Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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He done and give what he could and was very w
ell put over by him.
Captain Haddock
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Frank Field
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To be successful in politics, you have to ride two political horses simultaneously. Rishi has done a budget for the hour and made the possibility of long-term prosperity to fight the next election. Best budget in my 42 years in politics.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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#3
Begrudgingly, I think he did ok. Some of the more right wing Tory MPs are furious with it, which instinctively makes me feel it can't be that bad!
Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:Begrudgingly, I think he did ok. Some of the more right wing Tory MPs are furious with it, which instinctively makes me feel it can't be that bad!
I'm still struggling to understand why, with the extra £350m weekly we're giving the NHS now we're left the EU, we can't afford to pay our heroic NHS staff more more generously. Never mind. I'm sure they'll be happy with Boris and Rishi clapping away so dilligently.
Brian Dixon
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because its not, just a polictical promice that wasnt there in the first place.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I agree the N,H.S SHOULD BE TOP OF THE PAY LIST Docs-Nurse,s cleaners etc.
Jan Higgins
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I am not surprised the nurses etc are upset, 1% is an absolute insult to all those frontline medics who have flogged their guts out during the pandemic. It would have been better to have waited with the promise of a large increase when we have returned to normal, hopefully next year.
As it is I think more will leave the profession, especially those who have recently returned, there is no incentive for them to stay.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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#8
I wrote my post before I'd realised that. It's a political fight the government won't win - to offer just 1% in the context is just tone deaf. They'll already be looking for a cover story on how to U turn, I'd have thought.
Ross Miller
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Whilst I agree that the offer of 1% is insulting, so is Starmers "just throw money at it" nonsense, in its current guise, if we do not constrain demand, the NHS is a bottomless pit as far as funding is concerned.
We need a grown up, adult conversation about what we want from the NHS, how we staff it, how it is organised and managed, the types of contracts staff should be, what is no longer part of the NHS remit and most importantly how we fund it (including who pays for what and when).
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Weird Granny Slater
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Indeed. And we certainly need a health service that can never be used by authoritarians in and around governments as an excuse to house arrest a population. In a league of manipulative, mindscrewing slogans, 'Protect the NHS' must be near the top.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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With the number of issues about patient safety and hospital standards the slogan ‘protect us from the NHS’ might be more appropriate. For example all the people I know personally who have had COVID (including myself) contracted it at William Harvey Hospital, apart from one nurse who contracted it at work at Buckland.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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A recent study by Public Health Scotland suggested that up to two thirds of infections were hospital derived.
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