Today's discussion about the news
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Prince Andrew. The gift that keeps on giving.
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never miss an opportunity to steal someone else's country, they make putin look reasonable
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Worth keeping an eye on this story: a supposedly heart-rending story about a prisoner seeing sunlight for the first time in months clinging to the arm of a white female reporter might not be what it claims to be:
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And here's a detailed review (by an architect) of the restored Notre Dame:
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Trump is Pres of the US. Hard to see how he'll have much sway on healthcare systems in Europe.
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Have you not been paying attention to U.S. healthcare companies lobbying to be able to operate in the U.K.?
Trump would very much like to influence that.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I think there's two distinct issues here:
- Who provides the services? Presumably this is what you're alluding to. I would imagine all manner of companies would like to be able to provide services to the NHS, given the size of the market. Indeed, many services are already provided by private companies. US companies may or may not be able to provide better quality services more cheaply than is the case in the UK at the moment. I suspect only a maximum hit rate of 50% though.
- How is this financed? This is the "biggy" from a UK political perspective. As long as coverage remains universal and provided via tax rather than insurance (*) I doubt the UK population will really care too much about who provides the services. And the likelihood of Trump, or any American Pres changing the way the NHS is financed is only non-zero if the US invades and occupies the UK and changes the system by force
(*) Even though outside the US, insurance backed universal healthcare systems that are better than the NHS are the norm.
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It doesn't sound like even the new CEO of UnitedHealthcare would have picked the current set up as an optimal way of delivering healthcare to the masses.
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I can't recall the original comment I was referring to but I suspect it was specifically in reference to the US.
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My comment originally was to Brian who was pushing the line that "insurance schemes" and "US" were interchangeable terms re healthcare when in fact the US is something of an outlier in how health care is delivered (or not).
But tbh, what Trump gets up to re US healthcare is way down the list of things that keep me awake at night!
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Steps down the road, thin edge of the wedge, is my concern.
Thinking it simply won't happen is naive in my view. Refer to the number of people already going private just to be seen.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Farage the snowflake doesn’t feel a 13 week suspended sentence is sufficient for someone throwing a milkshake at him. It feels pretty draconian to me.
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Punishment should suit the crime, not the target.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Yeah, throwing a milkshake and causing no physical harm shouldn’t really be a custodial sentence (even a suspended one) no matter who the target was. A fine and paying for the damage seems more appropriate.
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1 minute on googling couldn't find what happened to the other milkshakers, but the one who previously milkshaked Farage seems to have been sentences to a few hours community service.
I half suspected it was an inside job tbh.
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Let's be grateful he didn't try to stage an assassination attempt with live yoghurt.
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I'm sure with a bit of crowd funding, could have raised enough for a proper contract on him.
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He should have been sent on a training course to improve his aim.
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For FA's and BT's benefit, "he" was a "she". Victoria Thomas Bowen.
But not a walk on the wild side. 🤣
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
My 'he' was referring to Farridge. I might have been implying a connection with Trump's shooting that mightn't have been all it seemed.
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Okay. I have inadvertently shown how little I've been following this news story.
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Ah! Too subtle for my simple mind.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Glad I'm not on a skiing holiday in Georgia. WTF is going on there?
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French cycling news: flashing rear cycling lights have just been banned, much to the consternation of Garmin Varia owners, of which there are almost 4m in France.
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Odd how they have focussed on that particular brand, rather than essentially any other bike lights in existence.
Fwiw I always thought those radar lights were over engineered and more dangerous, and that a pulsing light allows drivers to judge distance better. Which is backed up by science, I believe.
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I guess we'll see over the next few years whether folk going private is all part of some Tory masterplan to justify "privatising" the NHS or an inevitable outcome of an ageing population that is increasingly unhealthy due to self-inflicted damage, and which thinks that higher takes should always be paid by someone else.
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I need to do some more reading - but I think that that news piece has just focused on that brand as it's the most expensive one affected by a general new law on flashing bike lights... it's not mentioned in this one:
I think that that first report says that pulsing lights under 28 lumens remain legal at night.
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I think it also says that you can wear whatever you want on your person.
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The first article says you can wear lights on your person that follow the same rules. FWIW, it was already a law that cyclists wear something hi-viz after dark.
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