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  1. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    When all these people say that a trump victory brings democracy into question I'm not sure what they're implying - that voters only get to vote for people they like in a true democracy? I'm unsure, but it's a common theme from many that democracy is only properly functioning if people they like...
  2. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    You said you found the issues around the vaccine confusing so I was just trying to pass on the "inside info" I'm aware of.
  3. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    A close family member is a pathologist working for a large life science company that conducted the UK clinical trials for the AZ vaccine. "From scratch" - well you're correct it wasn't entirely from scratch, as I've said it built on existing tried and tested vaccination techniques for e.g. flu...
  4. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Flatlining economy certainly was - UK is in line with its peers and the extent to which your economy struggled from 2022-2024 was almost exactly in line with how reliant you were on fossil fuels and particularly how reliant on Russian fossil you were. France (went big on nuclear post-war) did...
  5. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The OBR didn't say that at all. They said that The Treasury (not ministers or MPs) have a legal obligation to disclose all known spending pressures that would impact the OBR's analysis of the budget. The Treasury failed to disclose c. £9.5 billion of spending pressures that would have...
  6. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I mean, a company always has ties to someone. I think there is an That's not what the OBR said. The OBR said the Treasury have a legal obligation to inform the OBR of spending pressures and they committed to tell them about £9.5 billion which was enough to have materially altered the OBR's...
  7. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They weren't looking at developing a vaccine for a coronavirus at the time Covid broke out and while they do keep viruses under surveillance for pandemic potential, coronaviruses are generally considered low risk from a pandemic potential: - Humans are generally not very susceptible to...
  8. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    But again, the NHS needs drugs and drugs are largely produced by big pharma. Note, that I say produced. I think the Covid pandemic illustrated that while these drugs are often developed or based on research by small academic teams or independent start-ups, you're going to need an Astrazenica...
  9. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    To be fair, it isn't Ed Milliband's company as such, but NESO is a public company incorporated by and under thr control of Ed Milliband's department and with Ed Milliband as the sole "person of significant control" in his capacity as Secretary of State. So not quite as bad in terms of perceived...
  10. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Paracetamol causes deaths and actually if you look up the potential side effects of paracetamol it is pretty horrific in terms of potential. What we don't have normally though is billions of people all over the world taking a drug at the same time with 24/7 news analysis of the results.
  11. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    So I don't think you can isolate the NHS from the private sector. And therefore you can't isolate it from profit generation. Profit margins for private companies are necessary to safeguard against future uncertainty. Recommended "safe" net profit margin is towards the 10-20% mark depending on...
  12. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I think this is a big thing. The NHS has had huge amounts poured into it. It's had eye-watering funding uplifts in the last 5 years particularly. It has been claiming it is on its knees financially for probably the last 30 years. I invite anyone to go on NHS jobs and scroll through the...
  13. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Primary destination of NI payments is to fund your state pension entitlement. Boris Johnson's government made a move to expand it significantly to cover health & socialcare funding but it was a policy reversed by Truss and never picked up again by either Sunak or Starmer.....so there we have it.
  14. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I think I've just had an allergic reaction to Starmer from the beginning. Two things stood out as massive red flags on my self-entitled-tin-eared-narcissist-dar with him: 1) The fact that I didn't agree politically with a single one doesn't mean I didn't find it pretty alarming the ease with...
  15. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They slowly became some sort of model for those arguing that you could have more socialism without turning into China, Cuba or Venezuela. I think it accelerated during the Brexit debate where Scandinavia's varying degrees of involvement with EU or EEA treaties were analysed by both sides. But...
  16. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    A little talked about stat about how "unfair" our tax system is, is how many people in this country don't pay income tax at all. In fact, Labour's stance on keeping the freeze on tax free allowance us essentially a direct "tax on working people" as it is due to bring millions into the income...
  17. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Any uplift in NHS funding will basically be paying for the large pay deals they've agreed with the unions for NHS staff and won't address any structure issues in the service over the next five years. Similarly, any education budget uplift will be eaten by the pay deals agreed and the one unions...
  18. K

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa FC ***

    You can make teams look bad via your own performance. Villa looked ragged in the second half and they were - but that's because some of our one-touch passing and movement was incredible. I'm sorry, but Solanke's first goal - they were well set defensively and there were no gaps. Kulu got that...
  19. K

    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa FC ***

    Yeah, good team from Ange (Bentancur and Sarr in were the changes i was looking for) and good game management with the subs- which he again got spot on. Really overran them in the 2nd half and made them look very average and they're a good team make no mistake.
  20. K

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I've voted for both tory and Labour in the past and I didn't vote in the last election. I find that those that lean towards a particular party or ideology let's say often struggle to see the wood for the trees when it comes to critiquing their preferred party. Yes, it's early days, but I don't...
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