479552058399367177
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Even as books for children go though she isn't very good.
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Gotta love how her attempts to make Harry go through the throes of puberty was to just hit caps lock all the time in Order of the Penis.
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The expenses scandal wasn't that long ago was it? Have people just forgotten?
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stev posted:The expenses scandal wasn't that long ago was it? Have people just forgotten? consequences for utterly taking the piss have only recently started applying to anyone in the conservative party, and only in a few limited high-profile cases
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you can't fool me. these are AI generated images e: goddamnit
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Thispersonshouldnotexist.com
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"Computer, give me Freddie Flintoff and Ricky Gervais as a toff, shouldn't be too hard."
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Disco Elysium 2 art looks terrifying for reference, this is what proper conservative politicians should look like    
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happyhippy posted:If you think about it, we only eat the female chickens. Afaik, yes. Though coq au vin is a thing (and designed to deal with tougher meat that needs longer cooking - the chickens we eat these days tend to be a lot younger than in pre-industrial/battery-farming times).
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Nenonen posted:Disco Elysium 2 art looks terrifying what the gently caress is wrong with the faces of the two on the left and the right guy looks like he just heard the verdict in divorce court
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Tesseraction posted:what the gently caress is wrong with the faces of the two on the left Finns swim in the shallow end of gene pool
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Guy on the right is clearly an evil chuckle brother.
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OwlFancier posted:Guy on the right is clearly an evil chuckle brother. A reminder that their two older brothers often played the bad guys in the Chuckle Brothers' shows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton_Brothers
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Nenonen posted:Finns swim in the shallow end of gene pool lol racism. That amount of phenotypical variation suggests the very opposite in fact. Only see folks that look like you in your environment? Congrats, you are in a genetic cul-de-sac!
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OwlFancier posted:Guy on the right is clearly an evil chuckle brother.
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Guavanaut posted:Suomi, to you.
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Honestly all of them look like normal brits to me. E: except tapani mäki who looks like a character from gta vice city.
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It's really sad that MPs aren't paid enough and are forced to take extra jobs https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1612026906479673348 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1612026912095838208
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for some reason, i noticed today in the store that the ad for the newest yellow mag here in Finland had "PRINCE HARRY KILLED 25 PEOPLE AND THOUGHT OF THEM AS 'PAWNS' " as one of its headlines. i suspect some form of british royal brain virus has infected the owners of our yellow mags
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EmptyVessel posted:lol racism. That amount of phenotypical variation suggests the very opposite in fact. Nenonen is a Finn as well. self-loathing and despising our fellow Finns is a part of the Finnish character.
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