Turkeys love voting for Christmas, as always you get the government your country deserves and the Uk will get that on the 12th.
UK General Election - 12th December 2019 | Con 365, Lab 203, LD 11, SNP 48, Other 23 - Tory Majority of 80
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Turkeys love voting for Christmas, as always you get the government your country deserves and the Uk will get that on the 12th.
Schofield is a terrible, amateurish interviewer. Remember how he handed Cameron a list of suspected paedophiles, a list Schofield said he'd 'found on the internet'?
I will tell you now - and you can quote me, that we will be here in 10 years discussing the Tory plan to sell the NHS by stealth and there will have been no material change to it in that period. I'll leave it there.
Edit: That's if a gammon like me lasts that long. Will probably have karked it by then and been left in the gutter due to lack of health cover.
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Isnt thet snippet exactly the point he was making? On service (price and punctuality) we are poor.
On safety we are good.
It's a bullshit way of questioning people, takes away from the discussion on actual policies as well.
Oh I did, you silly sausage. The difference is that only one of us can accurately process what we read. You see freight comes under the 'intensity of use' metric and has no bearing on the UK's paltry 19th place for service whatsoever.
Another difference is that I'm capable of reading and quoting complete sentences. Bolded is the part of the sentence you appear to have left off.
Anyone prepared to let the safety rating slip a little, if it means getting the punctuality up a bit?
To settle the train debate I see the work that goes on and refuse to get on a train that's how bad the UK is.
I reckon so. I'm not certain but I suspect that at least some of the safety stuff is tied to intensity of use and the fact that networks like France and Germany have greater coverage of rural areas. I think mainland Europe also tends to suffer from greater extremes of temperature and weather. I bet it takes a fair bit more than the fabled autumn leaf to cancel services too.
I never said UK trains weren't expensive for the end user. They are, because we don't subsidise them the way other nations do. We didnt under British Rail either.
On punctuality of regional trains we are about the same as similar nations. Like I say, it's high speed rail that makes the difference in surveys, and we don't have that. TGV, Frecciarossa trains etc are given priority on their networks to keep satisfaction and on time performance up.
I reckon there should be leg-holes in the floor so passengers can lend a bit of 'getaway power' when they're running behind - like the Ant Hill Mob on Wackey Races
It's already progress from zero private contracts to somewhere between 7% and 25%.
I suggest you look into the implications of the health and social care act from 2012.
"...axed the government's responsibility for the NHS. It has devolved responsibility to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The CCGs have no legal obligation to provide you with anything beyond emergency care - this may not be the case at present but it means that there is no legal guarantee that they will continue to do so."
https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...tion-the-uk-no-longer-has-a-nhs-a6923126.html
The leaves get crushed by the train which leaves a film on the top of the rail. That film then allows the train to go undetected, which I am sure you can understand is crazy dangerous.
I didn't know that and it does sound dangerous. To be honest I was just speculating and using that example as shorthand for my belief that it takes more for services to be suspended in, say, Germany than it does for a suspension over here. I'm not really asserting this with any level of confidence though.
A group of middle aged Caucasians is such a poor 'sample' group, especially considering it's Birmingham - almost seems as if they've been hand picked.
I don't understand how people can talk with such conviction on matters they know so little about. There are so few people that seem able to say "actually I don't know enough about this to have an opinion".
Yet it costs the government a lot less to borrow that money than the private sector. The problem with public ownership is efficiency and political interference, not a lack of funds. (See central banks for example. Most publicly owned these days, but some like Japan and Switzerland are private, though still receive statutory instructions). Privatisation is an efficiency drive. Different markets need different solutions. (Eg You don't want private schools, and you don't want public supermarkets)
Governance, competition, and public interest are the differences.
Despite the massive investment and significant price rises..
Exactly. And that is why we should all treat the media with scepticism and contempt.
The papers in particular lie as a matter of normality. The vast bulk is made up rubbish and I for one never buy a paper.
The cost savings are well worth that.
If anyone remembers Spitting Image, they characterised reporters very well - as pigs with Trilby hats.
Again, that's not what the report that you cited says. The service section is split into 4 equal parts; one of which solely assesses the 'punctuality of regional trains.' It is this area that is specifically cited, along with price, as a factor in the UK's godawful 19th place in service performance.
Services are usually suspended due to a fault, no more no less. We have more faults due to our tolerances being lower than most, but they are usually set after massive incidents like Severn tunnel (see trains going missing) and Ladbroke Grove
People think voting for this man as PM is a good idea
My favourite is the , 'Please leave my town'.
Well, that's depressing. And infuriating: working class people already severely impacted by austerity wilfully ignoring the facts to vote for the tories.
So fellow remainers. It’s looking very likely we’re going to have 5 more years of Tories & a hard brexit being forced upon us. (With probably a no deal one in Dec 2020)
Whsts your plans? Is anyone thinking of leaving? Or just accepting it? Part of me wants to fight this but another part thinks if the country is this stupid then is it worth the stress fighting this? Try a new start elsewhere.
Any one else feeling the same & if they are thinking of moving- where?
Whsts your plans? Is anyone thinking of leaving? Or just accepting it? Part of me wants to fight this but another part thinks if the country is this stupid then is it worth the stress fighting this? Try a new start elsewhere.
Any one else feeling the same & if they are thinking of moving- where?
But the network is only owned by the state because private companies failed and it had to be re-nationalised. The general ideas behind privatisation aren't even working when it comes to trains.
I've put in a request to move to our office in Cape Town.
A fine place to escape inequality, crime, political tension and racial tension.
Granted it's a decade ago but Cape Town is one of the most heinous places I've ever worked. Live it up in Camps Bay then drive the elevated motorway above the Cape Flats without ever needing to notice for a second the misery engendered below.
Sickening.
Your own link says, 'performance correlates with public cost', which for sure doesn't support your argument.
Also, don't judge the (lack) of quality of UK trains until you attempt regular journeys on Northern.
Your scenario may well be correct but I have no intention of leaving.
Why. This is my country and I prefer to take my chances here.
In my view, the outcome of Brexit is going to be nothing compared to the very clear threats posed by Climate Change.
That is the real challenge and not the Tories.
But that is another thread.
It’s a fair point. Just interested how other remainders feel or any plans. I just feel like life will be worse off for something I 100% disagree with & voted against yer we’re all going to be screwed. Not just those who voted brexit & Tory
I'm not really arguing whether the railways are underfunded in the UK, they have been for decades. I'm solely saying that it will make no difference to the service we get if we nationalise them again. On this board everybody seems to think if we nationalise them we'll all of a sudden be able to run them like the Japanese.
When I see shit like this after 6 hours of campaigning and canvassing its fecking depressing and it makes me want to give up but on the other hand this is the precise reason why I cannot.
Same here. I’m a single child and I stand to inherit TWO colonies, one in the UK and one in Australia. Quite frankly I don’t feel Labour’s plans go far enough.
Boris Johnson said patients should have to pay to use the NHS so they will 'value' it more
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-said-patients-charged-to-use-the-nhs-2019-12?r=US&IR=T
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-said-patients-charged-to-use-the-nhs-2019-12?r=US&IR=T
Let it go to ratshit for 5 years... Hopefully at that point labour have seen sence and got a more electable leader and they spearhead a rejoin movement
If not then hope the remain version of farrage pops up and be a pain in the bum for whoever is in power till be get a rejoin referendum
It's clear from their first answer that the reason they're not voting Labour is down to leadership. I would be surprised if any person campaigning and canvassing could change their approach or point of view.
I'm going to take a hyperbolic approach here with regards to "fighting" brexit as its something I've thought on somewhat in the past, but the issue ive long talked about with my family/friends is that, if you take the country at the roughly 50/50 remain/leave split, regardless of how accurate the opinions are, the unfortunate reality is the types of people who vote leave are far more likely to be physically effective in situations of civil unrest. Something my dad said once was lets say the options were to completely cancel brexit vs a hard leave, the reality is the pro brexit voter is far more likely based on demographic and socioeconomic factors to go out and riot as opposed to remainers probably signing a few petitions for parliment.
If you have the means, get an irish passport or migrate to canada, another 5 years of tory rule will lead into 10 and this country is going to be as far right as pragmatically possible.
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