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Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth took to the Today Programme this morning to claims there has been ‘a huge increase in the number of cancelled operations’. The only problem is their own research shows that the number of operation cancellations is falling…

Labour’s Freedom of Information request actually shows that the number of cancelled operations fell by 3% this year – from 81,565 in 2017/18 to 78,981 in 2018/19, accounting for 1% of all operations.

Labour’s attempted NHS attacks have really not been going down well
 
Wonder where all the social media lies originate, all the memes that are on Facebook, Twitter and on here.. are all these memes just banter? I know some people on my faceache buy into the lies, even if facts are presented to prove they are wrong these people still carry on posting the same old nonsense... maybe I’m alone in experiencing this?
 
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General election 2019: Labour’s four-day week ‘to cost taxpayers £17bn’
Rachel Sylvester, Alice Thomson, Henry Zeffman
November 5 2019, 12:01am, The Times
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Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to introduce a 32-hour working week has been challenged by business leadersGARETH FULLER/PA
Jeremy Corbyn’s aim to introduce a four-day working week would cost the taxpayer at least £17 billion a year because of the impact on the public sector wage bill, a new analysis has shown.
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, told the Labour conference in September that the party would reduce average full-time hours to 32 a week within a decade “with no loss of pay”. People should “work to live, not live to work”, he said.
Research by the Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-right think tank, has found that reducing the hours of public sector employees, including doctors, nurses, teachers, firefighters and police officers, would impose a significant extra burden on the Treasury because the workforce would have to expand.
 
Wonder where all the social media lies originate, all the memes that are on Facebook, Twitter and on here.. are all these memes just banter? I know some people on my faceache buy into the lies, even if facts are presented to prove they are wrong these people still carry on posting the same old nonsense... maybe I’m alone in experiencing this?

Eelers will know a guy, I'm sure, as he.posts more of those memes than is healthy for one guy.....maybe he's actually a Russian bot!
 
MPs Standing Down at the Next Election
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As Britain heads for a general election, MPs are making decisions about their own future career plans. So as the day-to-day politics unfurls, Guido brings you the comprehensive and continually-updating list of MPs who have announced they will be stepping down at the next election. Get in touch with any updates…
Speaker
  • John Bercow, Buckingham
Conservative
  • Alan Duncan, Rutland and Melton
  • Alastair Burt, North East Bedfordshire
  • Bill Grant, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
  • Caroline Spelman, Meriden
  • Claire Perry, Devizes
  • David Lidington, Aylesbury
  • David Tredinnick, Bosworth
  • Glyn Davies, Montgomeryshire
  • Henry Bellingham, North West Norfolk
  • Hugo Swire, East Devon
  • Jeremy Lefroy, Stafford
  • Jo Johnson, Orpington
  • Keith Simpson, Broadland
  • Mark Field, Cities of London and Westminster
  • Mark Lancaster, Milton Keynes North
  • Mark Prisk, Hertford & Stortford
  • Michael Fallon, Sevenoaks
  • Mims Davies, Eastleigh
  • Nicholas Soames, Mid Sussex
  • Nick Hurd, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
  • Nicky Morgan, Loughborough
  • Patrick McLoughlin, Derbyshire Dales
  • Peter Heaton-Jones, North Devon
  • Richard Benyon, Newbury
  • Richard Harrington, Watford
  • Ross Thompson, Aberdeen South
  • Sarah Newton, Truro and Falmouth
  • Seema Kennedy, South Ribble
Labour
  • Adrian Bailey, West Bromwich West
  • Albert Owen, Ynys Mon
  • Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
  • Geoffrey Robinson, Coventry North West
  • Gloria De Piero, Ashfield
  • Helen Jones, Warrington North
  • Ian Lucas, Wrexham
  • Jim Cunningham, Coventry South
  • Jim Fitzpatrick, Poplar and Limehouse
  • John Mann, Bassetlaw
  • John Woodcock, Barrow and Furness
  • Kate Hoey, Vauxhall
  • Kelvin Hopkins, Luton North
  • Kevin Barron, Rother Valley
  • Louise Ellman, Liverpool Riverside
  • Owen Smith, Pontypridd
  • Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Roberta Blackman-Woods, City of Durham
  • Ronnie Campbell, Blyth Valley
  • Stephen Pound, Ealing North
  • Stephen Twigg, Liverpool West Derby
  • Teresa Pearce, Erith and Thamesmead
Lib Dem
  • Norman Lamb, North Norfolk
  • Vince Cable, Twickenham
Former-Tory, Former-Change UK, Former-Independent, Former ‘The Independents’, Now Lib Dem
  • Heidi Allen, South Cambridgeshire
Conservative Independents
  • Guto Bebb, Aberconwy
  • Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
  • Justine Greening, Putney
  • Ken Clarke, Rushcliffe
  • Nick Boles, Grantham
  • Philip Hammond, Runnymede and Weybridge
Independent
  • Amber Rudd, Hastings and Rye
  • Margot James, Stourbridge
  • Rory Stewart, Penrith and the Border
The Independent Group for Change
  • Ann Coffey, Stockport
  • Joan Ryan, Enfield North
The totemic 2010 election saw 149 MPs announce they wouldn’t contest the election, 2015 saw 90, and 2017 saw 30. The 2019 tally stands at 63…
 
Wonder where all the social media lies originate, all the memes that are on Facebook, Twitter and on here.. are all these memes just banter? I know some people on my faceache buy into the lies, even if facts are presented to prove they are wrong these people still carry on posting the same old nonsense... maybe I’m alone in experiencing this?
No I've got a mate (seriously have) who no matter what evidence is provided to the contrary, still posts blatant propaganda lies.
 
MPs Standing Down at the Next Election
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As Britain heads for a general election, MPs are making decisions about their own future career plans. So as the day-to-day politics unfurls, Guido brings you the comprehensive and continually-updating list of MPs who have announced they will be stepping down at the next election. Get in touch with any updates…
Speaker
  • John Bercow, Buckingham
Conservative
  • Alan Duncan, Rutland and Melton
  • Alastair Burt, North East Bedfordshire
  • Bill Grant, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
  • Caroline Spelman, Meriden
  • Claire Perry, Devizes
  • David Lidington, Aylesbury
  • David Tredinnick, Bosworth
  • Glyn Davies, Montgomeryshire
  • Henry Bellingham, North West Norfolk
  • Hugo Swire, East Devon
  • Jeremy Lefroy, Stafford
  • Jo Johnson, Orpington
  • Keith Simpson, Broadland
  • Mark Field, Cities of London and Westminster
  • Mark Lancaster, Milton Keynes North
  • Mark Prisk, Hertford & Stortford
  • Michael Fallon, Sevenoaks
  • Mims Davies, Eastleigh
  • Nicholas Soames, Mid Sussex
  • Nick Hurd, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
  • Nicky Morgan, Loughborough
  • Patrick McLoughlin, Derbyshire Dales
  • Peter Heaton-Jones, North Devon
  • Richard Benyon, Newbury
  • Richard Harrington, Watford
  • Ross Thompson, Aberdeen South
  • Sarah Newton, Truro and Falmouth
  • Seema Kennedy, South Ribble
Labour
  • Adrian Bailey, West Bromwich West
  • Albert Owen, Ynys Mon
  • Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
  • Geoffrey Robinson, Coventry North West
  • Gloria De Piero, Ashfield
  • Helen Jones, Warrington North
  • Ian Lucas, Wrexham
  • Jim Cunningham, Coventry South
  • Jim Fitzpatrick, Poplar and Limehouse
  • John Mann, Bassetlaw
  • John Woodcock, Barrow and Furness
  • Kate Hoey, Vauxhall
  • Kelvin Hopkins, Luton North
  • Kevin Barron, Rother Valley
  • Louise Ellman, Liverpool Riverside
  • Owen Smith, Pontypridd
  • Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Roberta Blackman-Woods, City of Durham
  • Ronnie Campbell, Blyth Valley
  • Stephen Pound, Ealing North
  • Stephen Twigg, Liverpool West Derby
  • Teresa Pearce, Erith and Thamesmead
Lib Dem
  • Norman Lamb, North Norfolk
  • Vince Cable, Twickenham
Former-Tory, Former-Change UK, Former-Independent, Former ‘The Independents’, Now Lib Dem
  • Heidi Allen, South Cambridgeshire
Conservative Independents
  • Guto Bebb, Aberconwy
  • Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
  • Justine Greening, Putney
  • Ken Clarke, Rushcliffe
  • Nick Boles, Grantham
  • Philip Hammond, Runnymede and Weybridge
Independent
  • Amber Rudd, Hastings and Rye
  • Margot James, Stourbridge
  • Rory Stewart, Penrith and the Border
The Independent Group for Change
  • Ann Coffey, Stockport
  • Joan Ryan, Enfield North
The totemic 2010 election saw 149 MPs announce they wouldn’t contest the election, 2015 saw 90, and 2017 saw 30. The 2019 tally stands at 63…

Hopefully Hoey gets hit by a bus.
 
Now if that was Corbyn it would be on every front page tomorrow regardless of whether true or not, but unfortunately the majority of our media is right wing owned so print what suits their agendas and wallets!
 
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