Off Topic General Election

No. People who don’t know anything about politics shouldn’t be forced to vote.

I’m not saying there should be a bar of knowledge about politics - as I think many of us wouldn’t make it, including me. But I’d much prefer people to still feel like they are making the decision to vote - rather than feel like they have to and the country have to deal with the decision they make because of that emotion.

 

agree with most of that…..but not sure why you have included Doctors. Hospital doctors have just had a 20% pay rise!!!

 

That last bit is the same as here,

 

Knowing a few doctors the whole funding system for the NHS is a complete racket; so much of it pissed away or channelled to private interests.

 

I don't know any Doctors myself,infact,I can't even remember what they look like anymore.

Mine just seems to sit around all day and gets a nurse to phone you if you're under the weather..This seems to be the norm nowadays and all it does is increase the burden on A&E Doctors.

 

So he’d still be alive and well in 1966 lol.

 

Rocky road to dictatorship that!

 

im married to a Doctor. She’s a hospital consultant in Hull.

 

Compulsory voting leads to a dictatorship? Strange, I'd have said the opposite.

 

Re PR, we had a referendum about whether or not to adopt a form of PR- it was defeated, with a binary vote!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum

 

No it was was the 'only vote if you understand politics' bit I was thinking of.

 

Junior doctors are still campaigning for their pay rise. Meanwhile consultants now earn a basic of £99.5k to £132k and can earn much more privately on top while building both private and public pensions in readiness for retirement. Good luck to them, but some reform seems well overdue.

 

That’s just the basic pay. In reality it’s far far higher…research = extra pay, management roles = extra, if you are considered an expert & present at conferences = extra.
Additional sessions to bring down waiting lists is £150-200 per hour

most consultants earn £200k+, there are some who earn £500k + (That’s just NHS - not including private income)

 

Thats what I was trying to be clear not to say.

I don’t agree with people only being allowed to vote if ‘they understand politics’.

I was saying people shouldn’t ever be compulsory made to vote if they show no interest. I think it’s really important that people feel compelled to vote for whatever reason - as they have made a conscious decision - not because they ‘have to’.

 

My cousin is a consultant at HRI. Next time I see him the beers are on him.

 

Which completely destroys the theory that the NHS has been ravaged by Tory austerity...

 

Yup

 

Junior Doctors have just accepted 12.4% in Wales which they were offered months ago rather than the 35% lets go on strike and show up the Tories and **** the patients pay claim

 

No, some people in the system being well paid doesn't completely destroy it. Some people are well paid in basically every industry.