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[Charlie Sweet]

Deflect, deflect, deflect.

The Tory mantra.

LOOK OVER THERE, ITS A BOAT../././..///././.../

This is it for me and it drives me absolutely crazy. Swerve the dog whistle headlines from the right wing media and is there any regular man or woman that actually gives a hoot about these boats?!?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

HOW DID LABOUR LET THIS HAPPEN...

It is all Calvert Lewins fault.

 

[Rita_Poon]

You could have posted this same message back in 2010. Just switch Labour for Tory, and vice versa= same message. Did you show patience back then?

Too many rose-tinted spectacle wearers on here.

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"It's a very uncomfortable thing for me to say but I can't ignore the economic and fiscal context, because in the end the country only has the money that it has."

On the compensation for the infected blood victims.

Jeremy Hunt: 'No decisions' made on level of compensation for infected blood scandal victims

The chancellor tells the official Infected Blood Inquiry no decisions had been made on the amount of compensation that could be paid out to victims - a position campaigners say has left them "disheartened beyond words".

news.sky.com

Priorities I suppose.

 

[Ming the merciless]

"It's a very uncomfortable thing for me to say but I can't ignore the economic and fiscal context, because in the end the country only has the money that it has."

On the compensation for the infected blood victims.

Jeremy Hunt: 'No decisions' made on level of compensation for infected blood scandal victims

The chancellor tells the official Infected Blood Inquiry no decisions had been made on the amount of compensation that could be paid out to victims - a position campaigners say has left them "disheartened beyond words".

news.sky.com

Priorities I suppose.

Just leave it, they’ll all be dead sooner or later and it won’t cost us penny.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Just leave it, they’ll all be dead sooner or later and it won’t cost us penny.

Hooray for all us well folks, especially those that got in on the contracts forcibly extracting blood and platelets and the rest from US prisoners. Almost like being paid twice, and you know the chorus by now... I'm alright Jack!

 

[Aberblue]

It's a fact that the previous Labour governments are fricking useless at spending other peoples money...

Unlike the present government?

 

[summerisle]

It's a fact that the previous Labour governments are fricking useless at spending other peoples money...

One, just ONE example of this fricking government being useless at spending other people's money.

UK government wasted nearly £10bn on unused Covid PPE, figures show

Accounts reveal £9.9bn of the £13.6bn spent on PPE during pandemic has been written off

www.theguardian.com

 

[mahermi1]

One, just ONE example of this fricking government being useless at spending other people's money.

UK government wasted nearly £10bn on unused Covid PPE, figures show

Accounts reveal £9.9bn of the £13.6bn spent on PPE during pandemic has been written off

www.theguardian.com

Selective memory ...again, Mr White they think its all over..it is now.

 

[Number_25]

It's mad how bad this thread has gotten. I wish I could close it down, it's just the same couple people arguing over and over.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It's mad how bad this thread has gotten. I wish I could close it down, it's just the same couple people arguing over and over.

Yeah, it's about three topics too broadly:

- they're not the Tories who are dreadful
- they're not left-wing enough and they're betraying their values/membership/the people
- they'll be worse than the Tories / have done bad things previously (Pete and Whitey)

We need an election to get rid of this torpor. Might give a bit more to discuss.

 

[orchard]

It's mad how bad this thread has gotten. I wish I could close it down, it's just the same couple people arguing over and over.

Blame the thread not the party. Amarite?

 

[tsubaki]

Anyway, here is some criticism of the current Labour Party that I am sure we can all unite and get behind. Take it away, Wes Streeting:

“Middle-class lefties” will not stop a Labour government from using private hospitals to tackle the NHS’s huge care backlog, the party’s shadow health secretary has pledged.

Wes Streeting rejected the idea that paying private health providers to treat patients amounted to a “betrayal” of the NHS and insisted that quicker treatment was more important than ideology.

He used an opinion column in the S*n on Monday to make clear that a Labour government would continue the Conservatives’ policy of using health service funds to pay private hospitals to treat as many of the millions waiting for NHS care as possible.

Setting out his party’s plans to revive the NHS, he said: “We will also use spare capacity in the private sector to cut the waiting lists.

“Middle-class lefties cry ‘betrayal’. The real betrayal is the two-tier system that sees people like them treated faster – while working families like mine are left waiting for longer.”

 

[Rita_Poon]

Anyway, here is some criticism of the current Labour Party that I am sure we can all unite and get behind. Take it away, Wes Streeting:

Interesting final line, quite the fight to pick.

 

[orchard]

Anyway, here is some criticism of the current Labour Party that I am sure we can all unite and get behind. Take it away, Wes Streeting:

"Our online donations lowed significantly towards the end of March and to be honest, it doesn't look like they're picking back up."

Sure am surprised.

 

[orchard]

Interesting final line, quite the fight to pick.

Kulture Wars. ARE YOU READY???

Probably a distraction from strengthening corporate health at the expense of the NHS and pulling medics away from there...