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The bureaucracy and waste is mental. Something like £25 in total cost for a pack of prescription paracetamol. Just give them away, don't have layers if people being paid to distribute them - i.e. a GP to sign off the script, admin staff to process, then the pharmacist, then pharmacy staff processing their claim to the NHS, then their staff doing their bit, etc. There's wholesale waste across the system, and it's structure.

You can't help your cause by cherry picking stats though. Nearly 44% of app votes cast were for the Tories, which was about 40% more than labour got. To dilute that to the electorate is at best disingenuous, and shows a disregard for our system. The fptp system is flawed, but the spread of the vote left the Tories with a massive majority, even if you choose to dilute their vote.

Whichever stat you pick, enough to leave us stuck with them.

I'm hoping that he gets that credit rating to 999, it will give me hope going into 2023. In other news, we've got a pack of chocolate hob nobs in the cupboard, but I'm not one to boast.

Not that simple. That won't change a thing until there is the possibility of a next time on brexit. On the domestic front, the masses voted for this Tory machine. Hopefully labour will make policy decisions which offer us a decent alternative.

Case in point. Absolutely pointless. Try having an opinion on issues, not people.

Fuck me, Mr Irony has woken up. Your only opinion seems to be that you're a fucking genius and that everyone else is a "thick cunt". If there was an award for the poster who makes the most pointless contributions, you'd be on the podium every time.

So 12 pages later we're at the point where people are still Saying it's shit, but have nothing to contribute on the way forward. Being kind to the posters who like a whinge, that's perhaps because we're fucked and there's no easy way out if the mess we're in.

Oxford

Yep, but none of that relates to people whining about how bad it is/a decision was etc but offering nothing in terms of what they see as a solution. On the NHS, an axe to the bureaucracy is the tip of the iceberg imo. I foresee private healthcare and health insurance as boom industries in the nearish future.

Ha!! Not on here mate! The brexiters that won't accept that it ain't gone well will tell you how great it is but give no examples of that greatness, and the various leavers only need to copy/paste one of their many posts from above. In the real world, I can't see either main political party sparking the debate, it'd take the mass media to do so.

City

What's done is done, and it hasn't gone well. I voted leave and rue the the day that I did. Naive doesn't come close. The issue now is how and when the serious discussion begins about rejoining.

I can't remember anything comparable to this. Buy a company at well over price, then decimate it. I'd love to see his business plan. Nuts.

Joan

What, in terms of actual policy/action, do you say should be done? It's too easy to say we need more, but that's just noise.

Rodney

No post mortem has ever resurrected a corpse Weston. We're here for a variety of reasons. Brexit, covid and the associated waste/fraud/dodgy contracts, Ukraine/fuel cost fall out, quantitative easing, SD breaks driving up house prices, over borrowing, a weak pound leading to imported inflation, and some other stuff. Personally I'm not getting into a discussion as a) some people fixate on one of the elements (eg brexit), b) quite a few like a whinge about the situation but offer no view on what they think should be done, and c) ultimately, what's happened has happened and isn't reversible by the current government. Sure, lessons can (theoretically) be learnt to reduce the chances of future fuck ups, but Hunt did about all he could yesterday bar perhaps a wealth tax, a hit on the likes of Amazon, and a bigger levy on the fuel companies.

Sad to hear. There'll be many more casualties unfortunately.

You got lucky. In the 90's we were on a variable rate when the rates went mental, then slipped into massive negative equity, and had to live off barely a tenner a week for food and life. We got out of it, but it wasn't fun. Repossessions will soar unfortunately.

I suspect it'll be more. One time bomb is negative equity, and high reversionary interest rates, when people come to the end of their fixed rates. Very interesting times ahead.

I agree with him. It's obvious that he meant to see how they perform in something like a first team environment. We know how they perform for the B team, hence wanting to see how they get on in first team games when there's less on the line.

He was something else. Had as much ability as any player I've seen play. Shame he was crocked.

Condescending prick. Tell me what a debate on a football forum will achieve. We're here. It's a mess. In life and business, I live in solutions. Dwelling on problems that I can't solve achieves fuck all.

I'm just saying a debate about why we're here is futile. The solution changes the mess we're in, not the debate about why we're here. Different outlooks on life methinks - I prefer looking forwards.