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I'm one of the people whose job is at risk. They're not really saving anything on staff necessarily - as the work still needs to be done. It'll just be done at a hitherto yet unnamed new organisation - that could be anywhere in the country. It's really more of a move to bring the NHS back under the control of the government as opposed to power being deferred to the regions, than to save money. Whether my job is a waste of time or not, I'll let other people to decide. I work my arse off every day for patients so I don't feel like it is. But I had 11 in my team when I joined my current organisation. I've now got 4. And they want to make us 2.5 or 2. A couple of years ago - we were the best in the country at what we did. Because we had the resource. Now we're not, because we don't. And in a few months time - we will probably deteriorate a further in terms of outcomes. The best costs money unfortunately. So it depends if you want the best or if you are happy with just good enough I suppose. And sacking managers is politically more palatable. Even though the majority of NHS managers became managers because they excelled in their clinical roles and had transferable skills. We don't have an equality tsar or anything along those lines that you hear about. Our roles are all about commissioning services (with no money) and keeping things running (with no money) primarily. God knows what will happen with fewer of us - but it remains to be seen I suppose. Incidentally - I wrote a letter of complaint to Wes Streeting outlining my concerns. Especially once I realised their had been no risk assessment which seems absolutely crazy to me. I got a very polite but ultimately meaningless letter back from one of the underlings in his office. Plenty of platitudes though - which I will add to the COVID doorstep claps I received and put on my mantelpiece if I do get the chop! 😁

CMG was disgraceful when he came on at Blackpool. I was undecided previously and largely agreed with what you say above. However, he lost me that day and, for me, he is another who can just leave asap.

"Tony Hayers (deceased)........ Would you like me to lap dance for you?....I wanna second series..."

The fact a derailment has made 2.5 hours late is irrelevant; this is always the correct response

I hope that @royal white has his on order 😉

What a moron

It's just fucking awful isn't it. The cost of the food is utterly ridiculous, and isn't as good as some of the "street food" you can find in other parts of London. Absolutely full of hipsters, who are happy to pay nigh on £10 for a pint of shit beer as well. Mrs Sweep always wants to go there, we go, last about 10 minutes, decide it's shit and go elsewhere.......every single time I recall going in a pub near Borough Market once, with @tomski, and to be fair, we were pissed, but we got chatting to some hipsters in the beer garden, and one of them was wearing, what he called a "summer scarf" as some sort of fashion accessory. Hipster Cunt

Like I say, you’ve gone on record as not being a fan of criticism without alternative. You’ve yet to offer one.

Hopefully he will have the sense to realise a far left party would hand keys to No 10 to Farage.

Hya Si, not been on here for a while so glad to see you are making a good recovery. I've been through the wars myself and also on clopidogrel amongst other drugs for the rest of my life. The cause of my downfall was ale but been off it now for nearly two years after I was diagnosed with liver disease. Must admit I've never felt better, my weight loss was alarming and was being sick all the time but have made a full recovery so it can be done. Hope our paths cross again in the near future, you never know, I might see you on the Glasgow bound train again.

I watched ten minutes of 1975 and they sounded a bit like INXS doing nursery rhymes. Im watching Maribou State who are flawless and brilliant.

Not really my thing tbh, but Stromzy absolutely smashed it out of the park when he headlined

So essentially what you are saying is that you don't have a Scooby, but this might support either one or the other or both of the pre conceived ideas you have about a) the NHS and b) the government. Absolute textbook example of confirmation bias.

Forget the music, Jo Brand and Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown! When we really were diverse. 😅

Remarkable performance considering the circumstances Fair play fella

Fantastic effort that

I came away from that Brum game thinking 'fuck me, he's actually got something and he's worth giving a good go' but that was for him, like a fair few others, an out-of-character positive spike in an otherwise very flat graph

Did we only break 16k last year during the half season ticket window last Xmas? Dunno / doesn’t matter. Great backing for SS. https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/202526-season-tickets-16000-are

Anyone with an ounce of common sense will know it’s not months 😉

Does he mention in the article if they've been put back months, years or decades?

It's about how strong you are and prepared to get hurt as much as a height thing (though that in theory comes into play on set pieces, unless you're McAtee and hate heading it). Spearing was a strong player for us of no great height, Collins was 6'3 or thereabouts and a wet fart. A midfield of Simons, Thomason and Morley ought to be able to handle itself

I was going to suggest it was you, but I thought that'd be too obvious 😁 Anyway, as I understand it, @tomskialways wears a summer scarf these days

Don't remember meeting you there.

Spoken like a scouser.

I can not believe the amount of sh1t i've heard in the last month, from people demanding we play 442 to rubbish like that.

Damn wifi on this train

Agree with that. As I say, I don’t think anyone expected an easy start for them. So they were always going to make mistakes and they have been left a total clusterfuck to deal with. theyre learning, but they’re also not just power obsessed, ego driven bellends, so they deserve the time they have. The messaging is poor, but that can be sorted. Starmer is a dour, workmanlike type that wil never get the juices flowing, but I prefer my PM’s to just work.

If they had focussed on that it would be great. But they have said ‘here is an easy to identify segment, that saves us £5bn which balances the books.’ When you look at the wider things in the bill there is lots of good stuff in there but that is longer term. This was ‘only’ saving £5bn whereas we have found £18bn to help out Ukraine. It is surprising how little of the debate around benefits avoids the words ‘fraudulent cunts’ in certain communities this is rife. I do not mean ‘darkies’ , it is ‘Benefit Street’ types. I genuinely think this Govt is miles ahead of the Tories, but they just seem clumsy in terms of managing the delivery and the messaging is awful.

Tutu and Schon aren't and have never been good enough to be starting wingers in a promotion chasing team. I think you can get a tune out of McAtee and Randall (and if you can't Sheehan/Dempsey can play there). CMG will be a better player this season than last, coming back mid-season after a bad injury. His record suggests there's a player there so I'm glad he's getting another chance. But we absolutely need another striker and a winger with a credible history of scoring goals. Otherwise we're asking a bunch of lads past their mid-20s to suddenly gel and have career-best seasons.

Fergal Harkin mentioned yesterday at the fixture release event at the stadium that we will be bringing in 3 or 4 more new faces, and he seemed quite certain of it.

The fixture list is nowadays like a rough guide to as and when you may play games.

Evatt claims he made the decision of course. For clarity, this is info I was told… face to face … by someone who attends board meetings. And after the half time swearing at fans incident, joined Nick L in telling Sharon it couldn’t carry on.

You might be getting old.

Training in Spain is the week after next. Time yet to bring players in before that .

Labour backbenchers. They tasted blood with the winter heating allowance backflip and they'll be up him for the rent on anything he tries to do now. Essentially, we will be back to the unions running the country through their puppets on the back benches.

What a fantastic Idea.

I’m available for any freebies and I won’t be breaking my company rules as I make them and I don’t really like cricket so won’t bore you with cricket talk.

We have to play each team twice, might be better playing stronger on paper teams early before they gel.

About time we jazzed it up. Anybody moaning then have a look at pne new white top.

Of course, but that's the Don to a T. Pinch of salt, and a smile. From what I understand they did hit ventilation shafts as part of it. In terms of actual evidence, it's going to need eye witness testimony to assess fully, as satellite imagery isn't going to show anything through a hillside. Latest calls today- from CIA to mon iirc- is that there is no evidence that the uranium was removed from the site, so maybe there are folk on the ground that can carry out necessary observations. That notwithstanding, it is somewhat bizarre that a strike that the western world is behind has been pilloried to a degree, which seems to be purely because Trump authorised it. We all know what a bell he can be, but it's reasonable to take events on their own merits. Whatever level of damage there actually is, it is going to put back their efforts, and put more financial pressure on Iran, and it is already reeling from sanctions, and now loss of much of it's offensive and defensive missile infrastructure.

That headline also suggests he's a "Celtic reject" and an offer has been rejected

Are you aware this is a Bolton Wanderers forum? Who the fuck is Arne?

got the following lined up on my calendar to try and watch live Friday Supergrass (cracking way to start the day) Shed 7 Ash En Vogue Alanis Morrisette Busta Rhymes Terrorvision Saturday Weezer Nova Twins Pulp (assuming this is who Patchwork is) Hard Fi Sunday Libertines Brian Jonestown Massacre Prodigy Alamabama 3

What an absolute fucking fanny. Seriously - I don't know how you can be impressed by someone like this? He's so brittle that he can't even stand up to some medium scrutiny. The job of the press is a bit like the job of the opposition (in a healthy functioning democracy of course). And twatty bollocks should have the intellectual rigour and courage in his own convictions to be able to counter those very reasonable questions. It isn't the job of the press to cheerlead from the sidelines unless you have a state media. Which is probably where DT and PH would like to end up. This is very weak leadership for me. And the more you try and demand that everybody agrees with you, the more it looks like you're attempting to silence questions and/or cover things up. It's not WWF wrestling.

According to the Daily Mail, there's a "Killer Heatwave" on the way, with temperatures expected to hit 34C Killer heatwave on the way: Britain gets ready for 34C blowtorch temperatures as Government issues amber heat warning with hottest day of year ahead | Daily Mail Online 34C - blowtorch temperatures 😁

These tinpot teams have had our number for far too long now. We used to play teams like Arsenal and have no fear not too long ago and now we are terrified of the prospect of Stockport County aware in a 10,000 capacity stadium. It's time for this club to stand back up again instead of feeling sorry for ourselves! Announce kit and signings now.

Good a place as any

Pretty sure the other 4 days were almost if not totally sold out so over 80,000 over 5 days. 3 of which were work days. Live on tv as well (SKY)