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Water supply and sewage management is and always will be a pubic health issue that should never be placed in the hands of the private sector! Ever since John Snow in the 1850's and his work on cholera outbreaks in London it has been crystal clear that water and sewage are essential to public health ...

I have talked about whistleblowing with a few of my colleagues and friends who work in the NHS recently. A number being Consultants and medical directors. No one would be really happy to whistleblow. One had even been bullied and harassed after he reported issues to a Trusts "confidential"...

I can only speak for a small part of it , but when my wife was a nurse shift lead she had to pay utterly preposterous rates to agencies to cover for illnesses and absences. At times it was more than 10x a staff nurse rate - to get a nurse who was sometimes one of your own staff moonlighting (althou...

Sorry didnt read article so it may have been covered there. My comments aren't about whether she is guilty or not but more about wider systemic failures. Having had some experience in neonatal care I cannot believe that the pattern of deaths wasn't picked up earlier. I know that in Scotland there is...

I do agree with you wholeheartedly, I think the values of parties as a whole and individual politicians should matter. Clearly the Labour leadership have decided political expediency and spectacle is a bit more important Yesterday the Unions met with Labour over the New Deal for workers and seem to...

I will have to give Turkey a look! What's the reason for the hit they've had? Price rises. 2019 we paid £1200 All inclusive, 6 rounds of golf. This year they wanted £2150, 5 rounds of golf. I've also said before about the issues with the resorts being full of Russians from May onwards which was a c...

Personally I'd be asking any potential defectors where they've been for the last fourteen years through all they've done to the UK, (I started listing the failures and the deceit and the corruption, but decided it would be too long a post) By all means desert the sinking ship, but sit as an indepen...

Why are you all still answering this fuckwit? It's okay to chuck a ball for him to run after once or twice, but come on. He's only looking for a reaction, no one can seriously believe the shite he is purporting to believe, it's an attempt at trolling the bored, it couldn't fit the definition any mo...

Just back from our trip to Spain. The courses were a refreshing change from what we are used to in Turkey. Torrequebrada, Santana and Rio Real being the highlights. It was interesting that we appeared to have got a grip with the Turkish courses and regularly played too or better than our handicaps....

Thing is, Glasgow are clearly a much better team than us but all that ripping apart of the opposition has earned them is an extra 4.75 points per game . Everitt was probably set a target of making the team more resilient and installing some game management - a year ago everybody was jumping up and ...

Just back from our trip to Spain. The courses were a refreshing change from what we are used to in Turkey. Torrequebrada, Santana and Rio Real being the highlights. It was interesting that we appeared to have got a grip with the Turkish courses and regularly played too or better than our handicaps....

I can imagine the league sponsors, game sponsors and TV company are a bit pissed off at having to sponsor/show a second rate game. It is this that will drive the money away from the game, why sponsor or show a Mickey Mouse game, who is going to be interested in watching a mismatch? I think they sho...

Biffer wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 10:42 am Anyone who believes that conspiracies like this could happen with everyone involved working to the same goal has never been a Project Manager.

Ha ha ha - We used to have fights between team mates during a game in my footie team!

I have to say that ever since moving back to Scotland 8 years ago the NHS has been absolutely brilliant, genuinely not one complaint. On that, having pushed for an MOT after my fairly recent significant birthday... I had a call from the GP this morning about my blood tests. Cholesterol is a little ...

This'll piss off Jenrick and Braverman no end. Standby for op-eds in the Mail and Telegraph. There is no evidence of widespread abuse of the UK’s graduate visa route, the government’s immigration advisers have concluded, despite repeated claims from senior Conservatives that it is being exploited t...

"Every Aspect Of Your Lives Will Change By 2030" - Sunak. I suppose most people on here will be cool with a digital currency? I listened to some of his speech, I couldn't listen to it all and turned off, and it was an incoherent pile of steaming shite unsubstantiated and without any reaso...

A short story. Got call from GP practice a couple of weeks ago to go to give blood as I am on blood thinners following blood clot in lungs a few years ago probably caused by covid and they need to monitor my blood. Made appointment for early morning last Thursday with phlebotomist and got follow up...

Progress report I went to the hospital for a check on my progress and the results of the blood test were across-the-board positive -- the values that needed to decline have declined significantly (the bad cholesterol one the main one) and those that needed to improve had improved. My weight too has...

The "it's outrageous people with such abhorrent views are accepted into the Labour party!" attack line, was a bold one for the loony to run with. :crazy: https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1788930583571079425 The Tories aren't even doing a particularly good job of burying Labour fo...

Providing in a comp you use players registered for said comp I don't know how you'd police it beyond that. I can imagine the league sponsors, game sponsors and TV company are a bit pissed off at having to sponsor/show a second rate game. It is this that will drive the money away from the game, why ...

Loving the Tahs v Brumbies game! Being played in a swamp, both teams wearing the same strips, rain pissing down, everyone covered in mud, knock ons, players sliding 20 yards on the ground, spray being kicked up everywhere, tapped free kick not moving in the mud ... just brilliant! TBF skill levels a...

More decent news on the economy today, that's what they are waiting for. 0.6% growth lol And you could argue that's inflation driven rather than growth driven Compared with same quarter last year this is just a 0.2% increase in GDP so we have barely caught up with where we were a year ago. Worry is...

Paterson's is a new injury, it was his foot before, he was playing the Super 6 last week I think. Boff had a recurrence of his back spasm, or so I read, but yeah, we could really have done with everyone being fit for the run in. I think there might be an element of not risking them against Zebre so...

I did some work in an oil company years ago where production was king, keep the oil flowing whatever, etc. The amount of pressure on employees was huge and it was well known that significant risks were taken to make sure the oil kept flowing ... then we had Piper Alpha! Lots of work and research int...

Boffelli plays one match and is injured again? Also, I thought Harry Paterson was going to be back a few weeks ago, is he injured again? With Henry out too lots of players missing golden opportunities to stake a claim for a back three shirt towards the businnes end of the season. Paterson's is a ne...

And predictably it's proving divisive Natalie Elphicke: Keir Starmer faces Labour anger after Tory MP's defection Sir Keir Starmer's decision to admit Tory MP Natalie Elphicke into Labour has been met with bewilderment by some of his MPs. The Dover MP's surprise defection from the Conservatives has...

Fuck me, he’s not quite a childhood hero of mine (that’d be big Gav) given he’s a decade younger than me but Hoggy was a formative part of my rugby psyche. To learn he’s (allegedly) a proper wrong un is tough. An old teacher of mine was at Heriot’s with Andy Irvine and told me he was an absolute ar...

An obliteration at the GE is now a lock in. But their problems are larger. Brexit and the 2019 GE has cooked their brains. They've purged a lot of the people who could change direction. Many (most?) of those left think UK elections are won from the far right rather than from the centre. Even if a p...

I see the Tory loons are out in force this morning demanding that Sunak 'change course', move even further to the right and emulate the party that secured a grand total of 2 councillors across the UK, rather than consider why it is that the election saw large swathes of former Tory voters switch to...

I like neeps wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 12:26 pm Blair Kinghorn starts for Toulouse in the semi final over one Tomas Ramos. That's impressive!

Ramos covers 10 and 15 so is an ideal bench option ... a bit ironic really?

I really don't understand any claim that "he has something about him" - he is a con man, a liar and a cheat, they always have "something" about them, that's how they get away with it. It's gullible in the extreme to like this man. The fucking Guardian printed a picture of him jo...

It's interesting that the BBC have admitting fluffing their figures for deaths during the conflict. The figures supplied by Hamas included their soldiers, the true civilian death toll is around 20,000 - 24,000. Whilst a lot of innocent people have lost their lives at the hands of puppets in Iran, L...

It's not even that, one of my wife's mates who has a place in Spain went there on a day trip with 4 mates last year because there were flights available at £4.99 return. That's seriously mental. I was reminded of this post just now. Two friends, one living in Newcastle, one in Birmingham, apparentl...

Get in there Jade! Those misogynists could even put their ski boots on because their fat beer bellies would get in the way! Massive achievement.

Reminder, here's the twat announcing his new voter ID rules https://x.com/AdamBienkov/status/1786125618293178779 I really don't understand any claim that "he has something about him" - he is a con man, a liar and a cheat, they always have "something" about them, that's how they ...

he doesn't come across as very knowledgeable, wants to withdraw from NATO to stop illegal immigration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qqB7ys5Quo Monty Panesar’s strength has always been limited to left arm spin, with his weaknesses encompassing everything else. Bloody good bowler mind still a bett...

An approach which will get them to the state the GOP are now in. Yougov now has Tories on 18% and Reform on 15%. For some in the Tory leadership (Cameron) the referendum and Brexit were about defeating UKIP, they find themselves back at square one opposed by UKIP 2.0 but in a worse position themsel...

dpedin Good to hear a story of the health services working as they are meant to. Wishing you all the best going forward, I am at the end of my “do sfa” rest period and am doing my morning walk every day, now to be joined with a session on the exercise bike that arrived today. BP has definitely stab...

A short story. Got call from GP practice a couple of weeks ago to go to give blood as I am on blood thinners following blood clot in lungs a few years ago probably caused by covid and they need to monitor my blood. Made appointment for early morning last Thursday with phlebotomist and got follow up ...

OS my point is anyone deported from the RoI to NI can simply walk back across the seamless border across which absolutely no kind of controls can be implemented per the GFA. So even if they are after a Irish passport just based on long term plan to re enter the UK there us absolutely no way the RoI...

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