2024 UK politics - now with Labour in charge
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I see loads of job adverts now where work / life balance is listed as the top benefit with places doing 9 day fortnights or early Fridays in addition to the now pretty standard hybrid and flexible working. The proof of the pudding and all that though, reviews of the same companies on Glassdoor often suggest it is just talk - it may be company policy but always comes down to management with variations around different offices.
For teams I've managed in the past I've never cared what hours someone works as long as the work gets completed to time and to a suitable standard. The problem is that those at the top generally want more work out of the staff to maximise profit rather than hiring sufficient staff to get the work done without excess hours (whilst still getting a decent profit).
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Was chatting to an American neighbour about the number of people moving to the UK from the US for a better lifestyle.
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Don't be silly, the US is amazing, miraculous etc. and they can earn a million bucks a year cleaning toilets or something
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They are pretty much sold on UK when they realise that chocolate doesn’t have to taste of vomit. And they tend to be impressed by the NHS.
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Apparently a lot get transferred on the same salary and then have a lower cost of living. I can see that is quite appealing.
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I know you seem to have a downer on most things but my own experience in the last couple of years, of the much maligned Welsh NHS has been very positive.
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Given a graduate salary in my field would be beyond the dreams of many experienced hands, that's not surprising...
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I think it is one of those things where the more serious the issue the better the services (which makes sense). However, at GP level and routine ops it is pretty shit e.g. my mother has been waiting 2 years for knee replacement and as a result has gone from being very active, walking the dogs several times a day and regulalry walking the round trip into town to being barely able to walk 100m which obviously has a negative impact on other health issues. It's the reason I take the health care option in work.
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I’ve had very little to do with GPs thank goodness, but the hospitals have been really good. Maybe I’ve been lucky.
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They almost killed my daughter when she was born due to negligence caused by being short staffed and when I came in on Friday morning 1am (so Thursday night) with appendicitis they had me on nil by mouth until Sunday to operate on me as they were short staffed.
They were good with my son when it got very serious but he got taken out of intensive care too soon because there were more babies in intensive care than beds so they had to set up a separate makeshift one elsewhere in the hospital, which prolonged our stay there by about a fortnight.
They’re fine when you’re literally dying, the rest is just pot luck. The waiting times are an utter disgrace.
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I'm really glad there is a Rick Chasey in existence as he seems to be a bad luck lightning conductor.
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Hershey's does indeed taste like vomit.
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For some reason they put butyric acid in it, which is in puke. 🤮
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I seem to remember a qi episode where they said it was added to allow the milk to be transported long distances before refrigerated tankers.
I guess now they have the taste for puke chocolate?
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A&E these days is some dystopian nightmare - there was a young woman actually died in the waiting room in Nottingham Queens Med recently -nobody noticed - the inquest found she could have lived if she'd received treatment - she was from (I think) Estonia or one of those baltic states. Saw an interview with her twin sister - heartbreaking.
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Though there are 100% people in A&E who want the attention and company.
Older lonely people, you can see them. Obviously they’re there on their own and they don’t have anyone to say to them it’s ok, and so it gets blown up in their head and before you know it 111 is sending them to a&e just in case
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Not that anyone is under any illusions about his motivation, but Farage admitting in an interview that he got his (incorrect) information about the Southport incident from Andrew Tate feels like an admission that he's not really up to being an MP.
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He's got no real interest in being an MP in the traditional sense has he - in serving a constituency or I suspect actually getting a position in a govt and doing a job. I mean he's not taking a junior ministers job if offered is he .
It's difficult to know how much his motivation is genuinely political - to advance his beliefs - and how much is personal whether that's financial gain or just attention and importance.
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Sadly, I think he'll go down as one of the most influential political operatives of the last 25 years, even if the outcomes have been terrible for the UK. I'd guess that he might well be supported (probably financially as well as politically) by malign actors on the world stage, and I'd guess his motives are a mixture of the political (general disruption to favour the oligarch class), self-aggrandizement, and financial. I doubt if he has any interest whatsoever in the hard work of pragmatic government and trying to improve the lot of the vast majority of people. But populists gonna populist.
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Just following on from this, my mother chased up her appointment only to find she's been taken off the list. The hospital claimed to have sent out 2 letters offering a date and she hadn't replied so they took her off the list. My mother didn't get either of them (like many of that generation she's always on top of anything coming in the post). You'd think they might also follow up with a phone call too but apparently not.
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That’s awful. What is going to happen now. I hope she is re-instated.
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Told to go back to the GP and get them to put her back on the list. No idea if she’ll then get fast tracked or will have to wait for another few years.
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No way my parents can afford it. I had a look and it seems to be around £15k so out of range for me and my sisters to pay for it too unfortunately.
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Hope she gets fast tracked. If she hasn’t done so already she will need to be very assertive regarding the impact on her quality of life, mental wellbeing and future plans.
I wish her all the best.
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Sorry to hear that, @Pross
Just a thought - did you have a name of consultant? When the local Spire screwed up doing Mum's hip (on the NHS - they'd not taken into account her heart condition, and on the morning of the operation told her she'd have to go back on the end of the list, with many tears from Mum), IIRC the consultant stepped in and she didn't have to wait nearly that long.
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