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.

EDIT......... JOCKONORY, JOCKONORY, JOCKONORY,,,,,,,

gf

I notice that you copied and pasted the poll figures, but edited them so as not to show Labour falling. Here is the same figures and comments unedited

"The Christmas polling break is over. Opinium have the first poll of 2015 out tonight, conducted for the Observer. Topline figures are CON 32%(+3), LAB 33%(-3), LDEM 8%(+2), UKIP 17%(+1), GRN 4%(-1). The poll has a sharp drop in Labour’s lead, down six points since a fortnight ago."

MAX it doesnt matter, you look upon the SNP seats as say Labour coop seats. The biggest party as first choice to form the government.

It matters a lot as Labour will be counted by themselves as a party to determine the largest.

Hays I copied them straight from a post on twitter, but I do conceed Labour had a 7 point one off lead last time they were out. (probably one of these anomalies that occur now and again )

Hays if you saw that projected poll of polls on SKY last night you must know now that you are YESTERDAYS MAN.

Anybody who disagrees with gf is either a loser,wannabe and now YESTERDAYS MAN. Next!

Sleazy Tories

GF,

When was Haze a man?

beats me

Just trying out my HTML Fred, forgot a few commands etc.

The cat sat on the mat, no hays head.

The cat sat on the mat, no hays head.

Ohhhhhhhh yes its come back now.

NHS related
it's a shame that there are certain factions here who insist on politicising this issue, as indeed do the morons in parliament

anyway, i had an interesting chat this morning with a young medic who is well en route to becoming a surgeon

in his opinion, and he is in the front line, there is no intrinsic shortage of doctors other than arguably of GPs who might not wish to work in a given area of the country
he said that at no time does he feel overworked
however, there is most assuredly a shortage of nurses

it was also interesting that he said that small medical centres - along the lines of cottage hospitals - were re-opening where non-urgent cases can be treated quickly and easily
in his own experience, he can see perhaps 100 patients in a day

inter alia, this should/would reduce pressure on A&E, which is swamped all too often by "unnecessary" cases

apparently, in france, all patients other than those of pensionable age or on benefits, pay about £10 up-front to see a doctor .... this of itself helps weed out frivolous cases as does the ability and willingness of pharmacists (in france) to treat minor injuries and similar - presumably without fear of being sued for no good reason

The last time I saw a GP in france, the fee was €22, of which, about 3/4 is recouped via the Carte Vitale system (if you are in it)

It's the same for tests and stuff, you cough up there and then, and get a refund via the CV system.

There is a mechanism for people who cant afford the fee's, but I have no idea how that works.

cynic
That is an interesting view, which matches another I heard recently.

I visited my doctor last week for a general MOT (got an appointment in three days). My doctor was complaining about the numbers who visit A&E for trivial things. His view is that hospitals are for people with serious conditions. He constantly has people being asked to be referred to hospital for conditions that he can treat them for. He sees them, explains what is wrong and suggests a treatment. They then ask if they could go to hospital for tests. I wonder if this is the result of all the programs on TV about medical issues.

It can also be a result of people who use the internet now for self diagnosis.

I only ask for a doctor's appointment if I think it's necessary and I have a choice of waiting for a specific doctor in the practice a few days later or going to the walk-in clinic on the same day and seeing whichever doctor is on duty.