Off Topic Politics Thread

I’d appreciate it if this particular sub-thread could be parked because it is beginning to get personal, and if you look at the rules on Page 1, too much back-and-forth between 2 people risks hijacking the thread. I’m not making a judgment on either side’s merits, but on the argument itself.

 

Yeah, probably! I can be like that.

 

Me. I was ready weeks ago.

 

Definitely me. I have my Wolfie Smith t-shirt ......

 

Tories preparing to reimpose workplace parking charges on NHS employees. You couldn't make it up.

 

If I could just find the keys to the DeLorean, I'd jump back ten months and invest heavily in perspex & placards. That's the future right there.

 

I'd go back to last week and go for Saints beating City with Che scoring ..............

 

easy money..............

 

Just when I think I can't hate this absolute shower of total ****-wits this happens ............. I'm going to burst out singing 'La Marseillaise' soon ..... The sooner this lot are dragged out and guillotined the better ....

"Tremble, tyrants and you treacherous. The stigma of all parties ......."

 

This lot are getting so unbelievable that I sometimes wonder if it can be true!

 

I was at the General this morning (wifey started radiotherapy) and the car parks at the back of the hospital, that had been closed off to the public, with the charges stopped so that staff could park there free, have re-opened to the public and the charges are back.
They actually started charging again from 29th June.
Still, after this morning, we only have 9 more visits, over the next 13 days to pay for.

 

The French will be out in force, singing La Marseillaise, next Tuesday, 14th.
I also give them the day off, to celebrate my birthday the same day.
Probably explains why I have a rebellious streak, being born on that date, different year though.
Vive la révolution.

 

Good luck, St B and Mrs St B. Thank heavens we still have the NHS, despite what those bastards in Westminster are trying to do. Before she passed away last year, my Mum was in the General and QA for weeks on end (different dates) and it really pissed me off having to pay some bloody private company to park there whilst I was visiting her. Should be free for NHS staff and for hospital visitors - OR 100% of the money raised should go back to the hospital (I prefer the 1st option obviously). I can't remember the amount of times I've written to Caroline Nokes about it and I've judt penned her another missive (signed "thoroughly pissed off of Romsey" .....)

 

Nice one, Rishi. Paying £1,000 to business who take furloughed employees back and keep them until January ..........
That means that unemployment will sky rocket in February when they're all let go ............. and, of course, it won't be the fault of Brexit will it?

 

There seems to me something inherently immoral in this country running our manufacturing base down. Now borrowing money to subsidise restaurants to provide meals for us to eat out, served by young people on minimum wage with limited prospects of improving. Yet, a few months ago the Tories scoffed at Corbyn's proposals to borrow to improve the NHS and Social Care as "looney left." Frankly I despair of this lot.

 

Thanks for the good wishes.
The only “benefit” of being a cancer patient is that the radiotherapy and the chemotherapy receptions have a machine that you put the parking ticket in, and it reduces the cost to £2, for the duration.
Especially helpful when wifey has blood transfusions because we can be there for up to 6 hours on a bad day, which would cost a fortune without the reduction.

 

I find it ironic that the Tories have had to act like socialists in order to keep the country afloat.

 

NHS parking companies made a total of £272 million profit last year. It’s nothing short of (yet another) national outrage.

 

Michael Holding being passionate about racism.