Does anybody know where the statistics are for how many trans thingies there are in Scotland? Or England? We know that more than 50 per cent of people in the country are biologically born female. Within the Labour Party there is still an issue about how to define a woman, whether the cervix is the preserve of women and whether one can have a penis. It might be reasonable to assume that there are more women (biological definition) than there are trans. So it would seem that anyone wanting electoral power should be more concerned about how women vote than trans. Why then is the Scottish National Party so obsessed with passing a Gender Recognition Bill that so obviously affords more rights to trans than women? One of their own ministers resigned to oppose the Bill. The hard Left Greens supported the Bill. However, the Bill actually survived the legislative process because it was supported by Scottish Labour. Next time Labour tries to brag about its feminist credentials, perhaps they should be reminded that they support Stonewall’s “transwomen are women” orthodoxy more than they support safe spaces for biological women. It seems gender ideology is more important than governing for the majority but that has always been the problem with Labour’s minority orthodoxy – if they can get all the minorities together they might actually get into government.
People are dying because the NHS behemoth is broken beyond repair Philip Johnston wrote this article in the Telegraph a few days ago (rightly) eviscerating the NHS and its failed model of healthcare provision. I am guessing that since he is not known on visual media that the Twittersphere did not erupt in condemnation and he will not have been cancelled – I fully expect to see his next article in the Telegraph in due course. The leader of the nurses keeps whinging that health secretary Stephen Barclay will not negotiate with the unions about wages. The reality is that the unions should be talking to the chief executive of the NHS, Amanda Pritchard, since she is the one that actually pays the wages. Do they really need all those £120k Diversity and Inclusivity officers? Perhaps Barclay is being cunning and figuring that if the nurses and ambulance drivers continue on their current path the NHS will totally collapse and he will then be able to impose reform on it to make it workable in the future. Nurses do not do as badly as their leader makes out. She chooses to ignore the very generous pension scheme and the possibility of retiring after 55 in some cases. Those complaining that the NHS is underfunded should try some facts: ignoring additional pandemic spending, the NHS budget increased by 22.7 per cent between 2019/20 and 2022/23 but the number of patient treatments fell by 5 per cent. What the nurses fail to recognise is that the bigger the pay rise they get, the fewer of them there will be receiving it. So they might have more money but their workload will remain unmanageable, the waiting lists will continue to increase and the patient outcomes will continue to get worse. They seem to forget when we were told to “Save our NHS” when it was supposed to be there to save us. People are being told not to call 999 except in emergencies. Perhaps if the stupid public stopped wasting their GP’s time with sore throats, colicky babies and colds then it would be possible for the really ill to get an appointment. The ideological obsession with ‘free at the point of use’ is part of the problem, not the cure.
To an extent, I can see why the NHS should be involved in wider health initiatives, because if they reduce the causes, they can reduce the over all burden on the system and actually save money while improving health. Unfortunately, due to a combination of poor advice and poor management, they are largely looking at the wrong initiatives, and are making a poor job of tackling the ones where they would actually reduce costs and improve health. What we are left with is more accurately and ill-health service, as there are few if any meaningful preventative actions. The current version and former Public Health England has a lot to answer for in the poor direction and management.
They spend millions on both...badly. Both bring in more tax than is spent on treatment as well as putting more pressure on pensions, so it's a double burden too.
Is that the Isle of Wight? I passed three women on the prom today. Obs mum and two daughters. Mum was probably late fifties to early sixties and in good shape. Both daughters were 20 stone plus.
Just glad that my time for finding a partner was when the barrage baloon ladies were a rarity not the norm as they appear to be today. It's takeaways I think. Son and gf seem to have them virtually every other day.
NHS bosses are forcing interview panels to explain why they have hired a white person over someone from an ethnic minority. Frustrated staff say the system is a ‘tick-box exercise’ that is adding yet another level of bureaucracy to an already creaking NHS. If a white candidate is chosen, the panel chairman must write a report explaining why they were ‘more suitable’ for the role. It does not apply the other way around. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/oth...pc=U531&cvid=37f93e843b9b4a8f9c4727b04d3b5c3e please log in to view this image
This is a time bomb waiting to go off. In twenty years time the country s going to be submerged in a tidal wave of fifty year olds with type 2 diabetes and knackered hips and knees. You can't haul that kind of weight around long term without dire consequences. There will be millions of long term sick with nobody to look after them.
