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Alan Harper's Tash said:
Absolutely he could have been better. He was far better than any Tory PM in my lifetime though.

When we’re the country’s happiest years of the past 50 years? One could argue 2012 because of the Olympics and Jubilee, but other than that, they’d coincide with Blair.
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I meant a disappointment with his pandering to Bush. Blair did a lot right and it was a missed opportunity for him and the country. When I think of Blair I think so so close.

Crying shame really.
 
Javid on Andrew Marr - running scared of the Tory back benchers and doing all he can to politicise the pandemic.
 
mat said:
Blair was the best PM the Centre Tories ever had.
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Funny you should say that. From the Times, Brexiteers lamenting the anti-business Johnson.

‘One thinks back with nostalgia to Tony Blair’s days, which were pro-business,” said Robin Birley, founder of the 5 Hertford Street private members’ club...’

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Where’s our Singapore-on-Thames? Brexit backers feel let down by high-tax PM

In the private cigar rooms and whisky bars of Mayfair, rebellion is smouldering.Libertarian Conservative donors who backed Boris Johnson in the 2019 general ele
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The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
The private hospitals primarily staffed by NHS doctors, working evenings and weekends? If they did that in the NHS, they would need to use the private sector. Hardly any of them have an ITU, so guess where you’re going if you get into difficulty on their operating table? They don’t have a responsibility to train staff, but they derive the same income as the NHS hospital for doing the same work. I say the ‘same work’ but, of course, it is nothing like the same work. The price for the operation is the same but the costs are very different. The price is an average (some patients take a lot less resource than others due to a variety of factors, like frailty, complexity of other problems, difficulty of procedure, likely need for ITU and the like. So the price is an average with the ‘easy patients’ subsidising the difficult patients. Which patients fo you think go to the private hospitals? That means that subsidy doesn’t happen and the NHS ends up with the expensive patients and all the easy ones go to the private sector. It’s a brilliant scam….

Of course, the private sector, just like the private care homes, all make ‘losses’ and all all headquartered in off shore tax havens, meaning that they pay not a penny back to the government in tax. It’s an absolute scandal although it’s nothing new, sadly.
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I agree
If you don’t have private insurance then self pay is the only way to get treatment. It costs at least two thousand for a simple private procedure the NHS ought to be able to perform. The NHS should be capable of caring for all types of health issues but has been undermined for years in favour of the private sector
Everything from day nurseries to hospitals and care homes have been moved to the private institutions
 
This is scandalous.
A woman could not get a face to face with her GP over her kid’s Crohn’s disease so she went private.
Who saw her at the local private hospital?
Her GP!

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Johnson is now crapping on his old stomping ground. Interesting comparison between London and the rest of the UK - in London you can't get a cab and its hard to eat out on a Monday and Tuesday - in Middlesbrough and Leeds you are having to plan a trip to the foodbank and hoping you can afford to both heat and light your home as trhe autumnal nights draw on

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Bare shelves, no cabs —Brexit is sending London’s success into reverse

Long after the end of the Second World War, Britain was still having to cope with shortages, thanks largely to government-imposed rationing. The UK’s post-war balance of payments position was decidedly weak, one reason why consumers weren’t allowed to buy what they wanted. Sheer bad luck also...
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Read the whole thread if possible to see what a heartless and out of touch cow Coffey is bearing in mind her comments today

 
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