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jon_c

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  1. Skeletor was a working class hero, He-Man was a member of the oppressive aristocracy.
  2. I can't emphasize enough how this is clearly the case.
  3. I'm not sure who these are, the first could be Tories or UKIP. And the other two could basically be any of them.
  4. I know you're being facetious, and I've no call for Marco Silva. But that's less times than Bruce has got a team relegated.
  5. I wonder who voted in numbers for this insipid boring dirge. And then I remembered that Coldplay have had number one albums.
  6. The right mentality because you were bought up at Manchester United. Lol. The Ravel Morrison, Kieron Richardson, Man United youth mentality? Doesn't mean anything.
  7. I thought the NHS used a SAP computer system? I'm surprised that didn't cripple the NHS without any cyber warfare being involved.
  8. As far as I'm concerned it's already past that point. We are seriously lacking in the coaching department.
  9. I'm not entirely sure if the Labour poll so well against the Tories, just because the Tory policy is so bad. I completely agree if Corbyn's own vanity would allow him to step aside (even to another cabinet role) keep the policies and have a better leader, and probably more importantly a better shadow cabinet. Then I think they would start picking up a lot of votes. Voters don't like Corbyn (personally I find him quite obnoxious and inflexible) But people really don't like John McDonnell or Diane Abbott, and I certainly don't have much confidence in those two to actually govern. Conversely however, I cannot understand what people seem to like about Theresa May, she was a horrendous Home Secretary, with repulsive policy and supreme idiocy. Yet I talk to a lot of people who say they "quite like" her. Same goes for why anyone could like, Gove, or Hunt, or Rudd?
  10. I'm totally with you. I think it gets remembered more fondly by a lot of people because it has a fantastic last 10/15 minutes. But much of the film before that, I could live without.
  11. Well Lib Dems new "free the weed" policy announcement could win them the election. As long as they put all voting booths in a 24hr Spar and only between 2am and 3am.
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    I can't begin to imagine the car crash that Trump is going to be at the G7 come the end of May.
  13. There is nothing more satisfying in gaming than boosting a stat in a Persona game without having time pass. Expect maybe boosting more than one stat at once.
  14. If it is hamstrung by budget they'll probably do a version of the cursed earth storyline. You'd have to leave out Satanus, because without a decent budget it'd look crap.
  15. My information is a couple of years old because he's retired now, but I wouldn't thought things have changed much. I don't think it is exclusive to the NHS, and I don't blame people within the NHS, I blame successive governments (of both colours) for putting in place a system that favors the profit of private companies and not cost savings and standards for the NHS.
  16. I thought we played Kodja and then everyone else in defence, anyway.
  17. From what i've been told. If a doctor writes on a prescription, to simplify it, say Nurofen, this is what must be given. But Nurofen costs say £4 a pack, but it is Ibuprofen. Unbranded Ibuprofen costs 26p a pack. Drugs companies at my dad's practice for example used to take all the Doctors once a month to a swanky restaurant all expense paid to encourage them to do this sort of thing. Then there are similar deals with contracts, where the NHS pays say £80 to a contracted supplier for the flu vaccine, where you can get it from other companies for say £10. It needs to be changed. Otherwise we're never going to be able to afford to run our health care system.
  18. Yes, I'm just saying there is money spent very badly in the NHS. It's a licence to print money for drugs companies at the moment. You should see the money their reps spend wooing doctors, to prescribe their drugs. It's obscene. These root issues need to be sorted, because investment in the NHS without careful overhaul, is just going to go straight to private companies. Without improving much at all for ordinary people.
  19. My dad was 40 years a manager in the NHS and from what I could tell he could make loads of decisions that would save money all over the place. Particularly not getting drugs which are exactly the same from specified suppliers for hugely over inflated prices, and being cheaper and less waiting time, to fly someone to Scotland to have certain operation (including paying for flights and hotels) than using the local hospital. But these choices he was not allowed to make, because they didn't give the management enough power to do so. He left because he was more fed up with this sort of thing, than the money.
  20. Every time you raise the minimum wage, companies don't raise any one else's wage. People on a low wage, but not minimum get screwed. And raising the NHS wages, won't improve the NHS. It'll make things better for NHS workers, yes. But only investing in more staff, and the infrastructure will actually improve the service.
  21. If they don't get Urban back they can drokk off.
  22. I know it's petty, but can you be more equal? Surely something is either equal or not. Labour could campaign to make us an equal society? Or as fairer society? But more equal? And on that Sun article, there is no way 42% of people trust the Tories on the NHS. And 62% on Brexit? I'd be surprised if any leave voters trust them (you know NHS bus, and all), so that's at least 49% right there.
  23. That we improving because we got more points than the few previous years, is a bit of a fallacy. It doesn't take into account how awful the majority of championship teams are. For example, Boro will come down and perform next season and they too were poor in the premier league. Newcastle were rubbish their last year in the prem and they breezed it.
  24. If you put aside Bruce arguments, giving the players a clean slate every year is how we've ended up in the mess we are now.
  25. Totally, and Hunt is getting slated for that today too. But the problem there isn't public sector pay. The minimum nurse wage of £22k is more than I earn. (And a lot of people) The outrage on public sector pay is always a false issue, as public sector pay is relatively good. The problem is the ridiculous cost of living in London and some major cities. Getting a handle on rent control and property prices, is the issue driving people to food banks.
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