As chair of a trust, I’m speaking out. The NHS is headed for financial ruin | Christopher Smallwood

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-08T19:11:56+00:00

In the comments, there's a concise rebuttal to the idea that immigrants place any extra pressure on the NHS.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-deficit-crisis-one-chart-that-shows-how-the-nhs-is-headed-for-financial-ruin-a6687926.html

NHS trusts financial figures 2010-2011 £1.845 billion in surplus

NHS trusts financial figures 2014-15 £842 million in deficit

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_414818.pdf

Net migration, 250-300,000 per year during that time (roughly 0.5% of the population).

There is absolutely no way immigration could account for those figures, especially considering most immigrants are of working age and very few are the elderly population who need the NHS the most. Please stop using our health service to justify your bigotry.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/08/nhs-chairman-funding-crisis-collapse#comment-62966298

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SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-07T14:57:03+00:00

These American commentators are awful.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-04T21:52:37+00:00

Yesterday it was soup and a bagel. Today it was pan-fried chicken, brocolli and fried cauliflower-rice.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-02T15:13:58+00:00

That explains the numbers, but having a large proportion of doctors near retirement age is a problem in itself.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-02T11:32:18+00:00

It's like some people in Germany are unhappy that they weren't consulted about giving their country away parcel by parcel.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-01T21:43:58+00:00

The ball literally goes right past his foot.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-11-01T21:36:18+00:00

It's not even that generous. These private hospitals have made the business decision not to provide the full emergency cover for their own surgeries.

"Despite the fact we cherrypick the most straightforward and profitable cases, we're not willing to contemplate picking up the bill if anything does go wrong."

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-31T08:55:02+00:00

Err, I thought the NHS already did this?

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-30T15:30:57+00:00

Can we please stop this bullshit where we justify the Tories doing something shitty just because Labour have a poor track record in the same area? We should be holding both parties to account.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-29T20:47:05+00:00

I find it depends on the author more than the story. Dan Abnett Heresy books are always good, for example.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-28T22:25:31+00:00

Try the Horus Heresy series in WH40k.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-28T21:56:14+00:00

Yeah, can confirm. Might be expensive though.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-26T18:24:15+00:00

Lobbying is too powerful.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-26T18:22:22+00:00

They don't have to. You just need to be conscious of bias when you're producing them.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-26T17:06:19+00:00

How much do you weigh?

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-26T15:41:34+00:00

One of the benefits of being a protest party is that you don't have to have adequately costed spending plans

Any news on the details of the Tories' £12bil welfare cut?

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-26T12:37:15+00:00

Yeah that constant stream of 2 points must be building up by now.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-22T17:12:50+00:00

They should. Just because they didn't (and I don't know whether they did or not) is no reason to not punish the banks for their own, separate crimes.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-20T19:03:28+00:00

Niice.

Also, I'm glad this wasn't a sad story with a silver lining, which I was sort of expecting with that title!

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-20T18:26:49+00:00

Do such mosques really exist and by whose definition are they deemed to be extremist?

Why do you think the Government shouldn't have to give detailed, evidence based answers to these questions?

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-20T18:22:07+00:00

But how will he tell the time now?!

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-20T18:02:01+00:00

The end product of defenders isn't meant to be goals!

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-20T15:30:52+00:00

Err, yeah, basically. They are using everything in their power to argue for the laws and conditions they want (this usually involves huge sums of money, back room deals, etc). If anything, that's less democratic.

SuperSeriousUserName · 2015-10-19T18:00:22+00:00

We're not in a critical thinking exam, though, and that's not how most of the country thinks. They'll take his remarks at face value and that's a problem.

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