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@eddie1330 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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The island of Great Britain is now in a spiral of severe decline. Already there are some ex -Soviet states that have a higher standard of living than Britain, almost all EU countries have a superior health service, better education outcomes, faster, more reliable and cheaper trains and better infastructure for industry to thrive on, staff recruiting from 30 countries without paperwork, soon, or maybe very soon, joined up energy system, all of Europe will have such a vastly greater standard of living than Britain, visibly so and then it will be impossible to fool the British population, however under educated they may be, and they are. At that stage, and with blue passports too expensive for the working class, visas hard to get, even more homelesness, despair and exclusion from normal life, that's when the 'small boats' will begin in the direction of France. Copy this and wait a short while, then congratulate me on my prediction coming true, in spades, by the way.
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@6chhelipilot Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@PobjoyFranks Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@davebannister323 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
labours record
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@weswheel4834 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@russellmathews3599 just a few of the many good things that came from the last labour gov
1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
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@mywestsussex5749 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@Dynasty1818 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
but yes do go on , i like a laugh
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@derryshore5586 A Boris Johnson loyalist who tried comparing the Prime Minister’s lockdown-busting party with the behaviour of frontline workers has been torn to shreds by the nation’s nurses.
After the PM was fined by police yesterday, Michael Fabricant told BBC Radio 5 live: ‘I know many teachers, doctors that would sit down and have a quiet drink at the end of the day, and whether or not they took their drink into the hospital or school in a suitcase and whether it was a back pack or whatever is irrelevant.’
In a scathing letter sent to the backbencher today, the Royal College of Nursing said his ‘utterly demoralising’ attempt to deflect from the Tory leader’s actions were ‘factually incorrect’.
The Royal College of Nursing's letter in full
Dear Mr. Fabricant,
I’m writing on behalf of the half a million members of the Royal College of Nursing, to formally complain about your comments today in media.
I’m not sure how often you spend time on the frontline, so I’d like to share with you how the profession of nursing practices ethically, responsibly and in the face of ongoing pressures and constraints.
We remain at the forefront of pandemic response. Despite political narrative, as health and care professionals we know the COVID-19 context is nowhere near over.
While you position yourself with some authority as to the behaviour and actions of nurses during the pandemic, I’d like to inform you of the following facts.
Throughout the pandemic – and still certainly, now – most days, nurses and nursing support workers, when finally finishing a number of unpaid hours well past shift end, will get home, clean their uniforms, shower and collapse into bed.
Throughout the early pandemic, this was often alone, for the protection of others – kept away from family, friends and support networks. These shifts – in communities, in hospitals, anywhere people are – are long, unrelenting, understaffed and intense.
At the end of one of the many hours, days and years we have worked, since recognition of the pandemic, I can assure you that none of us have sought to hang out and ‘have a quiet one in the staff room.’
There isn’t a site in England that would allow alcohol on the premises for any professional to consume during working hours.
As frontline professionals, still dealing with the implications of the pandemic – understaffed, underpaid, overworked, exhausted, burnt out and still holding it together while doing the best we can for our patients.
It is utterly demoralising – and factually incorrect – to hear you suggest that our diligent, safety critical profession can reasonably be compared to any elected official breaking the law, at any time.
Pat Cullen, General Secretary & Chief Executive
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@jaipennycuick7993 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 13 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@eightiesmusic1984 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@cun7us Every government has bureaucrats, who are by nature unelected. The EU, with about 33,000 civil servants, is dwarfed by the British government, which employs over 400,000. The complaint might be that not only junior EU officials, but many senior ones are appointed rather than elected; yet this, too, is true of all governments. British papers that disparage the “unelected” Michel Barnier, the EU’s lead Brexit negotiator, would struggle to find a country that has an elected trade representative. As for the 28 commissioners who make up the European Commission, the EU’s cabinet, they are nominated by member countries (each gets one) and approved by the European Parliament, which is directly elected by voters.
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@joescott54 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@VV-bk1wv Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@trytellingthetruth.2068 97-10 last labour gov
1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
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@BenJohnson-qp5og This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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I too, used to think it was stupid of the UK for cutting itself off from the worlds largest marketplace of nearly 500 million wealthy customers, all of whome are just one days truckride away from Britains farms and factories, and isolating our Erasmus university program students from those of 27 other diverse, rich cultures, languages and ideas, and discarding all the European protections, standards benefits and opportunites to work, retire, mary and live anywhere in a beautiful continent with skiing, swimming and sunning at will. But now I discovered that we are free to have the 1950 style crown printed onto our beer glasses again, it all seems to make so much more sense.
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@stiffywatson2 ok!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@django3422 1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
34. Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997: the shortest waiting times since NHS records began.
35. Banned fox hunting.
36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
37. Free TV licences for over-75s.
38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
39. Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
40. Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s and disabled people.
41. New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
42. Over 3 million child trust funds started.
43. Free eye test for over 60s.
44. More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
45. Free entry to national museums and galleries.
46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
47. heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
49. Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
50. Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
all under Blair and brown
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@cun7us The Union of the United Kingdom consists of four member states: England, Scotland, Wales and the province of Northern Ireland.
In the referendum, two of them voted to remain in the EU: Scotland and Northern Ireland. Yet the UK government is going ahead with Brexit, without the unanimous consent of all the UK’s member states.
That couldn’t happen in the European Union, where all member states of the EU, however large or small, each have an equal vote and a veto on new treaties.
If the UK was run on the same democratic principles as the EU, then the UK could not leave the European Union without the unanimous agreement of all its four members: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
But in the 2016 EU referendum, the democratic wishes of Scotland and Northern Ireland were ignored by the UK government, splitting the United Kingdom in two.
Similarly, Gibraltar – a British Overseas Territory which also had a vote in the EU referendum and chose by 96% to Remain in the EU – saw their objections to Brexit ignored.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@ Under the Blair/Brown government.
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s.
Introduction of the national minimum wage.
Increased police numbers by 14,000
Cut overall crime by 32%.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy not reached since.
Doubled funding for every pupil in England.
Wrote off 100% of debt owed by poorest countries.
Increased NHS staff by 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors.
Devolved power to Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly.
Introduced statutory paternity leave of two weeks.
Record number of students in higher education.
In Labour's last year of government, gave 828 million pounds of gift aid to charities (this exceeds the total amount given by the Conservatives in their entire period in office)
Raised child benefit by 26%.
Delivered 2,200 'Sure Start' children's centre's.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Pensioner's winter fuel payments of £200 or £300.
The only European government on course to achieve Kyoto targets (at that time).
26,000 new teachers .
All full time workers given the right to 24 days payed holiday.
A million pensioners and 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credits.
Introduced civil partnerships.
Over 1 million social housing homes brought up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over 500,000 since 1997 (NHS waiting lists have never dropped under Conservative administration
Provided the cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for the over 75s.
Banned Fox hunting, Fur farming and cosmetic testing on animals.
Free on demand breast screening for women 50 - 60
Free bus travel for the over 60s.
Labour's New Deal helped nearly 1.8 million people into work.
Free Eye tests for the over 60s.
Number of apprenticeships more than doubled.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000. And cancer deaths by 50,000.
Long term youth unemployment cut by 75%.
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@Sr68720 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@JR-vg1kr 1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
oh all this .... want anougher 30?
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Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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Reality 1:
While it’s true that many European countries are facing economic struggles, attributing this solely to the EU is simplistic and ignores the broader global context. The economic challenges in Europe are partly a result of global factors such as inflation, energy prices, and supply chain disruptions, which are not unique to the EU. In fact, many EU countries have stronger economic resilience and recovery mechanisms precisely because they’re part of a unified bloc that can pool resources and coordinate responses. The UK’s exit from the EU has removed it from these shared frameworks, leaving it to face economic difficulties with less support.
Reality 2:
Yes, the UK voted to leave the EU, but to suggest that this decision is beyond challenge is a misunderstanding of democratic processes. Referendums are not the end of political debate; they are a moment in time. The outcome of Brexit has proven to be highly divisive, and over time, public opinion has shifted. Just because a majority voted to leave doesn’t mean that the consequences of that decision should be ignored or unexamined. As the negative impacts become clearer, calls for revisiting the issue or even re-joining the EU are growing, as people recognise the long-term costs of Brexit.
Reality 3:
Brexit may be irreversible, but that doesn’t mean the UK is locked out of European cooperation forever. The notion that the UK can’t re-join the EU or access the Single Market is not set in stone. While it’s true that re-joining would be a complicated process, it’s far from impossible. Many of the barriers Brexiters claim are insurmountable are more political than practical. The UK still has the potential to forge closer ties with Europe, whether through a future change of government or by seeking more flexible relationships, like joining the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) or negotiating bespoke trade agreements. The idea that Brexit is a permanent, irreversible decision is short-sighted—politics can and does change.
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@davidheatherington6325 Any plan, if it turns out successful, had to be based on proper facts. In case of an economical plan, those facts are economic by definition.
The causes for the economic problems are diverse, both by their nature and by their lifetime expectancy.
For instance, the worst problem, measured by its effects, is Brexit. That's not going anytime soon.
Also bad is the Ukrainian war. That will last shorter (than Brexit). So the impact on energy prices won't last for ever and, with that, on inflation.
Against this backdrop I predict that, when the worst problem isn't being adressed, any plan Truss comes up with is doomed to fail.
Al that's left for her is fighting symptoms.
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@patm6704 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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I too, used to think it was stupid of the UK for cutting itself off from the worlds largest marketplace of nearly 500 million wealthy customers, all of whome are just one days truckride away from Britains farms and factories, and isolating our Erasmus university program students from those of 27 other diverse, rich cultures, languages and ideas, and discarding all the European protections, standards benefits and opportunites to work, retire, mary and live anywhere in a beautiful continent with skiing, swimming and sunning at will. But now I discovered that we are free to have the 1950 style crown printed onto our beer glasses again, it all seems to make so much more sense.😆
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labour it is then.... where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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With the money you pay you get access to numerous benefits, which among other things includes funding to poor regions (Cornwall got £100 million from the EU, all which now has to come from the UK itself), but more importantly, access to the EU single market. The economic benefits from being part of the single market outweighs the costs, but now the UK has to deal with the consequences of the stupidity of leave voters who failed to recognize that.
Also when I say "the British empire dead in the water", I implicitly mean that the UK isn't that small at all, just not big and economically strong enough to strongarm the other 27 nations combined in the union - the UK doesn't even have a bigger GDP than Germany alone. The idea that it somehow were is delusion but that's probably what a lot of people in the UK, especially England thought. However, the UK has an economy that is comparable to that of France and thus was a net contributor to the union, but again, the benefits from the union were bigger than the drawbacks.
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@janicebirch7522 In short, Brexit is ideological only, in practice it makes no sense at all in economic terms. The hype about bringing back powers, making own laws, controlling immigration (meaning cutting it to near zero) simple caused more problems. I suspect globalisation was an issue, but that's more about the government not doing their job, creating new industries, jobs. Outsourcing doesn't work in at least half the cases I have personal experience of, but work in others. The point is for us to be innovative, at the front of research and development, to bring back manufacturing - why can hard drives and chips only be made in China / Taiwan? Why can't we make solar panels. I'm willing to pay more for things which are well designed and made, and even happier if the company is in the UK, so replacement parts available, and saving delivery costs and time. We are massively short of housing - so building new houses is critical. I have little doubt we will re-join parts of the EU in the next 5 years. And nobody but a very foolish country in the EU will look at us and say... I want some of that. We're served our purpose as the village idiot.
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Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@johnrea2115 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@Charlotte Tilbury This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@Statler116 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@RevGary This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@jonathancooper4914 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@jonathancooper4914 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@richardgallagher4880 As of 2022, Finland has the 16th highest nominal GDP per capita in the world according to the IMF.
In addition to the fact that Finland is one of the richest countries in the world, it is known for its well-developed welfare system, such as free education, and advanced health care system.
The largest sector of the economy is the service sector at 66% of GDP, followed by manufacturing and refining at 31%. Primary production represents 2.9%.[146] With respect to foreign trade, the key economic sector is manufacturing. The largest industries in 2007[147] were electronics (22%); machinery, vehicles, and other engineered metal products (21.1%); forest industry (13%); and chemicals (11%). The gross domestic product peaked in 2008. As of 2015, the country's economy is at the 2006 level.[148][149] Finland is ranked as the 9th most innovative country in the Global Innovation Index in 2022.[150]
Finland has significant timber, mineral (iron, chromium, copper, nickel, and gold), and freshwater resources. Forestry, paper factories, and the agricultural sector are important for rural residents. The Greater Helsinki area generates around one-third of Finland's GDP. Private services are the largest employer in Finland.
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@outofuse6799 David Oliver is an experienced NHS Consultant Physician and medical writer from Manchester, who has played a variety of national medical leadership and policy roles and has a weekly column in the British Medical Journal.
He is currently managing a Covid ward at a hospital in the south of England - and says conspiracy theories have placed the reputation of NHS professionals under attack.
In a piece for the M.E.N, the researcher, who is an expert in older people's care, confronts a claim much-repeated online - that a conspiracy surrounds the way Covid-19 deaths are counted.
'Did those people really die from Covid, or even with it, or is it down to how they are counted?' (Image: PA)
"In the two weeks leading up to the December 1 st Parliamentary vote on the introduction of regional Covid-19 measures, daily deaths in England had run between 400 and 603, with numbers climbing steadily since October, as reported on the government’s website.
In the ongoing public debate playing out in sections of mainstream and social media, some people continued to question whether the number of reported Covid deaths was fake news and part of a wider plot to justify lockdowns, behavioural and travel restrictions.
The government’s use of 'deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test' helps fuel that suspicion. Did those people really die from Covid, or even with it, or is down to how they are counted?
As an experienced hospital doctor who has looked after dozens of sick patients who clearly died from Covid-19, who has supervised or completed hundreds of death certificates over three decades, I just want to walk you through how things really work and why the conspiracy theories are real 'fake news'.
How doctors certify deaths
Completion of death certificates is a serious and regulated part of a doctor’s responsibility. The consequences for professional registration or in the courts for deliberately falsifying certificates would be very serious. We are also very aware of just how upsetting the content of death certificates can be for bereaved families and the questions they can then have.
I realise that for some people, reading on might be hard to stomach and might trigger powerful emotions.
Contrary to some misinformation on the web, we are not paid to complete certificates and there is no financial bung for putting Covid-19 down.
Nor is there any conceivable credible motive for NHS doctors, en masse to exaggerate or play down the number of Covid-19 deaths.
The rules require us to complete the certificate 'to the best of your knowledge and belief' and, barring exceptional circumstances, requires the certificate to be completed by a doctor who knew and was attending to the person before death.
Deaths within hospital are all discussed with another doctor who is an independent Medical Examiner of Deaths and scrutinises the certificate. Some causes or circumstances of deaths are required by law to be discussed with the Coroner’s office and may lead to an inquest.
For patients being cremated (the majority in the UK) a cremation form must be completed and then checked by a second doctor not involved in the case.
Death Certificates contain causes 1a (cause directly leading to death) 1b and 1c (causes leading to 1a) and 2 (causes contributing to death but not directly related).
So, for instance, someone dying of a stroke might have that written as 1a and then with hypertension and diabetes listed as contributory causes.
Or they might have pneumonia as cause 1a with stroke as 1b.
If we believe someone has a condition – for instance a rapid onset cancer before there had even been time to complete all the scans and biopsies, we might sometimes still put this on the certificate or sometimes request a postmortem, depending on how sure we can be from other assessments while the patient was still alive.
Doctors treat a patient suffering from coronavirus on an intensive care ward (Image: PA)
Is it any different for patients with Covid-19?
The short answer is 'not really'.
If Covid-19 is in our clinical assessment of the person we have assessed and treated the main cause of death, we will put it as cause 1a.
In other cases, someone might die from a complication of Covid-19 – for instance a pulmonary embolism (blood clot) or a bacterial pneumonia in which case that will be 1a with Covid as 1b or c.
In other cases, the person may have had Covid contributing to a death from another cause – perhaps by making the person weaker or more susceptible or starting a chain of events and may appear as 2.
As I explained earlier, this is based on our knowledge and belief based on our assessment of the patient we were looking after, not any kind of pressure to write Covid-19 down on any part of the certificate if we didn’t feel it was relevant, just based on a positive test.
That said, although we do now have good access to quick testing for all patients with suspected Covid-19, back in March, April and May, we had a serious shortage of Covid-19 testing and tests were taking days to turn around, even for sick patients in hospital.
It was harder still to get tests for patients in their own homes or in care homes. And remember, anything from 10 to 30 percent of tests are 'false negatives' or at least first negatives, in people who go on to have confirmed Coronavirus with a second confirmatory test being needed.
There never was a formal requirement for a positive Covid-19 test to write Covid on a certificate if the clinical picture was clear and so yes, some patients, mostly earlier in the pandemic would have had Covid written down without yet testing positive.
That said, especially outside hospital the certifying doctors (usually GPs) might in some cases not write 'Covid-19' because of the lack of testing, even when it was quite likely. I would not assume overestimation.
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How central agencies collect and report the data
Some of the suspicion and misunderstanding around deaths directly from or with Covid-19 has been nothing to do with how we as doctors certify them, but how central agencies count and report the aggregated data.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) which is a statutory body independent of politicians is the source I would trust.
Why? Because it reports deaths based on what the doctors looking after the patient recorded on certificates based on their clinical knowledge of that patient.
They also report excess mortality figures (from all causes) relative to a five year average for that month or those months. You also get a breakdown of the most common pre-existing long term conditions in people where Covid-19 is certified.
These include Diabetes, Cancer, Dementia and High blood pressure as well as Frailty related to old age. And the ONS has reported right from March, the figures for deaths in all settings and not just hospitals. The ONS provides regular commentaries to guide you through the death statistics.
In the Spring, the government had to be pushed hard to start presenting data for deaths outside hospital (bear in mind around 1 in 3 Covid deaths have been in care homes and around 1 in 6 in other non-hospital settings).
It also switched its definition to deaths only in people with a positive Covid test and within 28 days of that test, which doubtless excludes people in whom Covid-19 was an important part of their final illness (it can cause lingering and relapsing 'long covid' symptoms and complications beyond that time).
So basically, the government’s own figures tend to underestimate not overestimate the overall numbers of Covid-19 deaths.
A nurse looks out from a Covid-19 recovery ward (Image: PA)
It might be boring and technical but…
In summary, there is a great deal of scrutiny and oversight of death certification. Doctors take the responsibility very seriously and could run into serious trouble for making it all up.
We have no conceivable motivation to ramp up or play down the numbers. And with over 300,000 doctors on the UK medical register, a big plot might just have leaked out by now.
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Although the different agencies put together the numbers differently and use slightly different definitions, there is no plot to distort them.
Not that any of this will stop keyboard warriors and conspiracy theorists arguing about it. But then an article like this wouldn’t change their minds anyway."
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@user-fm3xr9yz3i A VIDEO SHARED recently on an Irish Instagram account showed a supposed pharmaceutical expert discussing a claim that Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine contains high quantities of a chemical known as graphene oxide.
The person in the video – Dr Jane Ruby – explained during an interview that researchers at the University of Almeria in Spain had received a sealed vial with Pfizer markings on it which contained the chemical.
She stated that graphene oxide made up more than 99% of the contents of the vial.
Ruby suggested that there would be no reason for the vaccine to contain this, except “to murder people”, while describing graphene oxide as a poison that “destroys literally everything inside the cell”.
She further claimed that Covid-19 symptoms mirror those caused by the chemical, and alleged that “all four of the vaccine companies in the US are filled with 99% of this toxic industrial chemical”.
However, these claims are false: there is no proof that graphene oxide exists in any Covid-19 vaccine, and a closer look at the origins of the claim shows that it relies on poor quality evidence.
Graphene oxide
Graphene oxide is a chemical that consists of carbon and oxygen atoms. When oxygen is removed from the compound, what is left is a pure carbon material called graphene, often described as a wonder material because of its strength and electronic properties.
Graphene oxide easily dissolves in water, while it also has known toxic effects on cells and organisms, but this depends on the dose used and how it is administered.
A factcheck by The Science Times said that graphene oxide can cause toxic effects depending on its dose, but that it did not cause obvious toxicity in mice exposed to low doses (0.1 mg) and middle doses (0.25 mg) in studies.
Any risk of a chemical causing harm is based on how much of it people are exposed to.
An experimental influenza vaccine that contains graphene oxide nanoparticles has recently been reported on in a prestigious scientific journal.
These nanoparticles serve as carriers and aim to stimulate the immune system into responding to the vaccine, the authors of the scientific paper note.
However, the dose of graphene oxide in this injection is not toxic.
Nor is there any proof that people given a Covid-19 vaccine have been exposed to any graphene oxide.
The mRNA vaccines against Covid-19 rely on lipid nanoparticles (i.e. tiny, virus-sized pieces of fat) as the delivery vehicle, and not graphene oxide.
Spanish lab
Nevertheless, false claims about the use of graphene oxide in Covid-19 vaccines have begun to circulate in recent months.
The claims are based on reports about a single vial that was received by a Spanish lab on 19 June, which was labelled as the Pfizer vaccine but which is of unknown origin.
An English language version of a Spanish report about the vial, commissioned by a group of activists who are against the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, described its origin and traceability as unknown.
The report led to many claims on social media about all Covid-19 vaccines containing graphene oxide, after its author claimed that the vial – allegedly containing the Pfizer vaccine – had the chemical in it.
Dr Pablo Campra from the University of Almeria, Spain stated that this was a vial delivered by courier and that it contained 0.45 millilitres of a cloudy suspension.
After examining the contents under a microscope, he concluded that the contents looked like graphene oxide.
However, he also concluded that this was one single sample of unknown origin, and that more samples would be needed for study.
In her subsequent video, Ruby claimed that hundreds more vials were now in the lab, but Campra debunked this when asked by The Journal, saying that he had no more access to any other vials.
Campra also said that the initial sample was delivered by a policeman and dissociated himself with commentary online which suggests that graphene oxide toxicity causes the same symptoms as Covid-19.
Expert opinions
The Journal also asked other scientists about claims that Covid-19 vaccines contain graphene oxide, how this could be proved, and whether Campra’s study and Ruby’s claims stood up to scrutiny.
Dr Dimitri Scholz, Director of Niological Imaging at the Conway Institute in University College Dublin, said that the light and electron microscopy in the Campra’s small study was non-conclusive.
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@swax7124 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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I too, used to think it was stupid of the UK for cutting itself off from the worlds largest marketplace of nearly 500 million wealthy customers, all of whome are just one days truckride away from Britains farms and factories, and isolating our Erasmus university program students from those of 27 other diverse, rich cultures, languages and ideas, and discarding all the European protections, standards benefits and opportunites to work, retire, mary and live anywhere in a beautiful continent with skiing, swimming and sunning at will. But now I discovered that we are free to have the 1950 style crown printed onto our beer glasses again, it all seems to make so much more sense.
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@keithparker1346 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@keithparker1346 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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if you’re a 16-year-old trying to do your GCSEs, your one chance in life, I promised him we’d move somewhere, we’d get out of that house, and go somewhere where he could be peacefully studying.
"Someone then offered me accommodation where we could do that, I took it up, and it was the right thing to do for my boy, it didn’t cost the taxpayer a penny."
Asked if that was Lord Alli, Sir Keir says: "Yes, of course.
"But my primary concern wasn’t about influencing government, it was making sure my boy could do his GCSE’s without wading through loads of journalists outside the house."
SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT . IF ANY
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@jamesberry5578 things I liked from being in the e.u
1, freedom of movement
2, easy trade with 400 million people
3, better trade deals all around the world than what we have now.
4, being part of a strong club that stands together against tariff crazed presidents
5, a workforce that was 28 countries strong to pull from,
6, a more stable and strong pound
7, great new laws for workers
8, money coming in for local projects
9, money for are moaning farmers
10,not having fools on yt denying they were lied to and trying to defend the undefendable
do you need another 10 ?
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@jamyDodger where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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the last lab gov gave us Properly funded nhs, education, police
Increased wages, productivity, standard of living, child care availability, life expectancy , numeracy, literacy.
Falling homelessness, poverty, crime.
Then the global financial crash happened. The tories got in blamed Labour, introduced austerity which has led to the misery of the last 12 years, then blamed this misery on the last Labour government.
Then brexit to make things even worse.
Falling productivity, numeracy, literacy, life expectancy, standard of living,
Stagnant wages.
A totally mismanaged economy and no benefits for the ordinary people. And still people think its labour's fault.
Wake up!
Loser Johnson and his cabinet of losers losing for ordinary brits every day.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@maccagrabme Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@fatherjack1148 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@davidbarlow350 In addition to the development of memory B cells, which are capable of triggering a secondary immune response upon exposure to the pathogen targeted by a vaccine, vaccination is also beneficial at the population level. When a sufficient number of individuals in a population are immune to a disease, as would occur if a large proportion of a population were vaccinated, herd immunity is achieved. That means that if there is random mixing of individuals within the population, then the pathogen cannot be spread throughout the population. Herd immunity acts by breaking the transmission of infection or by lessening the chances of susceptible individuals coming in contact with a person who is infectious. Herd immunity provides a measure of protection to individuals who are not personally immune to the disease—for instance, individuals who, because of their age or underlying medical conditions, cannot receive vaccines or individuals who received vaccines but remain susceptible. Herd immunity played an important role in the successful eradication of smallpox, and it is vital in preventing the spread of diseases such as polio and measles.
Adverse reactions
Vaccination carries some risk of reaction, though adverse effects typically are very rare and very mild. The most common reactions to vaccines include redness and soreness around the vaccination site. More severe adverse reactions, such as vomiting, high fever, seizure, brain damage, or death, are possible for some vaccines. Such reactions are exceptionally rare, however—occurring in less than one in a million people for most vaccines. Severe reactions also tend to affect only certain populations, such as persons whose immune systems are compromised by preexisting disease (e.g., HIV/AIDS) or who are undergoing chemotherapy.
Claims have been made that vaccines are responsible for certain adverse health conditions, particularly autism, speech disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease. Some of those claims focused on thimerosal, a mercury-containing compound used as a preservative in vaccines. Some people believed that autism was a form of mercury poisoning, caused specifically by thimerosal in childhood vaccines. Those claims have been discredited. Still, misinformation and fear generated by false claims about associations between autism and vaccines had a significant impact on individuals’ perceptions about vaccine safety. In addition, most individuals in countries where vaccination is widespread have never personally experienced vaccine-preventable disease. Thus, the focus of concern for some people shifted from the negative effects of vaccine-preventable disease to the possible negative effects of the vaccines themselves.
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@davidbarlow350 What You Need to Know
mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases.
MRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies.
The benefit of mRNA vaccines, like all vaccines, is those vaccinated gain protection without ever having to risk the serious consequences of getting sick with COVID-19.
Learn more about getting your vaccine.
Messenger RNA vaccines—also called mRNA vaccines—are some of the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States.
New Approach to Vaccines
mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine to protect against infectious diseases. To trigger an immune response, many vaccines put a weakened or inactivated germ into our bodies. Not mRNA vaccines. Instead, they teach our cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our bodies.
A Closer Look at How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.
First, COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are given in the upper arm muscle. Once the instructions (mRNA) are inside the immune cells, the cells use them to make the protein piece. After the protein piece is made, the cell breaks down the instructions and gets rid of them.
Next, the cell displays the protein piece on its surface. Our immune systems recognize that the protein doesn’t belong there and begin building an immune response and making antibodies, like what happens in natural infection against COVID-19.
At the end of the process, our bodies have learned how to protect against future infection. The benefit of mRNA vaccines, like all vaccines, is those vaccinated gain this protection without ever having to risk the serious consequences of getting sick with COVID-19.
Facts about COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines
They cannot give someone COVID-19.
mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19.
They do not affect or interact with our DNA in any way.
mRNA never enters the nucleus of the cell, which is where our DNA (genetic material) is kept.
The cell breaks down and gets rid of the mRNA soon after it is finished using the instructions.
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Will Be Rigorously Evaluated for Safety
mRNA vaccines are safe and effective.
mRNA vaccines have been held to the same rigorous safety and effectiveness standards as all other types of vaccines in the United States. The only COVID-19 vaccines the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will make available for use in the United States (by approval or emergency use authorization) are those that meet these standards.
mRNA Vaccines Are New, But Not Unknown
Researchers have been studying and working with mRNA vaccines for decades. Interest has grown in these vaccines because they can be developed in a laboratory using readily available materials. This means the process can be standardized and scaled up, making vaccine development faster than traditional methods of making vaccines.
mRNA vaccines have been studied before for flu, Zika, rabies, and cytomegalovirus (CMV). As soon as the necessary information about the virus that causes COVID-19 was available, scientists began designing the mRNA instructions for cells to build the unique spike protein into an mRNA vaccine.
Future mRNA vaccine technology may allow for one vaccine to provide protection for multiple diseases, thus decreasing the number of shots needed for protection against common vaccine-preventable diseases.
Beyond vaccines, cancer research has used mRNA to trigger the immune system to target specific cancer cells.
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@davidbarlow350 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) received reports of 1,143 deaths following vaccination as of 5 May 2021, after almost 35 million people had received a vaccine, but there isn’t proof the deaths were caused by the vaccination.
When large groups of people are vaccinated, especially when elderly and vulnerable people are prioritised, you would expect a certain number of deaths after vaccination, just by chance. The MHRA has said the majority of reported deaths following a vaccine “were in elderly people or people with underlying illness”.
The MHRA has identified a possible link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and a type of serious blood clot, which has been observed in 262 people, killing 51.
The MHRA says the overall incidence of these blood clots is 10.9 per million doses (or 1 in 92,000). Therefore the incidence of death related to these blood clots is around 1 in 470,000.
As the clots appear to be more common in younger people, under 40s are being offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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Reality 1:
While it’s true that many European countries are facing economic struggles, attributing this solely to the EU is simplistic and ignores the broader global context. The economic challenges in Europe are partly a result of global factors such as inflation, energy prices, and supply chain disruptions, which are not unique to the EU. In fact, many EU countries have stronger economic resilience and recovery mechanisms precisely because they’re part of a unified bloc that can pool resources and coordinate responses. The UK’s exit from the EU has removed it from these shared frameworks, leaving it to face economic difficulties with less support.
Reality 2:
Yes, the UK voted to leave the EU, but to suggest that this decision is beyond challenge is a misunderstanding of democratic processes. Referendums are not the end of political debate; they are a moment in time. The outcome of Brexit has proven to be highly divisive, and over time, public opinion has shifted. Just because a majority voted to leave doesn’t mean that the consequences of that decision should be ignored or unexamined. As the negative impacts become clearer, calls for revisiting the issue or even re-joining the EU are growing, as people recognise the long-term costs of Brexit.
Reality 3:
Brexit may be irreversible, but that doesn’t mean the UK is locked out of European cooperation forever. The notion that the UK can’t re-join the EU or access the Single Market is not set in stone. While it’s true that re-joining would be a complicated process, it’s far from impossible. Many of the barriers Brexiters claim are insurmountable are more political than practical. The UK still has the potential to forge closer ties with Europe, whether through a future change of government or by seeking more flexible relationships, like joining the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) or negotiating bespoke trade agreements. The idea that Brexit is a permanent, irreversible decision is short-sighted—politics can and does change.
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Reality 1:
While it’s true that many European countries are facing economic struggles, attributing this solely to the EU is simplistic and ignores the broader global context. The economic challenges in Europe are partly a result of global factors such as inflation, energy prices, and supply chain disruptions, which are not unique to the EU. In fact, many EU countries have stronger economic resilience and recovery mechanisms precisely because they’re part of a unified bloc that can pool resources and coordinate responses. The UK’s exit from the EU has removed it from these shared frameworks, leaving it to face economic difficulties with less support.
Reality 2:
Yes, the UK voted to leave the EU, but to suggest that this decision is beyond challenge is a misunderstanding of democratic processes. Referendums are not the end of political debate; they are a moment in time. The outcome of Brexit has proven to be highly divisive, and over time, public opinion has shifted. Just because a majority voted to leave doesn’t mean that the consequences of that decision should be ignored or unexamined. As the negative impacts become clearer, calls for revisiting the issue or even re-joining the EU are growing, as people recognise the long-term costs of Brexit.
Reality 3:
Brexit may be irreversible, but that doesn’t mean the UK is locked out of European cooperation forever. The notion that the UK can’t re-join the EU or access the Single Market is not set in stone. While it’s true that re-joining would be a complicated process, it’s far from impossible. Many of the barriers Brexiters claim are insurmountable are more political than practical. The UK still has the potential to forge closer ties with Europe, whether through a future change of government or by seeking more flexible relationships, like joining the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) or negotiating bespoke trade agreements. The idea that Brexit is a permanent, irreversible decision is short-sighted—politics can and does change.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@RC-9 Britons support the right of transgender people to use facilities for their chosen gender, but oppose making the legal transition process easier
Last week it was reported that the government was gearing up to make announcements on changes to the rules around how transgender people can self-identity.
A recent YouGov poll for PinkNews showed that by 50% to 27% Britons believe that people should be allowed to self-identify as a gender different to the one they were assigned at birth. While still a commanding lead, this figure is a slight decline since 2019 (56% to 23%).
The results of another YouGov survey, conducted a week earlier as part of our public data programme which looks at public opinion on key social issues over time, take a comprehensive look at where the public stands on transgender rights.
Across the survey two distinct groups of opinion emerged, based on politics, gender and age. Labour, Lib Dem and Remain voters, along with women and younger people, are likelier to hold more trans-friendly views than Conservative and Leave voters, men and older people.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@HappyBob701
Its not like we weren't warned, numerous sackings, infidelities, lies, accusations of laziness, lack of a grasp of detail, surrounding himself with non entities prepared to lie for him, but finally, turning his famous tin ear to the thunderous voices telling him to go, even now, you can imagine him plotting his reincarnation within politics. He was the leader, but the disciples are equally complicit in his crimes.
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@imemine6494 1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
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@ Under the Blair/Brown government.
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s.
Introduction of the national minimum wage.
Increased police numbers by 14,000
Cut overall crime by 32%.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy not reached since.
Doubled funding for every pupil in England.
Wrote off 100% of debt owed by poorest countries.
Increased NHS staff by 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors.
Devolved power to Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly.
Introduced statutory paternity leave of two weeks.
Record number of students in higher education.
In Labour's last year of government, gave 828 million pounds of gift aid to charities (this exceeds the total amount given by the Conservatives in their entire period in office)
Raised child benefit by 26%.
Delivered 2,200 'Sure Start' children's centre's.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Pensioner's winter fuel payments of £200 or £300.
The only European government on course to achieve Kyoto targets (at that time).
26,000 new teachers .
All full time workers given the right to 24 days payed holiday.
A million pensioners and 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credits.
Introduced civil partnerships.
Over 1 million social housing homes brought up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over 500,000 since 1997 (NHS waiting lists have never dropped under Conservative administration
Provided the cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for the over 75s.
Banned Fox hunting, Fur farming and cosmetic testing on animals.
Free on demand breast screening for women 50 - 60
Free bus travel for the over 60s.
Labour's New Deal helped nearly 1.8 million people into work.
Free Eye tests for the over 60s.
Number of apprenticeships more than doubled.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000. And cancer deaths by 50,000.
Long term youth unemployment cut by 75%.
over 3 terms I know but torys just wasted their time , to early to start a list for this govt other than record money for NHS and workers rights bill and better trade deals and policies going through for more housing more growth and shorter waiting times for operations
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@dalebenton3354 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@Tom On 17 October 2019, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament delivered to the Government "The Russia report" into allegations of Russian interference in British politics, including alleged Russian interference in the referendum.[70][39] The government (led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson), which formally has authority to control the timing of its release to the public, refused to do so before the 2019 United Kingdom general election in December.[71] A number of legal actions tried to force the government to publish it.[72] In November, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism started a crowdfunding exercise to raise funds for legal action to force the British government to release the report.[73] In July 2020 the report was released by the ISC led by chairman Julian Lewis MP [5]
The report said the government “had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes,” and an official UK government response said: “We have seen no evidence of successful interference in the EU referendum.”[5]
The report also stated that the government had made minimal effort to investigate potential Russian interference into the Brexit referendum other than consulting open-source commentary.[5] The report discussed more broadly Russian interference in British politics, including an extensive "laundromat" of Russian investment into the United Kingdom often connected to the Russian state and the Putin-linked elite.[74][75] It discussed the likely effect on politics and that many members of the House of Lords have business interests in Russia.[75] The report stated that no government ministry took significant interest or specific responsibility in investigation, and that the British intelligence community believed election integrity was not a major focus.[75] It stated the presence of Russian intelligence in the UK is significant and poses a risk to Russian expatriates who criticise Putin.[76]
The report describes the United Kingdom as one of Russia's "top targets" and said it is "seen as central to the Western anti-Russian lobby".[77]
In September 2020, the Electoral Commission raised concerns about Russia-linked donations to the Tories that occurred prior to the Brexit referendum.[78][79] In October 2021, the Pandora Papers revealed more information about the potentially Kremlin-linked donations and multiple others
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27 February at 09:54 ·
UK RAISES ALERT LEVEL with Russia
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent Russian threats and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.”
Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.”
The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.
The Russians have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.”
The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s Get the Bastards.”
They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.....
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide.”
The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.”
The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France’s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.
Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout Loudly and Excitedly” to “Elaborate Military Posturing.”
Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”
The Germans have increased their alert state from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.”
They also have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbour” and “Lose.”
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from “No worries” to “She’ll be alright, Mate.”
Two more escalation levels remain: “Crikey! I think we’ll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!” and “The barbie is cancelled.”
So far, no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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Even if you ignore the dreadful withdrawal from Afghanistan, ignoring the Russia report and Cygnus report, the report into PPE contracts, deaths in care homes despite a protective ring around them, proroguing parliament, Brexit and the NI protocol, the shameful Sue Gray report, the watering down of the ministerial code, etc ....... there were numerous parties at number 10 breaking COVID laws, followed by misdirection and some would say lies, whilst many of us couldn't hold the hand of a dying loved one. Is this government incompetent, lazy, untrustworthy, evil, or just disgraceful ? And at the head of it all is Boris.
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Its not like we weren't warned, numerous sackings, infidelities, lies, accusations of laziness, lack of a grasp of detail, surrounding himself with non entities prepared to lie for him, but finally, turning his famous tin ear to the thunderous voices telling him to go, even now, you can imagine him plotting his reincarnation within politics. He was the leader, but the disciples are equally complicit in his crimes.
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@nj1sy1 Each country records deaths slightly differently – the excess mortality measure smoothes out some of these discrepancies and helps us compare countries more accurately.
There was a substantial number of excess deaths in the first half of 2020, particularly among the over-65s, and the peak is far higher than seen during previous influenza peaks.
There are gaps between official COVID-19 death counts and excess mortality rates. As more details emerge, further analysis will help countries work out the root of these differences.
The daily published number of infections and deaths as a result of coronavirus has become a depressingly familiar snapshot of the impact the pandemic is having globally. But trying to extrapolate the total global death toll is not as simple as it first seems. And trying to compare the number of COVID-19-related deaths by country can be misleading and confusing.
Each country has its own way of recording deaths – and its own time frame for doing so. Some governments only count deaths in hospitals, for example. And without widespread testing it’s not easy to keep a check on the number of confirmed cases. Added to this, there are also differences in how causes of death are recorded: coronavirus may be the trigger but death can result from a wide range of complications.
This also means that trying to draw conclusions about which countries have managed the outbreak best, and what strategies are working, is difficult.
The concept of ‘excess deaths’ is increasingly being used as a better and more consistent way of measuring the virus’ impact. In simple terms, this is the volume of deaths that occur over and above the expected normal for that country and time period, based on historic averages.
Comparing a country with its own past means that factors such as population demographics, disease incidence, poverty, inequality and the effectiveness of healthcare systems are less liable to skew the data. A measure of excess deaths also tends to smooth out any differences in the way deaths are counted. It allows us to see the full impact of COVID-19 on mortality, including deaths that were not directly attributable to the virus.
And it is clear to see that there has been a peak in death rates in the first half of 2020.
A bigger picture
For example, at the highest peak, Spain had 155% more deaths in a week than usual, and the UK had 109% more, according to UK charitable body The Health Foundation. As the chart above shows, as the number of infections around Europe declines, the wave of excess deaths in each country recedes. Germany, which introduced a contact tracing system early on, has had a notably small number of excess deaths.
EuroMOMO, a European network which monitors morality and excess deaths as a result of seasonal influenza and other public health risks, has pooled figures from several countries to give a bigger picture.
The data shows that from March 2020 onwards, there were substantial excess deaths, with the highest mortality among those aged 65 and over. There were also marked excess deaths in the 45-64 age bracket. And some countries – notably England and Spain – also saw excess deaths in the 15-44 age group. There was no excess mortality seen in children under 15.
EuroMOMO analysis shows that at the peak level of mortality in Europe, there was an excess of 35,800 deaths, the vast majority of which were of people over 65. In comparison, the highest excess mortality in any week during the previous four years was 16,165 during the severe 2016/17 influenza season.
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1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
31. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
32. Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
33. Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
34. Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997: the shortest waiting times since NHS records began.
35. Banned fox hunting.
36. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
37. Free TV licences for over-75s.
38. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
39. Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
40. Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s and disabled people.
41. New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
42. Over 3 million child trust funds started.
43. Free eye test for over 60s.
44. More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
45. Free entry to national museums and galleries.
46. Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
47. Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
48. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
49. Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
50. Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@seamusoflatcap Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@seamusoflatcap 2022
Neil Parish, Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton, was forced to resign in April after it was discovered that he had watched pornography in the House of Commons on at least two occasions.[54]
Chris Pincher scandal. Chris Pincher, the Deputy Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, resigned on 30th June following allegations about him groping two men.[55] Further allegations of harassment emerged against Pincher, along with claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had already been informed of his behaviour. [56] The incremental effect of this and other recent controversies led to the resignation of 59 Conservative politicians, most notably Rishi Sunak as Chancellor and Sajid Javid as Health Secretary. This in turn, led to Boris Johnson committing to resign as leader of the Conservative Party, and thus as prime minister, when his replacement as leader had been chosen by his party.
2024
In March 2024, The Guardian reported that Frank Hester, the largest ever donor to the Conservative Party, had made comments in a 2019 company meeting about the MP Diane Abbott. The paper reported that he said that looking at Abbott makes you "want to hate all black women" and that she "should be shot", as well as making comments about a female executive from another organisation, saying "it would be much better if she died", and about his own Asian female employees, saying “we take the piss out of the fact that all our Chinese girls sit together in Asian corner”
YES I WOULD SAY LABOUR HAVE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@greatscott369 where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@coronavirus4you648 just some things LABOUR sorted last time in power.
1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
2. Low mortgage rates.
3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.
4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
7. Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
8. Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
9. Employment is at its highest level ever.
10. 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
11. 85,000 more nurses.
12. 32,000 more doctors.
13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
15. Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
16. Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
18. Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
19. Restored city-wide government to London.
20. Record number of students in higher education.
21. Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
22. Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
23. Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
24. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
25. On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
26. Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
27. Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
28. All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
29. A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
30. The Child Poverty Act – 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
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Its not like we weren't warned, numerous sackings, infidelities, lies, accusations of laziness, lack of a grasp of detail, surrounding himself with non entities prepared to lie for him, but finally, turning his famous tin ear to the thunderous voices telling him to go, even now, you can imagine him plotting his reincarnation within politics. He was the leader, but the disciples are equally complicit in his crimes.
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𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗜𝗗𝗡’𝗧 ‘𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘’
Boris Johnson won the 2019 general election on his promise to get Brexit done with an ‘oven-ready deal’ that had been approved by everyone.
It was a lie. The Brexit deal that Mr Johnson personally signed is poised to be broken, not by the EU, but by Mr Johnson himself.
He has decided that he doesn’t like the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol that he negotiated and signed up to, so he thinks that the UK can just unilaterally change it.
Bottom line: the country was misled. Boris Johnson won the election based on lies.
It was the same with Brexit itself.
Every reason given to do Brexit – and I write every reason advisedly and purposefully – was based on lies, false promises and incorrect information.
Yes, EVERY reason.
For how long can Britain be led by lies and liars?
A bill to unilaterally override elements of the post-Brexit protocol with the EU is being published tomorrow (Monday 13 June).
This is something that the EU has warned could spark retaliation, adversely affecting our trade with Europe, the Good Friday Agreement, and the country’s international standing.
The government claims that breaking the protocol doesn’t break international law. But they would say that, wouldn’t they?
And haven’t we heard this line before? Law breakers saying they haven’t broken the law.
What does a dictatorial leader do when he's in trouble? He causes a diversion.
This is it, folks.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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Tory MPs stepping down at the next election (so far):
George Eustice, 51. Majority in Camborne and Redruth: 8,700.
Mark Pawsey, 65. Majority in Rugby: 13,447.
Sajid Javid, 52. Majority in Bromsgrove: 23,106.
Douglas Ross, 39. Majority in Moray: 513.
Dehenna Davison, 29. Majority in Bishop Auckland: 7,962.
William Wragg, 34. Majority in Hazel Grove: 4,423.
Chloe Smith, 40. Majority in Norwich North: 4,738.
Chris Skidmore, 41. Majority in Kingswood: 11,220.
Andrew Percy, 45. Majority in Brigg and Goole: 21,941.
Charles Walker, 55. Majority in Broxbourne: 19,807.
Adam Afriye, 57. Majority in Windsor: 20,079.
Crispin Blunt, 62. Majority in Reigate: 18,310.
Sir Mike Penning, 65. Majority in Hemel Hempstead: 14,563.
Sir Gary Streeter, 67. Majority in South West Devon: 21,430.
Matt Hancock, 44. Majority in West Suffolk: 23,194.
Edward Timpson, 49. Majority in Eddisbury: 18,443.
Jo Gideon, 70. Majority in Stoke-on-Trent: 670.
Sir Paul Beresford, 76. Majority in Mole Valley: 12,041.
Stephen McPartland, 46. Majority in Stevenage: 8,562.
Robin Walker, 44. Majority in Worcester: 6,758.
Sir Graham Brady, 55. Majority in Altrincham and Sale West: 6,139.
Pauline Latham, 75. Majority in Mid Derbyshire: 15,385.
Nicola Richards, 28, Majority in West Bromwich East: 1,593.
Stuart Anderson, 46, Majority in Wolverhampton South West: 1,661.
Gordon Henderson, 75, Majority in Sittingbourne & Sheppey: 24,479.
Henry Smith, 53. Majority in Crawley: 8,360.
John Howell, 67. Majority in Henley: 14,023.
Julian Knight, 51. Majority in Solihull: 21,273.
Chris Pincher, 53.Majority in Tamworth: 19,634.
Matthew Offord, 53. Majority in Hendon: 4,230.
Craig Whittaker, 60, Majority in Calder Valley: 5,774.
Jonathan Djanogly, 57, Majority in Huntingdon: 19,383.
Alister Jack, 59, Majority in Dumfries and Galloway: 1,805.
Sir Robert Goodwill, 66. Majority in Scarborough and Whitby: 10,270.
Richard Bacon, 60. Majority in South Norfolk: 21,275.
Philip Dunne, 64. Majority in Ludlow: 23,648.
Dominic Raab, 49. Majority in Esher and Walton: 2,743.
Will Quince, 40. Majority in Colchester: 9,423.
Royston Smith, 59. Majority in Southampton Itchen: 4,498.
Sir Bill Cash, 83. Majority in Stone: 19,945.
Lucy Allan, 58. Majority in Telford: 10,941.
Steve Brine, 49. Majority in Winchester: 985.
Ben Wallace, 53. Majority in Wyre and Preston North: 16,781.
Trudy Harrison, 47. Majority in Copeland: 5,842.
Nadine Dorries, 65. Majority in Mid-Bedfordshire: 24,664. Or not.
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@vegasmike Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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In short, Brexit is ideological only, in practice it makes no sense at all in economic terms. The hype about bringing back powers, making own laws, controlling immigration (meaning cutting it to near zero) simple caused more problems. I suspect globalisation was an issue, but that's more about the government not doing their job, creating new industries, jobs. Outsourcing doesn't work in at least half the cases I have personal experience of, but work in others. The point is for us to be innovative, at the front of research and development, to bring back manufacturing - why can hard drives and chips only be made in China / Taiwan? Why can't we make solar panels. I'm willing to pay more for things which are well designed and made, and even happier if the company is in the UK, so replacement parts available, and saving delivery costs and time. We are massively short of housing - so building new houses is critical. I have little doubt we will re-join parts of the EU in the next 5 years. And nobody but a very foolish country in the EU will look at us and say... I want some of that. We're served our purpose as the village idiot.
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@ Under the Blair/Brown government.
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 1960s.
Introduction of the national minimum wage.
Increased police numbers by 14,000
Cut overall crime by 32%.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy not reached since.
Doubled funding for every pupil in England.
Wrote off 100% of debt owed by poorest countries.
Increased NHS staff by 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors.
Devolved power to Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly.
Introduced statutory paternity leave of two weeks.
Record number of students in higher education.
In Labour's last year of government, gave 828 million pounds of gift aid to charities (this exceeds the total amount given by the Conservatives in their entire period in office)
Raised child benefit by 26%.
Delivered 2,200 'Sure Start' children's centre's.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Pensioner's winter fuel payments of £200 or £300.
The only European government on course to achieve Kyoto targets (at that time).
26,000 new teachers .
All full time workers given the right to 24 days payed holiday.
A million pensioners and 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credits.
Introduced civil partnerships.
Over 1 million social housing homes brought up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over 500,000 since 1997 (NHS waiting lists have never dropped under Conservative administration
Provided the cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for the over 75s.
Banned Fox hunting, Fur farming and cosmetic testing on animals.
Free on demand breast screening for women 50 - 60
Free bus travel for the over 60s.
Labour's New Deal helped nearly 1.8 million people into work.
Free Eye tests for the over 60s.
Number of apprenticeships more than doubled.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000. And cancer deaths by 50,000.
Long term youth unemployment cut by 75%.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@jpw6893 The government’s leaflet supporting Remain during the referendum said leaving meant there was a risk the UK could lose “full access” to the single market, but didn’t rule it out. It highlighted that, in terms of striking a trade deal if we left the EU, “no other country has managed to secure significant access to the Single Market” without significant trade-offs, including having to “follow EU rules over which they have no real say, pay into the EU, (and) accept EU citizens living and working in their country.
But given the sheer volume of debate around the EU referendum, it’s unsurprising that there were times when claims about our possible future relationship to the single market became unclear.
Some people have pointed out cases where other Leave campaigners appeared to suggest the UK should stay in the single market.
For example, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan said during an interview in 2015 that: "To repeat, absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market".
That is a different stance compared to the main claims of Leave campaigners, and Mr Hannan’s wording isn’t consistent across the interview itself either. Earlier on, he said "absolutely nobody is suggesting we would give up our position in the free market in Europe".
Again, because of this loose use of terminology, it’s easy to see why people would have taken different messages away after seeing this interview. On one reading, this is another case of talking about having a continued trading relationship with the EU after Brexit, as distinct from being a member of the single market.
There are also examples of leave campaigners claiming the UK could adopt a position similar to Norway—which is still part of the single market while not being an EU member.
Arron Banks, a founder of the Leave.EU campaign tweeted in November 2015 “Increasingly the Norway option looks the best for the UK”.
It’s fair to say that these examples are the exception rather than the rule when it comes to claims about the single market, but it makes the case again that the discussion before the referendum wasn’t entirely consistent on the kind of relationship the UK could have with the EU after leaving.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@Dean_dialectic This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@Dean_dialectic This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@steve0680657
Delivered, one pantomime, delivered, chaos, delivered, a carry on comedy, delivered a historical show of utter incompetence, delivered, debt, delivered repossessions, delivered bankruptcy, all delivered absolutely clearly, uncaringly and with all the aplomb of a reptile.
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@philippayne4951 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@gothicgolem2947 The official title President of the European Union (or President of Europe) does not exist, but there are a number of presidents of European Union institutions, including:
the President of the European Council (since 1 December 2019, Charles Michel)
the President of the European Commission (since 1 December 2019, Ursula von der Leyen)
the President of the European Parliament (since 11 January 2022, Roberta Metsola)
Alongside these the Council of the European Union (also known as the Council of Ministers or simply "the Council") containing 27 national ministers, one of each nation, rotates its presidency by country. This presidency is held by a country, not a person; meetings are chaired by the minister from the country holding the presidency (depending on the topic, or "configuration"), except for the Foreign Affairs Council (one so-called "configuration" of the Council of the EU), which is usually chaired by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.[1] The Presidency of the Council of the European Union has been held by Spain since 1 July 2023.
According to protocol, it is the President of the Parliament who comes first, as it is listed first in the treaties.[2] However, on the world stage, the principal representative of the EU is considered to be the President of the European Council,[3] but the President of the European Commission, as head of the executive branch of the European Union, takes part in the G7 and other international summits as well
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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The study authors found that even without a vaccine, if enough people take steps to safeguard their health and decrease transmission risk, these steps can drastically help reduce the spread of disease.
The study noted that the measures need to be adopted by more than 50 percent of the population to help prevent a larger epidemic.
“If a population quickly becomes aware of the coronavirus and effective prevention measures, self-imposed prevention measures can both diminish and postpone the peak number of cases,” the authors said.
The study researchers developed a computational model of the spread of COVID-19 based on known information about the epidemiology of the disease. The model was used to study the predicted effect of prevention measures.
“Combining self-imposed prevention measures — particularly if adopted quickly and by a large portion of the population — with government-imposed social distancing, has the potential to both delay and shrink the peak of the epidemic,” the study authors wrote.
These self-imposed prevention measures, including frequent handwashing, mask wearing, and physical distancing, are all proven to be effective on their own — but when combined are the ultimate triple threat against COVID-19.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), physical distancing (aka social distancing) can provide crucial time to increase healthcare capacity.
The CDC used a mathematical model to investigate the effectiveness of physical distancing. The results showed that distancing interventions that began earlier in the epidemic do, in fact, flatten the epidemic curve.
The CDC also confirmsTrusted Source that washing hands can keep people healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
Germs spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your face with unwashed hands, touch contaminated surfaces, or blow your nose, cough, or sneeze into your hands and then make contact with other people or objects.
Similarly, the Mayo Clinic confirms that face masks help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The virus is transmitted via respiratory droplets that are produced when a person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Masks, whether surgical or cloth, trap droplets and help stop the spread of transmission.
An earlier study from April 2020 shows that universal masking is emerging as one of the key non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing or slowing the spread of the virus.
The study showed universal masking (with at least 80 percent of the population participating) has a significant impact in slowing the spread, and is most effective when universal masking is adopted early on.
“This is something we’ve all been saying, and we’ve heard from public health experts from the beginning of the pandemic,” said Dr. Matthew G. Heinz, a hospitalist and internist based in Tucson.
“In states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida — all the states that are spiraling with rampant community spread — [these three measures] have to be enforced. It has to be something that is mandated,” he said. “No one should be going anywhere right now. That’s what we need to do for at least a month to get things under control.
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I too, used to think it was stupid of the UK for cutting itself off from the worlds largest marketplace of nearly 500 million wealthy customers, all of whome are just one days truckride away from Britains farms and factories, and isolating our Erasmus university program students from those of 27 other diverse, rich cultures, languages and ideas, and discarding all the European protections, standards benefits and opportunites to work, retire, mary and live anywhere in a beautiful continent with skiing, swimming and sunning at will. But now I discovered that we are free to have the 1950 style crown printed onto our beer glasses again, it all seems to make so much more sense.
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@dogsbreed5 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@stalinisaracist4351 Why are we surprised at all by this , I think Sunak is essentially a honest/sincere man but even he must know that some of the people foisted on him to "heal" the Tory party in this cabinet are as corrupt as hell.
Gove, Zahawi, Johnson, Truss, Rees Mogg all corrupt, ambitious, incompetent, some or all of these traits.
What surprises me is he must have known of his dealings with Johnson yet still tolerated him in his cabinet unless, surprise surprises he has the dirt on Sunak, who knows?
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Johnson say there was no need for a ethics advisor and not appoint one/sack him?.
Raab is not important and is a minor distraction but some one like Zahawi is a snake, perhaps Sunak has decided he needs to go and appointing an investigation is his way of getting rid of him (it wouldn't be the first time this has happened and it can be made quicker at the tip of a hat) and is a great way to rid yourself of competition for the No 1 spot, Keep your enemies close or watch them die on the back benches.
If he did angle for the job as chancellor interfering with tax systems is very risky as leaks are common in ministries , how ever he would have the heads up if unforeseen problems arose.
Either way this group of individuals are the worst" public servants" ever to have served us as a nation.
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@Azureecosse Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@RC-9 Tony Blair should not face prosecution for his role in the 2003 Iraq war, the high court has ruled.
The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and another senior judge, Mr Justice Ouseley, said on Monday that there was no crime of aggression in English law under which the former prime minister could be charged.
The decision blocks an attempt by a former Iraqi general, Abdulwaheed al-Rabbat, to bring a private war crimes prosecution against the former Labour leader.
Chilcot: Tony Blair was not 'straight with the nation' over Iraq war
Read more
The two judges recognised that a crime of aggression had recently been incorporated into international law, but said it did not apply retroactively.
The offence is not on UK statute books and it was for parliament to decide whether or not to do so, their judgment noted.
A recent supreme court case entitled Jones had ruled there was no crime of aggression in English law, Thomas said.
That judgment rejected an appeal by anti-war protesters that the damage they caused in 2003 was justified because they were preventing the greater crime of aggression in Iraq.
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@RC-9 Tony Blair should not face prosecution for his role in the 2003 Iraq war, the high court has ruled.
The lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and another senior judge, Mr Justice Ouseley, said on Monday that there was no crime of aggression in English law under which the former prime minister could be charged.
The decision blocks an attempt by a former Iraqi general, Abdulwaheed al-Rabbat, to bring a private war crimes prosecution against the former Labour leader.
Chilcot: Tony Blair was not 'straight with the nation' over Iraq war
Read more
The two judges recognised that a crime of aggression had recently been incorporated into international law, but said it did not apply retroactively.
The offence is not on UK statute books and it was for parliament to decide whether or not to do so, their judgment noted.
A recent supreme court case entitled Jones had ruled there was no crime of aggression in English law, Thomas said.
That judgment rejected an appeal by anti-war protesters that the damage they caused in 2003 was justified because they were preventing the greater crime of aggression in Iraq.
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@RC-9 Britons support the right of transgender people to use facilities for their chosen gender, but oppose making the legal transition process easier
Last week it was reported that the government was gearing up to make announcements on changes to the rules around how transgender people can self-identity.
A recent YouGov poll for PinkNews showed that by 50% to 27% Britons believe that people should be allowed to self-identify as a gender different to the one they were assigned at birth. While still a commanding lead, this figure is a slight decline since 2019 (56% to 23%).
The results of another YouGov survey, conducted a week earlier as part of our public data programme which looks at public opinion on key social issues over time, take a comprehensive look at where the public stands on transgender rights.
Across the survey two distinct groups of opinion emerged, based on politics, gender and age. Labour, Lib Dem and Remain voters, along with women and younger people, are likelier to hold more trans-friendly views than Conservative and Leave voters, men and older people.
AGAIN CON-SERVATIVES CARING FOR NOBODY BUT THEMSELVES
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@RC-9
For centuries, England and Great Britain showed the world very bright minds, innovative developments, world class inventions. Now, in these past years, it showed a complete reversal on intelligence, inventiveness, openness, fairness. Sad to say the UK has now developed into a rotten, unfair, stupid, greedy, fast losing country. For us in western countries, we have only one way up: to be innovative, inviting to foreign talents and OPEN. On another front, the UK developed MISTRUST: its EU neighbors wouldn't trust the UK for many many years to come and this will take decades to reverse.
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@RC-9 The Right to Buy scheme has been criticised for the following reasons:
Speculating investors were able to buy up council properties through deferred transaction agreements, hastening the rise in property costs;[citation needed]
Commercially and socially valuable council assets was sold at below their market value or replacement cost, which was an imprudent waste of public money;
The remaining stock of council housing was concentrated in undesirable areas with little employment opportunity, further isolating and stigmatising the tenants.[34]
A report published in January 2013 by London Assembly member Tom Copley, From Right to Buy to Buy to Let,[35] showed that 36% of homes sold under Right to Buy in London (52,000 homes) were being rented by councils from private landlords, leading to criticisms that the scheme "represents incredibly poor value for money to taxpayers" since it "helped to fuel the increase in the housing benefit bill, heaped more pressure on local authority waiting lists and led to more Londoners being forced into the under-regulated private rented sector".[36] A survey in 2013 showed around one third of Right to Buy houses were now owned by private landlords, while the son of the late Ian Gow (Thatcher's housing minister) owned some 40 houses.[37]
In 2015, Alan Murie concluded that "the proposed extension of right-to-buy could not easily be reconciled with the independence and charitable status of housing associations" and that "extending the right-to-buy to housing association tenants revived a previous Parliamentary debate and raised questions about the legal position of charities and the risks faced by housing associations and their funders".[12]
A 2017 BBC survey of council areas where waiting lists were rising showed the councils had bought back houses they had been forced to sell, sometimes at many times the original price. Housing charities criticised the lack of investment in affordable housing
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@RC-9 so sunak not knowing sh1t is irrelevant , you care more about transgender do you....
Britons support the right of transgender people to use facilities for their chosen gender, but oppose making the legal transition process easier
Last week it was reported that the government was gearing up to make announcements on changes to the rules around how transgender people can self-identity.
A recent YouGov poll for PinkNews showed that by 50% to 27% Britons believe that people should be allowed to self-identify as a gender different to the one they were assigned at birth. While still a commanding lead, this figure is a slight decline since 2019 (56% to 23%).
The results of another YouGov survey, conducted a week earlier as part of our public data programme which looks at public opinion on key social issues over time, take a comprehensive look at where the public stands on transgender rights.
Across the survey two distinct groups of opinion emerged, based on politics, gender and age. Labour, Lib Dem and Remain voters, along with women and younger people, are likelier to hold more trans-friendly views than Conservative and Leave voters, men and older people.
Attitudes differ somewhat by class, although generally to a much lesser extent than these other demographic factors, and more because people in the C2DE socio-economic group are more likely to respond “don’t know” than their ABC1 counterparts rather than actually taking an opposing view.
On the topic of don’t know responses, a sizeable minority of Britons are undecided when it comes to the trans-rights debate. For every question in the survey between 21% and 30% of people answered “don’t know”.
It is worth noting that in almost all instances, attitudes towards transgender women and transgender men are effectively identical. The bulk of the questions on the survey were asked previously in December 2018. In most cases attitudes among the general population today are essentially the same as they were 18 months ago.
There is an exception to both of these comparisons: sports. We detail the ways in which attitudes on this topic differ to the rest in the relevant section below.
The PinkNews survey shows that there is substantial support in the country for people’s freedom to identify their gender as they wish.
However, when the separate YouGov survey asked whether or not Britons themselves consider a transgender person to be the new gender identity they have adopted, the public are much more split. Four in ten Britons (40-41%) believe they are, compared to 36% who disagree.
These results are not necessarily contradictory. They suggest that while Britons support the freedom for a person to choose their own gender, some do so while not personally agreeing with those new labels.
Young Britons – those aged 18-24 – are most likely to accept the new gender identity of transgender men and women, at 54%. So too do a majority of Labour voters (53%). Least likely to recognise that transgender people now hold a new gender status are Leave voters (32%), men (33%) and Conservative voters (34%).
Men and women hold opposing views on the issue. Almost half (47-49%) of women accept the new gender identity of transgender men and women, while about three in ten (29-30%) do not.
By contrast, men refuse to accept the new gender identities of transgender men and women by 43% to 33%.
Britons oppose simplifying the legal process of changing genders
Following a brief explanation of what the current requirements are for someone to legally change their gender (exact wording can be seen in the chart below), by 47% to 28% Britons tended to think that this process should not be made easier. While they are pro-transgender rights on most of the other topics, on this subject Lib Dem and Remain voters, women and 25-49 year olds tend to oppose making the legal process easier.
The forthcoming government announcements will reportedly prevent transgender people self-identifying as a different gender without a doctor’s sign-off. This seems in line with the public view, with 63% thinking a doctor’s approval should be required compared to 16% who think it is unnecessary.
The public similarly believe (by 61% to 16%) that a transgender person should have to provide evidence that they have been living as their new gender for two years before being legally entitled to change gender.
On both of these requirements people across all social groups were more likely to support than oppose them.
People tend to be fine with transgender people using facilities for their new gender, but not if they have not undergone gender reassignment surgery
Despite being such a prominent battleground in the trans-rights debate, Britons tend to support transgender people using their new gender’s toilet (46-49% vs 28-30% opposed) and changing rooms (42-45% vs 32-34% opposed).
Women tend to reject the argument that allowing transgender women to use female facilities puts them at risk. By 46% to 28% women say that doing so does not present any genuine risk of harm. Men are more sceptical, thinking such a move puts women in danger by 31% to 37%. Among the overall population 39% believe there to be no genuine risk compared to 32% who disagree.
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@RC-9 What can anyone say? This sort of stuff has been so utterly dominant for so long now in British politics that it should come as no surprise - but it's hard to see how any government in the last 200 years in the UK has been so disregarding of truth, so contemptuous towards its own electorate, so corrupt, so utterly lacking in scruples or decency, so disingenuous... and yet 'we' keep voting them in, time after time after time, because simlple emotive topics like 'BRITAIN' and 'HARD WORKIGN PARENTS' etc., plus general dumbed-down rhetoric remains the order of the day and people still lap up easy to digest jingoistic twaddle and fall for exactly the traps and tricks that are played - in no small part thanks to those increasingly non-journalistic tabloids and so on. I would say one day it will change, that people will vote them out - but unless we ever get back to an age where accountability, decency, rigour, nuance, resposnsibility, an actual intent to do what is best for the most - well, it won't happen, will it. The worst thing is that they are propped up by, in many instances, those who they do the most relative harm to.
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@remoanersrknts7188 Which EU country do you wish to present as the example to make that point?
There are 27 economies in the EU only five fare slightly worse than the UK, all your direct neighbors with the exception of Germany do better, inside as well as outside the EU.
The OECD outlook for 2023 predicts an economic growth for the Eurozone of 0.9% and the UK of 0,3%.
Of the twenty two OECD countries only South Africa, Germany, Russia and Argentina do slightly worse than the UK.
The two other EU countries next to Germany in the OECD are Italy (1,2%) and France (0,8%).
According to World Economics the UK is still the fifth economy but with the second lowest GDP per capita in the G7 and France has overtaken the UK and is now the fourth economy in the World.
According to the IMF the only countries in the EU doing about as bad as the UK are Germany, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Lithuania.
Also according to the IMF the UK is the only G7 country expected to see negative growth over 2023.
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@DigitalDaffodil 1.When he was fired from The Times for inventing a quote
Within months of starting a job at Times, which he got through family connections, he was sacked.
In his first front page story, he invented a quote from an academic. The academic, who happened to be Johnson’s own godfather, complained.
Instead of apologising then, Johnson wrote a further story saying the “mystery had deepened”.
He was sacked by the Times but, through knowing its editor from Oxford, got a job at the Telegraph.
2. When he was sacked from the Tory front bench for lying about an affair.
Johnson denied having an affair with journalist Petronella Wyatt, saying: “I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash.”
However, Wyatt and her mother said the affair did happen and she had to have an abortion as a result.
A spin doctor to the then Tory leader Michael Howard decided Johnson had lied to them and sacked him from his role as party vice chair and shadow arts minister.
3. When he said the UK gives £350m a week to the EU
During the referendum campaign, Johnson was repeatedly pictured with a bus saying that the UK gave the EU £350m a week.
When an ITV reporter told him it wasn’t true, he repeatedly said that it was.
According to the UK Statistics Authority, this figure should be £289m a week and, more importantly, it doesn’t include what the EU gives the UK.
Nevertheless, Johnson continued to repeat the lie at least until 2017. The chair of the UK statistics authority wrote a public letter to him accusing him of a “clear misuse of official statistics”.
4. When he lied about Turkey joining the EU
Johnson was on the core group of the campaign committee of Vote Leave. A common Vote Leave campaign poster said “Turkey (population 76m) is joining the EU”.
Johnson himself wrote to Cameron to say: “The public will draw the reasonable conclusion that the only way to avoid having common borders with Turkey is to vote leave and take back control on 23 June,”
While there has been talk of Turkey joining the EU for decades, according to Full Fact, it is very unlikely to join any time soon.
As an EU member, the UK would have been able to veto Turkish membership if it ever did get close to joining.
5. When he lied about the EU’s kipper regulations
At the final Tory leadership hustings, he said “Brussels bureaucrats” rules meant kippers must be sent with a plastic ice pillow, thus increasing costs.
According to Full Fact, this is “incorrect”. The temperature requirement is a UK one.
6. When he promoted fracking
Johnson claimed: “There have been 125,000 fracks in the US, and not a single complaint to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).”
Full Fact say: “This is just not true. The EPA is currently examining the impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.”
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@portsmouth1781 Crude mortality rates, which is what we're talking about here, have been falling for most of the 20th and 21st century as medical science has advanced and people have lived longer. So casting this number as telling us "it's only as bad as 2003" isn't quite right.
A far better yardstick (since we're trying to judge this year versus similar years) is to see how this crude mortality rate compares with the years before it. Are things getting better or worse, in other words? These are what the ONS calls excess death rates (a term you're doubtless already familiar with), and when you look at these population adjusted excess death rates, a very different picture presents itself.
In 2020 the number of excess deaths, as a proportion of the population, rose by 12.1% compared with the average of the previous five years.
To put that in perspective, that's the biggest leap in any year since 1940. Bigger than during the 1951 flu epidemic. Bigger than during the Asian flu in the 1950s or the Hong Kong flu in the 1960s. In fact the only other years that come close - save for 1940 - are 1929, in which there was a global flu pandemic on top of an economic crash; 1918, year of the Spanish flu; and 1915, during the First World War.
It's worth underlining that these are not projections and these are not numbers dependent on diagnoses - they are cold hard numbers of those who have died of all causes. And they underline that even though this pandemic is still not over, it has already exerted an extraordinary cost in terms of lives lost.
However, excess deaths are not really the most comprehensive way of comparing these deaths, as while we've adjusted for the growing population size, we haven't adjusted for the fact that the population is ageing.
This really matters. Consider two imaginary countries: one where the majority of the population is over 80, the other where the majority is under 30. Now, you would always expect the country with an older population to see more people dying each year - even if the people there are comparatively healthier and have comparatively longer lives than those in the younger country.
So actuaries have devised a measure called age-standardised mortality. This is perhaps the gold standard of mortality measurements - so what happens when one examines 2020 in terms of standardised mortality?
Well, according to analysis carried out for Sky News by the Continuous Mortality Investigation of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, the deterioration in mortality during 2020 was almost without parallel.
In this case, we're measuring mortality improvements, so anything in negative territory is bad. And the fall in mortality improvements during 2020, compared with the previous year, was the single biggest annual drop since 1929. In fact, if you were to put together a list of the worst years for annual changes in mortality improvements going all the way back to 1842, 2020 would be the third biggest annual fall in mortality improvements, after the Great Freeze of 1895 and the flu pandemic of 1929 (and somewhat worse than 1847, during which there was a severe cholera outbreak, and 1915, the midst of the Great War).
It's worth underlining again: this is only one prism through which to view these numbers. None are altogether definitive. And annual numbers such as these sometimes underplay pandemics that straddle more than one year - or indeed which come amid other periods of human loss, such as the world wars. However, it is plain, even with much of this pandemic still playing out, that this is already a moment of near unparalleled loss of life.
That this has happened in spite of some of the most severe lockdown restrictions ever endured by this country makes these numbers doubly striking. Some will ask whether they would have been many times higher were it not for the restrictions. Others will argue that mortality could be affected by these indirect decisions for many years to come. Either way, the toll of COVID-19 is becoming clearer, and the numbers are thoroughly depressing.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@ where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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The study authors found that even without a vaccine, if enough people take steps to safeguard their health and decrease transmission risk, these steps can drastically help reduce the spread of disease.
The study noted that the measures need to be adopted by more than 50 percent of the population to help prevent a larger epidemic.
“If a population quickly becomes aware of the coronavirus and effective prevention measures, self-imposed prevention measures can both diminish and postpone the peak number of cases,” the authors said.
The study researchers developed a computational model of the spread of COVID-19 based on known information about the epidemiology of the disease. The model was used to study the predicted effect of prevention measures.
“Combining self-imposed prevention measures — particularly if adopted quickly and by a large portion of the population — with government-imposed social distancing, has the potential to both delay and shrink the peak of the epidemic,” the study authors wrote.
These self-imposed prevention measures, including frequent handwashing, mask wearing, and physical distancing, are all proven to be effective on their own — but when combined are the ultimate triple threat against COVID-19.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), physical distancing (aka social distancing) can provide crucial time to increase healthcare capacity.
The CDC used a mathematical model to investigate the effectiveness of physical distancing. The results showed that distancing interventions that began earlier in the epidemic do, in fact, flatten the epidemic curve.
The CDC also confirmsTrusted Source that washing hands can keep people healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
Germs spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your face with unwashed hands, touch contaminated surfaces, or blow your nose, cough, or sneeze into your hands and then make contact with other people or objects.
Similarly, the Mayo Clinic confirms that face masks help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The virus is transmitted via respiratory droplets that are produced when a person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Masks, whether surgical or cloth, trap droplets and help stop the spread of transmission.
An earlier study from April 2020 shows that universal masking is emerging as one of the key non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing or slowing the spread of the virus.
The study showed universal masking (with at least 80 percent of the population participating) has a significant impact in slowing the spread, and is most effective when universal masking is adopted early on.
“This is something we’ve all been saying, and we’ve heard from public health experts from the beginning of the pandemic,” said Dr. Matthew G. Heinz, a hospitalist and internist based in Tucson.
“In states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida — all the states that are spiraling with rampant community spread — [these three measures] have to be enforced. It has to be something that is mandated,” he said. “No one should be going anywhere right now. That’s what we need to do for at least a month to get things under control.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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@songsofloveresistance8549 Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@HappyBob701
Its not like we weren't warned, numerous sackings, infidelities, lies, accusations of laziness, lack of a grasp of detail, surrounding himself with non entities prepared to lie for him, but finally, turning his famous tin ear to the thunderous voices telling him to go, even now, you can imagine him plotting his reincarnation within politics. He was the leader, but the disciples are equally complicit in his crimes.
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@georgebodley8068 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@MrGreFunky Crude mortality rates, which is what we're talking about here, have been falling for most of the 20th and 21st century as medical science has advanced and people have lived longer. So casting this number as telling us "it's only as bad as 2003" isn't quite right.
A far better yardstick (since we're trying to judge this year versus similar years) is to see how this crude mortality rate compares with the years before it. Are things getting better or worse, in other words? These are what the ONS calls excess death rates (a term you're doubtless already familiar with), and when you look at these population adjusted excess death rates, a very different picture presents itself.
In 2020 the number of excess deaths, as a proportion of the population, rose by 12.1% compared with the average of the previous five years.
To put that in perspective, that's the biggest leap in any year since 1940. Bigger than during the 1951 flu epidemic. Bigger than during the Asian flu in the 1950s or the Hong Kong flu in the 1960s. In fact the only other years that come close - save for 1940 - are 1929, in which there was a global flu pandemic on top of an economic crash; 1918, year of the Spanish flu; and 1915, during the First World War.
It's worth underlining that these are not projections and these are not numbers dependent on diagnoses - they are cold hard numbers of those who have died of all causes. And they underline that even though this pandemic is still not over, it has already exerted an extraordinary cost in terms of lives lost.
However, excess deaths are not really the most comprehensive way of comparing these deaths, as while we've adjusted for the growing population size, we haven't adjusted for the fact that the population is ageing.
This really matters. Consider two imaginary countries: one where the majority of the population is over 80, the other where the majority is under 30. Now, you would always expect the country with an older population to see more people dying each year - even if the people there are comparatively healthier and have comparatively longer lives than those in the younger country.
So actuaries have devised a measure called age-standardised mortality. This is perhaps the gold standard of mortality measurements - so what happens when one examines 2020 in terms of standardised mortality?
Well, according to analysis carried out for Sky News by the Continuous Mortality Investigation of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, the deterioration in mortality during 2020 was almost without parallel.
In this case, we're measuring mortality improvements, so anything in negative territory is bad. And the fall in mortality improvements during 2020, compared with the previous year, was the single biggest annual drop since 1929. In fact, if you were to put together a list of the worst years for annual changes in mortality improvements going all the way back to 1842, 2020 would be the third biggest annual fall in mortality improvements, after the Great Freeze of 1895 and the flu pandemic of 1929 (and somewhat worse than 1847, during which there was a severe cholera outbreak, and 1915, the midst of the Great War).
It's worth underlining again: this is only one prism through which to view these numbers. None are altogether definitive. And annual numbers such as these sometimes underplay pandemics that straddle more than one year - or indeed which come amid other periods of human loss, such as the world wars. However, it is plain, even with much of this pandemic still playing out, that this is already a moment of near unparalleled loss of life.
That this has happened in spite of some of the most severe lockdown restrictions ever endured by this country makes these numbers doubly striking. Some will ask whether they would have been many times higher were it not for the restrictions. Others will argue that mortality could be affected by these indirect decisions for many years to come. Either way, the toll of COVID-19 is becoming clearer, and the numbers are thoroughly depressing.
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@alexhoffam4170 Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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The study authors found that even without a vaccine, if enough people take steps to safeguard their health and decrease transmission risk, these steps can drastically help reduce the spread of disease.
The study noted that the measures need to be adopted by more than 50 percent of the population to help prevent a larger epidemic.
“If a population quickly becomes aware of the coronavirus and effective prevention measures, self-imposed prevention measures can both diminish and postpone the peak number of cases,” the authors said.
The study researchers developed a computational model of the spread of COVID-19 based on known information about the epidemiology of the disease. The model was used to study the predicted effect of prevention measures.
“Combining self-imposed prevention measures — particularly if adopted quickly and by a large portion of the population — with government-imposed social distancing, has the potential to both delay and shrink the peak of the epidemic,” the study authors wrote.
These self-imposed prevention measures, including frequent handwashing, mask wearing, and physical distancing, are all proven to be effective on their own — but when combined are the ultimate triple threat against COVID-19.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), physical distancing (aka social distancing) can provide crucial time to increase healthcare capacity.
The CDC used a mathematical model to investigate the effectiveness of physical distancing. The results showed that distancing interventions that began earlier in the epidemic do, in fact, flatten the epidemic curve.
The CDC also confirmsTrusted Source that washing hands can keep people healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
Germs spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your face with unwashed hands, touch contaminated surfaces, or blow your nose, cough, or sneeze into your hands and then make contact with other people or objects.
Similarly, the Mayo Clinic confirms that face masks help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The virus is transmitted via respiratory droplets that are produced when a person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Masks, whether surgical or cloth, trap droplets and help stop the spread of transmission.
An earlier study from April 2020 shows that universal masking is emerging as one of the key non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing or slowing the spread of the virus.
The study showed universal masking (with at least 80 percent of the population participating) has a significant impact in slowing the spread, and is most effective when universal masking is adopted early on.
“This is something we’ve all been saying, and we’ve heard from public health experts from the beginning of the pandemic,” said Dr. Matthew G. Heinz, a hospitalist and internist based in Tucson.
“In states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida — all the states that are spiraling with rampant community spread — [these three measures] have to be enforced. It has to be something that is mandated,” he said. “No one should be going anywhere right now. That’s what we need to do for at least a month to get things under control.
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@garyspruce7736 19 June 2020 - birthday celebration
This took place in the Cabinet Room and was reportedly arranged as a surprise for Mr Johnson by his then fiancee, Carrie Symonds. WTF is she doing there?
Rishi Sunak was also there, but he told BBC News in February that he had gone to the Cabinet Room for a Covid meeting.
MOOR LIES CAN'T THEY STOP?
Up to 30 people attended, sang Happy Birthday and were served cake, according to ITV News. As well as Downing Street staff, the interior designer Lulu Lytle - who was not a member of No 10 staff - was present.
A PARTY PARTY PARTY
No 10 said staff had "gathered briefly" to "wish the prime minister a happy birthday", adding that the PM had been there "for less than 10 minutes".
PEOPLE NOT GIVEN 10 MINUTES TO VISIT DYING LOVE ONES
Sue Gray report: What exactly is she looking at?
The rules
Gatherings of more than two people inside were banned by law. An exception was allowed if the gathering "was reasonably necessary" for work purposes.
The fines known as fixed penalty notices (FPN) started at £100, which would fall to £50 if paid within 14 days. The fines double for each further offence. The initial fine increased to £200 in September 2020.
As Mr Johnson is to be issued with an FPN for this gathering, it is clear the police have not deemed the gathering to have been necessary.
20 May 2020 - garden drinks party
Boris Johnson apologised to MPs for attending a drinks party in the Downing Street garden, saying he spent 25 minutes thanking staff, before returning to his office.
Staff had been invited to "bring your own booze" to the event. Mr Johnson said he had not been notified in advance and had "believed implicitly" it had been a work event.
The rules
This was during the first lockdown when people could not leave their homes - or be outside the place they lived - without a reasonable excuse, which included work (where you couldn't work from home).
Covid rules expert Adam Wagner, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, says it is difficult to see how this Downing Street event would have been in line with the rules.
"If you were doing something which wasn't necessary for work then you weren't outside of your house [with] a reasonable excuse and you were potentially committing a criminal offence."
However, he added that as the prime minister and his wife live in Downing Street they would not have technically left their home to attend the party.
The law also banned gatherings in a public place of more than two people, unless they were all members of the same household or the gathering was "essential for work purposes". However, lawyers have noted that Downing Street is not a public place.
On the day of the party, the government Twitter account reminded people of the existing guidance that gatherings must be limited to two people outside.
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Merging Labour with the Conservatives overlooks Labour's commitment to distinct policies under Keir Starmer's leadership. Labour's agenda includes promoting economic stability without compromising on sound finances, establishing a publicly owned clean energy company, ensuring the NHS has the resources to improve service, putting more police on the streets for safer communities, and breaking down barriers to opportunity through education and childcare reforms. These policies aim to address key issues directly affecting the British people, distinguishing Labour's approach from the Conservatives.
The Tories "employed" Cameron as their Tory Blair, so what happened? In 2010 the UK had the highest rated by the UN healthcare system in the World, the highest education standards in the World, even after the US banking crash (the second biggest economic collapse since the Wall Street Crash) higher real term wages by more than a 6th. We had the most efficient infrastructure building industry on Earth too. We had [massively] lower taxation, a debt level of about 1/4 of today. So what went wrong? What, in 2010, changed this country? Blair doubled GDP by 2009 on top of lowering the debt and lowering taxes, so what happened in 2010? Blair's government saw the 2nd largest increase in personal wealth among the working and middle classes in Britain, so what happened in 2010 to reverse that?
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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where wages are growing faster than inflation, where NHS waiting lists have reduced 4 months in a row at the busiest time of year, where tax take has just produced a surplus, where over 20,000 deportations have taken place as we start to clear the asylum backlog and where border force has been strengthened, So, with the news that hiring is up, and above the increase this time last year, although the economy is still very weak, it's better on every measure I can think of than this time last year. Interest rates are lower, inflation is lower, energy bills are lower, pay is higher, and hiring is higher. No wonder the Tories are so desperate to get rid of Rachel Reeves.
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@Tom Talking about the UK Government, Mr Nicholson wrote: "Pity they did not think that super wealthy foreign nationals, oligarchs, sheikhs and states owning our football clubs and much of the infrastructure and utilities of this country was actually surrendering our nation to powers who do not have our best interests at heart.
"Vladimir Putin wanted to destabilise and weaken the EU and he used Brexit and Donald Trump to do it.
"It made Putin’s self-belief stronger.
"Look at how he could manipulate the western fools.
"Now look where that has led.
Russia: Many previously claimed that Putin had a hand in influencing the Brexit vote
Russia: Many previously claimed that Putin had a hand in influencing the Brexit vote
Others too have pointed at Brexit as being one of the factors in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Marcus Chown, an author, told his nearly 50,000 Twitter followers that there was a direct link between the two things.
He said: "Unfortunately, a vote for Brexit was a vote for Putin to invade Ukraine because it weakened the Western alliance and emboldened Putin.
"Putin’s people engineered this by bankrolling the Conservative Party and the Brexit campaign, which is why Johnson has hidden the Russia Report."
That report, a 50-page document from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security committee, was published in July 2020 and was widely criticised for being heavily redacted.
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This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour than the corrupt, lying Tory criminals. FACT!
Vote the Tory crooks & shysters out. Britain deserves better, Britain deserves prosperity over Tory imposed poverty!
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@kevinsyd2012 This is the stock response from those who are unable to accept just how bad the Tories have been for this country over the last ten years or so. It adds nothing to what we know. In fact, more than that, it suggests that somehow you know more than anyone else, and yet you completely fail at explaining what that is, probably because you don’t have a clue.
If we look at the record of the current Labour opposition we see a number of front benchers who are articulate, understand what is going on and have a track record of honesty, integrity and intelligence sorely missing from the shower of liars, cheats and chancers sitting opposite them. You may disagree, but I’m afraid the evidence is right in front of your eyes - we’ll now have three PMs in two months, cabinet ministers lasting sometimes just days, lunatic policies followed by U turns, a string of idiots openly supporting people you know will get the boot within hours, scheming and back-biting from those hoping to be the next chosen one, and most importantly a government incapable of commanding respect and authority having cost the country a large fortune in the space of weeks, clearly manipulated by shadowy right wing fanatics in 55 Tufton St.
It’s time they were chucked out into the street so that some decent people can at least have a go at repairing the horrendous mess they’ve created.
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Worth remembering the stark difference of what a Labour government delivers, compared to the dire poverty and inept, inadequate and incompetent lying Tory criminals.
Yes, 13 years of Tory inept, inadequate and incompetent governance.
When Labour were in government: we all enjoyed-:
- Longest period of sustained lowest inflation since the 1960s.
- Lowest mortgage rates
- Introduced the National Minimum Wage.
- More than 14000 Police sustained in England & Wales than the Tories maintained - the Tories sacked 20,000 police officer places.
- Labour cut overall crime by 32%
- 85,000 More Nurses
- 32,000 More Doctors
- Brought back Matrons to hospital wards.
- 36,000 More Teachers
- 274,000 More support staff and Teaching assistants.
- ALL full time workers given the right to 24 day paid holidays.
- One Million Pensioners lifted out of poverty.
- 600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
- Hospital waiting list sat 18 WEEKS maximum.
- The Cleanest Rivers, Beaches, Drinking Water and Air, since the Industrial Revolution.
And the Economy was doing much, much better under Labour
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@snowyowel7961
Even if you ignore the dreadful withdrawal from Afghanistan, ignoring the Russia report and Cygnus report, the report into PPE contracts, deaths in care homes despite a protective ring around them, proroguing parliament, Brexit and the NI protocol, the shameful Sue Gray report, the watering down of the ministerial code, etc ....... there were numerous parties at number 10 breaking COVID laws, followed by misdirection and some would say lies, whilst many of us couldn't hold the hand of a dying loved one. Is this government incompetent, lazy, untrustworthy, evil, or just disgraceful ? And at the head of it all is Boris
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@snowyowel7961 just a dozen for now
1) “One of the reasons we’re having this election is because we have a Queen’s speech that was blocked by parliament”.
Actually the Queen's Speech is one of the few votes that Boris Johnson has won as PM.
The Queen's Speech is one of the few votes that Boris Johnson has won ( Image: REUTERS)
2) Boris Johnson claimed that he did not suspend parliament to stop MPs scrutinising his Brexit deal.
The Supreme Court ruled otherwise. It said prorogation had the effect of "frustrating or preventing the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justifications."
3) Parliament voted to approve the Brexit deal.
Parliament did not vote to approve the PM’s Brexit deal. Instead it backed the second reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - its first hurdle in Parliament.
4) On prorogation - “One of the reasons I wanted to have a Queen’s Speech was so that we could bring back the domestic violence Bill”
The domestic violence Bill, officially the domestic abuse Bill, had already had its first reading in the Commons on 16 July, before prorogation. When the government announced prorogation, Bills in Parliament at that time - like the domestic abuse bill - were “understood to have fallen.” He did bring it back but only after that.
5) Delaying Brexit is costing £1billion a month
The fact-checking website Full Fact says this cost is only when compared to a no-deal Brexit, in which the UK refuses to pay any divorce bill. It also doesn't include money the UK gets back out of the EU.
Delaying Brexit doesn't exactly cost £1billion a month ( Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
6) The Tories are building 40 new hospitals
Boris Johnson ’s promise of 40 ‘new hospitals’ will actually only deliver six with 'seed funding' for others. And the figure includes renovations of existing hospitals.
7) Labour voted against £7,800 of tax cuts on working people
The £7,800 figure appears to be a catch-all Tory estimate of the times Labour has, for example, voted against the Budget. But Labour often votes against Budgets for good reasons that have nothing to do with tax.
8) Johnson denied that he had said police forces were “spaffing money up the wall” on historic child abuse investigations
In March this year, Johnson said on live radio “£60m I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse”. His comments were a prominent news story at the time.
9) Labour will allow a Scottish independence referendum in 2020
Labour have ruled out allowing a Scottish independence referendum in 2020 and in the early years of the new parliament. There could be one at a later date, however.
Labour have ruled out allowing a Scottish independence referendum in 2020 ( Image: Jeff J Mitchell)
10) NHS spending rise is the 'biggest in modern memory'
The Tories are indeed pledging £34bn in cash terms by 2023/24 - a 3.2% real terms rise. But the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank makes clear this is still less than it used to rise under Labour - and comes after years of Tory cuts.
11) Jeremy Corbyn wants to scrap MI5
Labour's 2019 election manifesto vows the opposite, saying: "We will ensure closer counter terrorism co-ordination between the police and the security services." Diane Abbott signed an Early Day Motion calling for the abolition of MI5 in 1989, but said more than two years ago that her views had changed.
12) Boris Johnson claims EU rules mean kippers have to be packaged with plastic ice pillows.
He made the claim during a leadership hustings, brandishing the fish in its offending plastic packaging. EU regulation covers fresh fish, not smoked fish. The UK's Food Standard Agency says food manufacturers must transport food so it is fit to eat. This might require a "cool bag".
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Euro Wars Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@HappyBob701
Its not like we weren't warned, numerous sackings, infidelities, lies, accusations of laziness, lack of a grasp of detail, surrounding himself with non entities prepared to lie for him, but finally, turning his famous tin ear to the thunderous voices telling him to go, even now, you can imagine him plotting his reincarnation within politics. He was the leader, but the disciples are equally complicit in his crimes.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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Here are just 50 things Labour did for decent working class people during their 12 years…..
Introduced Concessionary Travel Act (Which Cretin Johnson claimed he was responsible for)
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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@millwallholdings Have you noticed it’s always ‘tomorrow’ with the tories, but tomorrow never comes?!
Here are only 50 things that Labour actually DID in their 12 years…..
Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.
Low mortgage rates.
Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52.
Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.
Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.
Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools.
Young people achieving some of the best ever results at 14, 16, and 18.
Funding for every pupil in England has doubled.
Employment is at its highest level ever.
Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries.
85,000 more nurses.
32,000 more doctors.
Brought back matrons to hospital wards.
Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament.
Devolved power to the Welsh Assembly.
Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time.
NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice.
Gift aid was worth £828 million to charities last year.
Restored city-wide government to London.
Record number of students in higher education.
Child benefit up 26 per cent since 1997.
Delivered 2,200 Sure Start Children’s Centres.
Introduced the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
£200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & up to £300 for over-80s.
On course to exceed our Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Restored devolved government to Northern Ireland.
Over 36,000 more teachers in England and 274,000 more support staff and teaching assistants.
All full time workers now have a right to 24 days paid holiday.
A million pensioners lifted out of poverty.
600,000 children lifted out of relative poverty.
Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents.
Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships.
Brought over 1 million social homes up to standard.
Inpatient waiting lists down by over half a million since 1997.
Banned fox hunting.
Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since before the industrial revolution.
Free TV licences for over-75s.
Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Free breast cancer screening for all women aged between 50-70.
Free off peak local bus travel for over-60s.
New Deal – helped over 1.8 million people into work.
Over 3 million child trust funds have been started.
Free eye test for over 60s.
More than doubled the number of apprenticeships.
Free entry to national museums and galleries.
Overseas aid budget more than doubled.
Heart disease deaths down by 150,000 and cancer deaths down by 50,000.
Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent.
Free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.
Free fruit for most four to six-year-olds at school.
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