Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

DD4 - no idea from where you gleaned your number ..... mine is from the european tour site (race to dubai) ...... indeed, even looking at mark foster's own bio on there, it shows his lifetime tour winnings at only € 4,365,000 at that's cumulative since 2002

MK - a very good, well thought out and balanced editorial

Morning chummies.

My mate the billionaire had this to say a little earlier today on twitter.....

jim mellon ‏@jimmhk 12 Nov
quiet day.. but watch market exhaustion as i keep on saying...PEs are v extended and markets look ripe for fall ..when it happens brutal

You short GF? Thanks for stating the bleedin obvious! Trade what you see, not what you want to see works for me with tight stops. Tin hat alert if you don't :O)

NOVEMBER 14TH, 2013

No.10 ‘Crippled With Fear’ Over Coming NHS Crisis



As Dave jets off on another one of his travelling salesman tours, he leaves behind a Downing Street operation in a bit of a flap. There is a growing mood within No. 10 and Whitehall that as the good economic news keeps coming, and recovery strengthens the government’s self-claimed central purpose will slip down the agenda. Instead of talking about the economy, the next couple of years will focus on other issues and problems. The NHS, Universal Credit and Romanian/Bulgarian immigration are causing the most sleepless nights.

Sources claim Craig Oliver is particularly concerned about the NHS and a bucket of bad news set to come down the line. Crisis talks have been held between the Department of Health, No. 10 and the Cabinet Office. When Department of Health officials were asked when the good news from the NHS reforms would start to trickle through, the reply was “never”. Winter is coming, and one SpAd tells Guido the Tories are ‘crippled with fear’, if it is a cold winter, fuel poverty and the NHS will come together as a perfect storm, with higher senior citizen mortality…

Hi Chris, no not short just yet I think we'l have another go at the 6800 and above region but get slapped back and thats when Ill be going short on momentum plays that are fully and more valued.

Still hoping though for a xmas rally but I wish this market would get a move on upwards and then back to allow for it.

Take it your still being very cagey?.

Aye GF still long on fav stocks but stops tight.

Think a lot will get suckered into buying today and then regret it come monday.

Fools gold I say.

cynic, these figures were taken from www.europeantour.com. The Race to Dubai figures you quote are the accumulated totals for the golf season to date. The figures you quote for Mark Foster's career earnings are similar to the figure I stated in my original comments - that equates to approximately 400,000Euros per year and not bad for 100th place, especially when you consider that pro golfers are classed as self-employed and can claim caddy fees, travel, accommodation, clothing etc.etc. as deductable expenses against their earnings.

They have found traces of Hays and Cynic.

But as a warning!

Christmas past and Christmas future.

Due to government failures and cockeyed reorganisations.

I do fancy travelling 50 miles to the nearest cardiac resuscitation unit without the latest update facilities.

Just a question, if a 70 year old woman goes with her husband to the hospital across London at 2 am in the morning and doesn't have her own transport, how does she get home?

The same way as someone who lives in the country would get home from even further. Plenty of people who live in the country live further away from hospitals than in London and it has always been that way. Fuss about nothing as usual.

Hays,

You are as detached from reality as many of your icons.

I used to live in the country. I know how far hospitals are away from people. A bit of travelling ng in London is not a problem, especially when public transport is so much better than in the country.

You just want to create controversy where none exists.

Hays stop being silly.

Report on news last night saying people with suspected heart attacks would have to be taken further in ambulances to hospitals that dealt with the tier one of the two tier system.

I know from my fathers experience in this area(4 heart attacks, the last one fatal on holiday in scotland and had to be driven miles to sterling hospital) that the sooner he got to hospital and recieved treatment the better his chances of survival.

Its pathetic that this system is coming into force.

It could only happen under the tories.

There is nothing wrong with a "specialist high technical resourced medical or surgical units" catering for reasonable size areas.

But the A&E units are just that, i.e for Emergency treatment.

Patients should be assessed within reasonable distance of their homes or "accidents".

Emergency treatment given and the local centre and if necessary transferred to High Tech centres, once basic diagnosis is made and with necessary support paraphernalia in place.

Travelling 50 miles as suggested by paramedics and similar while some are extremely able is not enough,

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Also, the travelling for family members (support) has to be considered and costs of them travelling and environmental effects have to be taken in to consideration.


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For Hays to be driving around London in his status symbol is fine for him, but there are many without the status label, the finances or physical abilities to make repeated visits over the distance implied by suggest changes.

As I wrote, I think Hays and his Ilk are out touch, and this government's reorganisation are equally simplistic.

The same thing happened to my mother when living in Suffolk. She has a heart attack and had to be taken to Great Yarmouth, which was a long way away. In fact the ambulance did not turn up for a very low ng time. That was twenty years ago. In London, no hospital is very far away. The two tier system is because of so many idiots in A&E. I have been to A&E a couple of time recently. It was just full of immigrants speaking other languages other than English. There were only a couple of obviously English speakers there. The immigrants seemed to have their whole families with than and were constantly having arguments with the staff.

A&E is buckling under the strain due to Labour welcoming in immigrants. The same is true of local GPs and schools.

Once again the problem comes home to roost at the feet of the Labour party.

Doesn't the first line of defence lay with the Paramedics?

ie. The suspected heart attack victim (or other) rings 999. The operator gets the paramedic out to the victim. He examines patient and confirms what sort of problem it is and stabilises the patient. He then orders the ambulance which then takes the patient to hospital.

A blocked artery = questions patient and determines best first aid (eg. aspirin to bust the clot?). Then a local ECG - then maybe hospital for an angiogram, angioplasty and a stent or even a bypass operation.

If it's a stroke = paramedic visits and determines whether it's a ruptured artery in the head or a clot. If the latter, then aspirin to bust the clot. Then off to hospital for better treatment care, maybe open the head for a cauterisation if it's a bleed and observation.

The faster the paramedic gets there then the better the chance of survival. Far better than waiting for an ambulance and ambulance staff trying to give paramedic treatment, IMHO.

PS. Always carry some 300mg Aspirin tablets with you, IMHO. Care with them though, if you have high blood pressure or you might make things worse.