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    So Desperate!

    The Tories have proven they have a problem with Islam but now they are showing their anti-Semitism.

    Lord Mann the government's anti-Semitism adviser has called this behaviour "dangerous".

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-b1167985.html


    The Tories said Sir Keir Starmer would be a “part-time prime minister” after the Labour leader said he would seek to make time to spend with his children on Friday nights.

    Sir Keir said protecting time to spend with his son and daughter made him more relaxed and a better decision-maker.

    The Labour leader and his wife Victoria have a 16-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.

    He told Virgin Radio: “We’ve had a strategy in place and we’ll try to keep to it, which is to carve out really protected time for the kids, so on a Friday – I’ve been doing this for years – I will not do a work-related thing after six o’clock, pretty well come what may.

    “There are a few exceptions, but that’s what we do.”

    But Rishi Sunak took a swipe at the Labour leader, telling reporters: “I haven’t finished at six ever.”

    And a Conservative Party attack on social media said: “Keir Starmer has said he’d clock off work at 6pm if he became prime minister.

    “You deserve better than a part-time prime minister. The only way to prevent this is to vote Conservative on Thursday.”

    Tory deputy chairman Jonathan Gullis said: “Let’s hope Putin doesn’t choose 6.01pm when he wishes to go any further with his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine.”

    A Labour source hit back at the attacks, saying: “The only person who’s clocked off early in this campaign is Rishi Sunak at the D-Day commemorations.”

    Sir Keir said his son and daughter are his “pride and joy” and “I don’t want to lose that time”.

    He said that in politics “some people think, if you fill your diary 24/7 and don’t do anything else, that makes you a much better decision-maker”.

    “I don’t agree with that, I think you’ve got to make space, so we do it.”





    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    I've no idea how your first line applies to the rest of the text. It is also demonstrably wrong. But if it's in the Mail or on social media it has to be right. doesn't it...?
    Blog? What blog...?

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      #3
      Junior health minister Maria Caulfield also criticised Starmer, saying she works seven days a week and up to 20 hours a day.

      Given how useless much of our healthcare system is perhaps she's not working hard enough and needs to do 28 hours a day, eight days a week?

      Pathetic from the Tories really. Can't wait to see the back of the useless twunts come Friday.

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        #4
        Originally posted by edison View Post
        Junior health minister Maria Caulfield also criticised Starmer, saying she works seven days a week and up to 20 hours a day.

        Given how useless much of our healthcare system is perhaps she's not working hard enough and needs to do 28 hours a day, eight days a week?

        Pathetic from the Tories really. Can't wait to see the back of the useless twunts come Friday.
        You do know why the NHS is in such a mess. And who created it? Just askin'....

        Blog? What blog...?

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          #5
          Just keeping an eye here, expecting something to come up any day now:
          https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...pes=&keywords=
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            #6
            Originally posted by malvolio View Post
            I've no idea how your first line applies to the rest of the text. It is also demonstrably wrong. But if it's in the Mail or on social media it has to be right. doesn't it...?
            This version may clarify why the Tories playing with fire -
            https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/starmer-r...vening-family/


            If the next Tory leader throws antisemitism claims at Keir Starmer he will remind them of this.
            "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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              #7
              But Rishi Sunak took a swipe at the Labour leader, telling reporters: “I haven’t finished at six ever.”
              I guess he's just a slow worker.

              Oh, and regarding antisemitism, Mrs Starmer is Jewish, and Shabbat is an important family time for many Jews.
              Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                #8
                Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

                This version may clarify why the Tories playing with fire -
                https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/starmer-r...vening-family/


                If the next Tory leader throws antisemitism claims at Keir Starmer he will remind them of this.
                Now who's being desperate? Neither the Starmers nor the Tories said anything about his wife being Jewish, that was raised by Labour themselves. So a completely bogus accusation, typical of the level of political discourse we've come to expect this time around.

                And Rishi has a point, the role of PM is a 24x7 one, you can't simply stop doing it. Obviously if there isn't a crisis to deal with at 6:00pm on a Friday then go and be with the family. Sadly, a lot of the time, that won't be the case. But where Starmer is wrong is saying that it is his decision; it isn't, it's an aspiration; a worthy one, of course, but still only an aspiration.
                Blog? What blog...?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by malvolio View Post

                  1) You do know why the NHS is in such a mess.
                  2) And who created it? Just askin'....
                  1) gross government mismanagement and general apathy (all use private care)
                  2) the mess?? - the Tories, - who else?
                  there ye go mr Blue

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                    Actually...

                    1) gross government mismanagement and general apathy (all use private care)

                    Saddling the NHS with a host of expensive, eternal PFI build-and-maintain programmes meaning something pathetic like changing a light bulb in a laboratory costs a couple of hundred quit.

                    Imposing a long list of performance targets (e.g. waiting times in A&E) meaning having to hire an army of administrators to record, measure and report them without actually having any impact on performance

                    Re-Writing the GP contracts to cut down their hours. That leads to no initial triage happening, inordinate waiting times for appointment and people treating A&E as the primary care source. Meaning longer queues and waiting times.

                    Politically motivated industrial action by the GMC losing millions of appointment dates and operations, meaning longer waiting lists (see performance measures above).

                    A failure to train doctors and requiring even basic medical staff to have a degree in a short list of subjects - even MLAs need a degree these days.

                    A failure to centralise procurement for a huge number of common items and leveraging the buying power of the NHS but moving that down to the individual Trusts to manage

                    Imposing a diversity and equality agenda on recruitment, meaning even hiring an MLA (look them up) takes upwards of three months and hiring managers have to interview candidates who are through no fault of their own hopelessly unsuited to the role (want to trust your blood microscopy to someone who is partially sighted?)

                    2) the mess?? - the Tories, - who else?

                    Er no. All the above firmly at the door of the Blair/Brown administrations...

                    That's the short answer. Over 60% of NHS expenditure is not going to patient care. And there isn't an NHS, there are instead several hundred separate NHS's all competing for the same resources.

                    Not a pretty picture is it. Fixing it will be a nightmare, if not an impossibility.
                    Blog? What blog...?

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