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The red warning looks like it's been downgraded to amber now (on met office app). Does that mean 15,000 people will still die and if they do, will it still be all the thick fucks?

I thought the rules were #notwomen'sfootball 🤷‍♀️

Another one!!

No chance. Soggy is the most intelligent person in the whole wide world. No way he would venture outdoors in a heatwave - he knows even the shade is a killer on hot days.

To be fair, Soggy "Walter Mitty" claims are rarely 'facts'.

Only if you're a dog

Nadine Dorries?

Probaly ones UEFA kept for their cronies.

I remember (just), the summer of '76. Standpipes in the street so families could get water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_British_Isles_heat_wave It was a close run thing as to whether all those buckets fetched and carried down the road were worth the hassle of filling the paddling pool, but it all worked out well in the end.

Thinking outside the box, maybe if the Gov't didn't put out it's warnings it could save the NHS some money in the long run. #joinedupthinking

And yet that's not what my opening post was alluding to is it - or did you not bother to read it before you entered rant mode? As I hinted at in my first post, I think the NHS is tarnished by some of its poorest operations. The phrase 'you're only as good as your weakest player' seems to be the norm when commentators mention the NHS. The best elements always tend to get overlooked. Can the service be improved - reading some of the posts above made by people who work in / with the NHS, it seems that undoubtedly it could. Much like many other people, my own experience of the NHS is limited. An appendectomy, a scan on my knees and a couple of visits to the local GP certainly doesn't make me an expert on the service, but by and large my experience has been OK. The post you've quoted was a response to yet another of Soggy's nonsense posts where he's blaming Boris for the absolute demise of the NHS. I'm not praising Boris for his role over the past 3 years, I just don't agree with Soggy that 'droves' of staff are leaving after yet another of his anecdotal meetings with a senior manager in the NHS on the very same day a thread about the NHS was created! Walter Mitty leads a sheltered life compared to our Soggy. I also don't agree with Soggy that the Ambulance service is 'on it's knees'. Undoubtedly some parts of the service are experiencing issues at the moment, but I'm not convinced they are all their making - after all, what should they do if they can't drop off the patients they've picked up at the hospital, just dump them in the car park and hope for the best?

You seem to be way out of touch with what a 'modern day' politician is.

I don't suppose he mentioned where the droves of staff are going once they've left. I'd imagine the clinical staff have pretty limited opportunities of either private or NHS unless they move to an entirely different field. 'Admin' staff on the other hand, meh.

So the answer is to spend more - how much and where? Is it more ambulances because there aren't enough or is it more hospitals because whilst there are enough ambulances they can't deliver their patients anywhere because the hospitals are full?

Is the NHS no longer fit for purpose? Does it need a complete overhaul? There doesn't seem to be many situations that the NHS can cope with - too cold / winter 'flu and it reaches breaking point, too hot and it has a meltdown. Ambulances wait for most of the day to drop patients off, local surgeries run out of appointments by 5 past 8 every morning. Is this the norm or sensationalist headlines from isolated cases tarnishing the whole of the NHS? Can it be 'fixed' and if so, at what cost?

Chapeau Tom! What a venue for his first TdF win!

Technically it was 'Vote Labour, get the leader of the Labour party', that didn't have to be Corbyn and they could have had someone else in charge, but decided he was their 'best bet'.

That's the point. Dman seems to be comparing women's football with men's and concluding that it is shit because the standard is better in the men's game. Makes Dman look a complete tool to be honest. Despite what the snowflakes and woke brigade tell us day in and day out, women and men are different, and that's OK! Women's cycling is as technically competent as men's but the races are slower because the women aren't as powerful. Same with Women's cricket, the ball isn't bowled as quickly and nor is it hit as hard. Doesn't make them worse, just different. And guess what, that's OK! When it comes to consistency, not sure what the problem is really. I've watched Saints matches where the team has looked 'gifted' and the game appeared easy. I've watched Saints matches where the players look like they'd get beaten by a school team. No reason why women's football isn't going to follow the same pattern.

What are you comparing the standard to? How do you know it will improve? This standard may be the best it's going to get....

Only Soggy could try and score points from child slavery and people trafficking.

And another? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/62127436

As a fan, I'd only truly accept those players that love the club so much, they pay us to play. Anyone not prepared to do that isn't showing the right commitment.

They aren't bribing "us" as we have zero influence on the outcome. All they need to do is lie well enough to convince their peers they will do a good job. Once they've got the keys to easy street they aren't going to give a shit!

To be fair, it goes some way to explaining how the gullible Russians swallow the bollocks that Vlad puts out there.