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Super cold or Flu...... (1,759 posts / 63,267 views)
mal mal
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Post #1048 31 Dec 2021 16:42
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Autocorrect or fat fingers....

Fixed now
benyel29 benyel29
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Post #1049 31 Dec 2021 19:17
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My step dad had private care through his work. Had over 90k worth of treatment all covered. He then retired and lost all healthcare benefits. ... but has his dr private number. When his cancer returned he was seen on the NHS by the same doctor but jumped every queue and was seen by his private dr on the nhs


So wrong in my opinion, but in this instance so right cause it was my step dad

Another instance, my 3 month old baby had a lump, we paid private to get seen straight away. The dr took cash for the appointment then said your better of going to your main hospital,she said dont worry I'm the nhs manager for that sept. she made a phone call we went straight to the hospital, told the ward nurse we'd been sent by dr so and so. Again jumped all queues and was in and out within two hours

So wrong again but both times benefited me
TeeCee
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Post #1050 1 Jan 2022 07:22
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Obviously the Eutopians among us have very short memories

The great PFI scamola

The NHS is being rinsed, add to that swathes of profitable sections of the NHS run by private companies for example Virgin Health Care (Branson) where it has been running palative care for kiddies for years in Devon and Cornwall and had been creeping like a cancer into other areas of the country. What about practically non existent accountancy were money just disappears due in part as no-one is held directly accountable for the huge losses they make day in, day out. Take for example just one anecdotal tale from a mate of mine who was working in a hospital as a contractor: my pal retold a tale of a "relaxation area" where middle management would take some time off to sooth their daily stress levels and wipe their weary brows - the poor things. He told me that this "relaxation area" had a patio that got laid, ripped up over the course of time he was there 4 times simply because when the big cheese of the dept came to inspect the patio, he just turned around, swiveling on his heels and said he didn't like it and go with another type of slab, bearing in mind, it was this clown (big cheese) that decided on the slabs in the first place.

The wastage mindset I believe comes from people who have never worked in the private sector, instead they believe that there's this money tree that when shaken, like magic, money comes raining down. I was chatting to a bloke who came from the private sector (big house builder quantity surveyor) who decided to go and work for a local council as one of his mates on the council had been on his case for years to work on the council. He said he just couldn't get his head around the sheer uselessness and wastage he was seeing like no-one checking contracts and questioning the contractors about the prices they were charging like he would in the private sector as he'd have someone checking where the money was going and what it was spent on etc etc above him.

I'll wrap up his up here

In a nutshell, it's no wonder lefties with the 'we can live like this forever' mindset and the general piss takers and those that have never worked in the private sector gravitate towards these publicly funded jobs as no-one really cares, no-one is really accountable and the s4itshow continues to infinitum and beyond. I genuinely believe that the NHS is an amazing concept and should always be run as a public service, just a shame it's run by c**ts.

VLT VLT
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Post #1051 1 Jan 2022 09:39
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I was with you all the way up to 'a mate of mine'
noj
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Social photographer... Post #1052 1 Jan 2022 09:39
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They've knighted Whitty and Van Tam.
One bloke who couldn't lift a knight's armour and another who couldn't fit in it, knighted... for doing their job of sitting at a desk or talking on tv. Sorry that's ****ing ridiculous, or are they saying it's over and these knobs did a good job? Didn't think so
TeeCee
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Post #1053 1 Jan 2022 09:52
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It became a running joke between us. He used to phone me up on his fag breaks to tell what one they've gone for this time. Think they went with marble in the end and water fountains. Seen similar tax payer funded nonsense myself.
Sussexcarper93
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Post #1054 1 Jan 2022 09:53
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I have no issue with Whitty, i've always got the impression he didn't want to be up there at the press conferences.
TeeCee
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Post #1055 1 Jan 2022 09:57
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Just a way to underscore the validity of the reaction to Covid to the proletariat.

That computer modeling guy Neil Ferguson has to up for a Nobel peace prize, surely?
Publiclife Publiclife
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Post #1056 1 Jan 2022 10:07
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Never understood the whole knighthood rubbish to be honest, I mean you have people who save life's day in day out who get paid sod all (and get very little in the way of thanks) and then you have a fella who drives a race car for the top team with the fastest car who gets paid millions of pounds (and pay zero tax to the uk) who then gets knighted 🤷‍♂️
Pretty much sums things up I think.
TeeCee
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Post #1057 1 Jan 2022 10:14
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The people you're talking about are used as avatars/figureheads at any point along the way to forward whatever agenda needs pushing.
JasonM JasonM
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Post #1058 1 Jan 2022 10:21
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Nor I well done on their knighthoods. well deserved not so sure on Blair though....

noj
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Social photographer... Post #1059 1 Jan 2022 10:29
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Deserved
The **** couldn't fend off an adolescent anti vaxxer
He's from weak sperm and doesn't deserve any recognition for doing his (very well paid) job.
Any posthumous knighthoods for frontline doctors that died with covid? Didn't think so
JasonM JasonM
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Post #1060 1 Jan 2022 10:51
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Well he clearly didn't need to use his muscles for his knighthood 😅
noj
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Social photographer... Post #1061 1 Jan 2022 11:14
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Just enough to stay vertical at the lectern for half hour
Sorry I'm being unnecessarily cruel to him and fat tam, I know they studied for a long time to gain those well paid nothing jobs. You have to admit, you wouldn't ask Whitty for a push if your car broke down and he really didn't earn that knighthood
benyel29 benyel29
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Post #1062 1 Jan 2022 11:18
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Putting aside knighthoods

Fat tam as you call him, isn't he a qualified doctor. Wouldn't be a nothing job if he so happened to be treating you or your family
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