If you look at the state of our club and football team...its understandable the busiest thread is politics.. As for polls the only thing that is certain about them is that they will be wrong Gordon Brown iirc had a poor moment with some woman that was a disaster Bonko has today had a disaster with a 4 year old lying in the floor of a hospital and nicking a journo's phone.. For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe a horse was lost for want of a horse a kingdom was lost.... I forget where this phrase is from.... heres hoping Bonko has lost a nail!
Lastly, well done to Sunderland and the North East for helping Johnson have a bad day in the 'news media'
Do you honestly think the trains, for example, are better run under this privatised split-up system than they were under British Rail? I know British Rail were pretty crap, but since privatisation the "service" has become total ****e and fares have gone through the roof.
Hear Hear, if anyone is in any doubt that a Johnson right wing government will put the needs of the ordinary working people and the less able to provide for themselves before the interests of big business then this they just need to look across the Atlantic and see what a right wing government actually looks like. Climate Change denial as an official policy. The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. As an example the use of coal reserves when most western countries are moving away from using coal as a power source. Repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care). The Republican Party is financed by private healthcare. Tax reforms designed to benefit the wealthy at the cost of the poorer in society. Substantial cuts for higher income taxpayers and corporations. Massive increases in Defence spending thereby forcing reductions in spending on programs to help the less well off. The real poor, the people with no hope. Current costed spending for 2019 is 700billion Dollars. The big Pharma companies lobbying US government to artificially keep medicine prices high to the benefit of the drug manufacturers rather than patients. The cost of this lobbying was $3.4 billion in 2018, that is $3.4 billion spent to keep prices inflated and markets protected, this is why healthcare costs in the US are so high. These are just a few policies which go against the interests of ordinary people. We have never had a proper far right wing Governing Party in the UK before, I believe Johnson, Gove and Rees-Mogg and their like will take us down that road post Brexit. And not to mention the PM's attempt to silence Parliament, that is a very dangerous road to go down. Vote for them if you don't value any form of fairness and equality.
In terms of university I'd happily see decent subjects free from tuition fees, things that we need more of! The idea that the tax payer should pay so that **** loads of kids can put off getting a job by studying sports science (seriously, how many sports scientists do we need) doesn't appeal. If you want to do a degree like that then crack on, but pay for it yourself would be my take on that. Nursing though, we need nurses, make that free.
Due to the demographic of its users, Twitter tends to be fairly left leaning. Obviously there are other factions on there but I believe there is general trend in that direction. The BBC are quite widely acknowledged as being left of centre- if you think of people in the media, they tend to be metropolitan, liberal types. I believe there are one or two (possibly former) serious BBC journalists and news correspondents who are on record as saying that they felt that the corporation leant too far to the left. That's from a centrist viewpoint.
I stand by my comment and can remember the 'service' offered by British Rail, the GPO et al very well, along with the under investment and appalling management in all of the State owned concerns.
You have to remember though that the whole of the US is generally positioned further to the right than the UK. They have their pockets of liberalism on the west coast and parts of the east but much of the place is very conservative. I don't think there's any reason to believe that we would have government like Trump's administration.
I Always liked Finland, a beautiful country (and people) to visit, felt quite open and Liberal when I was there last... price of a pint was quite expensive though due to the levy on alcohol
Anybody else not suspicious about that child with 'suspected' pneumonia, lying on a cold hospital floor just a few days before an election? I mean, if my child was that ill so I lay him down on a cold floor and whipped my phone out to take a few snaps so they could go viral on the internet, I believe my other half would take my bloody head off. Seats were available, at the time. It's been confirmed. Surely he could have lay across the seats, or hey, here's an idea, maybe the parents could have sat down and cuddled him in their arms. No, in that situation it is always better to lay the child on a cold floor, take some snaps and send them to the media and viral around social media, of course. Shameful.
Dr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department. "We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family." Chairs? Don't be silly, there's a nice cold floor where we can lay him. That will be great for his suspected pneumonia, and oh, a photo opportunity.
not as bad as Blair the witch giving 13 billion to overseas aid and set to rise to 17 billion . look after our own first, we stop that and the 40 billion the EU costs us and we are rolling in it
