The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[Lord Duckhunter]

35 minutes ago, Dr. Kucho said:

Here in the Netherlands we have a private system where you pick your own health insurance. It starts around €160 a month and if your salary is below a certain amount you can get a monthly benefit from the government.

Sounds like Reforms policy to me…

 

Reform UK has also called for a new NHS funding model. It wants the next government to look to countries like France

[whelk]

48 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The last time I was in A&E there was a loudly drunk man sitting to one side telling the security staff that they were failed Policemen, and were just as corrupt as the Police. He continued this rant for about half an hour and refused all requests to STFU, so security went to call the 'real' Police, Just as they arrived the drunk did a runner out of A&E and down the corridor towards the X-Ray department. The Police asked where he had gone and everybody in the reception, about 40 people, all pointed out the direction he had run.

About 2 minutes later he was frogmarched out, this time ranting directly to the Police about how corrupt the force is.

So he doesn’t live in Thailand

[sadoldgit]

58 minutes ago, Dr. Kucho said:

 

Because the NHS is a shit system and costs a whopping 242 billion pounds a year. I am not talking about the amazing staff that give their all every day when I say the NHS is shit.

I’ve seen it over the last few years with both my grandmothers who have had health problems over the last years (one has passed now at the grand age of 92). Getting an appointment with the GP was impossible and it would happen that the GP would call to ask if nan could be at the surgery in 10 minutes, what the fuck do they think?

The former news correspondent in the UK from the Dutch state television made a series about the NHS and the waiting times, it was shocking and sad how the system works. People waiting full days to see a doctor and ambulances queuing. 

When visiting my grandfather in hospital in Bournemouth a few years ago before he passed I was shocked to see the state of the hospital. It was like walking back in to the 80s. And that in one of the more wealthy parts of the country. 

I don’t know what the best system is as alternative for the NHS, but the current system certainly isn’t.

Here in the Netherlands we have a private system where you pick your own health insurance. It starts around €160 a month and if your salary is below a certain amount you can get a monthly benefit from the government.

The waiting lists here are minimal and if I want an appointment with my GP I can usually come the next day. Also the hospitals are of good quality and fully digitalized. It’s by far perfect, quite expensive, but compared to the NHS it’s a lot better. 

Here in mainland Europe we often joke about the state of the motorways in Belgium, but I am sad to say the ones in the UK are worse nowadays. And let’s not start about the potholes everywhere. 

We should look in to improving the roads, build more cycle paths and think outside of the box. Look at building a bridge between the UK and France, one like the one between Denmark and Sweden, partly bridge and partly tunnel to not disrupt the shipping lanes. That would boost the economy massively, make it easier to import and export goods, grow tourism (taking the ferry with a camper van or caravan is incredibly expensive and puts people of) and make it easier for Brits to visit mainland Europe. 

With Trump being unreliable and Europe wanting to be more independent from the US, this is the moment to fill the gaps they leave behind! 

Germany are investing over 150 billion euro in to their arms and defense industry. Now we all now in the next years they will have some amazing stuff and be selling it to the rest of the western world. France have just launched their own AI app and here in the Netherlands we have the most valuable company of Europe in ASML (chips) who are expanding their business because of AI. 

This is the moment for the UK to get their act together and grow the economy. I know for instance that lots of servers and IT systems are provided by US companies. Lots of European countries don’t want to rely on the US so we could start investing in tech companies in the UK to fill that gap. Make the UK attractive for foreign investment and workers and attract the brains who work in Silicon Valley (lots of Indians and other Asians). 

Kickstart the CANZUK alliance and make it possible for workers and visitors from the those countries to come here without a visa.

When Nigel says he wants the best for Britain he means he wants the best for Nigel. Because if you want the best for Britain you would stay in the EU. We need a strong European economy to compete with China and the US. Alone we cannot compete. To make these changes you need lots of money so that means increasing taxes, cutting spending in certain areas and having people in government who want to move forward and make unpopular decisions.

It sounds like I am only talking negatively about the UK but it makes me sad to see the state of it. I love my country of birth and after all these years abroad still and always will identify myself as English. Would love to move back to the south coast. Saturdays at St Mary’s, Sunday walks in the New Forest with the dog and stopping at a pub for a Sunday roast. Sadly the wages and my work here make it hard to leave. Besides that I would somehow have to find work for my girlfriend and her being Dutch that would mean a process of visas and lots of paperwork.

Apologies for some of my sentences and words, have been speaking Dutch and partly French all day so my grammar isn’t the greatest at the moment.

Our local surgery is brilliant. I know several people who have been diagnosed with cancer and they have all said that they can’t fault the way that they have been looked after. I guess some are better than others.

As for the economy/travel with Europe, wouldn’t it be better if we were in the EU?

As for part bridges part tunnels across the channel, how would that work??

[iansums]

47 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Sounds like Reforms policy to me…

 

Reform UK has also called for a new NHS funding model. It wants the next government to look to countries like France

No, that’s not how it works Duck, if anyone mentions a new funding model of healthcare to replace the NHS, we have to look to the US 🤔

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

 

As for part bridges part tunnels across the channel, how would that work??

Part of it would be a bridge, part of it would be a tunnel I guess. It's not a unique concept. Oresund bridge for example.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

7 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I”’ll go to the coffee shop with other mums”

”Sometimes I’m so busy I be forgotten whether I’ve fed them”

Poverty 🤣🤣

 

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