My mother ended up refusing a private operation because they were proposing doing it in a private hospital, when she is a high risk heart patient. Had anything gone wrong, they would have had to move her to the NHS hospital, and that time would have worsened the potential outcome. YMMV
Hmmm, private providersā¦ using NHS resources to cut waiting for the few and make money for NHS clinicians and shareholders, none of which is then available to invest in NHS services that benefit everyone.
Add to the fact that they cherry pick procedures and patients it really is quite disgraceful that they have been allowed to inveigle their way in to mainstream provision like this.
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Look at the private health providers and their boards and consultants (non medical) and you will find the Tory pigs deep in the trough.
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While I couldnāt agree more in principle, it is a situation thatās existed for very nearly as long as youāve been alive.
Not much point blaming the tories, either (loathe them as I do), since the last Labour governments continued the erosion of the NHS just as enthusiastically.
This vile system thrives because when our backs are to the wall, and our loved ones are suffering, we would do anything to make them well again, and principles be damned. I can wholeheartedly empathise with anyone who chooses this path - Iād do the same.
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This vile system thrives because the NHS is under funded and cannot always meet the reasonable expectation of its users.
Worse yet, because that has been the strategy of successive governments and their pork-barrel politics.
Very much this. If it comes to it I would have to swallow my principles. The cost will be an issue though, it would appear to be in the region of Ā£30k for the op. which isnāt just something you tend to have lying around.
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Yeah. Much as I would like to blame the Tories, Labour were just as bad when they were in office.
One Labour thing I remember was their infatuation with casinos. They wanted to build several super casinos, because gambling is just so good for society. Fuckwits.
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Yes but the rot has accelerated with certain private providers now able to hive off considerable activity (e.g. Nottingham) which they werenāt doing before (and a failure of the NHS in many respects to improve to prevent this from happening).
Not a party political thing either, I agree, both are complicit in getting us here.
Was surprised to learn that KT Hopkins has been dumped by the Daily Heil. Too extreme & hateful even for them it would seem. (Canāt believe I wrote that)
A double footed high tackle wearing stout brogues to the odious creature before she hopefully fades further into obscurity (or becomes leader of UKIP).
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someone tells me she is about to become the new reporter on a programme called Volcano Watch, reporting live from the rim of active Mount Agung in Bali, as its blowing is imminent.
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Hopkins, rim & blowing. Mmmmmā¦
Back shortly.
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My local NUT and GMB reps for rolling over and being weak arsed spineless fucks and generally failing miserably while our SLT push through a transfer to an academy. Fucking useless 
One to the classic profile timewaster who has spent actual DAYS facebook-messaging me for info down to molecular level about thirty quidsā worth of fucking cheap-ass speaker cable - which I would bet my every possession he will eventually buy from ebay.
There is a subspecies of humanity who does this in their droves.
Paradoxically, despite the fact everyone wants something-for-nothing, never sell cheap cable - it can never be cheap enough, and it attracts twats like turds attract flies.
It would make actual business-sense when spotting one to just send them the wire gratis, as the time wasted is worth far more than the piece of wire.
Trouble is, if I did, this Sort would then want to know how much I would pay them to take it.
And it would still take them days to decideā¦
Give me your munneh, filthy plebs!
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Hah cock punch to you for being complicit in having your time wasted and then complaining about it 
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I have infinity cockpunches due to me in any case, merely for being stupid enough to do this in the first place.
It is the curse of using social media that if you ignore even the most blatant twattery, your ratings are hit.
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David Davis and Co can have one for attempting to distinguish between āeditedā and āredactedā the daft fuckclumps. Iām looking forward to the fallout when the unredacted reports leak.
EDIT: Iāve just read that the materials released, which the Government claim document the comprehensive research done into the impact of Brexit on 85% of our industry, fits into two A4 lever arch files and is just over 800 pages in length. Yep, that is just under 14 pages per industry! Clearly we are well prepared. Massive CPs to all concerned.
Was it printed double or single sided?
Conspiracy or cockup? Looking like both, the current description is in ādog ate my homeworkā territory.
The reports are in a pretty standard format
- description of the sector
- current regulatory regime
- existing frameworks for facilitating trade between sectors
- sector views.
(All covered in under 14 pages 
)
So unless they are printed in 0.2 point font double sided with almost no line spacing, there will be nothing in them.
A description of a sector alone might reasonably be very lengthy given that it would need to describe supply chains, infrastructure, technical and enviromental challenges, employment etc.
In short, there is unlikely to be anything more than feck all in these documents. Iām willing to bet money that they have been hastily cobbled together after Davis mentioned them when criticised for turning up to a meeting with Barnier carrying only a vacant expression (and being photographed next to Barnier who had piles of material).
Absolutely disgraceful. Still, Iām betting they are printed on Red, White and Blue paper, so they will be great.
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