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5 hours ago, gonzo said:

It's always been the problem.

It's the way it's managed and ran, not the amount spent on it.

It's a bottomless pit.

The whole system just hemorrhages money from top to bottom. 

According to Wes Streeting, they’re pausing the building of new hospitals so that money (10 billion) can be spent on overseas climate change which will then prevent people being washed up on our shores. 
 

 

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14 hours ago, royal white said:

According to Wes Streeting, they’re pausing the building of new hospitals so that money (10 billion) can be spent on overseas climate change which will then prevent people being washed up on our shores. 
 

 

That isn’t the story though is it? The issue is that money for some hospital building projects was going to run out in March due to poor planning by the last government. It is sensible to pause and review those projects so that we don’t end up with half built hospitals. The stuff about overseas funding is just a journalist throwing in a petty attack on an irrelevant subject. Desperate stuff.

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31 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

That isn’t the story though is it? The issue is that money for some hospital building projects was going to run out in March due to poor planning by the last government. It is sensible to pause and review those projects so that we don’t end up with half built hospitals. The stuff about overseas funding is just a journalist throwing in a petty attack on an irrelevant subject. Desperate stuff.

I’m just repeating what the Labour MP said. 

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8 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Money was going to run out eh?

Well then, don't go giving ridiculous wage rises to all sorts of people, if they're not affordable. 

Each government picks its spending and gets judged on it.

 

Paying doctors and nurses what they should be paid is not ridiculous. That will help keep them in the NHS. What is ridiculous is spending £700 million on a policy that achieved nothing and having to incinerate £1.5 billion worth of good PPE because the government procurement was corrupt under the Tories. 

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4 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

Paying doctors and nurses what they should be paid is not ridiculous. That will help keep them in the NHS. What is ridiculous is spending £700 million on a policy that achieved nothing and having to incinerate £1.5 billion worth of good PPE because the government procurement was corrupt under the Tories. 

It’s a shame they won’t have hospitals to work in 😉

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28 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Money was going to run out eh?

Well then, don't go giving ridiculous wage rises to all sorts of people, if they're not affordable. 

Each government picks its spending and gets judged on it.

 

indeed, and they'll always get criticized for it as well, no matter who it is and what they've spent it on.

For what it's worth, if I was the Labour Party, then I'd be hammering the taxes now to claw back some money - they're at the start of a 5 year term, so they may as well do all the hard yards now in the first couple of years, and then go on the charm offensive for the final 3 years or so. The majority of the voting public are absolutely thick as fuck, and won't even remember what's happening today in 5 years time. As a sitting Government, you can do what you want in the first two years, as long as you're pointing in the right direction and being seen to help people in the final 2 or 3 years

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4 hours ago, Ani said:

So let the strikes continue that were costing more than the settlement ? 
 

 

You think they are going to stop? :rolleyes2:

Do you think there's any chance that other unions might think "Well if they are getting that much! We have them where we want them so lets go for it"? I have seen this all before under the reds and on more than one occasion. I predicted Q1 next year when the shit would hit the fan. I may have been giving them too long a honeymoon.

I wonder if yet another Labour inspired Winter Of Discontent is on the cards. I wouldn't bet against it.

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5 hours ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

It's the opposite way round. 

You can build as many new buildings as you like but if you can't staff them it's a waste of time. 

like the 'nightingales'

thank fuck we never needed them cos y'know what, theres a staff shortage

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1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

First, not so.

 

how do you put a value on a nation of cripples who cant get treatment and actually contribute cos the medics are on strike, hence increased waiting lists

not my words remember, but your corrupt mates

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3 hours ago, Casino said:

like the 'nightingales'

thank fuck we never needed them cos y'know what, theres a staff shortage

The Tories would have proposed a round of applause once a week rather than paying them properly and hoped that was enough.

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1 hour ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

The new Government seemingly not keen on scrutiny either

 

I agree but to conflate the two is disingenuous imo.

I do however expect the new government to behave much better than the last one. They have allowed themselves to be criticised here and quite fairly too.

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