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Tory Cabinet Thread


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7 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

That made me laugh. Then I remembered it’s not funny.

The sheer incompetence is off the scale.

 

My lad sent all the relevant forms off for his provisional HGV licence 6 weeks ago and still hasn't heard anything and yet there are 100,000 vacancies that need to be filled as a matter of urgency.

 

Grant Shapps isn't taking anywhere near enough flak for this. The DVLA, DVSA etc are all under his department and yet the Gov't spin is 'there is a world shortage of HGV drivers'.

 

So fucking do something you bellends, never mind making excuses sat next next to a fucking flag, people have put their names forward to do these jobs, at least give them the opportunity to actually qualify to do them.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Anubis said:

Ouch.

 

 

 

It's all well and good this stuff from Burley and Marr and the chaps, but tomorrow they'll be hammering Angela Rayner for putting earbuds on expenses or trying to sucker punch Starmer by asking questions about female James Bonds, just like they were hounding Ed Miliband about the way he eats bacon sandwiches or Gordon Brown for calling little old ladies bigots, while Cameron and Osborne got rich, took us out of the EU and sold off billions' in state assets to their mates.  

 

They like their easy wins and low hanging fruit do these people - who're engaged in showbusiness rather than journalism - but their ilk are wholly complicit in keeping these people in power.

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10 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58893328

 

I am sure there is absolutely no correlation between a  gmnt who has cut every service to the bone and widened the gap between rich and poor, and  people  living less in poorer areas.

 

You would be a liar and a communist to suggest otherwise.

"Declines in life expectancy used to be rare in wealthy countries like the UK, and happened when there were major adversities like wars and pandemics," said Prof Ezzati.

 

Hi there.

 

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You look around liverpool now and you can see the damage austerity has done.

Even in the 80s you had youth clubs etc..these are almost non existent now,loads of libraries gone,many of those sure start places gone,mental health charities and support for help such as counselling slashed,public services like police and health cut to the bone.

 

Austerity must be one of the most damaging policies thats ever been inflicted on this country.

The big society eh Dave?

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Cunts. And after all the appalling cost in human lives and outcomes, austerity failed completely anyway- they put the country back into recession barely a year after taking office, lost the 'coveted' AAA rating which was really, really important right up to the point it went and then hardly got mentioned afterwards, and the deficit was barely halved instead of cleared. Still, at least we didn't end up like Greece, eh, eh? Oh, and there was a plastic bag charge, whoopee. There's more to come under that psycho freak Sunak too, what joy.

 

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Austerity in England linked to more than 50,000 extra deaths in five years
Researchers looked at 2010-2015 when Cameron cuts to NHS and social care were starting to bite

boarded-up houses in Liverpool with man walking past
Liverpool has been one of the cities worst affected by the austerity measures brought in by David Cameron after he became prime minister in 2010. 

Austerity cuts to the NHS, public health and social care have killed tens of thousands more people in England than expected, according to the largest study of its kind.

Researchers who analysed the joint impact of cuts to healthcare, public health and social care since 2010 found that even in just the following four years the spending squeeze was linked with 57,550 more deaths than would have been expected. The findings, worse than previously thought, were revealed in the journal BMJ Open.

The research by the University of York also found that a slowdown in life expectancy improvement coincided with the government’s sharp cuts to health and social care funding after David Cameron came to power a decade ago.

“Restrictions on the growth in health and social care expenditure during ‘austerity’ have been associated with tens of thousands more deaths than would have been observed had pre-austerity expenditure growth been sustained,” said Prof Karl Claxton of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.

“Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the slowdown in the rate of improvement in life expectancy in England and Wales since 2010 is attributable to spending constraints in the healthcare and social care sectors.”

Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, described the findings as shocking and said they were proof that the government’s austerity drive had deepened health inequalities across the country.

“This is a devastating verdict on a decade of Tory austerity in healthcare,” he said. “The test of ‘levelling up’ will be ministers properly funding social care and public health to now tackle these inequalities.”

Separate research by Imperial College London, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, found life expectancy in many communities in England was falling even before the pandemic.

While life expectancy rose in most places during the first decade of the millennium, from 2010 in some areas it started to decline. By 2014 that deterioration had accelerated, researchers discovered, with life expectancy falling for women in almost one in five communities (18.7%), and for men in one in nine places (11.5%).

The worst-hit areas were typically in urban areas in the north. They include Blackpool, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle.

Researchers have made various attempts at calculating the true impact of the austerity measures led by Cameron. But the University of York study is the first to jointly analyse the effect of the significant slowdown in NHS, public health and social care spending on death rates in England.

Researchers said real social care spending rose by 2.2% per capita of the population between 2001-02 and 2009-10, but fell by 1.57% between 2010-11 and 2014-15. The loss of social care funding caused 23,662 additional deaths, according to the findings.

Real healthcare spend per capita rose by 3.82% between 2001-02 and 2009-10, but only by 0.41% between 2010-11 and 2014-15. The cuts to healthcare spending between 2010-11 and 2014-15 led to 33,888 extra deaths, the researchers calculated.

In total, the study suggested the constraints on health and social care spending during this period of austerity have been associated with 57,550 more deaths up to 2014 than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-2010 levels.

David Finch, an assistant director of healthy lives at the Health Foundation thinktank, said the study showed why ministers must put now health at the “front and centre” of their levelling-up agenda.

Even before Covid, he said, there was “an extremely concerning pattern of stalling life expectancy, particularly in the poorest areas of the country”. The pandemic had “since laid bare the tragic consequences of underlying poor health”, he said.

“As we plan the pandemic recovery, there is an urgent need to ensure that we don’t repeat mistakes made during the recovery from the financial crisis. This includes tackling the backlog of NHS care and fixing social care, but also providing security for the many families that are struggling financially. Policies such as the cut to universal credit run counter to this objective,” Finch said.

“To meet the scale of this challenge, government needs to put improving health at the front and centre of all major policies, including levelling up. This will require action on everything from housing and employment to education and transport.”

Boris Johnson last month pledged a £12bn-a-year cash injection to help the NHS catch up after the pandemic and to overhaul social care. Household budgets will take a hit from next April when employees’ national insurance contributions will rise by 1.25% to pay for the funding boost.

The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for comment.

 

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8 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Don't know what's more upsetting . what she's reading , imagining what's in that bag or the fact my wife has a coat just like that

 

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You just know the cunt has purposely put that paper on show like that one evil horrible fucking twat her , truly vile piece of work 

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1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

You just know the cunt has purposely put that paper on show like that one evil horrible fucking twat her , truly vile piece of work 

That monstrosity at the top of her bag has been strategically placed, no doubt. Fuck knows what the agenda is but the whole photo makes me think of a cunt cake with a cunt cherry on top. 

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2 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

That monstrosity at the top of her bag has been strategically placed, no doubt. Fuck knows what the agenda is but the whole photo makes me think of a cunt cake with a cunt cherry on top. 

To stir up more ill feeling towards Starmer over him writing for that shite maybe.

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