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.

Napoleon.

I hope the figures that Cameron quotes on Nurses and Doctors recruitment over last 6 months are examined.

How many are agency "nurses and doctors".

How many are scanty hours.

(4-8 hours per week.)

How many of those new "staff" are on the move from one Hospital or Surgery to another on daily or weekly hours. (Little or no ongoing responsibility.)

Why are there so many agency "staff" employed.

After 4 years of tory management and Lansley reforms.

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Cameron is getting a deserved caning.

Even the set up questions from his own party are being fluffed.


I think he needs a shower.

Forgot he has one sitting behind him.

do you think he was abandoned ? or its owner just got on the train and forgot about him. He looks so sad ,bless him

PMQs were good today. Miliband missed his target once again. Labour may well complain about the running of A&E, but the waiting times are far worse in Wales where Labour run the NHS. The same applies in Scotland. If Labour ran all the NHS we would be in a much worse situation.

Haze,

Which edition were you watching.

You are becoming as out of date as your party already is!

Paris death toll has risen to 12 with more expected.

i'm out now for a few hours, but on my return, i expect the storyline here will have moved as little as usual :-)

Camoron was thrashed by Labour today in PMQs, what a beating he took.

Same old answers kidding on hes got things under control in the NHS denying there is a catastrophe happening and we havent even had real bad weather yet.

Its all down to his spending cuts but he denys it and just look at social services, meals on wheels drop in centres etc etc and you can see why this as happened.

A truly pathetic state we are in, led by a clown who is in full denial.

Hays keep off the coke , you really are pathetic.

The barbarians are at the gates of Europe

This is what Socialism gets you!

Two years ago Owen Jones and Diane Abbott flew to Venezuela at the expense of the regime, giving the government a nice PR boost in spite of its atrocious human rights record. Now the people of Venezuela are crying out for help, where are they now?

The great socialist experiment is going so well in Venezuela that the country has run out of McDonald’s French fries and soap. Online dissent is being quelled by the authoritarian regime, with President Maduro’s government banning photos of bare supermarkets on the #AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela (#EmptyShelvesInVenezeula) hashtag.

Hays the other day said he waited just 3 days to see his GP.

A couple of weeks back I was seen after waiting 24 days.

Its obvious Camoron as weaponised the NHS and is putting funding into tory areas and neglecting other areas.

What a little square.

Cant even get that right.

Coked up to the eye balls.

I dont believe it hes still in a world of his own and hes responsible for the economic policy of this country.

gf
My area is a Lib area and just ahead of Labour. The Conservatives have no chance in my constituency. I have another appointment with my GP made today for Friday. That's is just two days ahead.

I think he's looking in amazement at the opposition bench and can't believe his luck.
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‘Pillock’ BBC reporter’s duff NHS question makes Miliband’s day 7/1/2015


All smiles: “We will hear people with respect,” said Mr Miliband – but he couldn’t hide his enjoyment of Norman Smith’s error of judgement.

Norman Smith, the BBC’s assistant political editor, may have cause to regret very deeply his line of questioning to Ed Miliband yesterday.

It was one of those occasions when the BBC’s adoption of the Conservative Party’s narrative on almost every political story simply couldn’t stand up – and that’s why Norman was shouted down.

Mr Miliband was launching the Labour Party’s general election campaign at Salford’s Lowry Theatre when Mr Smith ventured his unwise question. Considering the factual evidence of recent weeks, it may be possible that he was ordered to ask the following by one of his Tory bosses within the corporation. He said: “You have attacked the Tories for going negative in this campaign already over this publication of the dossier about your spending commitments but haven’t you gone negative over the NHS? Because you are saying that it will be unrecognisable in five years’ time and yet Mr Cameron has pledged to ringfence the NHS budget, announced that £2bn has been promised and there has been no winter crisis, so aren’t you …”

The reaction was – well, see for yourself. The look on Ed’s face at the claim that there has been no winter crisis is priceless:

The hubbub following the BBC reporter’s claims included someone with a northern accent advising him to go back to London – and another audience member called him “a pillock”.

Mr Miliband, clearly enjoying the moment, defused the growing anger with a raised hand: “We will hear people with respect … particularly Norman.”

Then he said: “The difference is between fact and falsehood.

“You should talk to people in the NHS, Norman, because they will genuinely say to you with an edge in their voice ‘Where are things going to be in five years’ time, what kind of NHS are we going to have?’

“I met a young doctor a few months ago who had just qualified and he said to me ‘You know you have got to have a plan, you know you have got to sort this out because I want the NHS to be actually there when I’m a doctor.’

“I think there is real fear about the fact that we transformed the NHS in government, it’s already gone backwards. If you are proposing as a party to go back to 1930s levels of public spending as a share of national income – as you were one of the first people to point out – then I think there is real fear about what that means for the NHS and other vital public services.”

Just to clarify why Mr Miliband was surprised to hear there was no winter crisis, here’s just one example of a situation Mr Smith seemed to think didn’t happen, from the middle of last month, as reported by – surprise! – the BBC.

Additional (January 6): Today the BBC is reporting that the English NHS (along with those in the other UK countries) has recorded its worst failure to meet Accident and Emergency waiting time targets since they were introduced in 2004 – despite those targets having been reduced when the Tory-led Coalition Government came into office. The graph accompanying the article is particularly damning.

You can't blame any GP for not wanting too see gf, he must be the patient from hell and completely incurable.