badgerx16

Ex Dr Feelgood and Blockhead guitarist has died.

Alexei's solo work isn't quite up to the standard acheived in his double act with a certain other poster.

You need to use Ducky speak......

Ex MP Owen Paterson, who campaigned for the UK to break from the European Court of Human Rights, is taking the UK Government to the ECHR over the investigation that found him guilty of breaking lobbying rules.

I suppose you might ask the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Serbia, etc? Not that we are likely to bomb Qatar into agreeing with us.

It would help if the NHS was actually a single entity. Instead you have a myriad of Agencies, Trusts, Partnerships, etc, each of which will have it's own administration staff, contractual obligations - especially within the Internal Market, and strategic aims. Add to this the constant changes of course and funding formulae whenever a new Secretary of State is appointed, and you have the recipe for the mess we are now experiencing. I used to work closely with the local Hospital Trust's IT unit - our networks were interconnected and each of us had co-located staff in the others' premises. They told me that they had 37 different points in their various IT systems where patient name, address, etc, had to be entered, and for many of those it was impossible to integrate the systems to automatically exchange the information. Hopefully this has improved in the last few years, but it is indicative of the internal problems that NHS staff have to deal with. Also, the NHS has a low number of medical staff when compared to the health care systems in many other 'developed' countries.

Your comment was about the consequence of playing in a Muslim country, not specifically about Qatar. Your generalisations show a lack of understanding about other faiths and countries.

Homosexuality was legalised in Turkiye in 1923, and in Jordan in 1951. It may not be socially acceptable, but in this regard they were ahead of the UK. I doubt very much that in any of the countries listed there would be a ban on rainbows in similar fashion to Qatar.

Would there have been the same issues in Turkiye, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, or Algeria ?

But only the women wearing these hats were asked to remove them.

The Public Sector is not just the Civil Service, and much of it has been severely squeezed. This, in part, is causative to the issues with the NHS - Local Authority Social Services funds are squeezed, as a consequence Social Care for people leaving hospitals is oveloaded, meaning patients cannot be discharged, causing bed blocking. This is one of the most immediate and visible consequences of the squeeze to get rid of the 'fat', 'inefficiencies', and 'non-jobs' - or to put it another way, right wing dogmatic bullshit.

What chance one of the female refs gets a Saudi, Iran, or Qatar match ?

This is also a good, ( or possibly depressing ), read; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/18/europe-brexit-business-export-paperwork-british

Winter camo ?

Costa

During the first half I was dismantling 2 screen doors so that the wooden frames can be reused as a cupboard on top of which a bird cage with canaries will be stood.

You may view some of the MPs as Blairite, but my point was about the voters, not the Parliamentary party. However, if those electing 'Blairite' MPs are themselves more centreist, ( as indeed many would have been for the first 2 New Labour victories ), then this supports my suggestion that the predominant political view being centerist/centre-left.

Bayraktar of Turkey are working on a new 'drone' with Ukraine...

Which is why I posted the second point on how the right of UK politics is generally represented as a single entity, whilst the centre and centre-left, which probably has more support, is fragmented. FPTP benefits the Tories provided they can show a united facade.

I just get annoyed by people claiming that the Government was elected by a majority, or that the result of a GE shows the "Voice of the People". It is at best disingenuous, at worst shows an ignorance of the reality of UK politics.

No, the problem is an unrepresentative electoral system where 54% of the votes cast are not cast for the Government that ends up with a massive majority. And just to be clear, this applies as much to the Tony Blair Governments as to the Tories. Another flaw in the current system is that the right of British politics is reasonably united under the Conservative banner, although it is at times an uneasy alliance, whilst the centerist and left of centre vote is split between the LDs and Labour, and further diluted by the Scots and Welsh nationalists, with interference also coming from the Greens. There is almost certainly a centre-left of centre bias in British politics, but without a proportional system it struggles to get a voice. And the Red Wall vote at the last GE was more about either side's stance on Brexit, as most of those seats had strong Leave votes.

Well, 29% of the Electorate did.

Bags

Empty vessels make the most noise.